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Tales from down the road
Nick Fyffe of Jamiroquai and The Temperance Movement fame talks to the dopeYEAH podcast. Nick is, of course, a member of the Purple family, having stood in for Roger Glover on a couple of occasions, and also being family family as a son-in-law to Ian Paice. It is a long interview, for which we didn’t have the courage to sit all the way through. Thankfully, the moderately amusing Purple anecdotage get out of the way in the first 5-6 minutes or so. Please report in the comments if anybody finds something interesting further down the road.
Thanks to steve4422 for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
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March 24th, 2026 at 11:51There is also a similar interview that Rob conducts with Purpendicular guitarist Murray Gould. I found it fascinating as Murray is a good friend of mine, we’ve played many gigs together, and I was chuffed to get a shout out as the one to blame for the Deep Purple influence in his life, haha. A genuinely decent human being and a fine musician, I hope some of you will watch it.
March 24th, 2026 at 15:58Watched the whole interview as I’m a big Temperance Movement fan too, very interesting.
March 24th, 2026 at 18:45I only wanted to listen to bits and pieces, but then I got stuck and heard all – though not in sequence! It’s actually a very interesting interview from a musician’s viewpoint.
I also have to make amends: In the past I have been kind of harsh in my judgement on Nick’s performance deputizing for Roger at a Bonn open air in 2013 I witnessed (he mentions that gig at the beginning of his interview as his most nerve-wracking ever, Roger had undergone a shoulder surgery and couldn’t play with a limp arm):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfUkTbIjV4A
– I have only now learned that poor Nick only got a call from Roger a day before (Nick had deputized for Roger for a couple of dates in 2011 when Roger was turning dad), had to turn up for a soundcheck on the same day (flying in impromptu from the UK, something that wouldn’t work today anymore thanks to the UK’s idiotic BREXIT referendum three years later, Nicky wouldn’t be able to get the now necessary work permit in time – something for Ian Gillan to maybe think about who voted for BREXIT …) in the afternoon and played the gig the next day, spending the night in a Bonn hotel learning the new set (different from 2011) plus new songs from Now What?! which Steve showed him at the soundcheck.
– And that the next day, Nick brought along all these painstakingly written notes as “cheaters” to help him through the set only to see a gush of wind – it was an open air after all – blow them irretrievably all away! 🤣 So the poor guy died a thousand deaths during the gig, praying he hadn’t forgotten anything.
Against that background, he played marvellously well, even if he had none of Roger’s trademark throb and pulse (for which I have taken him to task in the past). My apologies, Herr Fyffe, I had no idea! (I also now understand why Little Ian ceremoniously congratulated his son-in-law at the end of the Bonn gig.)
I last saw him with Little Ian and Purpendicular in Rüsselsheim a few weeks ago – he has now even taken up playing with a pick (he’s a dedicated finger player due to his strong funk influences and a dyed in the
March 24th, 2026 at 18:55woolsocks Red Hot Chili Peppers fan) to get closer to Roger’s and Glenn’s way of playing (they played more Mk III + IV and Whitesnake material in Rüsselsheim than Mk 2 songs).@ 4 – “fill in” musicians usually get thrown in at the deep end Uwe. I remember you being a little harsh when talking about Nick’s ‘predicaments’ with DP, shame on you, (I am going to strike while the iron is hot). You possibly should have looked at it as if it was you in that situation, how would you go about it and handle it at the time. Not to worry, we will let you off the hook this time, but NOT the next time! A difficult job for most replacement musicians when given a ‘short straw’, so to speak. I am about half way through this interview. Interesting stories and a nice chap. He would have been pinching himself with many of the situations he has found himself in. Not sure about those bands at all, I have heard about them, but not their music at all. Will finish the interview today sometime. Now I will just loosen this noose a little around Uwe Hornung’s neck, temporarily. Cheers
March 24th, 2026 at 21:54@5 McGregror – Don’t wring that neck (ahem!) – it keeps the brains of this forum alive! 🙂
March 25th, 2026 at 13:54I had no idea that he only had 24 hours to prepare! That said, IG could have said a word or two about that at the gig, he barely introduced him by name.
