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The R-word
Glenn Hughes was recently a guest on SiriusXM satellite radio show Trunk Nation. This is what he had to say when asked about his retirement:
The word retirement is something I don’t normally say. A good story for you there. In June, I went on a tour of Europe with Black Country Communion, and Joe and I were talking after two shows in that we were thinking before we started that tour that maybe this would be the end of BCC. Maybe we’ve done, and we’ve done and dusted what we started out to do. And funny enough, we felt on that tour of Europe that we were actually just getting started. You know, we made a live album, by the way, it’ll be coming out early next year. I think sometime early, early this year, I thought, you know, maybe I should slow it down. Maybe I should take it easy, you know, blah, blah, blah. But ever since I came home from the BCC tour, I’m reinvigorated. I’ve got new purpose. I’ve never felt so strong, and I’m really looking forward to doing more shows, both solo and with Black Country Communion.
You’ve heard me say this too many times over the last 15 years, but there’s more coming from BCC and maybe hasn’t happened, but we’re on a new beginning again with BCC in the summer saying to a lot of people. And the live album sounds damn good, and we are planning yet exclusively for you on doing album number six next year. So we are continuing our journey and as you well know if we could keep this thing together and tour more regularly, we are an arena band waiting to happen.
The show was on the air on August 12, 2025, and is available for replay on siriusxm.com for the subscribers of the service.
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I think it‘s a bit late in the game for BCC to still emerge as the great white hope of arena rock, but let‘s not be too disparaging about it, should Joe be willing to put more time aside for the band, then I‘m happy for Glenn.
The problem with Glenn is that he is an excited little puppy with whatever he‘s currently doing – his obsession with the ‘ere and now I guess -, but then reality bites and longevity goes once again down the drain, while Glenn is already eyeing the next fabulous project. Didn’t he in more recent interviews mention how he wanted to do more orchestra shows now that the violin bug has bitten him on that Rock Meets Classic tour in Germany?
As always, we’ll see. Glenn keeps us on our toes.
August 14th, 2025 at 03:12I wish I could share in Glenn’s confidence and positivity, but I am not holding my breath any longer for JoBo to fully committing to BCC in the long run – Joe’s solo career is where his heart is and probably always will be.
August 14th, 2025 at 03:48Well, if one’s health is up for it, luckily you decide for yourself when you wanna retire!
Personally I am thrilled that Purple hasn’t retired!
August 14th, 2025 at 05:55The argument about Joe being to successful on his own to focus on BCC is a common one, and I guess a valid one. But in the long run, I don’t see GH as one to settle down in one band for the rest of his career either. I think BCC can go on as they have done so far. An album and a tour every now and then, making their appearances somewhat exclusive instead of becoming an arena machine churning out albums and huge tours all the time.
Joe works a lot! So I think there is space for BCC too. He also frequently do collaborations and projects where he finds himself in different size venues so I don’t think that is a problem for him. He works with Beth Hart every now and then in sort of the same way as with BCC, an album Here, a short tour here. I don’t think we should attiribute to much of an eventual demise of BCC on Joe alone.
As a side note, I have a hard time understanding why so many DP fans have a problem with Joe being too bluesy? I’m not the biggest fan of Joe, I think he should kill some darlings and not release every note he ever comes up with. But for me, DP and family bands always had a blues base in their music. The improvisation and general grooviness. WS in the old days was of course the most blues of them all. When Joe leans more to his rock side, still keeping the blues clearly visible, as he does on BCC, I think he stands up well in the DP family of guitarists.
August 14th, 2025 at 06:17In regard to BCC I do think as some others do, that it is a simple case of introvert and extrovert. Joe is a shy, quiet individual not seeking too much attention. Glenn is an outward socially active individual who enjoys that side of his activities. I do think that Joe just cannot handle Glenn for too long, or anyone else like that. He is trying to keep it to a smaller time frame and to limit his involvement in that band in a healthy way. He is a good blues /rock guitarist. Probably more blues from my observations of him over time. I am not a regular follower of his career though, the rock music he does well enough, all things considered. BCC is a side project for him, something to let his hair down too, occasionally. It does come back to the songwriting though and I don’t hear strong songs with BCC, or with Bonamassa solo or Hughes solo. There is something missing for me. That extra cherry on top isn’t there. Anyway, it is what it is. Cheers.
August 14th, 2025 at 09:36Look at Svante being true to his name and becoming an axe-backer for JoBo! 😂
But he’s actually right. Bonamassa might be releasing too much, but he’s a nicely fluid player with a great tone and sufficient dexterity to compare with the greats. His guitar playing is – within the limits of the genre – varied and thoughtful.
Sure there is a Blues influence in Purple – maybe not so much the sparse Delta Blues you hear more overtly with Led Zep, but still lots of swinging Chicago Blues (though Mistreated is quite a bit Delta). Ritchie, although he always refused to be relegated by it, can play the Blues very evocatively. Wring That Neck/Hard Road, Chasing Shadows, Why Didn’t Rosemary, Demon’s Eye, Maybe I’m A Leo, Lazy, When A Blind Man Cries and Place In Line would all be regarded as prime Blues songs had Eric Clapton, Ten Years After or early Fleetwood Mac played them. Mitzi Dupree, a song dear to my heart for its relentless engagement for a type of women’s sports where biological men for once cannot compete, a safe space so to say, just pops out as a representative of modern Chicago Blues. Same with Fire In The Basement.
And let’s not even talk about Jon’s influences. The Artwoods were a thoroughbred blues combo.
August 14th, 2025 at 10:26“Personally I am thrilled that Purple hasn’t retired!”
So am I, yet not to be a harbinger, we are talking of a relatively small remaining window of time:
– DC (74 this year) has already dropped out of the game, we will likely see him as a curator of his own work, but not on stage again I think.
– The ‘living breathing DP’ can end any day now – without any previous health announcements. If DP grinds to a halt due to biology, I think of the older members only Don (77) will still continue to release new music (we’ll get to Simon at the end).
-Blackmore (80) is, if you want to give it a positive spin, gently easing out of being a regular recording and performing artist anymore, the next BN album seems to take ages.
– Outside of the remaining core Deep Purple only Glenn (74 in a few days) and, to some extent, Joe Lynn Turner (74 already) are still regular recording and performing artists. And even Glenn seems to be thinking already how much longer he wants to do this.
