Legendary Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan

Los Angeles, Calif. One of the true rock gods, Ian Gillan, co-wrote 'Smoke on the Water' , among dozens of other hits and sang the part of Jesus on the original Jesus Christ Superstar album.

[kris turner]

gillians voice is awful now. he could sing 2 yrs ago but its so over
to re do sotw so many times just totry to get publicity is pathetic
he should just hang it up and retire
i cant hear someone croaking over music!!!too annoying

[Sean Stan]

kris turner wrote:

gillians voice is awful now. he could sing 2 yrs ago but its so over
to re do sotw so many times just totry to get publicity is pathetic
he should just hang it up and retire
i cant hear someone croaking over music!!!too annoying

he sounds better then ever, im just glad they pulled the album off the charts. also check out Steve Morse in Deep Purple they are amazing with him!

[rockitmarty]

who is the one that went crazy? I liked highway star and smoke on the water...Are all of the original members together still??? I thought one of them died or went crazy or both

[Sean Stan]

rockitmarty wrote:

who is the one that went crazy? I liked highway star and smoke on the water...Are all of the original members together still??? I thought one of them died or went crazy or both

Ian is crazy but he can sing like hell!

[john monroe]

I like Gillan with Black Sabbath on the "Born Again" album the best but his Deep Purple albums were good also. He sang on "Perfect Strangers" didnt he? It definatly sounds like him. He also had some good Rainbow material also.

[Sean Stan]

john monroe wrote:

I like Gillan with Black Sabbath on the "Born Again" album the best but his Deep Purple albums were good also. He sang on "Perfect Strangers" didnt he? It definatly sounds like him. He also had some good Rainbow material also.

I dont think Ian ever played with Rainbow?? Dio did for a couple years!Born Again is a clssic Sabbath album one of the best. Digital Bitch and Trashed are Classics!

[metalburn]

GILLAN from 1970 to 1973, in my opinion, is the best vocalis of history

[Sean Stan]

He was and still is something special. He was great in Sabbath too

[john monroe]

Your right about Rainbow, I was thinkin of Joe Lynn Turner. My bad

[Sean Stan]

john monroe wrote:

Your right about Rainbow, I was thinkin of Joe Lynn Turner. My bad

cool man,

[Sean Stan]

metalburn wrote:

GILLAN from 1970 to 1973, in my opinion, is the best vocalis of history

sounds good to me

[owen]

Ian Gillan's voice has been in decline since about the mid 80'S,he was as mentioned around 1973/74 awesome,and i would say the best rock singer in history when he was at his best,Gillan's style of vocal at its best was similar to little richard,total screaming but so good,and more
Gillan now sounds totally dreadful,he should allow Glenn Hughes to step in as the frontman of Deep Purple.

[Sean Stan]

owen wrote:

Ian Gillan's voice has been in decline since about the mid 80'S,he was as mentioned around 1973/74 awesome,and i would say the best rock singer in history when he was at his best,Gillan's style of vocal at its best was similar to little richard,total screaming but so good,and more
Gillan now sounds totally dreadful,he should allow Glenn Hughes to step in as the frontman of Deep Purple.

we were talking about his peak in the early 70's not 2009

[kaiser]

Gillan's vocals on 'Disturbing the Priest' which is on the Black Sabbath album 'Born Again' is the best thing I've ever heard from any vocalist ever. What a range!

[Sean Stan]

kaiser wrote:

Gillan's vocals on 'Disturbing the Priest' which is on the Black Sabbath album 'Born Again' is the best thing I've ever heard from any vocalist ever. What a range!

yes and a very underated album. I like Digital Bitch too

[Jett]

Sean Stan wrote:

<quoted text>
yes and a very underated album. I like Digital Bitch too

Sabbath's Born Again with Gillan is probably one of their best,even Ozzy is stated as liking it.
Its been underrated for years because the original mix when in 83 on vinyl,was so bass heavy no thanks to Geezer Butler.
As far as Deep Purple goes as of 2009,would be great to see Glenn Hughes back after all these years and to replace Gillan,maybe like a mark III purple,with Coverdale,then Blackmore and Lord would just come back.
Glenn Hughes recent work is awesome he sounds great the guy is the voice of 70's rock,Gillan vocally sounds awful he has lost his voice.

[Sean Stan]

Jett wrote:

<quoted text> Sabbath's Born Again with Gillan is probably one of their best,even Ozzy is stated as liking it.
Its been underrated for years because the original mix when in 83 on vinyl,was so bass heavy no thanks to Geezer Butler.
As far as Deep Purple goes as of 2009,would be great to see Glenn Hughes back after all these years and to replace Gillan,maybe like a mark III purple,with Coverdale,then Blackmore and Lord would just come back.
Glenn Hughes recent work is awesome he sounds great the guy is the voice of 70's rock,Gillan vocally sounds awful he has lost his voice.

Absolutely, Glenn Hughes is AMAZING!

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

[diabloroyale09]

I love the most Gillan's vocal with Black sabbath on 'Born again' album but he is also awesome in the Deep purple album.