When you asked earlier about what songs do I feel for, in a way, I love them all. And the important thing is everyone in the audience is so involved in the song, and of course, they know every word and the groove. Gillan: Like all the narrative songs, you can place yourself there. Songfacts: How do you feel about that song today? It would never have gotten played if we hadn’t done the edit. He ran back to the studio and did an edit of three-and-a-half minutes, and it got played for the first time on the radio. came to see a show and saw the reaction of the crowd. It never got played on the radio for a year because it was too long. The engineer told us on the last day, “Man, we’re several minutes short for an album.” So, we dug it out, and Roger and I wrote a biographical account of the making of the record: “We all came out to Montreux…” etcetera, etcetera. So, the riff and backing track had been recorded on the first day as a kind of soundcheck. And when we went to write the lyrics, because we were short on material, we thought it was an “add-on track.” It was just a last-minute panic.
We tried to re-create an atmosphere in a technical sense the best we could. We set the gear up in the hallways and the corridors of the hotel, and the Rolling Stones’ mobile truck was out back with very long cables coming up through the windows. We got some red light bulbs, and we used the bed mattresses as sound baffles. We ended up at the Grand Hotel, and it was very bright, so we changed the light bulbs. Gillan: That’s the hotel we moved into – the Grand Hotel – after the casino burned down during the Frank Zappa concert we were at. Songfacts: What are the “few red lights and a few old beds” you sing about in Smoke On The Water? We’re thinking about new stuff, and I have no emotional relationship with any of my songs. At the moment, Pictures Of Home I’m enjoying because of the orchestral melodies and the orchestral dynamics in the song. We still do quite a few on stage and they’re intensely important. Gillan: I don’t connect with any of them. Songfacts: What song from the Deep Purple Mark II era do you most connect with? It seemed to fit.Īnd then I think some of the guys looked at the lyrics and saw the apocalyptic nature of some of these scenarios and came up with the dissolving spaceman, which I kind of like. Like, Whoosh! – it seems like just yesterday it was 1970. And in a more humorous sense, it describes Deep Purple’s career. The idea of Whoosh! came to me as a very good onomatopoeic word that describes the transient nature of humanity on the planet. We had a couple of submissions by the design department in Germany. Songfacts: What’s the story behind the album title and cover image? Songfacts: Whoosh! is the third record in a row that Bob Ezrin produced for the band. Greg Prato of Songfacts spoke with Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillian, excerpts from the interview appear below.
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