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From the U.S. press:

"Bands stoop to desperate measures when they lose singers
By JIM FARBER
Knight Ridder Tribune
When bands lose a musician, it's like losing an arm.
But when a singer departs — either because he or she stormed off in a huff, got thrown out, or, in the worst-case scenario, shook off this mortal coil — it's like losing a head.
Prosthetics can give you a new arm. But how many head transplants have you heard about lately?
Such a daunting task hasn't stopped lots of big-name bands from trying to pull off this ultimate makeover. Currently, Queen, the Doors, INXS and Big Brother are each touring with a replacement singer or auditioning for one.
Those last two bands are getting help from the most up-to-date method possible: reality-show auditions.
Similar attempts to fill the void have met with mixed results over the years. Here's a look at how past and present groups have managed without their most public faces:

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DEEP PURPLE
A host of singers have fronted this long-running metal touchstone. But Ian Gillan remains the great one — by divine right (he played the son of God in the original "Jesus Christ Superstar"). When he left in 1974, they hired the thoroughly awful David Coverdale to mimic him. Coverdale later impersonated Robert Plant in the atrocious Whitesnake, inspiring the Led Zeppelin singer to dub him "David Cover Version," a term that may offer the last word on singer substitutes".

Although I literally adore Ian Gillan this journo sounds like a moron to me. David Coverdale is not awful, he’s never tried to mimic Gillan and Whitesnake are not atrocious. I’m afraid he’s never listened to anything other than Smoke on the water and the JCS soundtrack (mistaking Neeley for Ian…).

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Everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but it does sound like he's relied on common fallacies regarding Coverdale's ability and persona, rather than actually listening to the stuff properly and making up his own mind.

Sounds as if he thinks Whitesnake were formed in 1987 too.



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Sounds as if he thinks Whitesnake were formed in 1987 too.





Thats Americans for you, if it doesn't happen over there it hasn't happened yet.

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That Plant quote is so typical for him. He probably concerns himself 'the unique singer', who influenced everyone from Elvis Presley to Charlie Chaplin.

The man obviously has a serious ego problem. I know no other rock star to bash other musicians on a so regular basis. I guess it's those post-Zeppelin albums he made, which nobody listened to more than once.
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That Plant quote is so typical for him. He probably concerns himself 'the unique singer', who influenced everyone from Elvis Presley to Charlie Chaplin.

The man obviously has a serious ego problem. I know no other rock star to bash other musicians on a so regular basis. I guess it's those post-Zeppelin albums he made, which nobody listened to more than once.



Yes, he's always come across as an arrogant sod.



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Yeah Coverdale is quite modest as well.
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Buffy1982 wrote:

a)...this journo sounds like a moron to me.

b) David Coverdale is not awful, he’s never tried to mimic Gillan

c) Whitesnake are not atrocious.

d) I’m afraid he’s never listened to anything other than Smoke on the water and the JCS soundtrack (mistaking Neeley for Ian…).






a) Now, now...don't go insulting the actual morons in the world who aren't morons by choice. emoticon

b) Debatable - though I fall on the "non-awful" side of the coin. Believe me, Coverdale faced - and won over - a highly skeptical Deep Purple fanbase in 1974. The guy had a daunting task ahead of him, and he won the doubters over. It certainly wasn't 100% smooth sailing, by any means.
  As for having a replacement "mimic" Ian Gillan, the only replacement player in Deep Purple whom ever tried to do that - vocally-wise - was Glenn Hughes...but this observation on the part of the jounalist might show that they may have actually heard a MkIII live gig or two...and still couldn't tell there were two people vocalizing for Deep Purple at that time! emoticon

c) Again - debatable. Whitesnake were one of the fimest rock bands from 1977/78 to 1984 or so.

d) I don't understand this...it's one of the few things the jounalist for this article apparently got right! Ian Gillan was the vocalist for the role of Jesus on the "original 'Jesus Christ Superstar'". The movie role and movie soundtrack recording was Ted Neely.

 As just an observation, the parallels between both Plant's + Coverdale's careers - at least their beginnings - are remarkably similar. And I gotta admit, the play on Coverdale's name, "David Coverversion" was hilarious, if not entirely accurate. emoticon

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 emoticon Yeah I was only joking. Since the soundtrack seems to be more popular than the original version I assumed thay guy listened to the soundtrack mistaking it for the original version, just as he has probably mistaken Hughes for Coverdale.
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I think that Plant's solo stuff was fairly popular. His only problem is that he doesn't shut up when he really should.

As for what this guy wrote, I think that he is fairly close to what many people think. The singer is the most recognizable person in the band from a sound standpoint. Think of the first time you heard 'Down To Earth' and you will get my point. GB wasn't a bad replacement, actually.

Other than the date of Gillan's departure, I think that he was pretty accurate.
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quote:

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a) As for what this guy wrote, I think that he is fairly close to what many people think.

b) The singer is the most recognizable person in the band from a sound standpoint.






a) I just read Farber's entire article, and the feeling I got was that he's simply opposed to a band replacing the most recognized and/or original vocalist at all, for any reason. Which is fine, if that's his opinion. I just disagree with it, on the whole.
   I got the feeling that one of the main points of his article was to emphasize the times that replacing the vocalist didn't work out...and I disagree with some his examples of that, too! If I'm correct in ascertaining the intent behind Farber's article, then I suppose it wouldn't make sense, from his standpoint, to point out the times that the replacing was successful (see a partial list below). What did surprise me was the omission of what I considered one of the more disastrous replacement vocalist situations in the history of rock music. I refer, of course of course, to Yes replacing Jon Anderson with Trevor Horn. emoticon

Partial List of Successful Vocalist Replacements (in my non-humble opinion, of course of course emoticon ) :

Uriah Heep - David Byron to John Lawton
Deep Purple - Ian Gillan to David Coverdale
Rainbow - Ronnie Dio to Graham Bonnet
Black Sabbath - Ozzy Osbourne to Ronnis Dio to Ian Gillan
AC/DC - Bon Scott to Brian Johnston
Bad Co. - Paul Rodgers to Brian Howe
Doors - Jim Morrison to Ian Astbury
R.E.O. Speedwagon - Terry Luttrell to Kevin Cronin to Mike Murphy to Kevin Cronin
Van Halen - David Lee Roth to Sammy Hagar
Iron Maiden - Paul Di'Anno to Bruce Dickinson
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Ronnie to Johnny VanZant
King Crimson - Mike + Peter Giles to Greg Lake to Gordon Haskell to Boz Burrell to John Wetton
Moody Blues - Denny Laine + Clint Warwick to Justin Hayward + John Lodge


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