Hey everybody welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the singing.
I'm continuing a series, the series is called Replacement Singers-Who Did it Better. Next
up is Deep Purple. Of course it's Ian Gillen, we've got David Coverdale, we've got Glenn Hughes and
I know I've done a few things on them but I've never quite juxtaposed them in this kind of way
and I think it's important since these are some of the greatest rock singers in all of rock history
and certainly Deep Purple was known, as did Rainbow and other various forms of Richie Blackmore, had a
lot of singer changes, member changes in the band so I just want to dive right in. Before I forget
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the proof is in the singing. So let's dive right in. Of course we're going to do it chromatically
or in, in chronologically not chromatically and first singer up is Ian Gillan. Here we go.
Cool. Now some of that was a little pitchy, some of the high notes were a little pitchy, that end
was a little pitchy but it's still Ian Gillen and he still has his thing that's just amazing
and he invented it too like he kind of wrote the book on sort of this stuff really early on.
I'm not certain and I don't even remember exactly where this performance was but I think this was
kind of more of his comeback when he had stopped drinking because I know he had a horrible drinking
problem, drug problem whatever and so you know his performances weren't so hot early on I mean
you can look at "Child In Time" and stuff and you know you can decide on on your on how you
think he performed. This particular performance is a really good one, he did a good job he looks
clean, he looks clear, he's got good energy and I like the performance. Now I did a version of this
I'm going to put it in the description you could see how I did. I did a version of "Child In Time".
I'll put that in the description you can see how I did. I did "Perfect Strangers" I'll put that
in the description you can see how I did so, and I did "Mistreated" I did, you know I've done quite a few
Deep Purple-ishy kinds of things so I'll put all of that in the description. You can tell me hey
Ken you suck, Ken you were great whatever. How did I stack up to Ian Gillen so but
I want to back this up a little bit, go through some of these screams and stuff.
Now have good tone but it's (sings) it's (sings) right.
So he's a little sharp on the sound.
Pretty good.
Sounds good.
Now obviously he's pointing to his ear so he can't hear himself
and that's important because he's still doing this great without being able to hear himself that's,
that's an important thing to note because it means you have inner ear balance and you're able to kind
of still be professional enough to work through something even though you can't hear yourself.
Now it is true too most singers think they can't hear themselves because they got Richie Blackmore
blasted in one ear and you know whoever else is in the band at the time blasting in another so.
Sounds good though.
Spot on.
Okay so we're moving on to David Coverdale. Now David Coverdale has
much more of a bluesy of a (sings) he's (sounds) so
he's really kind of you know marble mouthy in his sound at least back there. Later on he
realized that that cost him range so he brought more mask into the sound but here he doesn't so
check out my version of "Mistreated" you'll see what I'm talking about because I actually open it up
into the face a lot more than he does, but let's back it up a little bit and I, by the way I also
tried to get some, even though Ian Gillen was the one that was known kind of for this song obviously,
I thought it was important to again look at and let's remember I mean he came from Jesus
Christ Superstar, he already had kind of a, you know quite of a career going, going, joining the
band so he came with, with professionalism already when Coverdale joined the band he was really green and
really new so Coverdale just stepped right into the shoes of Ian Gillen. Pretty tough to do
that okay, pretty tough to, in fact I even heard too on one interview where Coverdale said when
he did "Mistreated" he did it the first night did it a few times or whatever he said it was awful
he went home and he cried, literally cried that night and then he came back the next night and
actually did it and stuck it and nailed it. So that's all really interesting because even at
this level these guys you know still have to work and fight for it okay so here we go.
It doesn't hurt to have Glenn Hughes singing back up for you.
Okay so I mean he just nailed it. Now "Smoke On The Water" is a pretty easy
song to sing it would have been kind of cool to hear him sing "Highway Star"
I don't have that footage but we're gonna get into "Mistreated" right now. Check this out.
Now you can tell his whole body (sings) you know
he's just like everything in his body to just kind of pull it out. Well as a, from
a technical standpoint that's kind of the opposite of what we want to do it looks cool for the camera,
it's good to kind of leave it all on the field I get all that but in the end we really
want to have our stomach do all of our work with a relaxation response to build open throat technique
(sings) instead of (sings) it's (sings) and really open up that throat to get it round and get the harmonic resonance to work
for you rather than to pinch and squeeze and do that. Now we do hear later that he, he did a lot
of open throat stuff whether he realized it or not, he opened up his sound because back here his range
was very constricted and in through Whitesnake he went on to have a lot more range than what he did
back in Deep Purple.