I don‘t regret having seen Mk VIII without Roger, because it demonstrated beyond doubt how important his style and sound is for Deep Purple. Without him, all that “chugging“ is gone. On that way the gig was instructive to witness.
I never doubted Nick’s proficiency as a bassist – I mean the guy
followed Stuart Zender in Jamiroquai! Actually, how that came about shows strong parallels to how a young man from Saltburn-by-the-Sea found a job as DP’s lead vocalist in 1973 – the interview with Nick is well worth a listen because of that.
The thing is: Nick by his own account was raised on a diet of HipHop and Rap, among his earliest musical influences – he says in the interview – was this stuff:
https://youtu.be/zer0tlE4zGQ
https://youtu.be/gYMkEMCHtJ4
And later on he explored Funkadelic/Parliament/George Clinton/Bootsy Collins/Chic/RHCP/Flea. If that is your favorite music and you aspire to play bass like that, then it shapes your style. And funk means putting the emphasis on the 1 and 3 as opposed to rock’s backbeat which is 2 and 4. So Nick doesn’t have as determinative a rock feel as Roger who has been putting emphasis on 2 and 4 for pretty much all his life. Funk bassists are not always naturally geared towards a rock groove (and vice versa).
Of course, Nick later on joined The Temperance Movement, a rock group. But the role of the rhythm section there is not comparable to the dominance of the Roger & Litte Ian tandem within DP.
March 25th, 2026 at 14:47I finished the interview and thanks for posting it here. I had a listen to those two bands, not my cup of tea. Good on Nick for forging his own way and good luck to him for the future. I also forgot to mention that high quality coffee, sorry tea table they had there. Where can we get something like that, awesome it is. Cheers.
March 25th, 2026 at 21:30The Temperance Movement is a great ‘modern’ classic-rock band. Not yet a big fan but I followed their music. UK-based band, but the vocalist Phil Campbell sounded American to me, somewhere between Chris Robinson and Eddie Vedder. Listen to their cover of Deep Purple “You Fool No One” with Little Ian on the drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEJyUjQEhRM
As for Nick’s bass, their song “Midnight Black” show his steady bass lines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xitA0g63QlQ
Talking about ‘last minute’ replacement. It hits me with the memory of reading news that the replacement for Oasis cancelled concert in Rock am See 2009 festival in German (due to the infamous sibling rivalry fight in Paris) will be Deep Purple of all people.
Trying to search the reviews afterwards, mostly were positive. Certainly, our heroes did not have to learn Oasis repertoire, Gillan do not have to sing with microphone higher, etc., unlike what Nick Fyffe have experienced above
IMO Steve Morse first shows with the band could also be considered with him as a replacement, given he had very few days to learn the band’s catalogue. Not to help that he did not listen to Deep Purple that much according to what he said (he’s coming from Jimmy Page’s and Jeff Beck’s camps)
And Jordan Rudess did stellar job too when substituting Don Airey at the festival in Mexico 2020. As a Purple big fan, it should be dream come true for him to join his heroes on stage, full concert. Although he later described, while Jon Lord of course one of his big heroes, musically he was coming from Keith Emerson’s and Rick Wakeman’s camps
March 26th, 2026 at 03:43Wow
Two nice insights !
First
I didn’t know Nick was Ian Paice’s son-in-law
A great bassist…. with backing singers carrying the sound, Jamiroquai….Jamiroquai “Live in Verona”, what a bass groove!!!great album
Second
March 26th, 2026 at 10:43Finally I found out after 50 years!!!! maybe embarrassing for a DP fan to show how much I don’t know. Made in Europe album cover picture..not from the Europe concert in 1975 but photo is from Chicago 1974 made in Burn tour !!!. I was always suspicious of Glenn’s white suit from the California Jam.1974. at which concert in Europe in the fall of 1975 Glenn wore ????he was topless most of the time .How could they mislead me?
