Ian Gillan Purple. By 1969, after having released nine singles, none of which charted in the UK, and finding their style of music too restrictive for him, he decided to leave Episode Six. By spring 1969, Deep Purple had had a top 5 US hit with "Hush", but the band, particularly Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord and Ian Paice, decided their future lay in hard rock, rather than the psychedelic pop sound of the early band. In June 1969, Blackmore, Lord and Paice went to see Episode Six perform at a pub gig and subsequently offered Gillan the job as new lead singer,
Still the Drums Still the Drums Still the Drums is a 2009 film written, produced, directed and edited by actor Talbot Perry Simons. His first film, it premiered on U.S. Cable TV's Movies On Demand Pay Per View in January 2013. The title "Still the Drums" is an excerpt from the poem "The Illusion of War" written after the Civil war by English author Richard Le Gallienne. "Still the Drums" is about four best friends that went to Vietnam as U.S. Marines. The story deals with friendship, patriotism, heroism and post-traumatic stress disorder. We look in on these soldiers thirty-nine years after their