Deep Purple legend Ian Gillan shares his advice for new and rising bands and artists on the red carpet of the Ivors 2019. Follow us on : Twitter: bit.ly/I0EsOs Facebook: on. 1eQ196D Subscribe to our channel to watch more: bit.ly/1jY5CFd
Ian's a class act. I met him in Seattle in 2006 and he invited me on the bus. It was Ian, Janik Gers (also a class act) and I for about a half hour talking over a beer. Not my first time on a tour bus but definitely my favorite.
Interesting as the M2 and M8 line ups are the two most successful DP line ups. For me I've always thought it was a universal opinion that DP M2 is the accepted distinctive version of DP, however talking to younger DP fans lately and for most of them the Steve Morse era stuff is the only Purple they know, they can hold a 2 hour conversation about the best bits of Bananas or Infinite but struggle to name many tracks off In Rock or Fireball haha, it's crazy. I guess all the online Deep Purple websites, podcasts, interviews etc has rubbed off on the younger fans. I watched a young guitarist absolutely nail "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" then he goes straight into the intro from "The Surprising" afterwards I asked him to do a Ritchie Blackmore riff, he didn't know any (apart from smoke) we talked for a while and he said him and all his friends loved mostly all the albums from Perpendicular to Whoosh and owned them all on CD, it's amazing how to most youngsters the Morse era to them is the real DP, i read recently that Whoosh is their best selling album since Who Do We Think We Are. I guess when Jon left the band in 2002 he had no idea how huge the band were about to get again, I still love M2 but have to accept M8 are catching up fast.
As young musicians, the more musical diversity you soak up, the greater your own musical vocabulary will be, and you will have a much greater creative archive in your personal repertoire from which to make new songs. The phrase I remember hearing most from the songwriter/s when I was regularly playing was "oh, that lends itself to........" and so it was taking from something already known or heard and trying it into a song - on a variation - to see if it would fit, or enhance the feeling or directional intention of the song. A lot of today's music just skips the hard work of attaining competence in musicianship, goes straight to the computer and re-hashes an old (somebody elses) song.
And a last advice, Gillan forgot said : “ don’t ruins the spaghetti dinner of your bandmate specially if is like Ritchie Blackmore because maybe you can get the spaghetti plate on your face”.
When I was really young a friend and I watched The Shining and we were scarred shitless so we watched a video of Deep Purple Live In Concert instead and that’s our first experience of The Shining. Deep Purple Rock!
Keith Ricahrds once said that Led Zeppelin is Jimmy Page, wondering if Ian's 'Freudian slip' saying 'Jimmy...' then correcting himself by saying Led Zeppelin was intentional or not. Saw Gillan back in the early eighties in Australia. Never forget his loooong hair in Black night clip
Unfortunately the Music Business Model has drastically changed and newer Bands will have a difficult time making any decent money . 😎 But it doesn't hurt for th hard workers who don't easily Give UP ! 😁👊
Most people in their 70's have some hearing loss. Certainly back in the days of unrestricted volume at shows, it could do some damage, but we were all invincible then (or so we thought!)
Here's some REAL free advice for young rock bands...work on figuring out and composing the singer's MELODIES. Get a great melody and the rest falls into place. A great guitar riff is not a melody. Shouting over/between the riff is not a melody either.
Ian was utterly correct in not passing comment on younger bands. Right at the end he showed how out of touch he is by suggesting young rock bands listen to Sabbath, Zeppelin and Purple - maybe young bands did that 40 years ago, Ian, but not now.
He did not suggested this to young musicians, he advised not to limit themselves to one type of music, even if it was their favorite genre, otherwise they would be limited in their actions, and the names of the bands did not matter.
isn't it time to start performing all the great DEEP PURPLE hits and especially the ballads, a la Frank Sinatra?? try that, you'll see how many more tix you will sell!!🎃☹️😖😵💫😵
