Down the Road: The Complete Ian Gillan Band Story

After leaving Deep Purple, Ian Gillan retired from the music business to pursue other business ventures including ownership of the Kingsway studio, where in 1974 he began to work on his first post-Deep Purple solo tracks. This combined with a warm reception to his appearance at Roger Glover's Butterfly Ball live show prompted him to form a new band. Initially called Shand Grenade, Ian was persuaded by the management to change the band's name to the Ian Gillan Band. He recruited guitarist Ray Fenwick, bass player John Gustafson, keyboard player Mike Moran and Mark Nauseef on drums, using Roger Glover as producer the band recorded their first album 'Child in Time'. Released in 1976, musically the album saw a departure from the heavy sound of Deep Purple to a more progressive jazz rock fusion. The band built a cult like status across Europe and were firmly embraced in Japan. Two other albums followed in 1977 - 'Clear Air Turbulence' and the rockier 'Scarabus'. This box set collates all the albums with added discs of rare mixes, single edits, and live shows from the time. The set is housed in Deluxe 7-inch wallet packaging with sleeve notes by Rich Davenport who has interviewed Ian about his time with the band.

Disc 1
1: Lay Me Down
2: You Make Me Feel So Good
3: Shame
4: My Baby Loves Me
5: Down the Road
6: Child in Time
7: Let It Slide
8: Down the Road (Mono Edit)
9: Finally, the Finale (Studio Demo)
10: Reaching Out (Studio Demo)
11: My Baby Loves Me (Studio Demo)
12: Down the Road (Studio Demo)
13: You Make Me Feel So Good (Studio Demo)
14: Child in Time (Studio Demo)
15: Let It Slide (Backing Track)

Disc 2
1: Clear Air Turbulence
2: Five Moons
3: Money Lender
4: Over the Hill
5: Goodhand Liza
6: Angel Manchenio

Disc 3
1: Over the Hill
2: Clear Air Turbulence
3: Five Moons
4: Money Lender
5: Angelo Manchenio
6: This Is the Way
7: Goodhand Liza

Disc 4
1: Scarabus
2: Twin Exhausted
3: Poor Boy Hero
4: Mercury High
5: Pre Release
6: Slags to Bitches
7: Apathy
8: Mad Elaine
9: Country Lights
10: Fool's Mate

Disc 5
1: Country Lights (Studio Backing Track)
2: Scarabus (Studio Backing Track)
3: Twin Exhausted (Studio Demo)
4: Fool's Mate (Studio Backing Track)
5: Apathy (Studio Backing Track)
6: Mercury High (Studio Backing Track)
7: Smoke On the Water (Live at the Budokan) [single Edit]

Disc 6
1: Clear Air Turbulence (Live at the Budokan)
2: My Baby Loves Me (Live at the Budokan)
3: Scarabus (Live at the Budokan)
4: Money Lender (Live at the Budokan)
5: Twin Exhausted (Live at the Budokan)
6: Over the Hill (Live at the Budokan)
7: Mercury High (Live at the Budokan)
8: Child in Time (Live at the Budokan)
9: Smoke On the Water (Live at the Budokan)
10: Woman from Tokyo (Live at the Budokan)

Disc 7
1: Clear Air Turbulence (Live at the Rainbow)
2: Money Lender (Live at the Rainbow)
3: Child in Time (Live at the Rainbow)
4: Smoke On the Water (Live at the Rainbow)
5: Woman from Tokyo (Live at the Rainbow)
6: Twin Exhausted (Live at the Rainbow)

Disc 8
1: Money (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)
2: Twin Exhausted (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)
3: Child in Time (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)
4: What's Your Game (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)
5: My Baby Loves Me (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)
6: Trying to Get to You (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)
7: Mercury High (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)
8: Rock'n'roll Medley (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)
9: Lucille (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)
10: Jail House Rock (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)
11: High School Confidential (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)
12: Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)
13: Lucille (Reprise) [live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977]
14: Woman from Tokyo (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)
15: Over the Hill (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)
16: Smoke On the Water (Live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977)

Number of Discs: 8

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