The full interview with Deep Purple's Roger Glover and Ian Paice about machine head and “Smoke on the Water” is available as an episode of the UNCUT Consequence podcast. Listen ahead or wherever you get your podcasts.
Many rock albums get the “deluxe edition” treatment these days, but few are as deserving as Deep Purple's 1972 tour de force. machine head.
While the British band, whose lineup at the time consisted of singer Ian Gillan, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, keyboardist Jon Lord, bassist Roger Glover and drummer Ian Paice, had already released two stellar LPs that helped pave the way in hard rock and heavy metal. (1970s In rock and 1971 ball of fire), machine head It was an undisputed classic, from front to back.
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Before the launch of the collection, Strong consequences met with Glover and Paice to discuss machine head, their iconic hit “Smoke on the Water” and much more.
“A lot of people want to know what our mentality was at that time,” Glover explains. “'Did we think we'd written the definitive rock album?' We just made an album. You can really only look at it from the point of view of time. And you look back at it and say, 'Well, yes it was.' But at that time it was just another album. “We didn't know what awaited us.”
Rather than capture the group's sixth studio album in the sterile confines of a traditional studio, the decision was made to use a remote setup at the Montreux Casino in Switzerland, which also served as a rock concert venue. As has been well documented over the years, a fire at the venue that occurred during a Frank Zappa performance in December 1971 thwarted Deep Purple's original plan.
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