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4:50 of this vid...beautiful shot of the '72. Nice version of Lazy...

It's a shame Purple recorded so little live stuff. They were a great jam band.

badeggs wrote:4:50 of this vid...beautiful shot of the '72.

Since Glover used the 4001 for Machine Head and had only just recently obtained it, it must be a '71.

Wanna feel old? Gillan states (twice) in the intro to Lucille, that "this is from a loooonng time ago." In 1972, when he said that, it was 15 years since Little Richard had the hit. Long time, eh? Well, it's been 39 years since Gillan said that!!!

Where's my walker?

mr. boyer...does that mean...our "best before" date has expired long ago ???

lefty said..."By the way, is it child abuse to seat your kids next to Richie Blackmore's Marshall stacks?"

i say..."yes, let's find some more ! (kids, that is...richie has enough marshall stacks !)

FretlessOnly wrote:Since Glover used the 4001 for Machine Head and had only just recently obtained it, it must be a '71.

Even better...

bassduke49 wrote:Wanna feel old? Gillan states (twice) in the intro to Lucille, that "this is from a loooonng time ago." In 1972, when he said that, it was 15 years since Little Richard had the hit. Long time, eh? Well, it's been 39 years since Gillan said that!!!

Where's my walker?

Musically speaking, it really was a "long time ago" when Gillan said it. I feel that Fireball is closer to current rock music than Little Richard's hit was to Fireball when it was recorded. Does that make any sense?

FretlessOnly wrote:

badeggs wrote:4:50 of this vid...beautiful shot of the '72.

Since Glover used the 4001 for Machine Head and had only just recently obtained it, it must be a '71.

...but no 21-fretter!

BAD RONBO, KiLLeR DWaRfS wrote:you have warts ???

Nah, that's Lemmy...

bassduke49 wrote:Don't know how many know this, but Ian Gillan was the voice of Jesus in the original recording of Jesus Christ Superstar.....

I remember when that came out. I was in Catholic grade school. Wasn't there some story that Gillan fried his vocal cords or did some permanent damage during that project?

badeggs wrote:......They were a great jam band.

I believe they hold the record for the most live performances year after year or something like that. They seem so as ease on stage, except for Blackmore. He's always way off to one side alone, some sort of anti-social disorder. I wish he'd get therapy. Then a MKII reunion would have a chance.

You guys know the story about Glover trying to get the Ric out of the US without paying proper customs/duties/taxes whatever? Funny...

gearhed289 wrote:You guys know the story about Glover trying to get the Ric out of the US without paying proper customs/duties/taxes whatever? Funny...

...no, c'mon tell it!!!

As told by the man himself:


The Rickenbacker was the only bass I used on Machine Head, strung with Rotosound strings, I seem to remember. The bass has a bit of a history; I bought it in New York and in an effort to save customs duty, about £25 or so, I had a receipt saying it cost less than it did, which wasn't a lot anyway, $400 or thereabouts. Ian Hansford, our roadie at the time, brought the guitar back through British customs a day ahead of me ­ for some reason I stayed an extra 24 hours in NY. Anyway, they smelled a rat, arrested and charged Ian and impounded the bass.

When Ian called and told me what had happened, I was armed with what seemed like a plausible story when I came through the next day. "Ah, Mr. Glover, would you open all your bags please?" Putting on my best innocent face I waited while they went through everything, even the pages of my address book. At last I asked if I could help and the officer showed me the false receipt, asking if I recognized it. I replied that it certainly looked like a receipt for a bass, but added that it couldn't be mine because the amount was wrong (for this was my story, that the store had given me a false receipt without my, or Ian's, knowledge). I was ushered into a private room where they grilled me for about two hours. I stuck to the story but my halo was beginning to tarnish as successively tougher people came into the room to work on me. I finally cracked when they bluffed about telephone records (when asked, I had told them that Ian Hansford hadn't called me in New York to warn me that the customs had my guitar ­ which of course he had!).

The end came when a senior office came into the room, sat on the desk looking down at me and said, "OK, Glover, what's this ********?" When I admitted at last that yes, I was trying to save $25 (even after Fireball I didn't have much money ­ all that I earned went to pay back earlier advances) and owned up saying, "it's a fair cop guv, Ill go quietly," and things like that. Strangely enough, after that they were as nice as pie as they read me my rights and formally charged me with evading customs and excise duties.

The real catch was that they had the guitar and explained that I wouldn't be able to get it back until after the court case, if there was one. I told them I couldn't wait that long, I was due to go to Switzerland in less than two weeks to make a record and I needed the guitar. The only option, they said, was to plead guilty, pay the fines for both Ian Hansford and myself, and also pay an enormous sum to get the guitar back. In all, I paid more than double the price for that guitar. It is only fitting then, that soon afterwards I went to Montreux with DP and recorded our biggest selling album ever with that guitar.

RG

Where did you find that, Ilan? I had heard about this story, but I've never been able to find it until you provided it. Thanks!

ilan wrote:As told by the man himself: ...RG

That's good stuff.