Roger Glover

[lowend1]

"Present the Stinking Hippy and throw the naked thunder to the crowd"

[uwe]

What a learned man you are, hungry daze!

[gweimer]

I had The Mask on vinyl.  I reviewed it for The Illinois Entertainer, and recall liking it.  I also got to interview Roger for the magazine just after the Deep Purple reunion was announced ahead of Perfect Strangers.  He was a great interview, and a very open and friendly guy.  He took some good natured ribbing about the fact that he had said, only a couple months earlier, that Deep Purple would never reunite.  And Rainbow wouldn't have been the success it was without him.

[uwe]

You had The Mask? That makes two of us then!

[Highlander]

Is that that really bad film with Jim Carey...?

[uwe]

Ken, don't trollintrude on our happy twosome communion & male bonding!

[Highlander]

 

[hieronymous]

I'll admit it - I had The Mask on vinyl - bought it when it came out. I wanted to like it and it had its moments but overall I found it disappointing. I guess I was expecting/hoping for something a bit heavier since I was so into Deep Purple & Rainbow at the time - hey, I was just 14! I'll have to go and check it out again on YouTube (vinyl long gone).

[uwe]

It's Duran Duran'ish alright, not bad, but a freeze frame of its time. To his credit, Roger never made solo albums that could pass as Purple Lite albums though he contributed a lot in the band's songwriting department. Tracks like Speed King and Maybe I'm a Leo are his compositions, not Blackmore's.

[ilan]

Here's the link

[Dave W]

Here's the link

Uwe will soon be busy taking a crash course in Hebrew. 

[uwe]

Add to my many regrets in life that I don't speak Hebrew pretty much on top of the list (even before my disability to slap), Dave, darn. But Ilan's, Roger's and Ian's interview comments are not dubbed, so I can hear and see them!

Ilan ...



And I do love your Peter Wolf/Ric Ocasek/Scott Travis doppelganger-look, Ilan ...







Talk about rock star features, I'm jealous!

[uwe]

And here's a song about Ian Gillan's 60ies Beirut experiences as mentioned in the interview:



I love John Gustafson's WAL sound and playing on this! Sorely missed.

[Pekka]

And here's a song about Ian Gillan's 60ies Beirut experiences as mentioned in the interview:



I love John Gustafson's WAL sound and playing on this! Sorely missed.

Me too but is it WAL? He still used a Precision live at the time ("Live At The Rainbow") and even poses with a Mustang on the inner gatefold. He may have used the neck pickup only but then the sound he got on "Scarabus" is different and that is WAL.

He said that he used the WAL on "Love Is The Drug" too but to me the whole "Siren" sounds like a P bass.

A great player and I like his vocals too.

[uwe]

I've got him jotted down as a WALly, Pekka, but I might have been jumping to conclusions and you just might be right.

Either was: Halfway capable bassists can even overcome the difficulties and inherent weaknesses a Fender instrument poses.