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I think, that Roger Glover had a main role in the writing process. He mimself said, that he composed a lot of "In Rock". And it must have had a reason, why Blackmore recruited him for Rainbow to be more succesful.



I've always thought that Roger and Blackers were the top dogs in DP. Still, I consider the whole process like an assembly line. Roger and Blackers would come up with some ideas and develop them and then the others would get together with them and they would come up with a decent DP tune. I can't see Blackers writing JL's parts and I think Glover and Gillan got the lyrics together. I'm sure that Paice had more to say than what we think. He was going to be the driving force, along with Glover, to get the tempo right and make sure that it was good fit for DP. I do think that they all deserve the credit for the MKIIa tunes. MKIIb and c, not so much.

Either way, I'm enjoying this conversation while relaxing with a dram of Laphroaig 10. It's a wonderful way to finish the day after a long evening at work. emoticon

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Let me clarify one thing, particularly after reading Concrete God's comment: one thing is to perform on a record, another to write the songs. There are two distinct levels of royalties in the music industry, one regarding who actually played on each song, and another related to who wrote the song. Let me make an obvious case: when DP covered the Beatles, JL did add his special touches and Ian Paice did show his unique style, still the song remained credited on DP's album only to Lennon/McCartney. Likewise, just think of the session guys who play on tons of records; if they received writing credits for interpreting a song in their unique way, the very same uinque way that got them the job, they would be the richest people on Earth - yet, they do not, of course.

Having said that, what is confusing to many is that DP shared writing credits equally from 68 to 76, and some assume that therefore all contributed equally. It is not like that, to the point that one of the conditions that Ritchie set when re-uniting in 84, was that members should only get writing credits for the songs they actually helped to write - and on Perfect Strangers, by pure coincidence, the tracks where Lord and Paice appear are a grand total of 2. Why did they initially split 5-way? Because it would have meant that the writers in the band would have been paid twice the money of the non-writers, and it would have created a lot of arguments between band members who were, at the time, roughly on equal terms in terms of popularity. At the time of the reunion, this had all changed and neither JL nor IP had the power to keep that anymore.
Now, if we accept that 3 people wrote the bulk of it, then, given their roles, it is safe to assume that Ritchie's role was dominant in the music, Ian's in the lyrics and vocal melodies and Roger helped both out and refined ideas.

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The songs were credited to, not written by.



This is important to remember. The fact that all MK II songs from IR to WDWTWA were credited to B,G,G,L,P it does not mean that they were written by them.



So you mean Blackmore wrote the lyrics..? And that Glover didn't come up with riffs and ideas to Speed King and Smoke just to mention a few?
That Lord didn't have this special touch in the music that made it .. deep purple?
That Paice don't have his own unique sound to make him The Purple drummer?
That really it was a one man show..?



But who on earth said any of the above? The vast majority of the songs in MK II were written by Blackmore, Gillan and Glover, a fact recognised in many interviews by JL.
Where have I ever said that DP was a one man show?






Clearly so. JL cannot be given writing credit for sounding like JL. And the same with IP, he can only sound like IP on the drums because that is who he is.
To claim that they were in any part responsible for writing a song because they played on it is not correct.
It was my understanding also that the lyrics were shared between IG and RG.



I disagree. The five of them were together in a room working/ building/ writing the songs. The main idea might have come from one or the other, but they were all involved in the writing process.

It's not like one member went into his own studio and composed the song from a to z and then present it to the group (like Pete Townshend would do).

It was often taken from jams involving most/all members.Therefor it think it's right that all 5 were credited as writers.




What I meant. Thanks PT.

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Just writing songs from jams has lead to the music that DP create now, where every song just sounds like part of a jam.



You mean Son of Alerik or Cosmic Jazz? emoticon

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Son of Alerik is a wonderful tune, with a guitar sound and playing I can only admire.
But then again, neither one of them was meant for publication, actually SOA apparently was played just because a film crew was doing either a documentary or recording the video to PS, and needed to film them as they played something...which means that there COULD be a video version of that song.
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Some own the name name Deep Purple and I'm guessing it's IG, IP, RG and JL estate (maybe Thames Talent too). And they have the right to use the name. Those rights can however be bought. Worst example is southern rock band Molly Hatchet who continues to record and tour without any of the original members of the first five studio albums. Current leader of the band bought the name from old management.
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Just writing songs from jams has lead to the music that DP create now, where every song just sounds like part of a jam.



You mean Son of Alerik or Cosmic Jazz? emoticon



Yes, they are just jams, they are not songs.
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Just writing songs from jams has lead to the music that DP create now, where every song just sounds like part of a jam.



You mean Son of Alerik or Cosmic Jazz? emoticon



Yes, they are just jams, they are not songs.



But shows dp have always made some of their songs out of jams, so nothing new there exactly.


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Just writing songs from jams has lead to the music that DP create now, where every song just sounds like part of a jam.



You mean Son of Alerik or Cosmic Jazz? emoticon



Yes, they are just jams, they are not songs.



But shows dp have always made some of their songs out of jams, so nothing new there exactly.



At the time of PS everyone brought in their own ideas. JL said in interviews he didn't push his ideas because they were not as strong as RB. So they all brought ideas to the table and tried to work around them, now they don't bring anything in, start from scratch every time. The only way to "jam" is at the same pace every time which is why all of the songs these days are at the same plodding pace.
Genesis are another band who went that way and they suffered with everything sounding the same.
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At the time of PS everyone brought in their own ideas. JL said in interviews he didn't push his ideas because they were not as strong as RB. So they all brought ideas to the table and tried to work around them, now they don't bring anything in, start from scratch every time. The only way to "jam" is at the same pace every time which is why all of the songs these days are at the same plodding pace.
Genesis are another band who went that way and they suffered with everything sounding the same.



Everyone might have brought something to the PS sessions, but we don't know how much of it they used. What we do know is that they did hours of jamming every day and some of those jams eventually turned into songs that ended up on the album. Alerik is just one of those jams that got released later, but there are hours and hours of this stuff.
Jamming has always been an important part of the songwriting process for Purple (and Rainbow)
 
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At the time of PS everyone brought in their own ideas. JL said in interviews he didn't push his ideas because they were not as strong as RB. So they all brought ideas to the table and tried to work around them, now they don't bring anything in, start from scratch every time. The only way to "jam" is at the same pace every time which is why all of the songs these days are at the same plodding pace.
Genesis are another band who went that way and they suffered with everything sounding the same.



Everyone might have brought something to the PS sessions, but we don't know how much of it they used. What we do know is that they did hours of jamming every day and some of those jams eventually turned into songs that ended up on the album. Alerik is just one of those jams that got released later, but there are hours and hours of this stuff.
Jamming has always been an important part of the songwriting process for Purple (and Rainbow)
 



I've heard quite a few of the PS jams now.... It seems to be mostly RB riffing away for ages.... As per the basement footage on the Sydney dvd
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