Originally published in Rock Hard Greece YT channel · May 2023
Roger Glover interview (excerpt)
Interview1 min read
Sakis Fragos: By the way, mentioning Made in Japan, you mixed and mastered the official bootleg by Dream Theater, plus you wrote the liner notes for that album. How did you find the fact that a band like Dream Theater covered a whole live album from Deep Purple? How was it working with them?
Roger Glover: Well, I didn’t actually work with them, I was just in the studio. I've met them over the years a few times. After the fact that they asked me, I think it was a great credit to them that they actually had tried to do a cover album of a live album. And I think they did a very good job. They're a brilliant band of musicians anyway, and to actually attack covering something like Made in Japan, I thought showed a lot of confidence in themselves. I listened to a couple of things and I thought, “Well, why not? I'll mix it.” I think they just wanted my name on it in a way. I mean many people could have mixed it, but since they asked me, I went, “OK. Why not?”