Gillan was a Great band… Was lucky to expirience them live in concert on the Double Trouble tour around 1982…Then again with Black Sabbath on Born Again tour around 1983 & Deep Purple Perfect Strangers Tour 1985…. Forever Legends 💜 R.I.P ✝️ Maestro Jon Lord 🥸 Master Ronnie J. Dio 🤘
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I never liked deep purple. Everybody talks about Ritchie Blackmore.... He plays like a kid with a broken hand, I need the keyboard player to cover up his mistakes
I'm not a huge fan of Deep Purple either but their Machinehead album is fabulous both sides of it. The solo Blackmore did on Lazy is an insane solo so he doesn't play like a kid with a broken hand! As a personality he's a real rude snob but as a guitarist he is one of the best !@@Grgorio-bt4qb
so glad I finally got to see them in 85 with the perfect strangers tour. this is my favorite purple lineup. from “in rock” on with Ian Gillen I was hooked.
Me too. I still have the ticket stub. 7:30 PM Saturday April 6,1985 at the Pacific Coliseum Concert Bowl in Vancouver BC with Girlschool for $16.50 CAD. Produced by Perryscope.
Yes brilliant album, love it!! And I love the first two albums with Steve Morse - Purpendicular and Abandon. They are amazing! And Come Taste The Band is a brilliant lp as well!!
@jamesdelaney3797, I don't even know you, but I will still allow you to sleep with my old lady, just because you said that! PS is a killer album (I have a 12" vinyl copy that belonged to my dad), and it sounds better on analog gear. \m/
I have read Gillan and the other members of Deep Purple are worth about 100 million each now, with the exception of Blackmore, who was the principle song writer and has many endorsements. Jon Lord said in an interview that Smoke On The Water is worth a minimum of six figures, in pounds, in royalties each year since it was released. With five writing credits that would be at least 500,000 pounds minimum each year.
No chance with that £100M net worth figure. They are very wealthy men for sure, but that figure is a bit silly. The SOTW royalties figure came up during the 1980 bogus DP court case, but nowadays royalties are nowhere near what they were. Bands have to tour these days to make money.
@@grobbler1 First, the SOTW assertion came from Jon Lord just prior to his death. The interview is on RUclips if you want to go looking for it. Second, there is no definitive answer as what they are worth? I can only tell you what I read and honestly I don't even recall where I read it. The guys do have other revenue streams beyond music, Blackmore especially has several. I guess it also depends on how successful you are at investing your money. If you read Gillan's book he states that Ian Paice in particular has been very good with his money.
Blimey, Gillan's been through tough times 😢 for me, the best DP lineup is MK II, Ian's voice is extraordinary. And this manager makes me respect Peter Grant even more, the legendary and fierce manager of Zeppelin.
Thanks for this in-depth look at Gillan's time in DP. It's incredible that in DP's early days he didn't have enough money for clothes or food. Gillan: "The voice of trouble": Makes sense in their video for "Oh, well." This video also puts the idea of a Blackmore reunion in perspective. As fans, we like to think of our heroes reuniting, but the reality is far different. Besides, DP currently has Simon McBride. Ritchie who?
Ritchie, who....? Ritchie might be a cunt.... but he wrote ALL the good riffs and all the good songs.....purple with dying cat gillan squawking and no Jon Lord is just a tribute band....
It's a shame Gillan didn't get the right recognition in Usa like Ozzy...they did great records...and Ian Gillan Band, an innovative jazz funky rock band with and hard rock singer produced a masterpiece album, Clair Air Turbulence.
Love your channel! Great video, as always. Love your narration style. Only thing I might disagree with you on is that Rainbow was a HUGELY successful band. 9 years, 30 millions albums sold with hits by 3 different vocalists, and sold out concerts.
@@karsguitarchannel6088 You clearly don't like Ritchie Blackmore or Rainbow. Of course there were more successful bands than Rainbow in the late 70's and early 80's, but in the context of the various bands formed by (or featuring) ex-Deep Purple members, Rainbow were the more successful. As one of the original members of Deep Purple, Blackmore is perfectly within his rights to protect his songwriting interests and the royalties arising from that music. Blackmore's treatment by his former bandmates has been abysmal. The way the likes of Gillan and Glover distanced themselves from Coverdale and Hughes at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame induction for the band gives you some indication of Gillan and Glover's true colours.
Ian, if your out there buddy, I do NOT care about your personal financial life. You are, were, and will always be the BEST vocalist Black Sabbath ever had! Deep Purple will ALWAYS triumph over Led Zepplen, Stones, etc. Rock on no matter what!
Me too. I still have the ticket stub. 7:30 PM Saturday April 6,1985 at the Pacific Coliseum Concert Bowl in Vancouver BC with Girlschool for $16.50 CAD. Produced by Perryscope.
