Roger Glover - The Mask

[Zzzptm]

Yes, it's very very very very VERY 80s. It sounds more like a Police album than a Deep Purple outing, that's for certain. Even so, like Ian Anderson's Walk into Light, it's a guilty little pleasure of mine. I'm playing it now and, probably because it's been a LONG time since I last gave it a spin, there's a freshness to it that I find quite welcome.

Why did I decide to go with it? Well, I'm typing up documentation for a customer and I keep using the word 'recommended'. I used to always misspell that word until I was reading the lyrics to one of the songs on this album, "Dancin' Again" and that word was in the song. Just seeing it there burned in my head, so every time I spell 'recommended', that tiny part of the song pops up in my head as I see the lyrics sheet in my mind's eye. The more I type that word, the more I wanted to go back and hear that song again.

Now that I'm listening to it, it's quite interesting how pop both the drums and keys sound on the album, no wonder Rainbow on its last outing was so very pop, as well.

But, yes, I do love it. It's a comfortable memory that I'm glad to be visiting and catching up with right now.

[Jack the Stripper]

That certainly is a guilty pleasure Z. Unusual route for Glover to go down too given the DP MK2 reunion was in full swing at that time. The only reason I listened to it was that Martin Popoff has a podcast I regularly listen to called History in Five Songs and this week’s episode was Shocked by Synths.

Probably a good thread topic actually. Our music guilty pleasures?

[Zzzptm]

Oh absolutely. I've got a soft spot for more than one album that's been critically panned.

[Scott]

That certainly is a guilty pleasure Z. Unusual route for Glover to go down too given the DP MK2 reunion was in full swing at that time. The only reason I listened to it was that Martin Popoff has a podcast I regularly listen to called History in Five Songs and this week’s episode was Shocked by Synths.

Probably a good thread topic actually. Our music guilty pleasures?

True, very unusual direction to take but he might have deliberately chosen to do something as different from MK2 DP as possible.

[Zzzptm]

True. No way was Jon Lord going to synth things up *that* much! True, he when synth-crazy on "A Gypsy's Kiss", but he made sure the Hammond was front and center on "Perfect Strangers".