– Nick Simper (80 this year) is irrelevant as a member of the family as far as recorded output goes – and has been for decades.
– Steve (71) is living off his past Dixie Dregs/SMB glories on live stages and continues his cottage industry touring even now that Janine is gone. Demand for his instrumental music will hardly ever finance a European tour. I wish he’d do something like Flying Colors again.
– That leaves us with Simon (barely out of kindergarten at 46). He’s the only guy we are likely to still hear something regularly from in, say, five years from now. One day he will be touring by himself and occasionally throw in a tune “from my time with Deep Purple” to keep old fans happy. The internet will be awash with profound questions like On which DP albums did Jon Lord and Simon McBride play together? 😎
It’s all good though. The Purple Family as a collective has had a vast and prolific output for more than half a century, I can see it when I look at my shelves 🤣 (by now I think Glenn is in the lead regarding sheer mass of output though he took such a long hiatus in the late 70s and 80s). Even among bands as old or older than Purple, you’re unlikely to find as large a legacy in numbers. Actually, I can’t think of a single one. A band like the Rolling Stones only has a minuscule output by ex-members, same is true of Status Quo, Black Sabbath (chiefly Ozzy), Zep (only Robert Plant really) – and what have “younger” bands such as Metallica really done outside of their day job?
Hope I haven’t caused collective depression now here … Lighten up everyone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMZP8XcCfLo&list=RDSMZP8XcCfLo&start_radio=1
August 14th, 2025 at 12:20Glenn, cant you just be a good boy and retire for good…
August 14th, 2025 at 12:31May I insert the provocative statement here in passing that I believe that JoBo does rock a lot better than GaMo “every-note-I play-needs-to-be-even-mo(o)re intense-than-the-one-before” ever did the Blues?
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Sometimes, there is even a wee bit of Tommy Bolin in Joe’s soloing, I do like that.
August 14th, 2025 at 13:19@4 True. I guess there’s at least two kinds of DP followers, Svante. Those who like the many colours that band brought to the painting – and those who dig that hard hitting loud sound… I do identity myself as a admirer of that multi-coloured concept, it’s stuff like Malice in Wonderland, Play me out, White Snake, Sarabande, Butterfly Ball, Clear Air Turbulence, the range from April to In Rock to Come Taste the Band that I love so much…but for some it’s just Highway Star and SOTW…well, for most people I guess… thinking of the sales of, say, Elements.
August 14th, 2025 at 20:00Be nice to see BCC again.Maybe they’ll play UK next
August 14th, 2025 at 20:08@9: Yes, I agree! Gary Moore was the worst blues player in history.
August 14th, 2025 at 20:30Svante, we are twins, separated at birth! With controversial statements like that we will both have to soon seek refuge on an exotic island where we can listen to Born Again all day!!! 🤣
The core Mk II sound from 1970-73 was great and iconic, but it did follow a recipe after a while: a guitar riff written by Ritchie, doubled by Jon, solos by both of them with neo-classical flourishes or a bit of dueling, Gillan’s high tenor/falsetto/passaggio voice over the whole melee, Paicey overplays a bit in the background and does his entertaining little tricks plus Roger supplies a metronomic bass foundation to it all. Make no mistake, I loved and love that recipe too, but it did become a Masche. If you reduce Purple to just that, then they are not all that interesting. It’s very good musicians delivering a music whose creativity does not match the musician’s individual virtuosity – underselling their talent was a critique you heard a lot with Mk II at their 70s peak and Big Ian must have felt the same way.
Like Max, I’m happy for all the roots and branches. I remember my absolute glee when by sheer chance I stumbled across my first Artwoods vinyl compilation in the mid 70s – in a bargain bin for less than ten Deutsche Mark, I didn’t even know that album existed:
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Collecting Purple became kaleidoscopic to me. I found it amazing that Jon would a few years later let his Hammond rip and roar on In Rock (and that Paul Weller of all people would perform Artwoods tracks when he commemorated Jon at the RAH decades later) or that Bolin’s Echoplex sound effects on Come Taste The Band could already be heard on Billy Cobham’s Spectrum. Purple helped me discover all kinds of other music and if you are confronted as a young hard rock fan with IGB’s at first listen puzzling and alien music on CAT, you start to focus more closely on it and somewhere down the line end up buying Miles Davis, Weather Report and Return to Forever albums like I did. 🤯
It’s a wealth of music, that is what makes following this band that was – let’s face it – last sociological relevant some 53 years ago for a roughly a 24 month period so rewarding.
August 14th, 2025 at 21:57I had to play that boring ‘Still Got The Blues’ in a band in the 1992 era, plus a couple of others from that cursed album. See what us poor drummers have to put up with at times. Thanks ever so much for reminding me and now I have that ear worm to contend with for the rest of the day. Much appreciated and no doubt Uwe is the one to blame (again). His passion for Gary Moore holds no bounds it seems. And it looks like that passion has rubbed off on a few others here, he he he. We want Moore, we want Moore. That live double album I purchased and also the vhs way back in the 1980’s. I gave them away. I do still enjoy a few rock songs on his early 80’s studio albums, and a couple of fine ballads there too, Empty Rooms (Victims of the Future album version, not the other one) and the sublime and rather emotional Rest in Peace from the Dirty Fingers album.. But anything after the 1984 era, no thanks. Except for him and Phil Lynott’s ‘Out in the Field’s, a good rock song all things considered. Not to worry. Such is life. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eo2SacU5QA&t=1s
August 15th, 2025 at 00:11Simon McBride disagrees: “The two Still Got The Blues records [SGTB and After Hours] Gary Moore did were incredible. What he did with blues music, he kind of turned it upside down. He had this aggression when he played, but it was so beautiful the way he did it.”
August 15th, 2025 at 04:45@12 Big veto, Svante. Gary certainly sounded a bit over-enthusiastic on his first two blues albums, but at least since 1995 with the album “Blues for Greeny,” he had the (true) blues. As Joe Bonamassa once said about him: “Gary was like a thunderstorm coming over you live.” He still played with balls, there were no half measures for him, and he always gave 100 percent. Don Airey also considered him the best, and I certainly don’t need to tell you all the amazing guitarists Don has played with.
August 15th, 2025 at 08:14What a relief! Svante, Uwe…my heartfelt support here!
And Gary Moore is as blues as Taylor Swift is country.
August 15th, 2025 at 11:28@7
I know!
I know!
