Hi Roger
Who have been your Bass player role models, past and present?

Hi Rog,
thanks for answering my previous 11 questions! :o)
I’ve come up with one more: do you guys listen to each other’s solo albums? Has there ever been a moment when one of you said: “Gosh, what a brilliant idea, it should have been saved for Purple!”?
Good luck and see you somewhere on tour!! 🙂
Marcin Zalewski

those female backing vocals on butterfly ball!! Stunning.

Who arranged them?

dave

Hi Roger
I want to thank you for all these years of great tunes. I was wondering if you enjoyed your experience with Govt Mule? I think they are one of the best bands around. Warren Haynes is a monster in a classic rock sense.

Maybe I’m a Leo is probably my favorite Purple riff. I’m curious as to just where that riff came from. I’m guessing you wrote it…, it just sounds like a riff a bass player would come up with. It’s downright “funky”. I spent most of today working out the bulk of that song. It’s amazing just how many variations there are on that one basic musical idea.

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