Deep Purple Gillan recruited him for his new post-Purple band in the late 1970s. According to Blackmore, Deep Purple was only interested in Gillan and not Glover, but Roger was retained on the advice of Ian Paice. This created the Deep Purple Mark II line-up, whose first release was a Greenaway-Cook tune titled "Hallelujah". At the time of its recording, Nick Simper still thought he was in the band, and had called John Coletta to inquire about the recording dates for the song. He then found that the song had already been recorded with Glover on bass. The remaining original members of
Still the Drums war, (the Vietnam War) has been over. "Still the Drums" had premiered on August 1, 2009 at the Regency Fairfax Cinema on Beverly Blvd. In West Hollywood, California, it was selected as a finalist in the 2009 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. 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