DEEP PURPLE Bassist Issues Year-End Update
December 25, 2006, 17 years ago
DEEP PURPLE bassist Roger Glover has issued the following update:
"The last gig of the year, and of all places, Bangalore, India. Of all places? What does that mean? Anywhere could be ‘of all places’. When asked, “ What are you doing here?” my reply is invariably, “Well, everyone’s got to be somewhere!” So, Bangalore - now it all makes sense.
We have traveled a year’s worth of gigs to get here and what a diverse and wonderful twelve months. It seems an age since we were rehearsing in Hanger Lane, or maybe Park Royal, for our only London gig at the Astoria. Although we’d played songs from Rapture Of The Deep the previous year, notably at the Hard Rock in London and some dates in South America, the Astoria show felt like the real start of the Rapture tour.
I won’t list all the places we’ve been, there are others who do that (thank you), but it is a constant source of amazement that not only have we been able to do what we do but that audiences everywhere have attended in increasing numbers and with seemingly decreasing ages. The downside of all this touring however is that we have to get there. No one thinks about that when they see us up on the stage, nor should they, but I thought I might illustrate how difficult/fantastic it can sometimes be.
Read the rest of Glover's note here.
