Roger Glover

[patman]

I thought my old Ric was going to be totally useless till a friend bypassed the Cap, and then WOW....

[uwe]

Great pic indeed! Very cool.

A lot of people underestimate the low end that's possible with a Ric. The positioning of the neck pickup is where it's at.

I hear more low end with a Ric than with a P Bass, I never understood what people meant when they said "Rics don't sound bassy enough". What they were actually putting their finger on is that the more audible deep mids are more emphasized with a P. You need a more powerful rig to project the sublows of a Ric, but they are there, more so than with a P Bass.

[Highlander]

That's as cool as it gets...

[uwe]

Ilan could be a bit more forthcoming about the whole thing though!!!

[Dave W]

Ilan could be a bit more forthcoming about the whole thing though!!!

Maybe he'll post a link to the interview, as he did with Paul McCartney.

Also a shame that nobody knew how to adjust the truss rods properly. How many Rics were tossed aside because of "neck issues"?

That includes techs who don't know what they were doing. I once saw a tech take the TRC off a 360 and start cranking on the rods like crazy with a socket wrench. 

[uwe]

Rog' returns to Danelectro!!! He left that P Bass hanging, what a role model! 



The band is currently in Nashville recording a new album - that last Bob Ezrin experience was so fruitful it clamored for a repeat.

[ilan]

Did they say anything about Ritchie at RRHOF?

Yes indeed he did. And Gillan too.

[ilan]

We had a one-hour interview for their May 22 concert in Israel. We will edit a 10-11 minute TV story from it, to be broadcast next week, containing of course biographical material. I wish I could broadcast the whole interview, but this is for Channel 2 News, so it will not have most of what interests us here... same as with McCartney, actually. Mostly what everybody here knows already. But I will touch on the RRHOF story and what they had to say about Ritchie. When I asked about the future of rock'n'roll, Ian gave an answer I did not expect.

I will post a link and translate the Hebrew script for those among us who are not fluent in that language.

[Highlander]

 

[uwe]

I cannot contain myself!!!

[Highlander]

Ensure you keep a bucket handy, or some Tena-pads...

[uwe]

With a later Uriah Heep singer: Did anybody say "Beatles"?!



Or "George Harrison"?!



From Roger's dark early 80ies past.  Perhaps he listened a bit too much to Duran Duran back then!



A couple of years later they put a fretless - gulp! - Warwick in his hands:



A Steinberger, girls on loan from Robert Palmer (or is that Bananarama?) and a slight Caribbean influence:



Eventually, bandana and Nashville left their mark, still a bit Caribbean though:



That country influence lingers on ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it2pJvSpvKQ&index=5&list=PL2E996BAA17A8C006

See, and I didn't mention Ritchie B. once!!!

[lowend1]

The Beatles influence here is more overt...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoWBjNlMbX8&ab_channel=NostalgieMusic

[ilan]

Oh the humanity!

[uwe]

The Beatles influence here is more overt...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoWBjNlMbX8&ab_channel=NostalgieMusic

Yes, but that was tongue in cheek. Even the title was a pun. He was specifically asked to "write something in the vein of 'All you need is love' ", so he dutifully did!

Roger is really as un-hard rock as you can get, a gentle man and a gentleman. Before he was hijacked by Deep Purple in 1969, he had a career as a folk balladeer playing acoustic guitar in mind. And while his bass playing is masterful (though he thinks little of himself in that department), his groove has none of the nagging insistence of "Hey, I wanna be heard too, listen to me!!!"-Glenn Hughes (though Roger actually plays more notes than Glenn). Roger wouldn't have been out of place playing with the Grateful Dead.