We have a great respect for the originals – because it’s the song. How do you go about taking songs like that and really make them your own? Obviously, some of the songs on this album are songs with which fans have a certain level of familiarity and are accustomed to hearing a certain way. MORE FROM FORBES Ian Paice Of Deep Purple On The Songwriting Process Behind The Group's 21st Album 'Whoosh!' By Jim Ryan
But that couldn’t happen because of the slowdown of the pandemic again. We wanted it out really this past summer – because it’s kind of a summery album. Once you’ve done the demo, you’ve got to wait for a couple of weeks at least – guitar parts are coming in and keyboard parts are coming in. I remember Ian Paice telling me that Whoosh! came together pretty quickly, that it was recorded in like six weeks. When he did the mixes, he just made it sound as if we were all in the same room. Four days in the studio and we banged out all of the vocals very quickly. But I flew over to England in April and met Ian Gillan. It was a home studio in a way, it just wasn’t Ian Gillan’s home studio that’s all. Finally, Bob Ezrin called up Peter Gabriel on the phone and we got a studio in England. After several attempts, and with no travel, we couldn’t really do anything. So somehow we had to find a studio somewhere where we could do all of the vocals once all of the backing tracks were done. The one person who didn’t have a home studio was Ian Gillan. Since we’ve all got home studios – in this day and age your computer is a home studio – that’s how we did it. We sat down with a drum machine and a couple of keyboard or guitar parts, or whatever it may be, and did a very basic demo – which kind of went into a pool in Nashville governed by Bob Ezrin and he farmed it out to all of the people that needed to put solos on or this that and the other.
Once we’d chosen the songs, a few of us in the band did demos of them – me and Steve Morse and Don Airey. It sounds like that wasn’t possible this time around. I know you guys typically record together live. And what you end up with is on the record. So from those 50 songs we took a vote basically. We wanted to add something to them, Purpleize them if you like. But we weren’t just covering them straight. We had about 50 ideas for things we could cover. Bob Ezrin was our kind of conductor if you like. Well, we’ll let other people do the writing. That’s where the songs are born really – coming out of the jams. What could we do? We thought about having a jam like on Zoom or something like that – but that didn’t go down very well. We didn’t want to twiddle our thumbs or anything. RG: The whole idea came about during the lockdown. How did you guys go about selecting these songs? (Photo by Scott Legato/Getty Images) Getty Images
STERLING HEIGHTS, MI - AUGUST 04: Roger Glover of Deep Purple performs at Freedom Hill Amphitheater.
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