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 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