Of course we all know both Nick and his bandmate Phil (who does indeed share a vocal likeness with Chris Robinson of The Black Corowes, Andre is right) from the RAH Jon Lord event where they were the ones to help with the two PAL numbers Silas & Jerome and I’m Gonna Stop Drinking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGaeW8ef0rM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqN-NKjuRic
There is also a bit of Jess Roden in Phil Campbell (who was incidentally once rumored in the papers as a successor to Ian Gillan in DP, but nothing ever seemed to have happened).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGaeW8ef0rM
As for the Temperance Movement doing You Fool No One, thanks for the clip, Andre, I have the CD, but never saw it. That version sounds to me merely competent ( Ireally miss the organ), though Phil gives it a Jack Bruce touch the way he sings it (which, to be fair, is exactly what DC and GH had in mind when they wrote the vocal melody and the vocal arrangement first, they very much wanted it to be a tribute to Cream and you can definitely hear that).
Re DP depping for that band Karin likes so much with the two unruly siblings, what I heard is that the many Oasis fans present there were good sports accepting DP as what they were, a band from another rock era, but gifted performers. One wonders if the same politesse had been granted had the situation been reversed and Oasis shown up impromptu as a replacement for DP heading a festival bill. I sure would hope so.
March 26th, 2026 at 10:49Ivica, the Rickenbacker 4001 in Glenn’s hands should have told you! He only played that on the Burn Tour at the recommendation of Ritchie (because Roger had played one from latish 1971 onwards), but discarded it towards the end (selling it to Geezer Butler), reverting back to Fender, in this case a Fender Precision. Glenn didn’t feel at home with the Ric, a lot of bassists don’t, especially Fenderistas don’t. I personally prefer the feel of a Ric to a Fender.
March 26th, 2026 at 13:39Here is Glenn’s Rickenbacker 4001 from (some early parts of) the Burn Tour in the hands of Geezer:
https://youtu.be/I8_NCX2AwLE
It really didn’t last very long with Glenn, already by the Cal Jam date he was reinstating a Fender Precision Bass as his weapon of choice. So any Mk III pic you see of Glenn playing his red Ric 4001 stems from the earliest legs of the Burn Tour in late 1973 and early 1974 – but it is featured throughout on the album Burn.
https://www.facebook.com/glennhughesonline/posts/my-red-rickenbacker-is-the-most-talked-about-bass-guitar-in-my-collectionplayed-/562969485189551/
Glenn tried to repurchase it from Geezer later on, but Geezer wouldn’t let go of it! 😂 The Rickenbacker you’ve seen with Glenn on his Mk III Revue is a different specimen, most likely a 4003, the follow-up model to the long deleted 4001. They look almost identical.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jSFcgpdRG9g
Glenn initially played it at his solo Mk III shows to conform to his Burn image, but once again he switched to Fenders (and Fender-lookalikes from fancy boutique luthiers) as the tour went on. He just doesn’t feel comfortable playing Rics live. It is structurally quite different from Fender type basses as it is neck-thru as opposed to bolt-0n neck, a Fender characteristic, and also features a slightly shorter scale than a long scale Fender: not yet medium scale, but not quite long scale either, only Rickenbacker uses that particular scale length.
March 27th, 2026 at 04:04@11
“One wonders if the same politesse had been granted had the situation been reversed and Oasis shown up impromptu as a replacement for DP heading a festival bill. I sure would hope so.”
– Uwe to my surprise I’ve discovered that not everybody likes Oasis! 😳
Goes beyond me…
No, they’re certainly not in the same league as Purple! And NO, Liam as a young man could never sing so wonderfully as Ian can at 80 – however, they live in their own right, don’t they?
They have their trademarks (sunshiiiiiiine for a start 😄) and these days the bros are hugging away at the stage!
Not bad musicians, Liam and Noel fine singers, and I dare say that hadn’t Purple never happened (what a ghastly thought 🫣😱) Oasis would have sounded even better. But of course they fall through when compared to Purple, n’est pas?
Unruly you say 😃
March 27th, 2026 at 05:01They seem to have mellowed now they’ve finally matured ☺️
@5 hi McGregor. after talking about it with Uwe, I think you could be interested in a new book on Purple saga that’s on planning phase right now. please, contact me at dp586@hotmail.com so I can explain a little more.
