Paice has by now become something like the spokesman and voice of reason of the band, has his own podcast (drum tribe) etc. He says it's something he grew into when Jon Lord left the band. Of course, he's also the sole remaining first line up member and one of the Blackmore-Lord-Paice virtuoso instrumental triumvirate Purple was always identified with.
Roger is still the social worker and glue that holds the band together. And he's happy that Bob Ezrin relieved him of production duties because taking care of those went always at the cost of his recorded bass playing, he says. By the time he got around to that, there wasn't much room to play anymore.
