Roger Glover

Roger Glover
Roger Glover performing live with Deep Purple in 2006
Background information
Birth name	Roger David Glover
Born	30 November 1945 (1945-11-30) (age 63) Brecon, Wales
Genres	Hard rock, blues-rock, pop rock, progressive rock, heavy metal, jazz fusion
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, producer
Instruments	Bass, guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, vocals
Years active	1964–present
Associated acts	Episode Six, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Gillan & Glover, Ian Gillan Band
Notable instruments
Rickenbacker 4000 Vigier Excess II Roger Glover Signature Model

Roger David Glover (born 30 November 1945 in Brecon) is a Welsh bassist, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. Glover is best known as the bassist and songwriter for rock band Deep Purple.^[1][2]

Early career

Born near Brecon, Wales, Glover moved with his family to St Helens before settling in London, in the city's South Kensington area, at the age of ten. Around that time, Glover's interests started to shift towards rock music, and by the time he was thirteen, Glover began playing guitar. He later moved to the North London district of Pinner and while at Harrow County School for Boys Glover formed his first band, Madisons, with a group of friends, which later merged together with a rival band to become Episode Six, a band which later featured Glover's future Deep Purple bandmate, vocalist Ian Gillan. The two left Episode Six in 1969 to join Deep Purple.

Deep Purple and solo

After spending four years with Deep Purple, where the band saw their most successful releases in albums Deep Purple in Rock and Machine Head, Glover was dismissed by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and became a record producer for such bands as Judas Priest, Nazareth and Elf. He also released two of his solo albums, Butterfly Ball in 1974 (spinning of a #1 hit in the Netherlands, Love is all, as Roger Glover & Guests), and Elements in 1978, before rejoining his former Deep Purple bandmate, Ritchie Blackmore, in his band Rainbow, where he worked on five of the band's albums. He also performed with David Coverdale in the initial version of his solo band, later to transform into Whitesnake. In 1984 he returned briefly to his solo career, recording his third solo album Mask. During that year, Deep Purple reformed and Glover returned to his old band, where he performs to this day. He has sinced played with Ian Gillan during his brief solo tour in 2006. In 2002 he released his fourth solo album Snapshot under the name Roger Glover & The Guilty Party. The album featured performances from Randall Bramblett (who sang on most songs and co-wrote some of them) as well as Glover's daughter Gillian. A follow-up to Snapshot was announced in 2007. The album, titled Close-Up is set to premiere in 2009/2010.

Personal life

Glover currently resides in the United States with his girlfriend Myriam. Myriam gave birth to a girl, Lucinda, on 27 June 2009.^[3] Glover has been married (and divorced) twice, and has another daughter, musician Gillian Glover (born 1976), from his first marriage.

In 2004, ITV Wales aired a TV special about Roger Glover called "Roger Glover - Made in Wales" (produced by Craig Hooper) which features interviews from fellow musicians Ian Gillan and Ian Paice, as well as Glover's mother, Brenda, and his then-wife Lesley.

Discography

Roger Glover in concert at Big Flats, New York in 2002

With Episode Six

• Put Yourself In My Place (1987)
• BBC Radio 1 Live 1998/1969 (1997)
• The Complete Episode Six (1991)
• Cornflakes and Crazyfoam (2002)
• Love, Hate, Revenge (2005)

Compilation albums of songs recorded between 1964 and 1969

Roger Glover performing in London for the Sunflower Jam, 2007.

With Deep Purple

• Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1969)
• Deep Purple in Rock (1970)
• Fireball (1971)
• Machine Head (1972)
• Made in Japan (1972)
• Who Do We Think We Are (1973)
• Perfect Strangers (1984)
• The House of Blue Light (1987)
• Nobody's Perfect (1988)
• Slaves & Masters (1990)
• The Battle Rages On (1993)
• Come Hell or High Water (1994)
• Purpendicular (1996)
• Live at the Olympia '96 (1997)
• Abandon (1998)
• Total Abandon: Live in Australia (1999)
• Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2000)
• Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy! (2001)
• The Soundboard Series - Australasian Tour 2000/2001 (2001, box set)
• Bananas (2003)
• Rapture of the Deep (2005)
• They All Came Down To Montreux (2007)

With Rainbow

• Down To Earth (1979)
• Difficult to Cure (1981)
• Jealous Lover EP (1981)
• Straight Between the Eyes (1982)
• Bent Out of Shape (1983)
• Finyl Vinyl (1986)

Solo

• The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1974)
• Elements (1978)
• The Mask (1984)
• Accidentally on Purpose (1988, with Ian Gillan)
• Snapshot (2002)
• Close-Up (2009/2010)

As guest musician

• Jon Lord – Gemini Suite (1970)
• Dave Cousins - Two Weeks Last Summer (1972)
• Dan McCafferty – Dan McCafferty (1975)
• Ian Gillan Band – Child In Time (1976)
• Ian Gillan – Naked Thunder (1990)
• Ian Gillan – Cherkazoo and Other Stories ('73/'75 sessions) (1992)
• Gov't Mule – The Deep End, Volume 1 (2001)
• Gov't Mule – The Deepest End, Live In Concert (2003)
• Ian Gillan – Gillan's Inn (2006)

As producer

• Nazareth – Razamanaz (1973)
• Nazareth - Loud 'n' Proud (1974)
• Nazareth - Rampant (1974)
• Strapps – Strapps (1976)
• Rory Gallagher – Calling Card (1976)
• Judas Priest – Sin After Sin (1977)
• David Coverdale - White Snake (1977)
• David Coverdale - Northwinds (1978)
• Rainbow - Down to Earth (1979)
• Michael Schenker Group – The Michael Schenker Group (1980)
• Rainbow - Difficult to Cure (1981)
• Rainbow - Straight Between the Eyes (1982)
• Rainbow - Bent Out of Shape (1982)
• Pretty Maids – Jump the Gun (1990)
• Deep Purple - Slaves and Masters (1990)
• Dream Theater - Made In Japan (live cover of the Deep Purple album) (2006)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Roger Glover

• Roger Glover–the official website
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