But there is something very satisfying in knowing that our musical heroes keep doing what they like.
And Uwe, even being a dumb blonde and everything, I can do the maths. But I enjoy every sec they have given us.
And I truly hope each member knows how much joy and happiness they have been giving us!
It’s with all my heart I say:
THANKS Ian G, Roger, Ian P, Ritchie, Jon, Simon, Don, Steve, and of course all the branches (none mentioned, none forgotten)
“Hope I haven’t caused collective depression now here … Lighten up everyone!”
August 15th, 2025 at 12:49– noooo! Not at all, or at least: not more than usual 😂
@17
🤣🤣
“And Gary Moore is as blues as Taylor Swift is country.”
August 15th, 2025 at 14:33– so I guess you’re not first in line to buy her newest record?
He still played with balls, there were no half measures for him, and he always gave 100 percent.
Now that you mention it, exactly that might be part of the issue though, Crocco! 😁 That persistent, everything-full-on intensity, that amp-sustain-drenched sound with notes ringing endlessly (reminiscent of an over-excited kid holding his breath under water in a swimming pool to impress his dad), the lack of light and shade, playfulness and dynamics, really no percussive tone in his guitar sound to speak of – I found that all too much and often as unpleasant as a dentist’s drill. 🤣
But for all you Moorites: Yes, he was immediately recognizable and a(n) (even über-)committed player and his chops left a lasting impression not only on Don Airey, but also on Glenn Hughes (who rates him as the best guitarist he knew ever) and Roger Glover. Or John Sykes (but then he didn’t invent sparse, tasteful playing either 😎). Just not the type of guitarist for me, too much cherry pie.
August 15th, 2025 at 17:14“It’s with all my heart I say:
August 15th, 2025 at 21:52THANKS Ian G, Roger, Ian P, Ritchie, Jon, Simon, Don, Steve, and of course all the branches (none mentioned, none forgotten)”
No mention of Rod, Nick, David, Glenn, Tommy and Joe Lynn Turner. Sighing again and rolling my eyes. I get a headache from rolling my eyes all the time. I suppose if I stopped, I would end up with tunnel vision. Oh well, such is life. Cheers.
Regarding listening to David Coverdale’s vocals. I am the opposite of Karin, I only listen to ole Cov’s within Deep Purple. I don’t seek out older British Whitesnake or ‘solo’ pre Snake music these days. Not because I don’t like some of it, I only have a listen when a link or something else gets my nostalgia going a little. I definitely have not been mistreated and I will not end up depressed if I don’t hear the falsetto of big Ian. And my hearing (once I clear this darn left ear of its wax buildup), will still be the better for it, a bit like Anton’s hearing is when he doesn’t get blasted into submission. There, I feel much better now having fired a shot across the bow of the lady of the north’s long boat. I have just alerted the Tasmanian coast guard to keep an eye out, just in case of any strange looking vessels that are homing into view. Cheers.
August 15th, 2025 at 23:46Karin @19: But I certainly will! I have all her albums.
August 16th, 2025 at 11:24@19 You read me like a book, Karin, ‘deed I’m not.
That’s not to say I’ve got anything against her, not at all, just not my cup of t…sorry, coffee. And country it is not. As Moore wasn’t blues.
August 16th, 2025 at 11:44@ 7- Uwe, in regard to your number crunching regarding band or ex band members. Does that include solo and other collaborations and even session work on certain artists music or even soundtracks for movies and tv series. I have always thought that Grumpy Rick has done a hell of a lot in regard to other projects outside of Yes. Even John Wetton from King Crimson. I have never bothered to count and I NEVER will. It is just a query as such in my mind from over the decades. Some musicians are prolific, for good or bad, some hardly do anything outside their main musical vehicle. And let’s not forget the sole songwriter for a band and they will never have as much solo material or collaborations simply because they are so busy creating for the main band as such. It goes a bit either way etc. Cheers.
August 16th, 2025 at 12:44@21
“No mention of….”
– to be fair MacGregor, I did write “none mentioned, none forgotten” because for me the real Purple is with Ian as the vocalist 😃
I acknowledge and appreciate all of you who look at Purple some other way, but I think my sentiments are well known 😄
August 16th, 2025 at 17:32@22
“Regarding listening to David Coverdale’s vocals. I am the opposite of Karin, I only listen to ole Cov’s within Deep Purple.”
– and I don’t even roll my eyes at that 😁
“There, I feel much better now having fired a shot across the bow of the lady of the north’s long boat.”
– peace, love and harmony right back at ya 😄
“I have just alerted the Tasmanian coast guard to keep an eye out, just in case of any strange looking vessels that are homing into view.”
August 16th, 2025 at 17:40– no need whatsoever for being alarmed! I have plenty to do in my own hood 😂
But I might add: you’re still all invited for coffee and tea and a little glass on the side, should anyone like that 😃☕️🍷
Oh dear oh dear oh dear. It is here folks, the Glenn Hughes article has appeared and it is going to rub someone here up the wrong way. Hughes stating Moore is the ‘greatest’ guitarist he has played with (even though he is sucking up to Jo Bonamassa too, I suppose he has to keep that up in regard to the present situation). So Glenn being Glenn, probably a bit of memory issue there, however this can happen to anyone. He is giving poor Uwe a hard time with this (and boy do we love it). It is a lovely morning here in no man’s land, an extra skip in the step this morning. How is the Uwe going to respond to this outrageous statement. What will his ‘reaction’ be? Stay tuned folks. Same Bat time, same Bat channel. Singing ‘oh what a beautiful morning oh what a beautiful day, I’ve got a beautiful feeling and EVERYTHING is going my way’. Cheers.
https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/him-coming-to-my-house-at-3am-and-blowing-my-mind-was-incredible-ex-deep-purple-legend-glenn-hughes-reveals-the-best-guitarist-hes-ever-worked-with-and-its-not-ritchie-blackmore
August 16th, 2025 at 22:25Oh No!!!!! What about poor Edith? What have I just done! I totally forgot about Edith having to put up with Uwe’s anti Glenn raves and rants. Hopefully she is away on another holiday. Cheers.
