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

Deep Purple Hughes Pick 2

For part one of this pick see yesterday. This continues what I started then. Adding the HUghes Turner Project, collaborations with Gary Moore & Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy). Also that stupid song from that soundtrack with Akroyd and Hanks. It really is dumb. Another Deep Purple track, his guest appearances with Geoff Downes, Pat Travers, John Norum, Quiet Riot, Device, Pat Thrall and even him in super band Black Country Communion. It's quite the collection and has some hard rock, some funk and some "industrial" sounds. I didn't include his production work, but he had a bit of that too.

Deep Purple Hughes 2

15 Hughes Turner Project - Devil's Road

16 Gary Moore & Phil Lynott & Glenn Hughes - Out In The Fields

17 Dan Akroyd, Tom Hanks & Glenn Hughes - City Of Crime

18 Deep Purple - Burn

19 Glenn Hughes - Love Communion

20 John Norum - In Your Eyes

21 Glenn Hughes & Geoff Downes - Double Life

22 Glenn Hughes - I've Got You Under My Skin

23 Device featuring Glenn Hughes - Through It All

24 Pat Travers - Stevie

25 Black Country Communion - One Last Soul

26 Quiet Riot - Evil Woman

27 Glenn Hughes & Pat Thrall - I Got Your Number

Deep Purple Hughes Pick 1

For some reason, when I type Glenn Hughes it always turns out "GlennHUghs" It's just my fingers want it to be that way. I do fix it, but it gets annoying. Hughes was in version 3 and 4 of Deep Purple and this pick has a couple of tracks to reflect those periods. Mostly, Hughes guested everywhere. That is reflected in this family pick. He was in Black Sabbath, but not for long. He was in The Dead Daisies, California Breed and Trapeze. Got a sampling of that on these. Got his guest spots with Night Ranger, Motley Crue, Gov't Mule, KLF, Joe Bonamassa, etc. Tomorrow I even have the stupid soundtrack bit with Dan Akroyd and Tom Hanks.

Deep Purple Hughes 1

01 Night Ranger - (You Can Still) Rock In America

02 Deep Purple - Stormbringer

03 Mötley Crüe - Misunderstood

04 Gov't Mule with Glenn Hughes - No Reward

05 Glenn Hughes - Soul Mover

06 California Breed - Midnight Oil

07 Glenn Hughes - I Got It Covered

08 Trapeze - Black Cloud

09 Roger Glover with Glenn Hughes - Get Ready

10 The Klf - America What Time Is Love

11 Black Sabbath - No Stranger To Love

12 Phenomena - Did It All For Love

13 The Dead Daisies - Unspoken

14 Joe Bonamassa featuring Glenn Hughes - Heartbreaker

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

Deep Purple Glover Pick

Here's a more extended Deep dive into Roger Glover on this pick. You'll notice a lot more Deep Purple songs. Some that are not on my Deep Purple Picks, some with different versions. Because he was with the band for so long he had less guest spots. I did include a sampling of his time in Rainbow and his solo albums. Much was also done with Ian Gillan. They kind of came in to Deep Purple together and seem to hang after together. So there are a few tracks with him on here. But also some tracks with Glenn Hughes and Ronnie James Dio. His family pick is just a bit more sparse than say Hughes, who will be coming up soon.

Deep Purple Glover

01 Deep Purple - Maybe I'm a Leo

02 Gillan & Glover - Lonely Avenue

03 Deep Purple - Speed King (Full Length U.K. Version)

04 Deep Purple - The Battle Rages On

05 Glover & Gillan - She Took My Breath Away

06 Roger Glover - The Mask

07 Roger Glover with Dio - Love Is All

08 Rainbow - Stone Cold

09 Rainbow - Street Of Dreams

10 Rainbow - Since You Been Gone

11 Roger Glover with Glenn Hughes - Get Ready

12 Deep Purple - Call Of The Wild

13 Deep Purple - Strange Kind Of Woman

14 Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo

15 Rainbow - I Surrender

16 Gillan & Glover - Telephone Box

17 Deep Purple - First Sign Of Madness

18 Deep Purple - Fire, Ice & Dynamite

International DJ (iDJ) Essential Basslines 4

This is the last of the series. International DJ (iDJ) magazine picked their Essential Basslines in print, but left it to me to compile this as a four CD set and this is the last of them all. Go back the last couple of posts and you will be able to get them all. Enjoy this at your next party or event. They really have a good pick of basslines. BTW, the cover is just from the magazine logo

