158 - Deep Purple's Simon McBride Shares His Mesmerizing Guitar Approaches

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Ready to “fly the ‘copter” all the way to Germany? Well, being that I was just on tour opening shows for Deep Purple all over Europe (so cool!), you know there was NO WAY I was not going to land an interview with their brilliant new guitarist, Simon McBride. This exciting episode takes us all the way to the KP Arena in Oberhausen, for an inspiring backstage guitar hang with the Irish 6-string virtuoso, who plugs in his custom Paul Reed Smith and demonstrates for you many of the captivating guitar approaches he employs each night on stage with his legendary bandmates — Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, and Don Airey. (Bonus: Concert clips from the show later that night!) Simon also reflects on what it means to take over the guitar chair from longtime Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse — who, after 28 years in the band, stepped down earlier this year — as well as what it’s like follow in the footsteps of Deep Purple’s founding guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore; trade licks each night with the band’s formidable keyboardist, his good friend Don Airey; and start off one of the world's most iconic rock songs each night by playing the mega famous riff that opens "Smoke on the Water." Thank you for listening! — Jude Gold, Host and Creator, No Guitar Is Safe, "The guitar show where guitar heroes plug in." This episode is brought to you by Guitar Player magazine and guitarpleyer.com. Guitar Player: Play better, sound better.

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0:00.0	No, guitar is safe.
0:10.0	Folks, I am fired up today because remember, as I've always said, this ain't no podcast.
0:15.7	This is an adventure cast.
0:18.1	This is about getting into that helicopter and seeking out interesting guitar layers
0:21.8	and finding guitar treasure and bringing it back to you. That's right. This ain't two microphones
0:28.4	in a basement. What I'm saying is if Indiana Jones was a guitar player, this would be his show.
0:41.7	Okay, I better put the guitar down before I get myself in trouble here. Not to overstate matters. But you're smart for listening today because, wow, what a true adventure
0:47.3	I have for you. One of the best yet. Today, brought to you by Guitar Player magazine and
0:52.2	guitar player.com. We're going all the way to Europe
0:55.7	to hop on an incredible arena tour. We're going to Germany for a deep guitar hang with Irish
1:02.7	guitar virtuoso, an undeniable guitar badass, Simon McBride. That's right, we're plugging in and
1:10.1	trading licks with the amazing new guitar player for Deep Purple.
1:14.6	So turn off your notifications, turn on your ears, because you're about to hear stuff like this. The Dig that.
1:47.0	Dig that. There's more where that came from. That's audio from the Oberhausen
2:07.2	Germany show a couple of nights ago, just the second to last show of the 16th show tour.
2:14.4	That's right. I was so pumped after interviewing Simon and the stuff that he showed me
2:18.5	that I brought my Zoom H6 recorder out into the crowd just two or three hours later when
2:25.2	Deep Purple were performing to capture some of it for you. So you can hear these moments that
2:29.9	Simon is demonstrating in our interview. I wanted to put you there.
2:34.8	Yes, everybody, I'm still Jude Gold.
2:37.6	Creator of no guitar is safe, the guitar show
2:39.6	where guitar heroes plug in.
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