August 16th, 2025 at 22:51#24. The way the blues should be played is not set in stone. Gary did his own thing and the success of Still Got the Blues suggests quite a few people felt his blues 🙂
August 17th, 2025 at 09:08I think both Gary and Glenn share the trait of not being able to realize that there can be too much of a good thing. It’s just that my pain threshold with Glenn is higher (if not endless)! 😂
I first heard Glenn on Corridors of Power which I had to buy just for the Paicey connection. That was then and still is now an awful and extremely labored + stiff album. The forced vocals, the over-compressed guitar sound, not to forget some of the most unremarkable drumming by Little Ian ever. Everything trying way to hard (I prefer even demanding music to sound effortless – think of the joyful vibe Tommy Bolin had on Cobham’s Spectrum album), Gary excelled in making even simple things sound FORCED). I then saw the Moore/Carter/Gruber/Paice line-up on the Victims of the Future (a better album than its predecessor) tour and while I enjoyed Paicey’s live drumming, I spent the gig wondering why Gary didn’t let the guy with the best voice in the band sing ALL the songs: Neil Carter.
But Glenn is free to like whoever he likes. Even though I do have severe doubts that any cooperation between the two could have worked for a longer period as Glenn’s bass playing would have conflicted with Gary’s minimalist concept of how his backing tracks have to sound – with the exception of Jack Bruce, I’m not aware of Gary ever granting any bassist in his bands much leeway. You can’t tell Glenn Hughes what to play or not play.
What I find a little weird, however, is the fact that Gary’s very much meat and potatoes rhythm guitar playing didn’t rub Glenn the wrong way. Gary might have had great solo tone (if that ultra-dense sound is to your liking, to mine it’s not), but he’s certainly no Mel Galley, Tommy Bolin or Joe Bonamassa (or Jimmy Page for that matter) on rhythm guitar. I would have expected that to bear more importance for Glenn.
August 17th, 2025 at 13:04I acknowledge and appreciate all of you who look at Purple some other way, but I think my sentiments are well known …
Quite, my dear, I would even describe your fervent devotion to Herr Gillan and the line-ups he fronted/fronts to contain strains of messianic Stalinism. 😎🥸
August 17th, 2025 at 13:13“Uwe, in regard to your number crunching regarding band or ex band members. Does that include solo and other collaborations and even session work on certain artists music or even soundtracks for movies and tv series.”
Sure it does! Wakeman was always a busy man outside Yes. Many bands have someone like that, Purple just stands out by having a lot of members regularly playing on other people’s records as sessioneers, namely Ritchie (if only in the 60s with Joe Meek), Glenn, Joe (Lynn Turner), Don and Steve. Had Tommy not died so soon, we would have seen a lot more of him on other people’s albums too I think.
August 17th, 2025 at 13:29@30: I would assume most people who bought that record don’t listen to blues in general.
August 17th, 2025 at 18:54#31. You’re thinking of Run for Cover.
August 17th, 2025 at 18:55I first heard
GlennGARY on Corridors of Power which I had to buy just for the Paicey connection …Sorry, my bad, I meant my first acquaintance with Gary not Glenn!
Of course I bought Run For Cover (for Glenn’s participation after Paicey had returned to the mothership) too, yet even the songs with Glenn left me unimpressed. His bass playing was tamed down beyond recognition to the monotone root note drone Gary preferred then for all his records (which had led Neil Murray to leave) and the music was straight-jacketed in a typical 80s vein. Run For Cover was Gary’s attempt to do Hughes Thrall II, but unlike Pat Thrall the Belfast boy was no studio and sound wizard, the album had none of the inspiration of Hughes Thrall.
August 17th, 2025 at 20:29Still there are a few good songs on Corridors of Power and Dirty Fingers too. Victims Of The Future was the last album I purchased. I heard plenty of Run for Cover and Wild Frontier and both were too commercial sounding and the well had run dry songwriting wise to my ears. Plus that awful drum machine on that album, what the effff? Anyway I will never diss on Moore, he had his moments and he was dedicated to his craft, respect where respect is due. The live album and vhs concert (mid 80’s) left me a little frustrated. His vocal (as to be expected) suffered playing live. No lead guitarist can pull off lead vocals in this situation without limitations. Neil Carter should have been the perfect foil for Moore, but it seemed he wasn’t, for whatever reason. I heard the blues music Moore did far too much, it was all over the place here in Australia. Then having to play it in a band was the final straw. Some people like blues with a bit of gusto, fair enough. I do to in a certain way, but I still think it didn’t suit Moore. Rock music was his forte. We can hear his blues influence throughout his rock music. Same with a few other rock guitarists. Cheers.
August 17th, 2025 at 22:13@ 33- not only Grumpy Rick, Jon Anderson gets around and keeps very busy, even Steve Howe has been prolific in that regard. However, what about King Crimson? Fripp, Levin, Wetton, Bruford, Belew just to name a few. Sheesh, that Purple ‘haze’ you look though Uwe, look beyond or through that, please. Cheers.
August 18th, 2025 at 00:36True blues aficionados never took Gary’s rock pop blues serious (John Mayall once said that the song Still Got The Blues is not Blues to him, but pop), but they are hard to please. What Gary did was introduce people who had otherwise heard very little Blues to that genre, that is no mean feat – it was quite a step from After The War to Still Got The Blues – and I’m prepared to give him credit for that.
I’m not a Blues purist, far from it. I’m not one of those people who think that a white guy with one foot in hard rock cannot credibly play Blues, I think Alvin Lee devalidated that theory.
https://youtu.be/LdPicAzRPYc
As did Rory Gallagher:
https://youtu.be/RxiEMpcI83E
But Gary Moore never achieved the same amount of authenticity in my ears, even – as he did by the way too early end of his career – when he played more sparsely.
https://youtu.be/hVN9ckrREWY
Maybe there was some dirt under the fingernails missing.
August 18th, 2025 at 02:40#31 I don’t even know where to begin… Of course, as always, it’s a matter of taste, so I don’t think Gary should have handed over the vocals to Neil Carter. Just listen to “Empty Rooms” by Bob Daisley & Friends (Moore Blues for Gary). Neil’s singing here is completely bloodless to me. Neil was able to support Gary superbly live on the choruses, but nothing more.
August 18th, 2025 at 11:04I really liked the combination with Glenn Hughes on “Run for Cover,” for example, on “Reach for the Sky” and “All Messed Up.” I think this could have been something in the long run if GH’s addictions hadn’t gotten in the way.
