Deep Purple

Legendary singer Joe Lynn Turner was guest on BraveWords' Streaming For Vengeance recently promoting his upcoming solo album, Belly Of The Beast, ...

So, it was a peak of that leg of my career, and I went, 'I want to go with Purple', and that's what I did. And I never looked back, and I don't regret a damn minute of it." “I was not very familiar with Peter’s bands Pain and Hypocrisy, but when we met, I loved his personality, and I felt like we had a chemistry together. And I had a falling out with Bud Prager, the manager, because he was a complete arsehole, and I just told him he was. I mean, they had somebody lined up to be a singer and I was the last-minute call because at that point Colin Hart, the road manager called me up and said, 'You fancy coming up for a month to audition?', and I said, 'I gotta audition?'. But I must say, at that time, I was coming out, I was already in Foreigner and out of Foreigner, that's because during the time when Lou had quit, I call it the ‘Say You Will’ period. And I knew that was the accuracy. So I drove up for a month, and there they were in this beat-up, old, abandoned ski lodge, in the bar area, stinking of cigarettes and beer, and as soon as I walked in Blackmore started playing and I went up to the mike. Turner: "Exactly. So, I was kind of like the middle man, to keep it together. I was explained the situation, and I said let me bow out to let Purple come forward again. Legendary singer Joe Lynn Turner was guest on BraveWords' Streaming For Vengeance recently promoting his upcoming solo album, Belly Of The Beast, and he talked about his two-year stint with Deep Purple during the Slaves And Masters period (1990 - 1992).