Roger Glover w/ Deep Purple 1972

peewee · Post by **peewee** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:45 am

For all of us who are old hard rockers at heart; pretty cool footage from the Machine Head tour. Roger has a very nice 4001 here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCNvT2mFpMo

bassman2k · Post by **bassman2k** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:02 am

Very cool. I love Glover. Was he playing through a Marshall bass amp?

peewee · Post by **peewee** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:21 am

Looked like two Majors to me, but I could very well be wrong. This was the best line up of that band, IMHO and Machine Head was probably the LP that I most associate with them; much like Paranoid with Sabbath.

bassman2k · Post by **bassman2k** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:18 am

Yeah, I agree. Best line-up and LP.

jps · Post by **jps** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:17 pm

Too bad the audio quality was terrible, nice to see it performed before the album was released.

When I saw Zappa and The Mothers in '72 they did a bunch of stuff off of Apostophe two years before the album came out.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:30 pm

Yeah looks like Two Majors to me too, they were known to use them. I had one years ago, was very loud and sounded great. Sold it for 150.00 in 1977, idiot.

rikk · Post by **rikk** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:38 pm

I saw Glover and Purple about a week ago. He still brings out the 4001, but It had a non-RIC pickup and the pickguard is funny looking. It did not have the same sound it did in '72.

just_bassics · Post by **just_bassics** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:42 pm

That's too bad... Glover's tone on MH is great!

byu · Post by **byu** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:48 pm

You can get this show on DVD at any Best Buy.

rollingricker21 · Post by **rollingricker21** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:06 pm

Awesome! Love this band. I saw them live last year with Status Quo

I remember watching a Deep Purple DVD which had his Rickenbacker fitted with Fender P-Bass pickups in it, I probably saw the same bass as you Rikk

grayk · Post by **grayk** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:08 pm

Great and very under rated bass player. I am no big Purple fan but I think the musicianship in the band is amazing. Its a shame his Ric isnt stock now though. I seem to remember an article where he was having his old original 4001 restored. Is this the bass that he is using occasionally now ?

gearhed289 · Post by **gearhed289** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:12 am

He had 2 slanted Jazz pups in place of the toaster LONG ago. Then, in the 80s, he had a T-bird with a toaster (I believe at the bridge)!

bob_atherton · Post by **bob_atherton** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:16 am

I saw the band on the Made In Japan tour. It was one of the reasons that I got my first 4001 back in '74.

stts64 · Post by **stts64** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:31 pm

Yeah, I have this show on DVD. I also have an 8x10 of Roger from this concert in my bedroom.

ricnbacker · Post by **ricnbacker** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:04 pm

Geezer butler & Roger Glover amoung others are the reasons I started playing bass....
got to see Deep purple with that line up in 85 and it was the best show I have ever seen.