Regarding your statement about the bassists (or other musicians), Gary was probably similar to Ritchie or Cozy. The players had to work for the freedom, and in my opinion, Bob Daisley & Neil Murray, apart from Jack Bruce, also managed this. Now name me another famous artist who allowed a bass solo on a studio album (Empty Rooms/original version)
@ 40 – well said Crocco regarding Empty Rooms, the original version. Ian Paice on the drums on the original version and Mo Foster, a wonderful prolific bass guitarist. However, according to someone commenting here, Moore had not subtleness, no nuance and all he did was ram his guitar playing down people throats, so to speak. Ham fisted even? Far too aggressive and forceful and leaving no room for anyone else to prosper at all. A dastardly fellow he must have been. Anyway, we know what we like and that is the most important thing and we don’t have a chip on our shoulder about it all and we don’t keep banging on about it like the proverbial “thorn in the backside” causing that everlasting ‘pain in the butt’. The original Empty Rooms below for the ‘uninitiated’ few. And another Gary Moore instrumental ‘Sunset’ from the Cozy Powell album Tilt, nice too it is. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MTzNySHIg4&t=6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl87TE31mEA&t=14s
August 19th, 2025 at 08:11For the record:
– Victims Of The Future was both better than Corridors Of Power and the glossy, but insubstantial Run For Cover. VOTF is Moore’s best rock album hands down.
– Empty Rooms is in its original form a nice song and you’ll never hear me say a bad word about Mo Foster (though the bass melody he plays in the song was composed note for note by Gary on guitar, it is still impeccaby rendered). Of course there are songs by solo artists with bass solos, Crocco!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA
And no, Paul Simon didn’t really play that solo himself. That was Bakithi Kumalo.
Or how about this here, at 01:19:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9y7IIjS3Kk&t=8s
Some jazz kid playing a solo there, Jaco something, forgot his name … 😉
– Gary has had great bassists playing for him, but they were never allowed to play much, because that is the way he liked it (at least in the 80s): Neil Murray left because of that (he explicitly said so, he found it frustrating after the comparative freedom he had enjoyed with WS), Glenn Hughes shook his head in disbelief and Bob Daisley simply knuckled down to play more sparsely with Gary than in any other band he played except maybe Rainbow. If you want to hear Bob really play bass creatively, listen to Widowmaker, Ozzy Osbourne, Uriah Heep or Mothers Army. Gary was extremely restrictive in what he allowed his rhythm sections to play, that is why Cozy Powell threw down his drum sticks and left before the tour of After The War – Gary wanted everything exactly like it sounded on record. There was a reason why Moore went through countless drummers and bassists
– I always found Neil Carter’s voice less strained and affected than Gary’s but that is indeed a matter of taste.
– Moore was technically an excellent player, just not a very mature one. Less would have indeed often been mo(o)re.
August 19th, 2025 at 12:07#42 Gary has always been a guitarist for guitarists, his class probably cannot be recognized by a bassist 🙂
August 19th, 2025 at 18:54You have a point there, Crocco, playing bass requires taste and letting the music breathe, traits not always found with guitarists and certainly not with Herr Moore! 😘
August 20th, 2025 at 07:16@23
“But I certainly will! I have all her albums.”
– being where we are, I would definitely not brag about that Uwe!
Of course you’re entitled to drool about the notorious boyfriend-exhibitor singer, but she is about as talented as….. (now picture a big void 😂)
August 20th, 2025 at 11:07@24
“You read me like a book, Karin, ‘deed I’m not.”
😁🤣
You are among the few righteous ones!
I cannot say either that she rubs me the wrong way, because she doesn’t rub me at all!
But I will certainly NOT use my money buying that…. (I’m thinking rubbish, but I better be silent here, I really don’t need a German Lawyer punishing me..)
“just not my cup of t…sorry, coffee”
August 20th, 2025 at 11:11– very well put Max 👍🏼☕️☕️
Drool? I find Taylor totally unhot with her girl next door look, I just respect her industriousness. She’s a self-made phenomenon.
I’m from a different generation, I thought women like Chi Coltrane
https://youtu.be/l7JgOY1ff5A,
Melanie
https://youtu.be/RCTMTflcuug
or Charlie Dore hot!
https://youtu.be/0U6wtA1YA7s
August 20th, 2025 at 19:28@47
Chi Coltrane – classy 👍🏼
Melanie – very nice 😊
Charlie Dore – beautiful 🤩
I will do you a favour and link this:
https://youtu.be/arkC5_wuHpM?si=p0pvkBSNujL7Syj6
Someone I know LOVED Twisted Sister, but haven’t got the name quite right, so he ordered the album and got Pointer Sisters 😄
August 20th, 2025 at 21:36Awww how we teased him 😆
@ 47- “phenomenon.”?????? ‘self made” yes indeed the second one is just that, sort of. Manufactured just like a ‘barbie doll’ you mean Uwe. All the manufactured look’s, moves, expressions etc etc. All be done before too, far too much. As for the first word???????
August 20th, 2025 at 21:48@49
(Whisper)
August 21st, 2025 at 05:47Pssst MacGregor, what ever and who ever can take Uwe’s attention away from the Swift girl, is very welcome here 😄
@49
I second everything MacGregor says here!
As Aqua, the Danish band who unfortunately made ‘Barbie girl’ sang:
“Life in plastic, it’s fantastic”
No really, she is not important to me at all, and I would never think twice about her, hadn’t it been for her tendency to put former boyfriends on display as being d…h….!
I honestly don’t think she is perfect herself so for her to publicly humiliate men/boys is despicable.
As Elizabeth 1. in Blackadder would put it: Peww-eiww!
August 21st, 2025 at 06:03Part of what’s fascinating about Ms Swift is that she is (i) not really beautiful, just roundabout ok (on my scale at least), (ii) not really a great dancer with animal grace, (iii) not really a powerful singer (and unusually melisma-free in this day and age, it’s like she never listened to a female Soul/Funk singer emoting and ad-libbing in her life), (iv) not really dangerous, risqué or cutting edge (like, say, Madonna was and Lady Gaga is), and (v) a somewhat mono-themed songwriter. She epitomizes US middle class normality on the yawny side. Yet somehow she has latched onto the feelings of a huge global audience and become their emotional confidante. No amount of external manufacturing can create that (especially for the meanwhile quite substantial duration of her career) type of momentum.