What about Ian's work on the original Jesus Christ Super Star? How much did that pay? Does he get royalties? I still listen to that original/concept album 1970 a few times per year. Nothing else will do.
After the Black Sabbath album and tour, Gillan had surgery to remove nodes from his throat and came back too soon went against his doctors orders and reformed for the perfect strangers album and never sounded the same.
Ian Gillan's business ventures were so disastrous it was almost comedic. I think his old hotel was on the market recently, still with the guitar shaped swimming pool, after the business ran into trouble. The US really missed out on Gillan. They were a great band, but a bit too weird and anarchic, not airbrushed enough for the American market.
@@AndyMangele You certainly need good advice, a trustworthy lawyer and an accountant who isn't a crook, and none of those were a given in the music business at that time. As Gillan himself somewhat prophetically wrote, "The money's good and the time you have, Fun and games galore, But you spend your money and lie in bed forgotten, And you wonder what you did it for."
Gillan wasn't the only person who struggled with Richard Blackmores sense of fair play. According to Wendy Dio's account, (if this can be depended on) they were more-or-less penniless after Ronnnies long stint with Rainbow. The only way forward is to form your own outfit, which you have control over. And they were both highly motivated towards this. Sounds to me like the only real winners in terms of money were management and lawyers.
@hieinh They also spent every cent of Rainbow monies. Cozy Powell bought at least 3 brand new Ferraris whilst in Rainbow. Bob Daisly and later Chuck Burgii as well as Joe Lynn Turner ALL claimed that Ritchie Blackmore was more than fair as an Employer. Blackmore wouldn't pay dio copyright residuals and Wendy Dio hated him for it. Roger Glover: I came into Rainbow too late. Rainbow with Dio sold okay but nowhere near what purple: MArk II sold. Glover stated that Rainbow sold less than a quarter of what Mark II sold in equivalent four year periods. That is, from 1970 - 1973 sold just under 40 million records worldwide. That means Rainbow sold about 4 million albums from 1975 - 1979. Postscript Both Glover and Blackmore jumped at the chance at reforming Mark II. Glover and much later, Blackmore, both admitted that they were just earning a salary at Rainbow from 1980 - 1984.
@@FrostedSeagull I know Deep Purple made more. Dio at his height of popularity wasn’t play bars. $10 tickets at venues of 10,000-20,000 is pretty good. Also Wendy inherited 50k after Dio left Rainbow. Where did that go? He was touring with Sabbath a year later
I saw Gillan in Liverpool in 1978. They played in a windowless room in Mountford Hall in Liverpool University. They were superb. The line-up was Gillan, Towns, McCoy, Byrd and a fifteen year old Pete Barnacle. Joe Lyn Turner replaced Gillan for one album.
It looks like all these artists who were poor and than hit the big time go on to rip their fellow band members off, Berie Torme ended up leaving Gillan for non payment,it just a vicious circle from Jake E Lee to Vivian Campell,but it does tarnish the reputation and management of the band theyre really not quite a part of.
Sadly I was not around to give my all time hero what he needed at that time. I saw him yesterday again and he still sings fantastic and Deep Purple are still the top. Their =1 tour and album is sublime.❤
Johnny Gustafson, a great rock bass and vocalist, and one of the heavies. Not sure he would've been comfortable with the jazz- rock material IGB were playing. However, I do enjoy all three IGB albums.
Managers were greedy to them... they had to work hard, dp mk2 were poor fellas... 1973 after they original broke up, they went different direction... all because of the greedy Managers. Gettn regocniersed later, from there on they sold out. From 1984 to 1988 they had good fat shows, most shows sold put. They don't do it for their managers, for themself, their fans. I still hate john collettas bad habit... shame on your Managers.
Blackmore cannot play his own songs and solos anymore, if you check out the 20@6 reformed rainbow concerts and I never bothered going to see him, as I felt it would not be up to much, saved my money, tickets were going mental for £500 at the nec in Birmingham on the 2nd hand market, and I wasn’t going to fill someone else’s pockets just to see a lack lustre amateur half baked rainbow
Even as an ex singer who adored Gillan, RB was my hero and made the better business decisions. IG and RB are both Alpha males and clashed heads. Both tho are phenomenons creatively. Morse was brilliant too but radically different but no ine could follow Blackmore. Bolin was also incredible but it wasnt really Purple. I also love Steve Howe, SRV and JEFF BECK.
Just a small point Reading Festival is pronounced "Redding". Really good video, it appears that Blackmore is a very difficult person to be in a band with. I'd say that since the reformation in 1984 Purple are a better band without Blackmore.
The end of Gillan (the band) is so sad. Ian never reconciled with his former band mates. Which explains why he never worked with them again for a solo album. What a pity.