March 27th, 2026 at 08:56Jose
Oasis is a chord-based band, there is hardly a Blues influence in them. Deep Purple, however, is a riff-based behemoth. At the core of nearly every popular DP song lies a riff that mostly can‘t deny its Blues origins.
So Oasis fans find DP lacking in the harmony dept, there is no DP song like this one
https://youtu.be/cmpRLQZkTb8
and DP fans are confounded by Oasis songs asking: “Where is the riff to latch onto?”
https://youtu.be/sDDSpxycHSI
So while both Oasis and DP broadly qualify as crowd-pleasing rock best played in stadiums, their characteristic ingredients are quite apart. If Liam or Noel had been asked to sing something to the Burn riff, they would have dumbfoundedly asked: “But there is no room to put a vocal melody anywhere!” And Ian Gillan or David Coverdale would have been puzzled at an instrumental backing track of Don’t Look Back In Anger, questioning “Why do the friggin’ chords change all the time, I thought we were a rock band and not The Beatles!”
I never played more harmony changes in my life than when I was in an – essentially – Oasis cover band for a few years. What happens in the very Beatlesque bridge of Lady Double Dealer for only twenty seconds, happens in Oasis songs all the friggin’ time incessantly. Oasis songs are written to make sense being played by a solitary acoustic guitar in a park, most DP songs don’t work in that format at all.
March 27th, 2026 at 13:36Has anybody seen this? Very interesting I suppose:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJif3zG_MDQ
March 28th, 2026 at 09:11@16
Thank you Uwe for that in depth analysis for my all time favourite band Deep Purple, and my other darlings who indeed are Oasis!
I did remember you once before told about the Oasis cover band you attended, so I guess you somehow ALSO like them very much?
In my sad little ears I cannot distinct between them as you can, sadly.
Both bands bring wonderful colours in my brains and I enjoy them immensely!
But I also have to say that when they were apart, both bros did very well for themselves, but Noel has that higher quality when it comes to songwriting.
A lot of Liam’s songs were apologies to Noel, rather dear songs actually.
Am I happy they are back together? You bet!
And when they come back to Denmark….. I’ll be first in line 😃
Oasis not being influenced by the blues? Well I guess I have to believe you.
March 28th, 2026 at 10:24But please take a listen to this B-side
https://youtu.be/iTU3LGtOUNQ?is=Gjz-sqjyWdcYRjIf
@16
Not really, you could combine the refrain of Deep Purple “Haunted” with Oasis “Don’t Look Back in Anger” without losing much of the tempo
Oasis are dedicated followers of The Beatles with those melodies and chord changes, although IMO they did great jobs in covering The Who “My Generation” in 2005-2006 tour
As for the top 10 Deep Purple riff video above, it reminds me of what typical of guitar riffs I really love the most. The riff that has infectious melody, groove, and tempo that could bring me straight into the world inside of the songs
Hence why my Top 5 Purple riffs are “Painted Horse”, “Sail Away”, “Maybe I’m A Leo”, Whoosh’s “Nothing at All” and the best of all “Burn!!” (sorry Smoke on the Water fans, it wasn’t even in my Top 20 favorite Purple riff)
However, Ritchie Blackmore and Noel Gallagher have the same ‘nasty’ habits, took inspirations from older songs into their guitar riffs. Listen to “Cigarettes and Alcohol” (T-Rex “Get it On”), “The Importance of Being Idle” (The Clash “London Calling” & The LA’s “Clean Prophets”), “Step Out” (Stevie Wonder “Uptight”) and “Shakermaker” (Coca-Cola’s 1971 theme song), and there are many more
March 28th, 2026 at 11:47That I “like Oasis very much” is an overstatement! I think they are oh-kayyyy …. I have all their albums plus Beady Eyes, Noel’s ornithology circus and Liam’s solo stuff and been to two Oasis gigs. I follow them like I follow U2, Coldplay, Kings of Leon or Taylor Swift – as a pop-cultural phenomenon, but with no emotional ties.
