According to an article in The Buffalo News, DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan has been spending time in Buffalo, New York working on a record documenting and celebrating his 40 years in the rock world.

"I love Buffalo," Gillan told Jeff Miers of The Buffalo News. "The people here are wonderful, genuine; they look you straight in the eye. It's a wonderful community you've got here, a real artistic sensibility. And wonderful musicians, as well."

Gillan, who became friends with ANIMAL PLANET/MLJ BAND guitarist and vocalist Michael Lee Jackson about a decade back, came to Buffalo with plans to mark his 40th anniversary in music by revisiting important benchmarks from throughout his career.

Jackson, now Gillan's creative manager, assembled the core band for the backing tracks — himself on guitar, Howard Fleetwood Wilson on drums, Rodney Appleby on bass — and rehearsed them in advance of Gillan's arrival. Producer/engineer Nick Blagona — whose credits include DEEP PURPLE, GILLAN AND GLOVER, the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack, and the POLICE masterpiece "Ghost In the Machine", among hundreds of others — set up shop inside the old Trackmaster studios, abandoned and unused for 10 years now but, according to both Gillan and Blagona, "one of the best-sounding rooms we've ever worked in."

"The thing to remember when you're re-recording pieces from the past is that you have to have respect for the original performances, recordings and arrangements," Gillan said. "If something was improvised originally, then it's OK for it to be improvised again. But if there are bits of a particular solo — the one in 'Smoke on the Water', for example — that are part of the composition, then those bits should be played as they were. That said, the reason for doing this record now and revisiting these songs is that it affords us the opportunity to record them in a modern context, in the same room, with the same producer and, for the most part, the same musicians. There's a continuity allowed by this, and it's really exciting."

After the basic tracks have been recorded here in Buffalo, a list of cameo performers will dub their contributions onto the record from various points across the globe — Gillan's pal Luciano Pavarotti in Italy, BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi and former PURPLE organist Jon Lord in England, Uli Jon Roth in Germany, a guitarist described by Gillan as "the beautiful and mysterious Ms. Fanny Craddock" somewhere in Europe, and a veritable dream team of musicians still pending confirmation. Concurrently, a documentary is in production for English network television, and it will eventually see release on DVD.

et en francais ca donne quoi tout ca ????

Je ne suis pas prof d'anglais. Je me contente de transmettre les infos.

Il aime le boeuf et va arreter le football pour se consacrer a l'elevage.

DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan has finished recording several songs for his new album, "Gillan's Inn", which will document and celebrate his 40 years in the rock world. Tracks completed thus far include "Hang Me Out To Dry", "Sugar Plum", "Day Late And A Dollar Short", "Unchain Your Brain", "Speed King", "Bluesy Blue Sea", "Trashed", "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight", "Can I Get A Witness", "Men Of War", "Loving On Borrowed Time", "When A Blind Man Cries", "Smoke On The Water", "No Laughing In Heaven", "Demon's Eye" and "No Worries" (new song). It has not yet been decided which tracks or which versions of those tracks will be on the album, but they will all see the light of day in one form or another. Guest musicians on CD will include Joe Satriani, Don Airey, Ian Paice, Mickey Lee Soule, Roger Glover, Jeff Healey, Janick Gers, Jon Lord, Steve Morris and Dean Howard among others. The recordings will be completed by the end of April, while mixing and mastering will be done by the end of May. Concurrently, a documentary is in production for English network television, and it will eventually see release on DVD.

y a des bons noms dans ca.......interessant..........

C'est annoncé pour le 17 avril... On attend l'annonce du tracklisting avant de bander...

P.S. Ça fait pochette de disque de nowel aux USA, ça fait moche.

J'ai vraiment du mal à m'imaginer le Gillan d'aujourd'hui rechanter le Trashed du Sab.
Il est trop vieux pour ces "conneries", il est plus dans un trip blues-rock. enfin, on verra bien.

The complete track listing has been released for DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan's upcoming album "Gillan's Inn" — a celebration of Ian's 40th year on the road, featuring remakes of tracks spanning Ian's entire career.

