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From deep negotiations to Deep Purple

10 June 2011

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Everyone loves a good spat, and there’s a major one brewing across the Irish Sea.

The Law Society of Ireland is trying to convince the legal profession that it should bail out the Solicitors Mutual Defence Fund, which has been hit hard by the recession, to the tune of €200 per lawyer, every year for a decade (see story).

Firms are split over whether to bailout the beleaguered fund or not, and one can only imagine how fraught negotiations are, considering the quarrelsome nature of lawyers.

But to more weighty matters, as it’s a Friday.

In news just in, and speaking of quarrelsome, a number of readers have been kicking up a storm about a Tulkinghorn story that wrongly claimed Kula Shaker wrote indie anthem Hush, when it was, in fact, Deep Purple (see story).

Tulkinghorn was obliged to apologise, but even this has been given short shrift by the long-haired lawyers. Indeed, this story is set to be as big as the Grierson-Hogan Lovells expenses scandal or the BLG-Clydes merger talks.

“The apparent apology in the above mentioned article appears to shows a lack of sincerity for the legal lovers of heavy rock on two counts,” complains one reader.

“Firstly the picture, whilst being of Deep Purple, is not the line-up which recorded the track which appeared on its debut album entitled Shades of Deep Purple in 1968.

“Secondly, to compound the first point, the line up in the picture shows lead singer David Coverdale. Hush was rerecorded by a different line up of Deep Purple with Ian Gillan as lead singer. He was replaced by David Coverdale.”

Generously, the aggrieved lawyer has offered to become ad hoc sub-editor for all stories of a heavy rock/metal persuasion, gratis.

Does that count as pro bono?

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  • Dan Ferrara | 10-Jun-2011 6:06 pm

    Actually when Hush was recorded in 1968 by Deep Purple, Rod Evans was the Vocalist with Nick Simper on Bass. Ian Gillan and Roger Glover replaced Evans and Simper in 1969.

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  • Paul | 10-Jun-2011 6:15 pm

    If you're going to be pedantic, at least get it right. The vocalist on Deep Purple's version of Hush, recorded in 1968, was Rod Evans. Ian Gillan didn't join until 1969.

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  • Anonymous | 10-Jun-2011 6:20 pm

    Unless, of course, this was a reference to the re-recorded version in 1988, which did include Ian Gillan.

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  • Jeremy Rowland | 10-Jun-2011 7:05 pm

    I am the "aggrieved lawyer" and if you read the response correctly it says that the track was rerecorded by Purple with Gillan on vocals. Sorry for my pedantry but it's important to get our rock trivia correct. Lol.

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  • gavin | 13-Jun-2011 8:53 am

    Given the litany of factual errors in the Deep Purple shambles, allayed to the inconsistent and sometimes downright sixth-form stylings of these "funny" emails (admittedly, they've improved markedly in the last month or so), as well as the usual slew of grammatical/spelling mistakes, I'm surprised to hear that The Lawyer has sub-editors at all. I was under the assumption that whoever subbed most of the copy on this website was permanently drunk on a lethal cocktail of irn bru and vodka & sodas....

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  • Jeremy Rowland | 13-Jun-2011 9:34 am

    Just to clarify the original email (of which I was the author) I said that the track was rerecorded with Gillan on vocals. We all know that Evan and Simper were in the original line up and that they weren't as good as their replacements. Can you imagine the original line up doing Black Night, Woman from Tokyo etc? Methinks not.

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  • Gary Hance | 15-Jun-2011 9:58 am

    ...and of course in the spirit of continuing the pedantry, and getting back to the original thrust of the story on Deep Purple vs Kula Shaker, you all know that Joe South originally wrote Hush in 1967, when it reached 52 on the Billboard US charts, and Purple (with Rod Evans on vocals) merely covered it.

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