Musically there is too little going on for me: Liam cannot sing rhythmically like, say Mick Jagger or Steven Tyler can, he always sings “over” the music but doesn’t engage with it rhythmically, I’d like to hear him attempt Ted the Mechanic 😂. There is not a single good guitarist in that band, Noel plays rhythm guitar like Wandergitarre with kiddie chords, the bass and drum work is instantly forgettable, live they often use a click track and the drums are all stiff. I don’t find them emotionally gripping either, I’m not Northern English working class lad, sorry, they are like professional footballers to me, an alien species. But both Noel and Liam can sometimes write a nice Beatlesque tune, that is their redeeming feature. If truth be told, I actually prefer Liam’s solo work to Noel’s.
When I joined that cover band, which was first named quite aptly Morning Glory (my idea) and then Downing Beat (also my idea), I had not heard much Oasis (and hated Wonderwall, which I do to this day though I of course had to play it) nor did I own a single CD of theirs. So I just dived into it out of curiosity, thinking it would be interesting to move away from the more riff oriented music I had always played before. The guys in the band were good too, albeit committed Brit Pop fans. Great harmony vocals. I learned that the absence of riffs in Oasis’ music offered me great melodic and harmonic freedom on bass, I really played pretty much lead bass in the school of Paul McCartney, John Entwistle, Jim Lea or Martin Turner through all those chords in the four plus years I stayed with them. I have never played more thirds (rather than root notes or fifths) in my life, the music very much lends itself to that (not that anybody who played bass with Oasis ever realized the opportunity, the bass playing in Oasis is mostly rendered in a workmanlike fashion). In a Purple or Rainbow covers band you hardly ever get to play a third as the bassist and if you do everyone else in the band looks at you accusingly! 😂
My favorite track was this one here, that was great to play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6X0rOC32AA
The first two albums of Oasis which everybody treasures so much are hugely overrated to me, they sound samey and I really have issues telling the songs apart. Once Noel no longer wrote all the songs, it benefitted the band I think. He’s pretty much a one-trick-pony as a songwriter.
March 29th, 2026 at 09:40One statement sums Noel up: He’s certainly no Paul Weller as development of songwriting craft and stylistic variation go. I rate Paul Weller highly. He’s neither a brilliant guitarist nor a brilliant singer, but he has artistic integrity and has never stopped evolving.
Also, that big recent reunion tour of Oasis was based solely on 25 to thirty years old songs. When Deep Purple Mk II reunited in 1984 their music was at its oldest (Hush) 16 years old, yet they recorded a fresh album before touring and stuck a sizable part of that into their set. Imagine how this forum here would have been up in arms if they had only toured with a set consisting of the Mk II heydays chestnuts from 1970-1973! I think that just about says it all which band is the more musically ambitious here.
Oasis are pure nostalgia, a soundtrack for people who think wearing a Ben Sherman shirt somehow makes them Britannia cool. Come to think of it: Steve, please continue wearing your gas station Native American kitsch & critters cut-off tees, while not all of them can ever be forgiven, they are at least quickly forgotten and unpretentious in style. Unlike some Mancunian posers who drown in their own attitude.
March 29th, 2026 at 16:01Do you think Nick calls IP “dad”? What happened if Nick made a mistake – would IP say something and what did he say to his wife when h e talked to her!
March 30th, 2026 at 08:51@12 Herr
Those Sabbath guys kept coming to our garden, to our family tree and picking (instruments, producers, singers, bassists, drummers, keyboardists)..what would I take from them for our DP family? maybe Sharon Arden as a manager haha
March 30th, 2026 at 09:20Rush hit the stage at the Juno awards with their new chic drummer Anika and I’m in LOVE……………..performing a song from their debut album that had their original drummer John Rutsey in the band. Not the Rush I ever enjoyed but they have to start out again somewhere. Karin DO NOT WATCH THIS LIVE CLIP. And I noticed a few ladies in the audience too………….what is going on in Rush land? Has the tide turned, is it to appease one Uwe Hornung and his no females in the audience rave. Time will tell and hell may just freeze over as even Karin may end up a Rush geek after all. Seriously though, if she was disciplined in any way she would NOT watch this AT ALL Then we wouldn’t have to read her, let’s say ‘put down Geddy’s vocal’ comments. Go on Karin, you know you want to. Be a good girl now! Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVw-4L59Tw0
March 30th, 2026 at 10:05>i>you could combine the refrain of Deep Purple “Haunted” with Oasis “Don’t Look Back in Anger”
That’s a good catch, Andre, there are similarities. I’m not saying that Deep Purple never write anything chordy or that Oasis don’t occasionally stumble across a goos riff, but by and large they both have their house recipes. Haunted is of course a Steve Morse number, not a Blackmore one (who in the 70s very much wrote in a riff-driven vein).
