that would require effort and many hours of practice, kids dont do that anymore. if it requires more than pushing a button or expending much effort they will just dismiss it as to self indulgent or not hip or non relevant.
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Roger Glover- Deep Purple
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Grew up with this in the 70's 
Great road trip song (when a gallon of regular gas was about $0.65)
Thanks for the clip OP.
Whew I'm old
Great road trip song (when a gallon of regular gas was about $0.65)
Thanks for the clip OP.
Whew I'm old
Cut the stereotypes. There are plenty of sedulous kids out there in music. I know and jam with one of them; he's a fantastic drummer despite not having a left hand.
I know what Purple MK II, Sabbath, and Zeppelin were; I was listening to them when the music came out. Maybe the precursors of metal, but in no way shape or form were any of these three bands "metal." DP MK II generally brought classical music into rock and roll (along with a few other bands, such as Procol Harum, the Electric Prunes, ELP, and Yes, to name but a few) not into metal.
That's because they weren't metal.
Hard Rock best sums them up, but they had the ability to play more this way or that way depending on where they wanted to take the music. They came up in an era where you had to play different styles if you wanted to make a living as a musician. That was the background that that era's musicians brought with them to their various groups.
Popular music--music of the day, not just "pop"--was not so hedged in with strict lables and genres back then. You didn't have a kid spending 40-50 hours a week in his room just working on mastering one aspect of one narrow style. Kept the music broader and, to my mind, better. That's why you can hear such a swinging rythym section in a song like Pictures of Home (cool bass solo btw). I heard somewhere that when Blackmore wrote the music for Burn he wanted something with a Glenn Miller feel (!) and I remember Paicey saying in an interview that they wanted a Motown feel for Space Truckin.' Doesn't sound Heavy Metal in approach to me.
Popular music--music of the day, not just "pop"--was not so hedged in with strict lables and genres back then. You didn't have a kid spending 40-50 hours a week in his room just working on mastering one aspect of one narrow style. Kept the music broader and, to my mind, better. That's why you can hear such a swinging rythym section in a song like Pictures of Home (cool bass solo btw). I heard somewhere that when Blackmore wrote the music for Burn he wanted something with a Glenn Miller feel (!) and I remember Paicey saying in an interview that they wanted a Motown feel for Space Truckin.' Doesn't sound Heavy Metal in approach to me.
As has been stated, DP's best known stuff is to me, "hard rock". But like many bands of the day, their style evolved and came from lots of places.
Glover is SO tight and has such a growly sound. The last time I saw him live (late 90's or early 00's) I believe he used a pick on every song. Don't know about during the "Machine Head" era. I absolutely love the solo in "Pictures of Home"!
About the young players not having soul or discipline, that generalization has always had SOME truth (Perhaps it's the exception - not the rule). We only complain about it more because we're older and spouting "It ain't like the old days".
Glover is SO tight and has such a growly sound. The last time I saw him live (late 90's or early 00's) I believe he used a pick on every song. Don't know about during the "Machine Head" era. I absolutely love the solo in "Pictures of Home"!
About the young players not having soul or discipline, that generalization has always had SOME truth (Perhaps it's the exception - not the rule). We only complain about it more because we're older and spouting "It ain't like the old days".
Hmmm. Would I be wrong in considering DP MK2 to be more "heavy blues" than anything else? And, for the record, Roger Glover is kickass.
No. The formative years of metal had plenty of genre-crossing. It wasn't until the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Diamond Head, etc.) that metal started consciously excising the blues elements.
The first recording with Glover on Bass was the mostly instrumental Concerto for Rock Group and Orchestra. In Rock was a total change in style following on the heels of that and what they had done with the earlier Mark I line-up. In Rock was their heaviest-sounding album which was produced by Martin Birch who was also Black Sabbath's producer. After In Rock Deep Purple lightened up their sound a bit sometimes incorporating more commercial power pop elements into their hard rock style.
BTW, my Lord Ryan nickname comes from the 70's when my bandmates started calling me that because they thought I played organ a lot like Jon Lord.
BTW, my Lord Ryan nickname comes from the 70's when my bandmates started calling me that because they thought I played organ a lot like Jon Lord.