I saw Twister Sister on the Come Out & Play tour, it was good fun and Dee Snider has NYC hoodlum loudmouth charm as a frontman, an East Coast version of David Lee Roth, only uglier. But he is a very limited singer and the band’s songwriting skills were limited as well. I think even back then, I would have appreciated the inherent musicality of the Pointer Sisters more.
https://youtu.be/K9S5EZgIJck
https://youtu.be/AeNHMDfD1tA
https://youtu.be/MVE6C_m4IZA
Your friend’s mistake benefitted the overall quality of his record collection in the long run I believe.
If heavy music was reduced to being only bands like Twisted Sister and the sadly unavoidable AC/DC, I think I’d switch to Ska.
By the way I prefer Sister Sledge
https://youtu.be/e1IkdZIdCP8
and En Vogue
https://youtu.be/MoaceIZxaao
to the “truck drivers in drag”-charm of Twister Fuckin’ Sister too – and not just for the more sparing and artful application of their makeup. 😂
August 21st, 2025 at 14:11@52
Uwe! Hello!
“Yet somehow she has latched onto the feelings of a huge global audience and become their emotional confidante“
– well well well…🧐
You can say the exact same thing about Oasis! But I think it was you, among others, who named them an abomination!
“an East Coast version of David Lee Roth, only uglier”
– I love Jump with Van Halen (was my ringtone for years and years) but oh man I would have loved Dee as the vocalist 😄
“But he is a very limited singer and the band’s songwriting skills were limited as well. I think even back then”
– maybe, but he is honest and good fun! And looks isn’t everything 🤓
“Your friend’s mistake benefitted the overall quality of his record collection in the long run I believe.”
– yeah 🤣 but he was in his teens, a rocker type-ish, had a motorbike, leather outfit etc, so for him it was quite embarrassing 😂😂
The rest of us had a good laugh 😆
Interesting choice of music you have Uwe 😊
I enjoy you’re not singleminded ☺️
Of course Purple and Ian top my list, but my taste in music is quite broad too.
Not ms Swift though, but besides her:
https://youtu.be/lcIK3akktLU?si=OQobiT-onhZYwJh-
And these:
https://youtu.be/SRg_1i1SFuM?si=20m9hMqU10kfEgeg
Not to forget:
https://youtu.be/SXiwMARW6tE?si=0LOLus3L0kbdkI3S
And this blushing young lady:
https://youtu.be/Xg1t-fqhbf8?si=mdMXxf5ghmP0c-pj
Her voice is, in my head, the female equivalent to Ian 😊
Not the range, but the underlying tone and feeling, and the colours that appear in my head ☺️
And talking about her, I have to mention this, my all time favourite lovesong:
https://youtu.be/C_JdKJQPS9I?si=S6juvH7oIQYwMcew
It is so unbelievable beautiful 😍 painful at the same time, but her voice makes it bearable 🥰
I have always wondered why Stevie Nicks has been the prominent one of the two ladies from FM, because CMcV was amazing, honest, her voice is breathtaking and so so beautiful 😍 and she seemed so effortless singing.
Do need to mention this too:
https://youtu.be/ooGFL0bzJ88?si=qTlC2oI0-8nX3qcQ
August 21st, 2025 at 17:08Always makes me teary…
There are Swifties about in here, be careful everyone!!!!! Well there is One at least. Those scantly clad ladies again……………………..he must be getting close to being put out to pasture, surely, this Uwe Hornung character. There will be plenty of ‘birds’ and bees out there in the country Uwe. Cheers.
August 21st, 2025 at 21:42@ 52 – “Yet somehow she has latched onto the feelings of a huge global audience and become their emotional confidante.” Oh please, spare me the drivel………….you are totally deluded Uwe. Welcome to our NIGHTMARE folks………………Uwe, the Swiftie marketing guru strikes again. Next please. I thought this was a rock music site, not a pre teen fest. Cheers.
August 21st, 2025 at 21:47Rick Beato’s take on the Lady in waiting, Ms Swift.. It is about the songwriting and ‘manufacturing’ part of that so called ‘muzak’. A short video for Rick, (10 minutes). Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxrwjJHXPlQ
August 22nd, 2025 at 04:48Karin, be serious, it’s ok to like Oasis, but a global phenomenon like Taylor Swift they are not. Just look where they just famously toured (and then look where Swift‘s Eras Tour took place), they are a totally UK-centric band and their lyrics are vague and on the silly side, even Noel has said that he has no idea what Don’t Look Back In Anger is about and that he never met a girl called Sally or someone remotely like her, “I use words because they sound good”. Unlike Swift’s lyrics, Oasis’ lyrics are NOT autobiographical, they don’t have her diaristic approach at all. And Liam mostly sings his brother’s lyrics from 30 years ago at Oasis concerts at the ripe old age of almost 53. What an alert chronicler of UK blue collar life the man is.
Oasis mean next to nothing in the US (or South America or Asia or Africa or the Mideast or even Commonwealth Australia). The Gallagher Bros couldn‘t get arrested in the US and would be booed off any Midwest stage there opening for, say, someone like Nickelback because they don’t even have a credible lead guitarist. (Noel himself says he’s proud of that “anybody can play what I do”.) Not to mention a lousy drummer on the recent tour and a rhythm guitarist doing nothing else but moving bar chords around on the fretboard.
I know, you’re probably gonna say how immensely popular Oasis are in Denmark to which I say – while it is true that Denmark is like all of Scandinavia very Anglophile and quick to follow any nonsense coming from the Brit Isles – when did Oasis last tour your good country? And did they ever do four consecutively sold out gigs there like Uriah Heep did in 1973 which you chose to deride as “unknown in Denmark”?
How UK- and Euro-centric do you have to be to name a band popular (only) there “global”? Last I heard the British Empire was over. 😂
You might like Oasis, fine. You might think Ms Swift’s music and lyrics shite and dislike her as a person, also fine. But don’t try to put the two in the same boat as regards global relevance, that is so fact-free to be just laughable, in this day and age really White House press speaker-worthy. 😑
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/02/17/01/95278115-14403937-Donald_Trump_s_press_secretary_Karoline_Leavitt_27_appears_to_ha-a-9_1739757238915.jpg
And that is all coming from me who if push comes to shove can relate better to Oasis (been to two gigs, one of them was actually good!) than to Taylor Swift whose core audience I am obviously not. But let’s not get carried away with equating personal preference with global significance.
August 22nd, 2025 at 13:24Rick Beato, whom I generally like and rate for his musical knowledge, is for some reason on a holy crusade against TS and has been for a long time. To me that’s a baby boomer barking at the moon or pissing against a tree. I already saw that clip when it came out, he’s totally missing the point of what TS is about like only a male his age can. A bit on the embarrassing side really.