International DJ (iDJ) Essential Basslines 4

41 Unique 3 - The Theme (Electro Remix)

42 DJ Zinc - 138 Trek

43 New Order - Blue Monday

44 Nalin And Kane - Beachball (Original Club Mix)

45 Leftfield - Phat Planet

46 Mighty Dub Katz - Magic Carpet Ride

47 SL2 - On a Ragga Tip

48 Unique 3 - The Theme (Unique mix)

49 Alex Reece - Pulp Fiction

50 Ganja Kru - Super Sharp Shooter

51 Roni Size Reprazent - Brown Paper Bag

52 LFO - LFO (The Leeds Warehouse mix)

53 Jungle Brothers - Jungle Brother

International DJ (iDJ) Essential Basslines 3

Some boring write ups of this pick by International DJ (iDJ) of Essential Basslines. They came up with the list. I just compiled it to CD and now playlist. So enjoy having these available as you do a dance or club set.  Nothing else to say since I didn't come up with the pick, I just took their's in the magazine and put it together for your convenience. Hard to wrong with these, however.

International DJ (iDJ) Essential Basslines 3

28 Donna Summer - I Feel Love

29 Adonis - No Way Back (Vocal)

30 Plump DJ`s - Electric Disco (D Ramirez Remix)

31 Roger Sanchez - Lost (D Ramirez Remix)

32 187 Lockdown - Gunman

33 Double 99 - RIP Groove

34 Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix)

35 Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat (Original Track)

36 Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage Mix)

37 Mr Oizo vs Daft Punk - Flat Beat remix

38 M.A.N.D.Y. vs Booka Shade - Body Language

39 Laurent Garnier - Crispy Bacon (Original mix)

40 Tiga - Pleasure From The Bass

International DJ (iDJ) Essential Basslines 2

Part two of the International DJ Essential Basslines pick. iDJ always had decent reviews and fun articles, but especially they had some interesting compilations that they put out on CD with the magazine, but they never put this one out except for in print. So here you go volume two of their bass songs and remixes. Not much else to say with these, since I didn't pick them, they did, but they did a decent job. This continues the BPM sorted list.

International DJ (iDJ) Essential Basslines 2

15 Jungle Brothers - Jungle Brother (Urban Takeover Mix)

16 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

17 Joey Beltram - Energy Flash

18 Orbital - Chime

19 Daft Punk - Around The World

20 Lindstrom - I Feel Space

21 Bugz in the Attic - Booty la la

22 Sandy B - Make the World Go Round (Deep Dish Round the World remix)

23 White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

24 Justice - Waters Of Nazareth

25 Kings of Tomorrow featuring Julie Mcknight - Finally

26 Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions

27 Solid Groove - This is Sick (Original mix)

International DJ (iDJ) Essential Basslines 1

Used to like iDJ (or International DJ) magazine. Came with a CD and some good reviews of new and old songs and remixes working in clubs and festivals around the world. When they published their pick of essential basslines, but didn't release a comp of it, I figured I should make sure I had them available every time I did a set. So I put them in to a four CD set, all in mixable BPM order. So here is volume one of the set. Welcome to the New Year!

International DJ (iDJ) Essential Basslines 1

01 Zed Bias - Neighbourhood (Zed Bias 2K vocal Mix)

02 Pendulum featuring the Freestylers - Fasten Your Seatbelt

03 Red Snapper - Hot Flush (Sabres of Paradise remix)

04 King Bee - Back by Dope Demand

05 The All Seeing I - Beat Goes On

06 Ed Rush, Optical & Fierce - Cutslo (Lokuste Mix)

07 Grandmaster Melle Mel - White Lines

08 Azzido da Bass - Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix)

09 Metisse - Sousounde  (Freq Nasty &  Blim Edit)

10 ILS - Next Level

11 Dead Prez - It's Bigger than Hip-Hop (Real version)

12 Newcleus - Jam On Revenge

13 Chic - Good Times

14 Mr. Fingers - Can You Feel it (Original 12 mix)

All About That Bass

Let me first say, that I like the bass. I play the bass (poorly). And songs that feature the bass are all over the place. What would any song in rock be without the bass? So here are a few of my picks for great bass parts in songs. My playlist. You will have different picks, that's ok, It's good in fact. I want to know what your pick would be. leave your suggestions in the comments below. One the tracks is the one I use to setup my DJ equipment to check the bass. Guess which one... And sorry the Meghan Trainor song All About That Bass is not on this list. I know it should be since I knicked the name for the title. But it isn't.

All About That Bass

01 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away

02 The Cure - The Love Cats

03 Who - My Generation

04 Led Zeppelin - Ramble On

05 Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side

06 James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine, Pt. 1

07 Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

08 Beatles - Rain

09 Kool & The Gang - Hollywood Swinging

10 Chic - Good Times

11 Paris - Break The Grip Of Shame

12 Steely Dan - Josie

13 Pink Floyd - Money

14 Primus - Tommy the Cat

15 Stranglers - Peaches

16 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

17 Yes - The Fish (Shindleria Praematurus)

18 Graham Central Station - Hair