Of flesh, blood and bone
Another week, another classic Gillan video. Trouble from Rock Goes To College, February 23, 1981.
Thanks to steve4422 for keeping us posted.
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Another week, another classic Gillan video. Trouble from Rock Goes To College, February 23, 1981.
Thanks to steve4422 for keeping us posted.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Elvis hooray……………………….about time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbI3G7t7pkc
June 7th, 2025 at 03:38One of my favorite, uhum, Bill Haley numbers.
He-who-shall-not-be-named-in-HER-presence!
https://i.gifer.com/Caww.gif
PS: Butter tenors rule!!!
https://youtu.be/t8Y4DbcJmeg
June 7th, 2025 at 03:58This song – the real true king here is doing a magnificent job 🥰💜💜
Woah what a voice he has!
The former singer of Trouble, well I guess he would have loved to have this raw talent and burning voice 😊
June 7th, 2025 at 06:02Not my favourite Gillan song but it did introduce me to the band when they performed it on Top of the Pops…the next day, I cycled into town, bought the single …with ” Your sisters on my list ” on the B side …and a free single with ” SOTW , Vengeance and Mr Universe ” …live from Reading…and that was it ! ..I was hooked !!
Gillan and Glover on uk telly in, I think ..1988
https://youtu.be/pGm7ditnHEo?si=8fh3tNfGjKfBUCnV
https://youtu.be/DovzOPOQer4?si=tSBadSbHx_p7vF6A
Dislocated and Via Miami
June 7th, 2025 at 20:46@2
“He-who-shall-not-be-named-in-HER-presence!”
– 😄 that’s exactly right
Even you have to admit how unbelievably better Ian is singing ‘Trouble’ than the dude who launched it ☺️
June 8th, 2025 at 01:02@ 2 – Return to Sender indeed Uwe, it is a good song, I always liked it. We need to sort out some way of getting a huge Elvis poster, as he looks in that video, pinned onto Karin’s bedroom wall. Without her knowledge of course. Has anyone Renés number, surely he and Anton would enjoy doing that for a laugh, Or perhaps not. They may never be seen again. Cheers.
June 8th, 2025 at 04:00@6
“..getting a huge Elvis poster, as he looks in that video, pinned onto Karin’s bedroom wall”
– 😆🤣
OVER. MY. DEAD. BODY.
“Has anyone Renés number”
😂😂
– I have by now instructed René to not answering his phone!
“surely he and Anton would enjoy doing that for a laugh”
– 😝 IF they would enjoy it then I would pack their bags in a hurry and show them out!
“They may never be seen again”
June 8th, 2025 at 15:38– EXACTLY!
And the same goes for anybody who will put a poster up of anyone else than Ian Gillan! 😆😄😂
The irony is that Karin in her anti-Elvis crusade has done more than anybody else here to entrench with everyone that Ian patterned his vocals after the King. 😆 It has really reached a stage that whenever I hear Elvis now I always register little mannerisms IG has purloined for his own style.
The “butter tenor” is at the heart of the Gillan universe and Karin has been his useful tool and prophet. 😎
https://youtu.be/R97hrS3hF9M
June 8th, 2025 at 15:59“Even you have to admit how unbelievably better Ian is singing ‘Trouble’ than the dude who launched it ☺️”
Not really, I find Elvis to be the best and most variable, also most emotive singer from the 50s era, more sexy than Bill Haley, more variable than Little Richard, with more a range than Chuck Berry and a lot more tuneful than Jerry Lee Lewis. He was pretty much the complete package: jazz blues, soul/gospel, country/bluegrass Belcanto and folk all rolled into one voice.
https://youtu.be/KZ64T6gEdC4
That voice he lets kick in at 00:42 out of nowhere, Karin, are you sure that is adequately described with “butter tenor”? Aw woman, recant your erroneous views, fall to your knees and repent if you please!!!
https://www.rockwell-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/02-Vallejo-Sonja2.jpg
June 8th, 2025 at 19:38@ 7 -” OVER. MY. DEAD. BODY.” Oh Karin, you shouldn’t have said that. That just gives people ideas and I cannot resist. What about if your coffin was an Elvis one? On top a full length image, on the sides too, and worst of all, inside on the lid. That way you could be with him for an eternity, looking at each other, he may even be winking at you, he he he. Sorry, but you did prompt me. And I will be very surprised if Uwe doesn’t take that further too. Cheers.
June 8th, 2025 at 22:04@10
🤣🤣
MacGregor!
June 9th, 2025 at 09:58I am speechless!
If a young Elvis gave Karin even as much as a wink and his crooked smile, all you would hear is her servile purr! 🤣
https://fromthebygone.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/gdjhpn_1_1__master.jpg
https://preview.redd.it/elvis-fans-in-1956-who-would-win-between-them-or-the-v0-xas958vt9o0d1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=49a0a097050d08a4f5c25ee394c1bae5278ab8a7
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/53/64/16/53641684c3d4384170928cbb363d14c9.jpg
June 9th, 2025 at 12:47@12
Uwe, you really must have confused me with someone else!