That said a Blackmore song that combines a majestic riff with busy chord changes – unusually busy for Blackmore who was often happy to stick to three or four chords in his songs that would change at a leisurely pace – is Man On The Silver Mountain. Its verse doesn’t even start on the root chord/key of the riff (G minor, back then Ritchie’s favorite key for those trademark riffs in fourths played/plucked on the D and G string of his Strat) as you would expect with Purple or Rainbow, but unusually yet elegantly on an F major chord. There are even some – horror of horrors! – half-bar chord changes! A very clever song structure, albeit very rarely repeated by Ritchie.
March 30th, 2026 at 13:20@24
MacGregor 😌
I read almost everything in here and of course I watch and listen to every single link….
I sincerely do not hope you feel I am just “putting Rush down”, because I am not.
I appreciate all other people’s opinions, and respect you all – A LOT!
Listening to the link right now, I have to say: the guitar is bitching 😍
But I do have a serious problem with the voice of the vocalist.
I can’t even ask you to excuse me, because ohhh man the colours in my head are horrible..
have to stop it now 😞 the song that is.
But it’s great they have a female drummer!
I hope she will encourage other women to take up drumming 😊
Cheers right back at ya!
March 31st, 2026 at 08:45https://youtu.be/UYJjLcVUt6Y?si=Z2qUUE5ruWEj_op8
https://youtu.be/9hbLE_j8YtI?si=NVa2w6BPEOfSTIGB
🙂
March 31st, 2026 at 17:30Karin, you’re not the only woman who has issues letting Geddy’s voice closer to her heart! 🤣 Don’t feel bad, it’s a band for INCELs in remote regions mostly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_Ki8mNQlw
The German Pönytailwunder is not doing a bad job at all here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVw-4L59Tw0
Am I mistaken, or is she even a bit more lively and emergetically ahead of the beat as the metronomic Herr Peart? Doesn’t sound bad at all. I’m happy to see them playing live again.
March 31st, 2026 at 20:27@ 26 – Just joking Karin and testing your ‘vulnerability’ to the proverbial ‘clickbait’ scenario. I do warn you as much as I can, while prodding you too, he he he. There are plenty of female drummer percussionists out there, which ‘you know who’ will probably send a truck load of links to very soon. It is just that they are not playing in the right ensemble for me to have any interest. Although Jody Linscott performing with The Who and a few other top musicians is another who I enjoy. Regarding Anika playing in Rush, it is wonderful to see they went for a relatively ‘unknown’ drummer and someone who is down to earth too. I always knew that Geddy and Alex would NOT go down the path of the loud mouth wanna be male drummer, who keeps banging on about wanting to be the drummer in Rush. All the jokes abound out there, that Anika will probably be the only female at the gig, he he he. I am prodding Uwe here of course, he will wake up soon and venture out into the real world and say something. Hibernation does that to some. Cheers.
March 31st, 2026 at 21:49@28
Yeah Uwe I clearly remember you told me about Rush and their fans, HOWEVER I can also read in here there are many fans of Rush, and I do not think those fine gentlemen in here to be INCELs 😁
But his voice is awful in my poor head 😝
But this dear fella, is a joy in my head, and I do not think you will be surprised of this tune I like so much:
April 1st, 2026 at 12:00https://youtu.be/1ieqHL15yEw?is=ulWH2O7JX0X9H6hb
(Especially 6:14 🤩)
@29
🤣
“testing your ‘vulnerability’ to the proverbial ‘clickbait’ scenario.l
– I have no vulnerability whatsoever MacGregor!
