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Desperateheart wrote:

Still on Gillan,

Drummer

on the Edinburgh dvd, McCoy says Ian Paice auditioned for them before Mick Underwood. Not something I was aware of before.

Finances

On the money issue, Phil Banfield on the Gillan ‘HS/Career retrospective’ Dvd claims the band always got paid, and challenges the former members to provide evidence otherwise.
It seems to me the Gillan band members weren’t aware that IG himself was not that well off around that period, despite his history. Hence having to join BS for a year to make some money after the DP reunion floundered in 1982.
His career choices were therefore founded on the belief that at some point DP would get back together, and he’d be ok financially from then on, hence pushing so hard for it.

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