If I am FORCED to name some celeb I find mildly cute, I have to say a fella like Andy Garcia, when he was young-ish!
https://youtu.be/Jc-tIJgOhLY?si=ABofrgGPSXh_WA26
Otherwise I am a serious woman without any time to such shinanigans! In my very meager free time I tend to listen to beautiful music made by the best rockband in the multiverse, Purple, with the very best vocalist ever, Ian Gillan 🥰
And will you please stop this nonsense about EP 😝
June 9th, 2025 at 14:24“I am speechless!“
Knowing you, Karin, not for long.
https://youtu.be/RoBzAm_zwBc
June 9th, 2025 at 14:49@9
“Not really, I find Elvis to be the best….”
– 🤡
Uwe now you’re just being stubborn!
I have this distinct feeling that no matter what I say, as a principle you’re always opposite!
Why keep on fighting this?
June 9th, 2025 at 15:09Come to the sunny side, be where the good humour is, where the really good coffee is (😍) instead of always being against poor little innocent me 😇☺️
“And the same goes for anybody who will put a poster up of anyone else than Ian Gillan!”
Huh? Big DP fan I was as a teen, I had this Suzi poster
https://bravo-archiv.de/nmimage.php?z=pop/1976-02-Suzi-Quatro-POP-Superposter.jpg&width=341&height=500&title=Suzi%20Quatro
at my bedside, left wall.
It was good for my right hand technique and dexterity too.
Playing bass I mean.
June 9th, 2025 at 17:18Agreeing with wimmin gets you nowhere – or ousted out of paradise, just ask Adam! 😂
June 9th, 2025 at 18:08So Viking Karin goes for the Latin Lover type, interesting, make a note of it. ☝️😎
https://64.media.tumblr.com/481e321dc00a10dc54623e323f225521/21380125f5f51ae5-55/s540x810/7c321858afbca79c2d9990951758a951adc50160.gifv
June 9th, 2025 at 18:20@16
“Big DP fan I was as a teen, I had this Suzi poster”
– yeah, ok, but by nature I’m way more loyal I guess!
And btw: I don’t play the bass 😉
June 9th, 2025 at 19:13@16
“It was good for my right hand technique and dexterity too. Playing bass I mean.”
I’ll bet you played a lot of solos when you were a teenager. 😈 😈 😈
June 9th, 2025 at 19:22Auntie Purplette, now don’t you be naughty or Karin will again start to ask awkward questions! We’ve had that enough.
June 9th, 2025 at 21:20Yup, while my bass guitar gently seeps!
June 9th, 2025 at 21:48Hi Mac
June 9th, 2025 at 23:52Thanks for the Hawkwind intro ….I’m into it …and dig it ….I can see why you smoke so much whacky baccy down there ! Lol …personally, I’m playing chess listening to it .
They seem to be a pretty unique band, you can’t pigeon hole them …although, I’m getting connotations of space trucking live , Jon’s solo spots …and either Budgie copied their bass lines …or vice versa …
Space is Deep, levitation and a few others whose name escapes me …but, I’ll crack on with them and report back ….I’m in Devon so, I might be near your mate down here !
We could all think that Uwe’s ‘bass playing’ was much more fluid back then.
June 10th, 2025 at 01:51@21
No need to be alarmed!
June 10th, 2025 at 08:39I’ve learned my lesson….. never ever ask Uwe anything ☺️
Talking of Suzi Q, has anyone watched that episode of Midsomer Murders where she is fatally electrocuted on stage while singing. It is a classic. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMDJaALeWA
June 10th, 2025 at 08:46“We could all think that Uwe’s ‘bass playing’ was much more fluid back then.”
You got your tongue around that so nicely, Herr MacGregor! Yet dripping with machismo I might add! And it extends to others too:
“Uwe macht die Frauen nass, denn er spielt Elektrobass!”
https://youtu.be/7PCkvCPvDXk
June 10th, 2025 at 15:52Mindful how Karin might be reading this too, who can forget Leather Tuscadero in ‘Happy Days’ and her overt musical influence?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZZrmvH01sU
Elvis is truly everywhere, Frau Verndal … 😎
Can’t we have these fine pages renamed “Long Lonely Highway (Star)”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smf-sedgtB8&t=3s
June 10th, 2025 at 19:11Honorary mention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_kFpEklkAg
June 10th, 2025 at 19:14@28
I have just one answer:
https://youtu.be/5NWBRPNseiU?si=d2p5lz35EyvAj1yf
🤩
June 10th, 2025 at 20:22Although Uwe’s rhythm was left to be desired and his timing was ‘all over the place.”
June 10th, 2025 at 22:18@ 23- thanks Steve, yes there is a bit of diversity there with Hawkwind, particularly in the 1970’s. With Bob Calvert on lead vocals or without him, both are rather different to each other in certain aspects. They were a bit more ‘punkish’ and even ‘new wave’ in the late 70’s period with Calvert and his influence. The earlier 70’s Hawkwind was more trippy acid flavoured space rock, with an influence from Michael Moorcock, the science fiction writer. Space is Deep. Glad you are enjoying it. Cheers.
June 11th, 2025 at 01:14@27
“Uwe macht die Frauen nass, denn er spielt Elektrobass!”
Of course you do, I never doubted any of your skills.
June 11th, 2025 at 08:06“Although Uwe’s rhythm was left to be desired and his timing was ‘all over the place’.”
What I lacked in stamina, I compensated with utmost dedication!
June 11th, 2025 at 13:40@34
“What I lacked in stamina, I compensated with utmost dedication!”
I think that applies to most of us here…
June 13th, 2025 at 07:23