Search - Roger Glover :: Butterfly Ball

1st solo album

eveoflove | North York, Ontario Canada | 02/17/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Made in GER in 1995, Serial# REP-4567-WY, Playing Time 69:37When the original version of this album came out (remember vinyl?), it had 19 tracks.This CD version is NOT the one with the video of "Love Is All", but features 10 tracks not on the vinyl: track 17 "Little Chalk Blue", which features the great voice of John Lawton, who unfortunately does not appear anywhere in the credits, as well as a demo of "Love Is All" featuring many singers on the album each taking turns at singing a few lines, plus 8 alternate mixes of some tracks, some quite similar to the "original".The music is festive, and bears no resemblance to Deep Purple's rock style. The melodies are simple, but the arrangements are quite original. The cast of singers and musicians is quite extensive (too long to mention here), making this album a pleasant diversion from the usual path involving Glover.It's not really a solo album: it's an album written by Glover, with contributions from a lot of known people, and constitues my favorite one: completely different from his other albums outside of Deep Purple.The music was intended as a project for an animated movie, which, to this date, was never made."

A stellar musical you`ve probably never heard

dan pepin | Bellingham, MA United States | 09/04/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It`s safe to say you if you live in america you probably never heard this enchanting musical by Roger Glover (Bass player of Deep Purple). what you are missing are stellar perfomances by David Coverdale, Ronnie James Dio, and a who`s who list of british rock vocalists of the late seventies. While I am NOT a fan of whitesnake's David Coverdale, I had no idea this guy could actually sing! His baritone in "Behind the smile" totally steals the show. The same can be said of Ronnie James Dio, Whose vocals on "Sitting in a dream" literaly made me want to take vocal lessons. I could go on forever about great individual performances, but as a whole this album really stands the test of time. It is, however, at some points rather playful but bare in mind it was considered to be a musical for children (I consider it more of an alice in wonderland). If you are a fan of great rock music, musicals, deep purple, or even just the multi-talented Roger Glover, you owe it to yourself to check out this album. In one word..................MASTERPIECE"