Right now, however, Deep Purple are looking forward to getting back on the road, with dates currently planned on the Rock Legends Cruise in February out of Florida, then Europe during the rest of the year, with Asia and Australia following in 2023. Gillan says that a second volume of Turning to Crime is not out of the question - possibly, he adds, as something that could be done between studio albums. Watch Deep Purple's 'Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu' Video So was Bob's idea: 'Do that thing you do onstage.'" We just go through, and it's a bit of fun. Sometimes it's two songs, sometimes it's six. "Don Airey starts playing a tune nobody knows what it's gonna be, and that's the fun. & the MG's' "Green Onions," the Allman Brothers Band's "Hot 'Lanta," Led Zeppelin's "Dazed and Confused" and the Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'." "That’s just an example of what we do when we come back on for the encore," says Gillan. It's just a great song, so we had a lot of fun doing it."Īlso of interest is the album-closing "Caught in the Act" medley, which features bits of the Jeff Beck Group's "Going Down," Booker T. Steve Morse, being American, was like, 'How can you guys sing a song about the British getting beaten by the Americans?' I said, 'I know you wouldn't do that, Steve.' You've got to understand that British humor we laugh at everything, including ourselves - and particularly ourselves.
"But Roger and I used to sing that song in a balled called Episode Six back in the '60s. "I think Ian Paice had a few worries about 'The Battle of New Orleans,'" Gillan says with a laugh. So everything on is what we would consider rock." There was grown-up music and kids music, that was it. Anything that was not Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra, it was rock. All of that music, across the board, we thought of as rock. "Everyone was fixated on having a damn label for everything. "When I joined Deep Purple, I left what was called a harmony group, or a West Coast harmony group, into what became a hard-rock group, a heavy rock group, a heavy metal group," Gillan remembers.
What will surprise many fans is the album's range Hard-rocking tracks such as Cream's "White Room," Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things" or Bob Seger's "Lucifer" - even Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels' "Jenny Take a Ride" - are perfectly in character, but the likes of Huey "Piano" Smith's "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu," Little Feat's "Dixie Chicken," Louis Jordan's brassy "Let the Good Times Roll" and Jimmy Driftwood's "The Battle of New Orleans" are nothing any Purple devotee would expect to hear from the group. Gillan says about 50 songs were considered and ultimately whittled to the final dozen, adding with a chuckle, "I'm very pleased that not one of mine was chosen for the final choice." Including renditions of Love's "7 and 7 Is" and Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well," with videos for both, Turning to Crime comes just 15 months after Deep Purple's most recent studio album, Whoosh! - their quickest turnaround since the mid-70s. It was really a chance for the guys to stretch out a bit after all those months locked up."
I think I wasn't looking at it that way, but the guys were, and I'm so glad they did. So the songs we selected were songs we could Purple-ize. But Deep Purple primarily is an instrumental band. "You can never improve on an original, so it's a challenge. "We had a long discussion about this," Gillan recalls. It did take a little convincing, however.
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