Point me to the place where I supposedly said TS is “rock”, please? I see her strictly as a sociological-cultural phenomenon and never subscribed to her being more musically important, influential and impactful than The Beatles. No one is, not even Ian Gillan, his well-known 80s popularity in Denmark notwithstanding . 😂
August 22nd, 2025 at 13:40@57
“even Noel has said that he has no idea what Don’t Look Back In Anger is about and that he never met a girl called Sally or someone remotely like her, “
😃 well I guess it’s called artistic freedom!
Not all songwriters keep strictly to reality as ms Swift does (especially when it comes to badmouthing former boyfriends)
( Uwe, I’m certainly no saint, I have a long list of things I wish I never did, but I would NEVER publicly humiliate anyone! I really find it so ill mannered. No matter what anyone did, please fix it in privacy)
(or at least: don’t write pop tunes about the misdoings)
(but maybe that’s just the Viking way of living..😉)
(honestly living, I mean 😄)
“Oasis’ lyrics are NOT autobiographical, they don’t have her diaristic approach at all.”
– 😄 and for that I will be forever grateful and will keep listening to the Gallagher Brothers 😃
“And Liam mostly sings his brother’s lyrics from 30 years ago at Oasis concerts at the ripe old age of almost 53”
– 🤣 Uwe! You are considerably more clever than what you give yourself credit for here!
You know why Liam AND Noel sing the old songs, don’t ya?
They have been pursuing their own – not very successful (even though I really like Liam’s songs) solo careers – and now when they finally have buried the knives, of course the audiences want, no, NEED to hear all the hits so they can sing along 😍
You of all people would be so annoyed if they only presented new material at their concerts!
I have heard rumours that they might come to Denmark in ‘26, November to be more precise (hope it is true) and I cannot wait to sing along with all those beautiful old hits! And how annoyed I will be if they only present new songs I don’t know by heart!
“Not to mention a lousy drummer on the recent tour and a rhythm guitarist doing nothing else but moving bar chords around on the fretboard.”
– 🤣🤣🤣
Who has been “tisset på din sukkermad’? 😄 (loosely translated: Who peed on your candy?) 😃😄
“I know, you’re probably gonna say how immensely popular Oasis are in Denmark”
– 😆 ohhh you know me so well! 😁
Yes! They are very popular in Denmark, especially in a little Dorf north of Randers, not as popular as Purple, but yes, I really like Oasis!
“when did Oasis last tour your good country?”
– well, I hope the rumours are true, that they will come to Denmark next year🤞🏼
“You might think Ms Swift’s music and lyrics shite and dislike her as a person, also fine”
– 😂😂😂😂
Oh you are adorable! I think it is beyond cute that you so chivalrous defend TS! I really do actually! I do the same whenever anyone attacks Purple or Ian!
“But don’t try to put the two in the same boat”
– I would never! I have great and profound respect for the sea and will never rock any boat, especially not with Noel and Liam in it 😁
If I may add a little thought I just got while reading your post:
(And this is honestly not meant to be insulting ) it is mostly teenage girls that dig TS, and today’s teenagers have plenty of money compared to back in the day when I was a teen, so they can buy her stuff and attend her concerts, and I guess they are in awe of her because she so boldly don’t take any crap from former boyfriends, because she very well describes how teen life is etc.
Oasis, on the other hand, are not for that audience, but for grown ups, adults, who have a lot more to use our money for, than to attend their concerts. So when so many people anyhow rejoice over Oasis, after so many years of being apart, I really do believe it’s because they are genuinely loved.
I don’t believe TS could be away from the scene in, let’s say, 15 years, and have the same comeback success. Because then her audience is grown up and don’t have time/money/energy for her kind of songs.
Just like if Spice Girls would return (even though Posh won’t ☺️)
“And that is all coming from me who if push comes to shove can relate better to Oasis (been to two gigs, one of them was actually good!) than to Taylor Swift whose core audience I am obviously not.”
– Are you for real? So we do agree after all, to some extent ☺️
Again I will be honest and not cheeky: I do admire how you so heroic defend her! You like her personality, I remember you once told me, and I do appreciate your integrity!
“But let’s not get carried away with equating personal preference with global significance.”
– and here stops the cosy agreement! 😄
I don’t give anything for global significance! NOT. AT. ALL!
If I like someone, a band or a singer, I really REALLY don’t care if the rest of the world hates them/him/her!
If I find joy and happiness listening to that kind of music, that’s enough!
I don’t need other people’s validation to be able to feel it’s ok for me to love that music.
I can’t begin to describe for you how it was for me to be a young teenage girl and be loving Purple when everyone else were feeling nauseated because of rock, in that period where pop and disco was the only thing!
But I couldn’t care less 😃
I still don’t 😃
So here we are, and I will indeed thank you for all these delightful and inspiring discussions we have from time to time ☺️😃
August 22nd, 2025 at 21:58@58
“Rick Beato, whom I generally like and rate for his musical knowledge”
– yeah, me too! He has great knowledge and I like his informative work 😊
“on a holy crusade against TS and has been for a long time”
– yes, I know. I was not happy about it either, because he ought to be above that. But I guess his viewpoint is that only serious music (read: men and ‘menlike’ women) are ok….
“Point me to the place where I supposedly said TS is “rock”, please?”
– I don’t think you ever did? Or did you? I honestly can’t remember ever reading you said that.
So you believe Beatles to be more important than Ian? – see, now I’m immensely grateful for my teen years where I learned the hard way not to worry about other people’s opinions! 😄😄
Don’t get me wrong: I find Beatles very important and extremely interesting.
But for me: they started a lot, they certainly did! But could they have followed that through?
Well, we will never know, will we? Half of them are dead, the other half had only sporadic success in their respective careers. Paul certainly more than Ringo.
But what they started were successfully followed up by Purple, Led Zep, BS and I guess I also can add the Kinks… among many others (the Move, ELO etc)
Would Purple have appeared without the Beatles? I seem to remember we once had this debate and never agreed 😄
I do believe that RAW talent as the talent seen in all of Purple and especially in Ian Gillan cannot be kept in the dark!
Some people ooze talents, geniality and a willingness and longingness (is that even a word 😄) to do whatever it takes to perform, whether it is as a successful lawyer, a so-and-so homeopath or a God-given singer!
