DEEP PURPLE Singer Calls Classic Rock Radio A 'Death Sentence For All Sorts Of Older Bands'
August 15, 2007Michael Senft of The Arizona Republic reports: DEEP PURPLE visits the Maricopa County Events Center on Aug. 17, but it isn't a nostalgia tour. The group is wrapping up a two-year tour of 48 countries in support of its 2005 album "Rapture of the Deep". But American fans probably don't know that.
"You have this thing called classic rock radio over here," says singer Ian Gillan in a recent phone call. "It's been a death sentence for all sorts of older bands. They don't play anything of ours other than 'Smoke on the Water' and 'Highway Star'. "
Gillan even addresses the problem with a song on 'Rapture of the Deep', called MTV. The song was inspired by a real-life incident in Buffalo, N.Y.
"I heard (PURPLE bassist) Roger Glover doing a radio interview, trying desperately to talk about a record we did in 2003 called 'Bananas'. I was listening to it and my jaw just dropped, as this deejay ranted on about 1973. She wasn't the slightest bit interested in what he had to say, or anything that had happened in the last 30 years," he says.
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