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Somehow we were determined to carry on, if he was gonna do that. 'It was surprise to me when Ritchie handed in his notice and said he didn't wanna play any more gigs after Helsinki,' he said. Paice's comments echo those made by DEEP PURPLE bassist Roger Glover, who told U.K.'s Planet Rock in a September 2020 interview that it was a 'turbulent time' for him and his bandmates when Blackmore left the group for the final time in November 1993 after a concert in Finland. And if you make some other people enjoy it with you, that's okay - that's a good end product.' The world moved on to a different place and music moved to a different place and we're different people. He added: 'Everybody knows to try and recapture those days of the early '70s, that's never gonna happen.

So that was the light at the end of the tunnel.' We started to have fun again when Joe turned up and just became a fifth member of the band, pulling his weight. He didn't wanna be there, but it was just as much our band as it was his. But we had to go to Japan, with the wonderful Joe Satriani, and it proved that there is life after even somebody as great as Ritchie is. And had we not been contracted to have to go to Japan, it might all have fallen to bits then. And when Ritchie decided to leave, that was pretty traumatic, because know what to do then. And we just saw the audiences getting smaller and less impressed, and that was worrying. Now, the only time we got concerned was towards the end of Ritchie's tenure with the band, as he was losing interest and the performances from the band were not great because you need everybody helping each other out you can't be a passenger. So long as we kept coming with albums that people seemed to like, we weren't worried about having a Top 40 hit if they came along, it was like a bonus. It was a time when pop bands made singles and rock bands made albums. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): 'I don't think we were worried about having hits in the first place. In a brand new interview with Darren Paltrowitz, host of the 'Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz', DEEP PURPLE drummer Ian Paice was asked if there was ever a period when he and his bandmates were worried about not having another 'hit' song and not being able to sustain their longevity.

Deep purple smoke on the water minus guitar