![]() Unlike other reviewers here, I quite liked this version of Child In Time but I am in agreement with at least one of them that Let It Slide is the best track. It retains just enough of the Deep Purple vibe (particularly lesser-known tracks like Never Before and Into The Fire) to be immediately accessible while changing it up enough to be interesting. 4/10.īill Griffin: I have never listened to Ian outside of Deep Purple before and this, coming before his voice changed, is a pleasant surprise. I am reminded of Spinal Tap's venture into improvisational jazz rock, until Nigel rejoined them and turned it up to 11. This is a less successful attempt of re-recording classic rock songs with a jazzy feel, unlike how Sting did this more better with some of the Police catalog. Well, except for the remake of Child In Time, which made me want to go back to the original. At best, it is a serviceable album with no truly bad songs. After listening to this, I understand why I never heard it being played on classic rock stations. Recruiting guitarist Ray Fenwick, bassist John Gustafson, keyboard player Mike Moran and drummer Mark Nauseef, Gillan launched a new band under the bizarre moniker of Shand Grenade.Įvan Sanders: Ouch. I returned home, took out my guitar, and I wrote three songs the next day. The reception at the Albert Hall was so incredibly warm. So I’ve got Ritchie to thank for my return to music. "Dio was supposed to do it but Ritchie told him he’d get fired from Rainbow if he did. ![]() “I agreed to help Roger out," Gillan told Classic Rock. Ronnie James Dio, then of Ritchie’s Blackmore’s Rainbow, had pulled out and Glover needed a replacement singer urgently. Glover was staging his Butterfly Ball live show at London’s Royal Albert Hall on October 19, 1975. But the following year Gillan received a fateful phone call from Roger Glover, his old mate and bass player from pre-Purple combo Episode Six. Gillan really had no intention of rock’n’rolling again, especially after Purple’s old management team had expressed indifference about a diverse set of songs he’d knocked up with session musicians at Kingsway in spring 1974.
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