So no! I don’t think Beatles were needed for Purple to appear.
Oh and now you will of course mention Elvis as the missing link! Well be my guest 😃
August 22nd, 2025 at 22:16I’m off to bed anyway…👋🏼
I would not like to go unmentioned that I just received Oasis’ new boxed set of their complete studio albums from that worldwide online retailer owned by the guy who bought Venice for his wedding celebrations.
So you see, while they might not be quite as important as Frau Swift, I do keep track of them.
August 22nd, 2025 at 22:51@ 58 – No-one said that you said that about TS Uwe, the ‘rock’ bit. Where do you get these delusions from? In regard to Rick, he was ‘drawn in’ to the media article regarding that so called comparison. He joked about that. Lighten up ole son. He joked about a few other things too. And we all know he is a Beatles acolyte, don’t we?
August 22nd, 2025 at 23:02The word ‘phenomenon’. Please oh please, lighten up on that one. Talk about over the top sensationalism.
Wasn’t it Marlon Brando who said ‘never confuse the size of your pay check with your talent’? This does apply to many of today’s so called ‘artists’. Brando also said, “if you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies, it’s the ultimate hussle”. Be a good day. Cheers.
That should be ‘hustle’ , typos eh?
August 22nd, 2025 at 23:03“You of all people would be so annoyed if they only presented new material at their concerts!”
No, to the contrary, I would have welcomed that. Instead, the Gallaghers opted to become part of the oldies circuit. 😂 I think the first two albums by Oasis are ok, but naive in a tiring way and a lot of tracks sound same-ish. I like their mid- and late period work better. Same with Sabbath, I don’t go crazy about those first two very formative albums. Even with Mk II, I prefer MH and WDWTWA over In Rock and Fireball. Most bands grow over time, I don’t subscribe to that “the first albums are the best” theory at all. With Judas Priest, their first album is to this day by far their worst.
PS: Liebe Karin, you have listened to enough Ian Paice drumming even in your still young life to realize that compared to him the current Oasis drummer is lame, safe and booooooring. Even the Oasis fans agree on that. Oasis’ music is already rhythmically unadventurous as is – strum, strum, strum, Liam sings, strum, strum, strum, Noel attempts a few notes, strum, strum, strum -, Joey Wanker or whatever the drummer’s name is makes it even worse. Such a totally unfunky band.
August 23rd, 2025 at 03:45@ 61- after all the rantings agains poor ole Oasis, then you purchase their box set. My mind is confused, again. At least Karin will find that amusing. Cheers.
August 23rd, 2025 at 05:47@64
“Liebe Karin, you have listened to enough Ian Paice drumming even in your still young life to realize that compared to him the current Oasis drummer is lame, safe and booooooring.”
– but you see Uwe, compared to Purple and Ian G, EVERYONE is lame, safe and booooooring 😄
Compared to other bands than Purple, I really do find Oasis refreshing, energetic and charming. They possess the quality I love so much: being themselves, they can’t be no one else (quote from Supersonic, and I do believe they (Noel I guess) have been stealing a bit from our own Ian! 😄)
I never want only the sublime stuff in life! I am perfectly ok with a lame drummer because when I think of what little I can do in the beautiful world of music, I am in awe of (almost!) everyone who doesn’t mind entertaining me 😃
And of course, OF COURSE, even I can hear the difference between ‘what’s-his-name’ and Ian P, but I’m ok with that. The two front persons in Oasis (Noel and Liam if you were in doubt ☺️😉) are so charismatic that they make up for the shortcomings 😄
August 23rd, 2025 at 09:55@65
“My mind is confused, again. At least Karin will find that amusing.”
– well indeed I do 😄
The other day Uwe told us in here that he also buy records with music he doesn’t like! I think it was Coldplay he had purchased and had it in his car….
Macgregor, that is commitment on a level where I can never participate 😄
And Uwe mocked me for buying albums and keeping them unopened in my safe! TSK TSK TSK 😂
I do of course listen to all this wonderful music, but I try to collect the valuables (Purple that is!) and I will never sell them again, but I like the feeling of having them put away so IF one day Putin takes control of the modern civilisation as we know it, and close down all of YouTube and channels like that, I still can play my favourite music in my home, and that music will be in perfect order because it has been untouched by human hands until we’re mind controlled and made to puppets 😱
Well, to a more possibly note: the sun is shining 🤩
August 23rd, 2025 at 10:03@64
“No, to the contrary, I would have welcomed that.”
– ok!
So this wouldn’t make an impact on you at all:
https://youtu.be/a0KjZBzZ4oA?si=sAUaVxxCoXGtPrWy
Well maybe that’s just me, but I read once than when we’re amongst a lot of people, singing together, our heartbeats get in sync! And that is really something to experience 😊
I would feel rather disappointed if I attended a concert and I didn’t know one song!
Of course it is always exciting to listen to brand new music, but I like to listen to it at home, in my earphones, and get familiar with it tune by tune.
At a concert I love to sing my heart out and just enjoy the atmosphere and being a part of this organism, breathing and feel, being alive ☺️
August 23rd, 2025 at 13:16– maybe that’s just because I’m such a girl!
“So this wouldn’t make an impact on you at all:
https://youtu.be/a0KjZBzZ4oA?si=sAUaVxxCoXGtPrWy”
Not really, Karin, as I’m old enough to remember the original …
https://youtu.be/Bkt-TPMU_lg
I think Marc beat Noel and Liam hands down in elegance and groove. He was also the better dancer, the Gallagher Bros can’t move to music for shit.
August 27th, 2025 at 12:26@69
“I think Marc beat Noel and Liam hands down in elegance and groove“
– well Marc certainly had something going on for him.
But he is dead Uwe! So sorry if you didn’t know…. 😑
And I tend to like people to be alive and kicking 😃
Not that I don’t like T.Rex and Marc, I really do, but I will not let that stop me from listening to other great bands….
August 28th, 2025 at 08:29To Uwe Hornung at #13
Although I am a couple of decades younger than you, I think we must originate from the same Sociological Class. Feeling and hearing all of your mentions, especially Purple Family-wise and even beyond to Miles Davis, Billy Cobham and Weather Report and even more. The groundbreaking Purpleverse influenced millions of listeners to go far beyond the known territory. Something like “Gehörbildung”. Thanks for telling the truth.
September 9th, 2025 at 20:25