The Javelins was Ian Gillan's first band
In an interview with Kaaos TV , Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan spoke about his plans.
“I have about five projects in mind. I have about 30 songs that have never been recorded. I don’t know which one will end up coming to life, but there’s a project we just recorded in Hamburg. I recorded a new album with my first band, The Javelins , from 1962, and we finished recording the material from that time, and it will be released in August. The guys in the band, most of them did occasional gigs and practiced, but most of them hadn’t played progressive rock for 50 years or more – 55, 56 years.”
I prepared the material with Steve Morris , my old partner from Liverpool – not Steve Morse , Steve Morris – and we sent the tapes, 16 songs, to each of the guys, and I said, 'Okay, rehearse like crazy for six weeks.' We met at the studio in Hamburg and recorded 10 songs on the first day, and the 16 were recorded in two days, and then the solos, and then we made a video, and that was it. It was unbelievable, and I was listening to the mixes before we added the backing vocals, the girls, the horn section, because a lot of those old songs, like The Coasters and Ray Charles , had horn sections, so we're doing it authentically, expanding the band. But, you know, because they haven't played professionally for 50 years, they haven't evolved at all – they've kept playing in the style they were in 1962, and consequently, when I'm listening, I think, 'My God! This is so authentic. It sounds exactly like it did back then.' "These aren't today's musicians trying to do a retro version of those songs. […] I'm very excited about it, of course, we're all in our 70s and we're like a bunch of schoolboys in the studio. We had a reunion a few years ago – at Christmas, we all went on a boat down the River Thames and had a fantastic evening. And it was great – the old banter was still there, the jokes and the sense of humor. And it was wonderful – simply wonderful.”
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