Deep Purple Simper Pick

This will be the last of the Deep Purple deep dive into their bassists. This pick is concentrated around Nick Simper from version one of the band. Just three studio albums, but what albums they are! Simper played with Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, but really only appeared on one track (which is here) before Kidd died. Although he played in a tribute to Kidd for a little while. . Besides Deep Purple, he was in Warhorse, Johnny Simper's Fandango (not the other bands named Fandango) and Quatermass II. I always want to add an extra "r" in the latter band name, but it does not belong. He was also in some other bands, but not on any recordings that I could find, so I don't include them. This was enough.

Deep Purple Simper

01 Warhorse - St. Louis

02 Deep Purple - April

03 Deep Purple - River Deep, Mountain High

04 Warhorse - Back In Time

05 Warhorse - Vulture Blood

06 Deep Purple - Hush

07 Deep Purple - Mandrake Root

08 Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Send For That Girl

09 Nick Simper's Fandango - Candice Larene

10 Nick Simper's Fandango - Just Another Day

11 Nick Simper's Fandango - Rocky Road Blues

12 Nick Simper's Fandango - Slipstreaming

13 War Horse - Ritual

14 Quatermass II - River

Purple Bass Family

About a week ago, I posted the Pick that I called Purple Guitar Family and posted it on the Butterboy site as well as in his My Compilations section. But today it's here: the Purple Bass Family Pick. The Guitar one followed the guitarists from Deep Purple and this one follows the Bassists. Their family pick. Recap is simple Nick Simper, Roger Glover, Glenn Hughes all were in different bands, did solo work and guest spots. This samples some of that. Now to be really clear, I am going to follow this up with a deeper dive of each. This one starts each bassist with a Deep Purple track from each version of Deep Purple. Five tracks and then eight tracks. So you know where each begins. Simper was on the first few albums, Glover was on more, but at least a few were after some time off, and Hughes was during his time off. You'll figure it out.

Purple Bass Family

01 Deep Purple - Hush

02 Warhorse - St. Louis

03 Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Send For That Girl

04 Nick Simper's Fandango - Candice Larene

05 Quatermass II - River

06 Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo

07 Roger Glover with Dio - Love Is All

08 Rainbow - Since You Been Gone

09 Roger Glover with Glenn Hughes - Get Ready

10 Rainbow - I Surrender

11 Deep Purple - Burn

12 California Breed - Midnight Oil

13 Glenn Hughes - Love Communion

14 Trapeze - Black Cloud

15 Black Sabbath - No Stranger To Love

16 Phenomena - Did It All For Love

17 The Dead Daisies - Unspoken

18 Black Country Communion - One Last Soul