Roger Glover

Roger David Glover () er ein walisisk bassist, låtskrivar og plateprodusent. Glover er mest kjend som bassist i rockebandet Deep Purple. 

Familien flytta til London i 1955 og Glover fekk interesse for musikk. I 1961 byrja han å spele bass og danna eit band kalla The Madisons. The Madisons vart seinare til bandet Episode Six, som gav ut fleire singlar.

Glover vart henta til det britiske hard rock-bandet Deep Purple saman med Episode Six-vokalist Ian Gillan i 1969. Han forlét bandet i 1973. I 1974 vart han plateprodusent på heiltid, og produserte plater for blant andre Nazareth, Elf, David Coverdale, Status Quo og Judas Priest. Han gav òg ut soloalbumet The Butterfly Ball.

I 1978 gav Glover ut albumet Elements, men i 1979 vart han invitert med i bandet Rainbow av Ritchie Blackmore. Dei gav ut fleire plater før Glover gav ut sitt tredje soloalbum, Mask i 1984.

Same år vart Deep Purple gjenforeint og Glover er framleis bassist i bandet. Saman med Ian Gillan gav Glover ut albumet Accidentally On Purpose i 1988.

Roger Glovers fjerde soloalbum, Snapshot, kom ut i 2002 og hans femte og hittil siste soloplate If Life Was Easy vart utgjeven i 2011.

Diskografi

Med Episode Six
Put Yourself In My Place (1987)
BBC Radio 1 Live 1998/1969 (1997)
The Complete Episode Six (1991)
Cornflakes and Crazyfoam (2002)
Love, Hate, Revenge (2005, samlealbum)

Solo
 Let's Go To The Disco/Broken Man (single) (1974, with Ray Fenwick, released under the name Marlon)
 The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1974)
 Strawberry Fields Forever/Isolated Lady (single) (1975, with Eddie Hardin)
 Elements (1978)
 Mask (1984)
 Accidentally on Purpose (1988, with Ian Gillan)
 Snapshot (2002)
 If Life Was Easy (2011)

Som gjesteartist
Rupert Hine & David MacIver – Pick Up A Bone (1971)
Jon Lord  – Gemini Suite (1972)
Dave Cousins – To Weeks Last Summer (1972)
Nazareth – Loud 'n' Proud (1973, «Free Wheeler")
Andy Mackay – In Search For Eddie Riff (1974)
Dan McCafferty  – Dan McCafferty (1975)
Ian Gillan Band  – Child In Time (1976)
Eddie Hardin – Wizard's Convention (1976, «Loose Ends")
John Perry – Sunset Wading (1976)
Eddie Hardin – You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks (1977)
David Coverdale – White Snake (1977)
David Coverdale – North Winds (1978)
Joe Breen – More Than Meets The Eye (1978)
Wheels – Don't Be Strange (1979)
Eddie Hardin – Circumstancial Evidence (1982)
Ian Gillan  – Naked Thunder (1990, «No More Cane On The Brazos")
Pretty Maids – Jump The Gun (1990, «Dream On")
Ian Gillan  – Cherkazoo and Other Stories ('73/'75 sessions) (1992)
Gov't Mule  – The Deep End, Volume 1 (2001, «Maybe I'm A Leo")
Gov't Mule  – The Deepest End, Live In Concert (2003)
Ian Gillan  – Gillan's Inn (2006)
Field Of Women / Domminney – Lucy's Song (for the field of women charity event) (2008)
Bernhard Welz – Stay Tuned (2010, «Believe Me")

Som produsent
Rupert Hine & David MacIver – Pick Up A Bone (1971)
ELF – ELF (1972, med Ian Paice)
Nazareth – Razamanaz (1973)
Nazareth – Loud 'n' Proud (1974)
Nazareth – Rampant (1974)
Spencer Davis Group – Living In A Back Street (1974)
Hardin & York, with Charlie McCracken – Hardin & York, with Charlie McCracken (1974, berre to spor)
ELF – Carolina County Ball (1974)
ELF – Trying To Burn The Sun (1975)
Reflections – Moon Power/Little Star (single) (1975)
Strapps  – Strapps (1976)
Ian Gillan Band  – Child In Time (1976)
Rory Gallagher –  Calling Card (1976)
Status Quo – Wild Side Of Life/All Through The Night (singel) (1976)
Judas Priest – Sin After Sin (1977)
Young & Moody – Young & Moody (1977)
Eddie Hardin – You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks (1977)
Strapps – Secret Damage (1977, med Louie Austin and Chris Kimsey)
David Coverdale – White Snake (1977)
David Coverdale – Northwinds (1978)
Barbi Benton – Ain't That Just the Way (1978)
Joe Breen – More Than Meets The Eye (1978)
Grand Theft – Have You Seen This Band? (1978)
Rainbow – Down to Earth (1979)
Young & Moody – Devil Went Down To Georgia/You Can't Catch Me (single) (1979)
Young & Moody – All The Good Friends/Playing Your Game (single) (1980)
Michael Schenker Group – The Michael Schenker Group (1980)
Rainbow – Difficult to Cure (1981)
Rainbow – Straight Between the Eyes (1982)
Rainbow – Bent Out of Shape (1983)
Rainbow – Finyl Vinyl (1986)
Pretty Maids – Jump the Gun (1990)
Deep Purple – Slaves and Masters (1990)
Deep Purple – The Battle Rages On (1993, medprodusent med Thom Panunzio)
Deep Purple – Purpendicular (1996)
Deep Purple – Abandon (1998)
Dream Theater – Made In Japan (konsertversjon av Deep Purple-albumet) (2006)
Gillian Glover – Red Handed (2007, tilleggsproduksjon)
 Café Bertrand - L'Art délicat du Rock & Roll (2008, miksing)
 Young & Moody - Back For The Last Time Again (2011, arkivinnspelingar)

Film og fjernsyn
1976 The Butterfly Ball (film)
1991 Deep Purple – Heavy Metal Pioneers (TV/video)
1995 Rock Family Trees, ep. 'Deep Purple''' (TV)
2000 100 Greatest Artists of Hardrock (TV)
2002 Gov't Mule – Rising Low (film)
2002 Classic Albums, ep. 'Deep Purple – Machine Head' (TV/video)
2004 Roger Glover – Made in Wales (TV)
2006 Memo – Ivan Pedersen's 40 års karriere (Video)
2006 Brick by Brick: The Building of Gillan's Inn (Video)
2007 Ian Gillan – Highway Star: A Journey in Rock'' (TV/Video)

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