Keith Richards did really hit me though, the sound of the guitar on The Last Time, Satisfaction or 19th Nervous Breakdown really blew me away. I loved the riffy stuff like Day Tripper and Ticket To Ride. I loved The Beatles, the songs definitely, but the guitar playing and sounds didn’t really hit me all that much, more John Lennon’s voice, though. I think generally it was the Rolling Stones followed by The Yardbirds with Jeff Beck if anything. When you were young was there a defining moment when you said to yourself “That’s what I’m gonna do” was it seeing a band play live, hearing or watching maybe The Beatles?‘Thats a good question! Not sure there was ever a single defining moment though. I don’t need to worry about that because mine fucked up long ago!’ Obviously now I’m a lot older and much stupider and not trying to go mad all the time like the old days, just trying to stay alive through the mayhem, so that’s different!Īlso with Gillan we never did a run of more than 4 dates, Ian’s voice used to fuck up.
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Ian was a legend but it was a low point in his career and when the Gillan band took off it became a bit difficult for all of us to handle.
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‘Its pretty much like the first Gillan tour dates I did to be honest, before we became famous and it all went bang and different, those were probably the best times for the band in truth! Marquee and Birmingham Barbarellas and all that. Ahead of his Dublin Cowboy UK tour, Bernie Torme broke off rehearsals to talk about his forthcoming eight date tour…. You never can tell’.īernie Torme is best known for playing guitar in Gillan, with the former Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan.
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‘Creative process for me is always different, some are instant, some are like pulling teeth and it goes on for years, literally.