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Don’t overcomplicate
Guitar World continues their Purple streak of late with an interview with Simon McBride:
What’s next for you and Deep Purple?
With Purple, there’s talk of another record, so we won’t stop. This year, we’re on tour until December and we have another 86 shows. And next year, we have shows booked as well, so it’s pretty busy. It’s going to stop one day and that will be it. But at the moment, we’ll just keep going and doing what we love, which is writing and playing music.
As for my own thing, I’ve just finished an instrumental record that’s about to be mixed, so it’ll probably be out maybe later this year or early next year. I may do a few shows with that… if I can play it, because it’s pretty crazy [laughs].
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Referring to Splat; my 7 year old son is sticking his FIFA players in his book and humming the intro of Guilt Trippin’…. I’m not sure if this comment belongs under this article, but if any of the DP members read these comments I thought that they would love the fact that not only old geezers and gals are loyal followers:)
July 24th, 2026 at 10:36“As for my own thing, I’ve just finished an instrumental record that’s about to be mixed, so it’ll probably be out maybe later this year or early next year.”
Well, Little Simon now has a wealth of experience doing instrumental albums, doesn’t he, because basically all of the ones he has made with Big Ian so far are – due to the Purple shouter’s preference of leaving the best to the last. 🤗
“Once [Ian] Gillan put the vocal on it, it turned into a real song. Because with all these songs, they’re all instrumentals in my head until I hear the final mix.“
July 24th, 2026 at 14:56Yo,
Good news to hear indeed about the bands future & its work-load. And the solo release from Simon should prove interesting for sure.
A live album would be great too, now that there’s enough new material being played…Even a single-disc of selected edits from different shows would be good, but that’s not how DP do things either…Patience !
Keep-up the awesome work Simon !
Ciao !
July 24th, 2026 at 22:46Maybe Simon has been ‘encouraged’ to keep ideas for a solo album from uncle Bob. “Not now McBride, keep that for your solo album”. Poor ole Steve and Simon, fancy being hassled like that from a non band member. Cheers.
July 24th, 2026 at 23:23Herr MacGregor suffers from a bad case of EDS! 🤗
“Ezrin Derangement Syndrome”
July 25th, 2026 at 15:29@ 5 – that is a good one Uwe, I will remember that one, he he he. The way things are going, ole Bob will be getting the blame for everything, even meddling in Pink Floyd’s The Wall album. At least he gave ole Roger Waters a hard time, have to always enjoy that. Not to mention getting poor ole David Gilmour into the ‘disco’ groove. Cheers.
July 25th, 2026 at 23:23Yo,
Bob Ezrin is a superb producer period…All he wants is for every tune to contain it’s own unique ID & melody, & he works the performers to deliver that…
You can hear all the expected & repeated licks & tricks at the shows or on the live albums per-se, but the studio effort has to stand on its own, & not sound the same as the previous efforts.
Ciao !
July 28th, 2026 at 00:32@7
“…but the studio effort has to stand on its own, & not sound the same as the previous efforts.”
With the exception of Shades & Taliesyn no 2 DP albums really sound alike. Each one has its own distinct flavor.
July 28th, 2026 at 23:56You think Book of Taliesyn doesn’t sound different to Shades, Russ? I definitely do, Taliesyn is to me more introverted and artsy (and actually my favorite Mk I album). Shades was for me a formative affair, charming, but not a great piece of work. The third album (or “April” as we inofficially call it in Germany) had good stuff too, but the harder tracks evidenced that it was maybe time for a new, more contemporary and forceful singer. It was Mk I (or at least the majority of its members) straining at the leash on the way to Mk II.
July 29th, 2026 at 17:41Yo,
@8…
I hear you Russ, & I’d probably throw the Mk-I self titled 3rd album in-there-too…
They were a developing prog-band (with a couple of covers thrown-in for good measure) in those days in general, but I really like Mk-I, & hold nothing against them at all.
What is evident imo, is how dramatically different the production quality changed with each of those albums. Eack album sounded much better than the one before it.
Ciao !
July 30th, 2026 at 00:26Yo,
@8…
I hear you Russ, & I’d probably throw the Mk-I self titled 3rd album in-there-too…
They were a developing prog-band (with a couple of covers thrown-in for good measure) in those days in general, but I really like Mk-I, & hold nothing against them at all.
What is evident imo, is how dramatically different the production quality changed with each of those albums. Each album sounded much better than the one before it.
Ciao !
July 30th, 2026 at 00:27