Yesterday, after Denmark failed big time at the football match, I played ‘Finding my Way’ for some friends and yes, the guys knew about Rush, and afterwards I had to console the ladies and I promised never to play that kind of music ever again 😁
Please tell me, entre nous: do you really enjoy his voice? Really really?
Because we all have different tastes, I just have this feeling that you pretend to like it 🤭
My favourite voices are well known, I guess, but let peace fall upon us, and in that context I will indeed link to this beauty:
https://youtu.be/IOBR1P1nNFw?is=KUZBcDPDrrH1zWsc
His voice is powerfull and pretty! Not ‘pink’pretty, but strong and full of life and, oh do I dare say this: without any hint of helium 😁
April 1st, 2026 at 12:10@ 31- I have already stated my lead vocal preferences regarding certain singers Karin. Not that long ago we talked about the ‘acquired’ singing from certain lead singers, who while not ‘perfect’ or to everyone’s tastes, they get the job done for their required bands, ensembles etc. Uwe has talked about it too, you must have forgotten or you didn’t read those comments. I am not going to repeat everything I said. I certainly don’t ‘pretend’ to enjoy someone’s music, I either go with it or I don’t. Cheers.
April 1st, 2026 at 20:52@32
Ohhh my! 🤣
Click bait right back at ya dear MacGregor 😄
Well I rest my case (..?..) and conclude (again): thankfully the music world is big enough for all of us ☺️
I’ve been listening to this for a while, and is very impressed:
April 2nd, 2026 at 01:05https://youtu.be/mg-T8CGMbZQ?is=Q1GDlp9Pk8j7e-Pd
What a poetic guitarist ☺️
Geddy’s voice is an acquired taste, but I can’t imagine Rush without it. It was meant for that band and Neil Peart’s lyrics.
April 2nd, 2026 at 06:51Thanks for posting the Nick Fyffe performances, Johan!
April 2nd, 2026 at 23:08Do you think Nick calls IP “dad”?
Well, at the Purpendicular gig I saw I witnessed flagrant nepotism when Little Ian introduced Nick as “my son-in-law”, heartbreaking as it must be for a drummer to welcome a bassist into the family!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5eqT0fTmWyw
April 2nd, 2026 at 23:33@ 34 – Not good enough for Karin’s new ‘vocal tester’ Uwe. It is available online at participating sites. A bit expensive though word has it. Still, as long as it is genuine and can register the correct pitch and everything else. I am looking at getting one so I can tell if all the vocalists I listen too, are singing correctly and more importantly, melodically. It is quite ironic for me though, as you know I place a fair bit of importance on good vocal delivery, so maybe there is a lesson in this for me. Karin, any chance of a discount on your new voice apparatus? Come on, you know I enjoy listening to good singers and all, how about a special discount price for me. Or am I going to be ‘punished’ for liking Rush music, not to mention Elvis and a few others. Cheers.
April 3rd, 2026 at 05:11@37
Dear MacGregor – Huh?
I mean: what?☺️
If I have said I have some apparatus then I expressed myself incorrectly…
The only ‘apparatus’ I have is the weird thing in my brain, regarding colours, all lovely when the voices and music are brilliant, like with Ian and Purple (and Extreme, Mr Big, Thunder, Dan Baird, D.A.D, Oasis and others..) and all hideous when I listen to the singer you guys like so much. (Yes, Dio)
I would love to give that phenomenon for free, but sadly I don’t know how to.
I don’t think you would like it either, because often when people have this, in such a severe way as I have, the ability to find my way around the world is pretty damaged.
We live in a little village, and Anton and I are walking here every day, and it’s very weird because even here I can get lost 🤯 it is so embarrassing actually!
Sometimes if a car stops and the driver asks me how to find an address, I always have to smile and point in some direction where I guess it is placed 🫣
So, be careful what you wish for 😃
I have mentioned this man:
April 3rd, 2026 at 10:22https://youtu.be/ynFNt4tgBJ0?is=btO5grEY7ophekT1
Where he has this set to listen to each instrument and also Brad Delp’s amazing voice.
But no, I don’t have anything like that 😊