Hi Roger,

1. Thanks for keeping the band together -I really think you have been and continue to be the catalyst since the reunion.

2. And now for another boring, train-spotting bass player question: What is it that you have been looking for over the years in your endless quest playing different basses? You’ve played – I’m sure I’m missing a few – Precisions, Mustangs, Rics (I know the producer in you didn’t like the distortion, but man it actually was your signature sound!), T-Birds (a radical change from the Ric as if you tried to consciously de-purplelize your sound with Rainbow), Ovations, Hondos (how much did they pay you?!), Peaveys, Steinbergers (that wasn’t a bass for a grown man!), even a Stingray and of course the Vigier, an excellently made and utterly dependable bass, but do it’s hifi characteristics do the man justice whose bass sound walked all over Machine Head and Made in Japan and took no prisoners?

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Roger,

Greetings. First some quick yada, yada. I’ve been a BIG TIME DP aficionado since 1970. I have also been a Steve Morse fan since shortly after he graduated from the Univ. of Miami and began his stellar career. I listen to a plethora of music covering a wide array of styles. The best of The Neville Brothers is playing on the player as I type to be followed by some Steve Hackett.

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Hi Roger! You’re a great bass player!
I play the bass (a RIC jetglo) in a Deep Purple Tribute Band, and I’m a bit confused about the first section of your solo on Pictures Of Home (the studio one). How did you do this solo? Is it a secret? Is it possible to tab? I know how to do the second section, but the first (the chromatic(?) scale) is almost impossible!!

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Roger, please tell me if you have used a tremolo in the bass solo of Fireball in 1971.

If not which crazy sound is that

Thanks a lot,
all the best
Oswaldo

Hi Roger, long time Purple follower from the seventies to today, now my 12 yr old wants to play bass. His school and a local search can not come up with a bass teacher locally. would it harm him to play standard electric guitar as we have had to buy him one just to get lessons to play. where does he progress to bass?

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