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Roger Glover- Deep Purple

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Luke S Mouse

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Jun 5, 2009
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#1
I just stumbled across this isolated rhythm section on youtube and put it on my mp3 player and forgot about it. Then it comes on when I'm driving today and Glover and Paice are so damn tight and groovy while still holding down the end for what is typically considered to be a band credited for being a forefather of heavy metal.

Listen for yourself folks, what do you guys think, etc.
 
#4
This playing is tight, simple and very effective (we know) in the context of the song and other instruments. I love this band from this era. I'm not diminishing it one little bit. The later run into the higher register before the end of the break (first 1:20) reminds me of a simplified Entwistle run. His tone is very effective as well. Rock solid, air-tight.
 
#6
I LOVE DP from this era. solid, tight, and great tunes...each member of the band is
at the top of his game. This LP came out when I was a Jr in high school...great memories from listening to this music always come back to me.
 
#9
FretlessMainly said:
I know that many people say this, but I consider DP to be hard rock. Nothing about them is even vaguely reminiscent of metal to my ears.

In any case, great line; classic flats on a 4001 w/ a pick.
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They were proto-metal along with Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Blackmore's guitar style was a huge early influence on neo-classical guitarists, and Lord forged a path for later keyboardists in the genre. Together they generally brought classical into metal, which (in my eyes) makes it immeasurably better.

On the topic of the rhythm section, I have never heard a metal rhythm section swing quite as well as Glover-Paice did in Pictures of Home.
 
#10
if metal today sounded anything like this than I might actually listen to it, sadly not much today even remotely resembles this.

Its probably a Rick, not so sure its flats with a pick, more like rotos and maybe a pick
 
#15
I have a hard time believing those are flats boys, they sound mighty zingy to my ears, and this is coming from someone who has played flats for a good many years.
unless the roto flats sound remarkably similar to the swing bass set.
 
#18
bluesblaster said:
I have a hard time believing those are flats boys, they sound mighty zingy to my ears, and this is coming from someone who has played flats for a good many years.
unless the roto flats sound remarkably similar to the swing bass set.
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I am with you on that one. I am also not sure I hear the sound of a pick until the flourishes at the very end.

Killer track, no matter what. Thanks to the OP for posting it.

Brian
 
#19
I was playing along with this last night with my one bass that is strung with rounds, while not a rick bass it gets a good similarity, I was playing fingerstyle and could nail the part except that ending where it definitly sounds like he's using a pick. I know from seeing him play live he alternates fingerstyle and using a plectrum depending on the tune. Im afraid I dont remember what he did on this one though.
 

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