The singer whose name you couldn't remember at 13:54 looks like Joe Lynn Turner that mixed it up a bit with Ritchie Blackmore's rainbow and Deep Purple. Rainbow also had a hit with Joe Lynn Turner by the name of Street of Dreams. Successful tune and sounds a little like Foreigner. One of my favorite tunes by purple was the Beatles song Help that purple covered (1968) on their album Shades of Deep Purple. Also Steve Morse filled in for Ritchie Blackmore for a while with purple and did a hell of a job with is guitar Wizardry. Love that Highway Star!!!!
Ritchie Blackmore and Joe Lynn Turner had lots of hit songs: Street of Dreams, Can't Let You Go, Stone Cold, I surrender, just to name a few. And I love the 'Slaves and Masters' album.
People often times think that they can do anything or everything. Unfortunately more or less the opposite is true. Money is invested in things new or changing. Just ask yourself...why is this bloody hotel for sale? A good idea isn't enough... BTW I love Deep Purple, their Frank Zappa ( I also like) reference is just 👍
… as a rough estimate, considering the general economic context and inflation rates during the early 1970s, it’s possible that dog biscuits in the UK might have cost around 5-20 pence per packet or bag. 100 pence makes a pound.
How I miss Jon lord the maestro, a genius and although purple now have done airey who has been in so many bands, rainbow, ozzy osbourne, purple and more I feel that Jon lord was a better player, and you can tell he is missing from the newer purple albums, saw purple in 87, 90, 91, ,93, 96, 2000, and then I moved away from Birmingham and when Joe lynn turner joined purple it was great to hear Ritchie, Jon lord, and paice play burn live an album gillan will not sing same as stormbringer, and it was a monster sound to hear, I have followed Glenn Hughes for 20 years and it was great to hear him sing burn and stormbringer live , the voice was great but Jon lord wasn’t playing keyboards and it showed, I have seen photos of Jon lords grace and it had musical notes on his stone, it is the beginning of the song g highway star, yes you are correct, we lost Jon lord and nobody in my opinion could match him for the spontaneous music that he would play in his solo spot, what a player
Yes Jon Lord was a great part of Deep Purple's sound. Thanks to Lord, Deep Purple was so great to listen to. I've always loved his keyboard sound, his solos.
At that time I've bought all the Gillan records. Some were good and some were bad. Mr.Universe I liked the most. But in general I think his music and band sounded depressing.
How could you be that broke and sell that many tickets each night impossible or they were in debt to record company who should have given them living costs
Music would be incredible if it wasn’t for having to involve musicians. That’s why the biz of music is quite happy with selling prerecorded digital loops with some fat ass twerk machine in a mini skirt pretending to sing along.
No entendí nada 😔 no hay subtítulos... pero sé que les costó mucho comenzar a ganar dinero, sobre todo a Ian Gillan y a Roger Glover. Es mi banda favorita, los adoro hasta ahora!! 💜💜💜💜💜
With all due respect i think he was a bit hyperbole about the dog biscuits but I could b wrong. I have no doubt he's truthful about being really really poor and struggling at that time though.
At the Beggining of this video Ian said at the start of Deep Purple he was broke didn't shoes i believe this guy is lying and why would use the same management.
good music but awful art works on the covers, I used to pass them by totally ignoring "Gillan" logo on them. I would say that because of lp covers Ian was the least known solo artist for me out of all chaps from DP, BS and LZ
Yes the album covers were a pretty major part of why they faltered. Gillan (the band) had really good publicity in the UK actually: A lot of TV appearances, very rare in the Uk for rock acts to get any opportunities like that in the 80's, (someone obviously had contacts). The other reason they failed - I'm not so sure the music held up too much, that's why they were ignored in the US.
@@yinoveryang4246 Coverdale realized it only in 1984 that americans love different sound, fired old english blokes, hired young hairy Sykes )) and remixed Slide It In )) Gillan simply rejoined Deep Purple. I guess his solo music was too British )) that's why we still dig it ))
The cover art looked cheap and tacky on the gillan albums they were obscure and had no real thought to them, this would have contributed to the low sales as people would pass on them, that’s what I think happened in Gillian’s case
Didn't know all those financial ups and downs of Gillan, I mainly remember articles in which these guys liked to show off with expensive cars or motorcycles. But so, the Rolls came second hand (and probably came with no driver ?), which is of course still better than no Rolls at all. Great looking car, although this thing burned fuel almost on an SR 71 scale, something like 25-30 liters/100 km. Although the later fights with Blackmore are about money, I think he had a point in the earlier conflicts, the singing during live shows of Gillan was not always very spot on, to remain diplomatic. By now, Gillan seems to have wisened up, and several of the albums with Morse are really great. A last show with the Mk 2 line up would be great, if Gilmour and Waters managed to do it without biting and scratching each other on stage, it should have been feasable. Unfortunately, by now, Jon Lord is no more....
