Sim and Elaine meet Ian Gillan, 2005
Sim & I met Ian
Gillan from the legendary rock band
Deep Purple in March 2005, when he came to have
dinner at a pub we were gigging at (the Bull Inn, Bentley, Hampshire). He had been recording at the nearby Jacob's Studio. Both he and his manager were very impressed
with us. )They were so impressed in fact, that they invited us to lay
down some tracks on the DVD they were in the area recording straight after the
gig. Once Sim had put his electric violin part to "Smoke On The Water" and
another cajun style track down (complete with being filmed), Ian Gillan said of
him,
"I've been in this business for forty years and I've heard everything
but tonight I've heard something completely new."
and Ian's manager, Michael
Lee Jackson said,
"Wait 'til the other guitarists hear this - they're going
to want to cut their fingers off."
This DVD, called "Gillan's Inn" is a
retrospective, celebrating Ian's forty years in the business. We were told the
final DVD would be interactive - so that the user could select the solo they
wanted for any particular track from a list of around thirty famous guitarists,
who had been asked to record special solos - see a recent interview
with Ian Gillan, where he confirms Sim will
be on the album to come out in early 2006. .
Sim playing his excellent "Starfish Design" electric violin
