IAN GILLAN On New Solo Album - "I Had No Plans To Do This"
May 2, 2009, 15 years ago
DEEP PURPLE vocalist Ian Gillan is featured in a new interview with Metal Express Radio's Mick Burgess. An excerpt is available below.
Q: One Eye To Morocco is your first solo album of all new material in over 10 years. Why has it taken so long to write the follow up to Dreamcatcher?
Gilland: "I had no plans to do this but sadly Roger Glover's Mum became very ill and died last year so we cancelled a couple of tours so he could be with her. I took myself off to Buffalo in New York to rehearse with some session musicians who were friends of mine out there. We spent a week rehearsing and went up to Canada to record all of the tracks and guide vocals in three days. Basically there was an opportunity to make the album due to the unfortunate break in our schedule otherwise it would have taken another 10 years to come out."
Q: Recording the bulk of the album in three days is a pretty quick process when you consider it can take some bands 5 years to record an album these days?
Gillan: "Well, Deep Purple’s spontaneity is usually around five weeks but that’s a different process as we go in and start from scratch with nothing. With this, we went in with the songs already written. It was just a question of handing it over to the producer."
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