I love the first two albums with Steve Morse on guitar - Purpendicular and Abandon! They contain lots of great musical ideas. And I like Steve Morse's soloing. Sounds amazing!
Should have got a job like the rest of us mate pop groups are not very fulfilling for a great life it's all doom n gloom by the sounds and look of it 👌
I can't believe you take as gospel the net worths and incomes of celebrities posted on random sites that have even less credibility than my dog's online trigonometry course.
@@iSiberianHusky I googled and Deep Purple still tour a lot. They are gonna play in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and United Kingdom. Ticket prices start at around $60 to $80.
gillan's a bullshitter....much exaggeration.... he himself - went on to swindle the band 'gillan' by leaving them unpaid and doing a runner after their last gig in 1982....
Yes, I also think that he exaggerated about being so poor in Deep Purple in the 70's. Maybe just for a short while in the very early days because they just had started, the band wasn't making a lot of money. But after Machine Head, things changed
@karsguitarchannel6088 never did he and glover share clothes....glover's stuff WOULDN'T even fit gillan....and no way did he eat dog biscuits....there's tonnes of just out of date food....the little sandwich shops would have sold him for next to nowt....(student days)
Gillan was a Great band…
Was lucky to expirience them live in concert on the Double Trouble tour around 1982…Then again with Black Sabbath on Born Again tour around 1983 & Deep Purple Perfect Strangers Tour 1985….
Forever Legends 💜
R.I.P ✝️
Maestro Jon Lord 🥸
Master Ronnie J. Dio 🤘
Now I understand how Gillan could howl like that on Child in Time.... Dog biscuits !!!
Thats hilarious🤣
I have been listening to music channels on RUclips for years and reading music books before that… This is my favorite music channel hands-down!! you are doing great work my man!!
Hi Brian, thank you very much for these words and your support! I appreciate that very much! Have an awesome day!!!
The Cherkazoo album is still my favorite collection of Gillan stuff because it's so diverse!
When a manager talks to somebody like that in a band you should pay attention because he's probably stealing from the band...
That manager sounds like some people I worked for.
I never liked deep purple. Everybody talks about Ritchie Blackmore.... He plays like a kid with a broken hand, I need the keyboard player to cover up his mistakes
I'm not a huge fan of Deep Purple either but their Machinehead album is fabulous both sides of it. The solo Blackmore did on Lazy is an insane solo so he doesn't play like a kid with a broken hand! As a personality he's a real rude snob but as a guitarist he is one of the best !@@Grgorio-bt4qb
@@Grgorio-bt4qbyou sound like a superb guitar virtuoso
Probably.?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Gillan is one of my favourite singers, Janick Gers who went on to join Iron Maiden is on a couple of the solo albums. I enjoyed the vid thanks 👍👍
You are very welcome, thank you!!
so glad I finally got to see them in 85 with the perfect strangers tour. this is my favorite purple lineup. from “in rock” on with Ian Gillen I was hooked.
Me too. I still have the ticket stub. 7:30 PM Saturday April 6,1985 at the Pacific Coliseum Concert Bowl in Vancouver BC with Girlschool for $16.50 CAD. Produced by Perryscope.
He sounds like a really interesting guy. Thanks for the memories Ian.
Perfect strangers is my favorite DP album
it is a great lp , i am also very fond of the next lp - blue light . saw that tour . so lucky i got to see the real DP line up .
Yes brilliant album, love it!! And I love the first two albums with Steve Morse - Purpendicular and Abandon. They are amazing! And Come Taste The Band is a brilliant lp as well!!
@jamesdelaney3797, I don't even know you, but I will still allow you to sleep with my old lady, just because you said that! PS is a killer album (I have a 12" vinyl copy that belonged to my dad), and it sounds better on analog gear. \m/
@ghostwriter1415 looking forward to it
Mine too!!
I have read Gillan and the other members of Deep Purple are worth about 100 million each now, with the exception of Blackmore, who was the principle song writer and has many endorsements. Jon Lord said in an interview that Smoke On The Water is worth a minimum of six figures, in pounds, in royalties each year since it was released. With five writing credits that would be at least 500,000 pounds minimum each year.
Blackmore says he's worth 14 million. 😂 for tax purposes, I suppose. Worth about 100 million is right.
No chance with that £100M net worth figure. They are very wealthy men for sure, but that figure is a bit silly. The SOTW royalties figure came up during the 1980 bogus DP court case, but nowadays royalties are nowhere near what they were. Bands have to tour these days to make money.
@@Fuxerz Don't forget he's been divorced 3 times and in his own words couldn't afford a 4th divorce. Candice has been really good for him though.