As previously reported, "Gillan's Inn" will be made available on the new DualDisc format; regular stereo CD on one side, DVD on the other. Gillan has used this to allow listeners to choose from four different guitar solos on the remake of "Smoke on the Water".

In a recent interview with Rockdetector.com, Gillan spoke about the "Smoke on the Water" remake that appears on the upcoming CD: "'Smoke on the Water' is a big, big part of my history and a big part of why I'm here and able to do what I do," he said. "I couldn't really ignore that, but at the same time, you have to recognize that a lot of those songs, [like] 'Smoke…', 'Child In Time', 'Highway Star', etc. are snapshots in time and cannot be improved. They are what they are. It would be foolish to try and recapture that magic, because you can't. So, what I did with 'Smoke on the Water' was to treat it respectfully, it's a fairly regular version, but use it as a showcase for some of the guitarists to work with. On there you have Jeff Healey, Steve Morse, Joe Satriani… The talent there is incredible."

Among the other guest musicians slated to appear on the record are BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi, fellow DEEP PURPLE members Ian Paice (drums) and Roger Glover (bass), Jon Lord, Don Airey, Joe Satriani, Jeff Healey, Janick Gers, Michael Lee, Johnny Rzeznik, Robby Takac and Redd Volkeart.

"Gillan's Inn" track listing:

CD Side:

01. Unchain Your Brain – Feat. Joe Satriani (guitar), Michael Lee (drums)
02. Bluesy Blue Sea – Feat. Jamick Gers (guitar), Michael Lee (drums)
03. A Day Late And A Dollar Short – Feat. Uli Jon Roth (guitar), Ronnie James Dio (vocals)
04. Hang Me Out To Dry – Feat. Joe Satriani (guitar), Michael Lee (drums)
05. Men Of War – Feat. Steve Morse (guitar), John Rzeznik (guitar)
06. When A Blind Man Cries – Feat. Jeff Healy (guitar), Jon Lord (organ)
07. Sugar Plum – Feat. Roger Glover (bass), Ian Paice (drums)
08. Trashed – Feat. (Tony Iommi (guitar), Roger Glover (bass), Ian Paice (drums)
09. No Worries
10. Smoke On The Water – Feat. Steve Morse (guitar), John Rzeznik (guitar), Jon Lord (organ), Ian Paice (drums)
11. No Laughing In Heaven – Feat. Roger Glover (bass), Ian Paice (drums)
12. Speed King – Feat. Joe Satriani (guitar), Michael Lee (drums)
13. Loving On Borrowed Time – Feat. Steve Morse (guitar), Uli Jon Roth (guitar)
14. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight – Feat. Joe Elliott (vocals)

DVD Side:

* Complete album in 5.1 surround sound
* Making Of "Gillan's Inn" video
* Track by track audio commentary byIan Gillan
* Special "Select the Soloist for Smoke On the Water" section (choose from Jeff Healy, Joe Satriani, Steve Morse, Tony Iommi, Uli Jon Roth and more)
* Rare performance videos of Ian fronting DEEP PURPLE and BLACK SABBATH
* "Demon's Eye" – DVD side only – featuring Jeff Healy (guitar), Jon Lord (organ)
* Special DVD-ROM bonus track – "Can I Get A Witness?" featuring Cliff Bennett (singing), Ronnie James Dio (backing vocals), Mickey Lee Soule (keyboards)
* Photo Gallery
* Lyrics

Quatre extraits de Gillan's Inn sur le Jukebox du DPAS
http://www.deep-purple.net/mp3/purplebox.htm.

Bluesy Blue Sea, avec Gers.
Men Of War avec Steve Morse
Trashed avec Iommi, Glover et Paice
Unchain Your Brain avec Satriani

Pas mal pas mal les extraits, Gillan s'en sort bien au chant, comme quoi en studio, on peut faire des miracles
En tout cas, il a toujours la pêche et il assure toujours sur du heavy, c'est rassurant.
Serait-il capable de reproduire ses exploits en live ? J'en doute, mais bon, peu importe, il les rejouera pas en live ces titres.