Bassist Roger Glover recently talked to Rock Hard Greece where he said that when Deep Purple reunion happened, he knew the original five-piece wouldn’t click like they used to.
Roger said:
“We didn’t ask Brian Adams, that’s for sure I know Brian ran; I know I would have asked him; it doesn’t matter. That whole thing was really down to Richie.
”In the early days, we were a five-piece band, but when Richie got Rainbow, he became the leader of the band; obviously, that was his band, and when we had the reunion, Richie couldn’t let go of his status as a leader, which led to a few problems. […]
“It was his idea to try and move this into Joe Lynn Turner time. Joe Lynn Turner was Ritchie’s choice, and Ritchie gets his way.
”Jim Peter was probably a fine songwriter, but we’re not interested in having other people write our songs.”