@@grobbler1 First, the SOTW assertion came from Jon Lord just prior to his death. The interview is on RUclips if you want to go looking for it.
Second, there is no definitive answer as what they are worth? I can only tell you what I read and honestly I don't even recall where I read it. The guys do have other revenue streams beyond music, Blackmore especially has several. I guess it also depends on how successful you are at investing your money. If you read Gillan's book he states that Ian Paice in particular has been very good with his money.
Very informative, great upload!!
agreed.
Many thanks!!
Blimey, Gillan's been through tough times 😢 for me, the best DP lineup is MK II, Ian's voice is extraordinary. And this manager makes me respect Peter Grant even more, the legendary and fierce manager of Zeppelin.
One of your best shows. Thanks
Great pleasure to hear this!! Many thanks, I appreciate!
"The guitar man got famous, the business man got rich...Oh, Let There Be Rock!!"
RIP Bon Scott
Thanks for this in-depth look at Gillan's time in DP. It's incredible that in DP's early days he didn't have enough money for clothes or food. Gillan: "The voice of trouble": Makes sense in their video for "Oh, well." This video also puts the idea of a Blackmore reunion in perspective. As fans, we like to think of our heroes reuniting, but the reality is far different. Besides, DP currently has Simon McBride. Ritchie who?
Many thanks, much appreciated!!
Ritchie, who....? Ritchie might be a cunt....
but he wrote ALL the good riffs and all the good songs.....purple with dying cat gillan squawking and no Jon Lord is just a tribute band....
It's a shame Gillan didn't get the right recognition in Usa like Ozzy...they did great records...and Ian Gillan Band, an innovative jazz funky rock band with and hard rock singer produced a masterpiece album, Clair Air Turbulence.
In my opinion. Ian is way better than Ozzy.
TURBULENCE is Gillan's (Gillan Band's) best....pisses all over the purple stuff....
Singing for sure, but charisma and stage presence, no chance. @@ShawnStaplesFreeGuitarLessons
He doesn’t have a great voice. He was perfect for Sabbath, but Gillan is head and shoulders above him as a singer and songwriter.
Love your channel! Great video, as always. Love your narration style. Only thing I might disagree with you on is that Rainbow was a HUGELY successful band. 9 years, 30 millions albums sold with hits by 3 different vocalists, and sold out concerts.
Many thanks!! Yes Rainbow did have some moderate success but there were much more successful bands at the time.
@@karsguitarchannel6088 You clearly don't like Ritchie Blackmore or Rainbow. Of course there were more successful bands than Rainbow in the late 70's and early 80's, but in the context of the various bands formed by (or featuring) ex-Deep Purple members, Rainbow were the more successful. As one of the original members of Deep Purple, Blackmore is perfectly within his rights to protect his songwriting interests and the royalties arising from that music. Blackmore's treatment by his former bandmates has been abysmal. The way the likes of Gillan and Glover distanced themselves from Coverdale and Hughes at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame induction for the band gives you some indication of Gillan and Glover's true colours.
Ian, if your out there buddy, I do NOT care about your personal financial life. You are, were, and will always be the BEST vocalist Black Sabbath ever had! Deep Purple will ALWAYS triumph over Led Zepplen, Stones, etc. Rock on no matter what!
i love them all equally, but I have a very very soft spot for Deep Purlpe M2
Ian is one of my favorite singers, interesting Rock History..
Rock On Kar !!! ✌️
Many thanks Scott!! Rock On ✌
Well researched, well supported, Nice Job 👍
Many thanks, much appreciated!!
I SAW DEEP PURPLE ON THE PERFECT STRANGERS TOUR.AWSOME!!!
Me too. I still have the ticket stub. 7:30 PM Saturday April 6,1985 at the Pacific Coliseum Concert Bowl in Vancouver BC with Girlschool for $16.50 CAD. Produced by Perryscope.
What about Ian's work on the original Jesus Christ Super Star? How much did that pay? Does he get royalties? I still listen to that original/concept album 1970 a few times per year. Nothing else will do.
❤👍🔥👏
Saw Gillian at Reading, excellent.
I started playing drums around age 5. When i picked up a guitar a couple years later , smoke on the water was the first tune i tried to play
Sounds like the lawyers made a mint off this band 😆
Wow! This is heartbreaking to hear, especially bcz Ian was one of my favorite singers in my teens.
Ian probably hit his vocal peak when he did recordings for Black Sabbaths album born again. His.voice there was simply unbelievable
Thats right
After the Black Sabbath album and tour, Gillan had surgery to remove nodes from his throat and came back too soon went against his doctors orders and reformed for the perfect strangers album and never sounded the same.
Ian voice was amazing on Jesus christ superstar album.
