DEEP PURPLE Bassist ROGER GLOVER - “I Don’t Think A Day Goes Past When I Don’t Marvel At The Fact That I’m Still In A Band, Doing What I Was Doing When I Was 15”
August 28, 2017, 7 years ago
In a new interview with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Deep Purple bassist answers the question, how much longer will Deep Purple be a band.
“Hard to say,” Glover says. “We just know that we can’t go on forever, and there’s got to be some line somewhere between playing and not playing. None of us are really keen on that. But certain little medical ailments keep cropping up and you know sooner or later, it’s going to happen, but we can’t say, ‘Right, it’s going to be Los Angeles in 2000-whatever or London or Frankfurt.’ To name a date is difficult, so we’re just going to keep going and see how long it lasts.”
Gillan just turned 72 and Glover has that same birthday coming up in November. It’s a ’70s band now playing into their 70s.
“Oh yeah, it’s all going according to plan,” Roger says with a laugh. “I don’t think a day goes past when I don’t marvel at the fact that I’m still in a band, doing what I was doing when I was 15. It is a charmed life, a very lucky life. Back in the ’60s when you joined a band, if you had a hit you might be around for a couple of years, but you have to follow that hit with another hit and another album and another tour. You never thought about the future, it was always the year ahead. For it to go on this long, albeit with a few peaks and valleys in between, it’s just amazing.”
Read the full interview at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Deep Purple perform tonight (August 28th) at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey. Find the band’s tour schedule here.
