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musiklänk från våra vänner på Playground Music.
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klart att ikonerna Ian Gillan (Deep Purple)
och Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath).
Killarna har gått samman och engagerat sig i ett
välgörenhetsprojekt och under parollen ”Who Cares”,
släppte de ett dubbel-album förra veckan.
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Ian Gillan & Tony Iommi: WhoCares RELEASE: 2012-07-16 to release a full album of new music, classics and rarities on earMUSIC. Great music… for a good cause.
Deep Purple´s Ian Gillan and Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) took everybody by surprise in 2011 by releasing a charity single: “Out Of My Mind”, renewing the collaboration that led the pair recording an album in 1984 “Born Again” under the moniker Black Sabbath. For the occasion, the two rock legends called a few friends, asking for some “help”. None other than Jason Newsted, Jon Lord and Nicko McBrain completed the supergroup.
The single was a joyful and inspired moment. The spark to bring Iommi and Gillan in a studio, together again was to finance the rebuilding of a music school in Armenia they had visited together on various occasions in past years.
Far from being a spectacular charity project, WhoCares was a nice gesture, done with class, from two musicians with nothing to prove, willing to support music, where music is considered a luxury.
“As I said once in the song Razzle Dazzle (DP album, Bananas)… …’it’s a real fine line between an orgy of destruction and a wonderful time’… The destruction of conformity in this case: Some of these pieces never really fitted into their contemporary program and got side-lined or forgotten, and some of the album tracks never had much exposure. As the track-listing for this album came together I noticed many of the titles had character similarities; a combination of freshness as they finally felt the sun on their backs and rebellion in a ‘yeah told you so’ kind of way.
And that adds up to a wonderful time. And that adds up to more money for the music school we are building in Armenia.
And what about WhoCares… this ad hoc benefit band put together by Tony Iommi and myself on a flight home from Yerevan, where we’d been deeply humbled by the honours and expectations bestowed upon us. Well that’s it really, in a nutshell, so to speak, what more can I say; it’s all there in the music.”
Ian Gillan 2012
The album turned out to be more than just a compilation of great songs and is definitely worth the wait.
Please check the tracklisting which speaks for itself:
CD1
1. WhoCares “Out Of My Mind” (fi rst time on an album) Featuring Jon Lord, Linde Lindström (HIM), Jason Newsted (Metallica), Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden) 2. Black Sababth “Zero The Hero”
3. Ian Gillan feat. Iommi, Ian Paice and Roger Glover “Trashed”
4. M. Ratzinkis feat. Ian Gillan “Get Away” (fi rst release on a Gillan album, only released in Greece before) 5. Tony Iommi feat G.Hughes “Slip Away” (fi rst time on CD) 6. Gillan “Don’t Hold Me Back”
7. Ian Gillan “She Thinks It’s A Crime” (vinyl single B-side, fi rst time on CD) 8. Repo Depo feat. Ian Gillan “Easy Come, Easy Go” (previously unreleased) 9. Deep Purple feat.Ronnie James Dio “Smoke On The Water” (live with the Royal Philaarmonic Orchestra)
CD2
1. WhoCares “Holy Water” (fi rst time on an album) Featuring Jon Lord, Linde Lindström (HIM), Jason Newsted (Metallica), Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden) 2. Black Sabbath “Anno Mundi”
3. Tony Iommi feat. G. Hughes “Let it Down Easy” (fi rst time on CD) 4. Ian Gillan “Hole in My Vest” (7“ vinyl single B-side, fi rst time on CD) 5. Gillan & Glover feat. Dr.John “Can’t Believe You Wanna Leave me”
6. Ian Gillan & The Javelins “Can I Get A Witness”
7. Garth Rockett & The Moonshiners aka IG “No Laughing in Heaven” (rare track) 8. Ian Gillan “When A Blind Man Cries” (Live at Absolute Radio, previously unreleased) 9. Deep Purple “Dick Pimple” (previously unreleased studio recording)
Classic songs and a lot of rarities and unreleased material in 2CDs of fantastic rare music.
This is much more than a Gillan solo album or a Deep Purple anthology – this is a real collector’s item and must have for every Ian Gillan and Tony Iommi fan.
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