Ian Gillan's business ventures were so disastrous it was almost comedic. I think his old hotel was on the market recently, still with the guitar shaped swimming pool, after the business ran into trouble. The US really missed out on Gillan. They were a great band, but a bit too weird and anarchic, not airbrushed enough for the American market.
@@delorangeade I think in order to become a successful businessman you need some training - same as it is in music or in any other field.
@@AndyMangele You certainly need good advice, a trustworthy lawyer and an accountant who isn't a crook, and none of those were a given in the music business at that time. As Gillan himself somewhat prophetically wrote, "The money's good and the time you have, Fun and games galore, But you spend your money and lie in bed forgotten, And you wonder what you did it for."
They were too raw and not polished enough for the smooth west coast sounding American market. His business acumin was diabolical 😊
Gillan wasn't the only person who struggled with Richard Blackmores sense of fair play. According to Wendy Dio's account, (if this can be depended on) they were more-or-less penniless after Ronnnies long stint with Rainbow. The only way forward is to form your own outfit, which you have control over. And they were both highly motivated towards this. Sounds to me like the only real winners in terms of money were management and lawyers.
And Wendy and Ronnie pissed away the Sabbath and Dio money
@hieinh
They also spent every cent of Rainbow monies.
Cozy Powell bought at least 3 brand new Ferraris whilst in Rainbow.
Bob Daisly and later Chuck Burgii as well as Joe Lynn Turner ALL claimed that Ritchie Blackmore was more than fair as an Employer.
Blackmore wouldn't pay dio copyright residuals and Wendy Dio hated him for it.
Roger Glover: I came into Rainbow too late. Rainbow with Dio sold okay but nowhere near what purple: MArk II sold. Glover stated that Rainbow sold less than a quarter of what Mark II sold in equivalent four year periods.
That is, from 1970 - 1973 sold just under 40 million records worldwide.
That means Rainbow sold about 4 million albums from 1975 - 1979.
Postscript
Both Glover and Blackmore jumped at the chance at reforming Mark II.
Glover and much later, Blackmore, both admitted that they were just earning a salary at Rainbow from 1980 - 1984.
@@FrostedSeagull I know Deep Purple made more. Dio at his height of popularity wasn’t play bars. $10 tickets at venues of 10,000-20,000 is pretty good. Also Wendy inherited 50k after Dio left Rainbow. Where did that go? He was touring with Sabbath a year later
Wendy turned around did the same thing to Dio's band.
08:12 "Reading Festival" (*Redding Festival)
Thank you
I saw Gillan in Liverpool in 1978. They played in a windowless room in Mountford Hall in Liverpool University. They were superb. The line-up was Gillan, Towns, McCoy, Byrd and a fifteen year old Pete Barnacle. Joe Lyn Turner replaced Gillan for one album.
Awesome!! ✌
Good venue the University, saw a goodfew bands there in the early 1980's for about £5 a ticket
It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll
I would never blow my money on a car.😒😒😒
Read Ian Gillan's book. HIGHWAY STAR He's a fine bloke.
I didn't know Gillans time with Purple was so short. He left in 1973 just after Machinehead ?
They recorded one more album 'Who do we think we are' in 1973 and then he left Deep Purple.
Love deep purple M2 especially Ian Gillan, the best (together with Robert Plant ) rock voice and good looking guy.
It looks like all these artists who were poor and than hit the big time go on to rip their fellow band members off, Berie Torme ended up leaving Gillan for non payment,it just a vicious circle from Jake E Lee to Vivian Campell,but it does tarnish the reputation and management of the band theyre really not quite a part of.
Sadly I was not around to give my all time hero what he needed at that time. I saw him yesterday again and he still sings fantastic and Deep Purple are still the top. Their =1 tour and album is sublime.❤
Awesome!
Top 3 rock singers in the world in his day.
I saw them on the perfect strangers tour. Awesome. John Lord was amazing.
That's Rock and Roll 🍥
Johnny Gustafson, a great rock bass and vocalist, and one of the heavies.
Not sure he would've been comfortable with the jazz- rock material IGB were playing.
However, I do enjoy all three IGB albums.
Scarabus is my jam. But you didn't mention it. 😢
Managers were greedy to them... they had to work hard, dp mk2 were poor fellas... 1973 after they original broke up, they went different direction... all because of the greedy Managers.
Gettn regocniersed later, from there on they sold out.
From 1984 to 1988 they had good fat shows, most shows sold put.
They don't do it for their managers, for themself, their fans.
I still hate john collettas bad habit... shame on your Managers.
Eating dog biscuits?Blimey, that sounds a bit rough rough
Good video👍
It's not rock & roll .... 😂
OH HE WOULD WOOF THEM DOWN 😂❤🎉
RUFF RUFF!😂
great upload!
Big thanks, I appreciate!
Rock N Roll dreams do come true !
