![]() Glover and Gillan duly signed contracts at the band’s London offices on Newman Street, but surely not without trepidation. Purple had already chewed up original singer Rod Evans and bassist Nicky Simper: the first casualties of Blackmore’s Machiavellian quest to create visionary rock ’n’ roll at any personal (or personnel) costĭeep Purple wasn’t the kind of gig you passed up. ![]() I felt they were from another world, not mine.” They were very dark, broody sort of villains. “These two shadowy figures arrived,” he recalled in Classic Rock of Blackmore and Purple organist Jon Lord. ![]() Given the animosity that would later derail the band’s four-year run, perhaps it’s apt that bassist Roger Glover sensed a malign presence in the crowd as he and vocalist Ian Gillan performed with doomed outfit Episode Six that night.
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