When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
I feel like I'm playing the washboard more than the guitar.
The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.
Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.
We always used to describe ourselves as an instrumental band. Basically, the music was always instrumentally based, so the songs always came later.
No matter what I do, I've always recognized that Deep Purple is primarily an instrumental band. That's where all the music comes from in rehearsals - it all stems from the music.
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.
All she wanted was sax.
The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.