Blackmore cannot play his own songs and solos anymore, if you check out the 20@6 reformed rainbow concerts and I never bothered going to see him, as I felt it would not be up to much, saved my money, tickets were going mental for £500 at the nec in Birmingham on the 2nd hand market, and I wasn’t going to fill someone else’s pockets just to see a lack lustre amateur half baked rainbow
Very informative, thanks!
Big thanks, much appreciated!!
Even as an ex singer who adored Gillan, RB was my hero and made the better business decisions.
IG and RB are both Alpha males and clashed heads.
Both tho are phenomenons creatively.
Morse was brilliant too but radically different but no ine could follow Blackmore.
Bolin was also incredible but it wasnt really Purple.
I also love Steve Howe, SRV and JEFF BECK.
The first two albums with Steve Morse 'Purpendicular' and 'Abandon' are amazing!! Steve Morse did amazing things on guitar back then.
If you have to steal food, why dog biscuits?
Yes indeed. I think Gillan exaggerated a little bit
To keep his coat nice and shiny 😂
He Needed The RUFF AGE 😂
Just a small point Reading Festival is pronounced "Redding". Really good video, it appears that Blackmore is a very difficult person to be in a band with.
I'd say that since the reformation in 1984 Purple are a better band without Blackmore.
Many thanks!!
The end of Gillan (the band) is so sad. Ian never reconciled with his former band mates. Which explains why he never worked with them again for a solo album. What a pity.
The singer whose name you couldn't remember at 13:54 looks like Joe Lynn Turner that mixed it up a bit with Ritchie Blackmore's rainbow and Deep Purple. Rainbow also had a hit with Joe Lynn Turner by the name of Street of Dreams. Successful tune and sounds a little like Foreigner.
One of my favorite tunes by purple was the Beatles song Help that purple covered (1968) on their album Shades of Deep Purple. Also Steve Morse filled in for Ritchie Blackmore for a while with purple and did a hell of a job with is guitar Wizardry. Love that Highway Star!!!!
Ritchie Blackmore and Joe Lynn Turner had lots of hit songs: Street of Dreams, Can't Let You Go, Stone Cold, I surrender, just to name a few. And I love the 'Slaves and Masters' album.
@@karsguitarchannel6088 Stone Cold and I Surrender absolutely agree. Brother, where is all the good music gone. Let's keep it alive.👍
Death Alley Driver.🎸🎸🎶🎼🎵
Wow Ian was tough
I finally subscribed thanks
People often times think that they can do anything or everything. Unfortunately more or less the opposite is true. Money is invested in things new or changing. Just ask yourself...why is this bloody hotel for sale? A good idea isn't enough...
BTW I love Deep Purple, their Frank Zappa ( I also like) reference is just 👍
Yes Ian Gillan said he lived in so many hotels so he decided to buy his own hotel to live in, lol
12.000 would be a 100.000 now mate
Regular biscuits are no more expensive than dog biscuits, I'm smelling BS.
Unless he was stealing them from the dog?
… as a rough estimate, considering the general economic context and inflation rates during the early 1970s, it’s possible that dog biscuits in the UK might have cost around 5-20 pence per packet or bag. 100 pence makes a pound.
Woof, woof!
Read a Marky Ramones' book, ate Iams canned dog food for a while.
When bands break up for "creative differences" it really means they aren't making any money.
Too late for any reunion now, our favorite John Lord is gone 😭
How I miss Jon lord the maestro, a genius and although purple now have done airey who has been in so many bands, rainbow, ozzy osbourne, purple and more I feel that Jon lord was a better player, and you can tell he is missing from the newer purple albums, saw purple in 87, 90, 91, ,93, 96, 2000, and then I moved away from Birmingham and when Joe lynn turner joined purple it was great to hear Ritchie, Jon lord, and paice play burn live an album gillan will not sing same as stormbringer, and it was a monster sound to hear, I have followed Glenn Hughes for 20 years and it was great to hear him sing burn and stormbringer live , the voice was great but Jon lord wasn’t playing keyboards and it showed, I have seen photos of Jon lords grace and it had musical notes on his stone, it is the beginning of the song g highway star, yes you are correct, we lost Jon lord and nobody in my opinion could match him for the spontaneous music that he would play in his solo spot, what a player
Yes Jon Lord was a great part of Deep Purple's sound. Thanks to Lord, Deep Purple was so great to listen to. I've always loved his keyboard sound, his solos.
Its "REDDING " Not "Reading"
At that time I've bought all the Gillan records. Some were good and some were bad. Mr.Universe I liked the most. But in general I think his music and band sounded depressing.
These band managers were bastards.
How could you be that broke and sell that many tickets each night impossible or they were in debt to record company who should have given them living costs
Music would be incredible if it wasn’t for having to involve musicians.