Oh by the way I did this song and I know I mentioned it once but check out and
see how I did, look in the description see if I stack up.
That's why the proof is in the singing
Now let me show you something. So if I go (sings)
and I cover the sound like modern rock singers do and I, I really narrow down the vocal tract,
it's very, very hard to go up and reopen that sound. So instead of going (sings). No, it's (sings). If I open up the sound
like Dio, I get a bigger sound, it's easier to perform to do and I have a lot more ability to go
up in range and I cover all of this in my singing course, this is very, very important. Let's move on.
Still killer. I mean it's Coverdale, writing the book on rock singing basically right.
Very Coverdale.
Now.
I've covered this before. Dio does a version of this you've got to check out. I am, I forget where
it was, someone help me out please put it in the in the comments section. I did, I actually did a whole
thing on, on some Dio like, it's like the best concert I've ever seen in my life thing I think it's
called or something best live performance I think I've ever seen by a rock vocalist
and he covers this and it's just like holy cow. Not a holy diver, holy cow oh my gosh right. Anyway
so you gotta check that out I, I, I just don't know it could get any better than that but.
Cool now obviously Glenn Hughes stepping up to the plate. I did something really fun guys and I don't
know if you've had a chance to see it yet and if you haven't you really should and I'm going to put
this in the description also even though it's not exactly directly related. I produced and
arranged and whatnot a version of the song "Hocus Pocus" by Focus and Gabriela is singing it and
we worked up all the parts together her and I. I actually arranged did that myself but we did
little snippets where there were the instrumental parts of "Hocus Pocus", we decided to put some cool
classic rock stuff over the top. So we did "Highway Star", we did "Burn", we did some some Queen stuff in
between some of the breaks and whatnot and you really should check it out because Gabriela
really threw down hard and when you hear it I think you, you'll really be impressed by it but
I say that because we did a lot of these songs in that medley or in that "Hocus Pocus" montage
and you guys would really like it I think so here we go.
Let me go back, let me go back on this because I was talking and it kind of
disrupted sort of how this whole thing played into this. Here we go.
Love Glenn's bell bottoms.
Now those are Glenn's you know typical (sings) you know his
typical screams that he would do a lot. I was really surprised to be honest that, that
Richie Blackmore didn't have Glenn sing a lot more stuff because Glenn is just a phenomenal
talented guy, out there crushing it to this day. I know he's in the Dead Daisies he's just done
so much stuff over the years but yeah, you know. All I can say is I'm just really surprised
that Richie didn't bring him in on more stuff and he was just always kind of looking for the next
thing and I know Richie was really difficult to deal with, everyone says. So hopefully you guys
like this but I'd really like to hear from you who do you think was a better vocalist, like who did it
better. Was it Ian Gillen, David Coverdale you know you hear some Glenn Hughes stuff back and forth
and again it's hard to grade them on just this footage and this stuff you know but
let's look at the long haul of this. I would say personally Ian Gillen set the precedent and he
came in you know like I said off some Broadway stuff he came in and he did, he he kind of you know
sort of wrote the book on a lot of you know hard rock and, and and it's funny because you know as,
as a lot of people think of Whitesnake as metal, I think of Whitesnake in Cov, with Coverdale much
more in the rock category than the metal category though they were popularized through the 80s so
they were kind of put in that category it's kind of weird so, but I.would say that Ian Gillen
stylistically really set up Deep Purple and he set it up for Richie to be able to invite
other singers to come in like David Coverdale. Now David Coverdale certainly brought a cool nuance
and I, and my understanding is too that whenever David would do a vocal he'd run it by Glenn and
get Glenn's opinion and really not do much and I think even Glenn sang like some of the demos or
some of the things and you guys can correct me if I'm wrong this is stories I've heard,
where he would kind of do it first and then David would come in and sort of sing it afterwards
but we've all seen that you know David and Glenn have gone on to have crazy careers. Ian
not so much though he's you know totally established or whatever.
So I guess I would have to say that's a tough one I mean I think i favor a little bit David
Coverdale but I'd say Glenn is way up there and, and who wasn't influenced by Ian Gillan.
So please tell me your thoughts, your thoughts and comments and you know give me some feedback on
what you think. I got a few more of these coming your way and definitely check out my next video.