That’s why the biz of music is quite happy with selling prerecorded digital loops with some fat ass twerk machine in a mini skirt pretending to sing along.
Even thu Gillan obviously may not be the best of business man, at least he tried ---
No entendí nada 😔 no hay subtítulos... pero sé que les costó mucho comenzar a ganar dinero, sobre todo a Ian Gillan y a Roger Glover.
Es mi banda favorita, los adoro hasta ahora!!
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With all due respect i think he was a bit hyperbole about the dog biscuits but I could b wrong. I have no doubt he's truthful about being really really poor and struggling at that time though.
Among several reasons I never had a "real" band.
Why wasn't he receiving benefits on the dole
At the Beggining of this video Ian said at the start of Deep Purple he was broke didn't shoes i believe this guy is lying and why would use the same management.
I thought that Ritchie Blackmore discovered Ian Gillian 🤔
Such stories resembles The four Yorkshirsman sketch by Mounty Python
good music but awful art works on the covers, I used to pass them by totally ignoring "Gillan" logo on them. I would say that because of lp covers Ian was the least known solo artist for me out of all chaps from DP, BS and LZ
Yes the album covers were a pretty major part of why they faltered. Gillan (the band) had really good publicity in the UK actually: A lot of TV appearances, very rare in the Uk for rock acts to get any opportunities like that in the 80's, (someone obviously had contacts). The other reason they failed - I'm not so sure the music held up too much, that's why they were ignored in the US.
@@yinoveryang4246 Coverdale realized it only in 1984 that americans love different sound, fired old english blokes, hired young hairy Sykes )) and remixed Slide It In ))
Gillan simply rejoined Deep Purple.
I guess his solo music was too British )) that's why we still dig it ))
The cover art looked cheap and tacky on the gillan albums they were obscure and had no real thought to them, this would have contributed to the low sales as people would pass on them, that’s what I think happened in Gillian’s case
I don’t believe on it. If it was true it will be impossible to keep in the band and no reason to remain on it.
Ever see the blues brothers? Their bar tab was more than they earned for the gig. Lmao. This is a dumb story. Something missing from story.
Why does the born again album get such wrap
I love Born Again.
. .still have the original lp. .heard an entire live set of that tour on RUclips. .amazing. .
Now that’s F in poor.
Didn't know all those financial ups and downs of Gillan, I mainly remember articles in which these guys liked to show off with expensive cars or motorcycles. But so, the Rolls came second hand (and probably came with no driver ?), which is of course still better than no Rolls at all. Great looking car, although this thing burned fuel almost on an SR 71 scale, something like 25-30 liters/100 km. Although the later fights with Blackmore are about money, I think he had a point in the earlier conflicts, the singing during live shows of Gillan was not always very spot on, to remain diplomatic. By now, Gillan seems to have wisened up, and several of the albums with Morse are really great. A last show with the Mk 2 line up would be great, if Gilmour and Waters managed to do it without biting and scratching each other on stage, it should have been feasable. Unfortunately, by now, Jon Lord is no more....
I love the first two albums with Steve Morse on guitar - Purpendicular and Abandon! They contain lots of great musical ideas. And I like Steve Morse's soloing. Sounds amazing!
He racked dog food to eat? I recommend any OTR… who’s listening in 2024? Lol
King of dreams is a great song
ha ha
Yes Slaves and Masters is a great album. So many great songs on it
Should have got a job like the rest of us mate pop groups are not very fulfilling for a great life it's all doom n gloom by the sounds and look of it 👌
Just reading
How about working? Another victim
This is bull 😡😡😡
I can't believe you take as gospel the net worths and incomes of celebrities posted on random sites that have even less credibility than my dog's online trigonometry course.
I believe those figures are very close to reality. They made millions from touring
@@karsguitarchannel6088 The net worths and incomes on those sites are worthless.
@@iSiberianHusky I googled and Deep Purple still tour a lot. They are gonna play in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and United Kingdom. Ticket prices start at around $60 to $80.
@@karsguitarchannel6088Only huge acts like the Eagles and Springsteen make millions touring.
Most bands like Purple make a slim profit.
gillan's a bullshitter....much exaggeration....
he himself - went on to swindle the band 'gillan' by leaving them unpaid and doing a runner after their last gig in 1982....
Yes, I also think that he exaggerated about being so poor in Deep Purple in the 70's. Maybe just for a short while in the very early days because they just had started, the band wasn't making a lot of money. But after Machine Head, things changed
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never did he and glover share clothes....glover's stuff WOULDN'T even fit gillan....and no way did he eat dog biscuits....there's tonnes of just out of date food....the little sandwich shops would have sold him for next to nowt....(student days)
@@volpeverde6441 Yes, apparently he stole a few dog biscuits only once or twice and most likely it was before he joined Deep Purple in 1969.