The Curious Kind are a staunch group of Rupert Hine supporters who have listened, nudged, and commented for many years …
"We split the difference and the ripples magnified
Learning, looking under stones
To find the worm disturbed - he turns and turns
We always were the curious kind"
Lyrics from 'The Curious Kind" - Rupert Hine
Lisa Bell Roden
...who deftly edited my 50th Anniversary Tribute Video and also wrote the sleeve notes for Unshy on The Skyline
Lisa Bell Roden
...who collated and edited the tribute films you saw
Michael Roden
...who meticulously answered every FAQ in the early years
Michael Roden
...who meticulously answered every FAQ in the early years
Tim Catinat
...designer of the original Rupert Hine/Tamboo website (a masterly maze and multi-award-winning achievement, which still throws up the odd surprise and is still accessible (click here))
Tim Catinat
...designer of the original Rupert Hine/Tamboo website (a masterly maze and multi-award-winning achievement, which still throws up the odd surprise and is still accessible (click here))
Hervé Denoyelle
...who, like Tim, has been a remarkable custodian of all things Rupert Hine
Hervé Denoyelle
...who, like Tim, has been a remarkable custodian of all things Rupert Hine
Alan Graham
...old fan, new friend, and now business and founding partner in OCL - the exciting new adventure for me at the very core of music and the music-business world.
Alan Graham
...old fan, new friend, and now business and founding partner in OCL - the exciting new adventure for me at the very core of music and the music-business world.
David MacIver Robinson
David shared that first recording 50 years ago, he was the David of ‘Rupert and David'. He also wrote the lyrics for everything on my first two albums and almost all of the first Quantum Jump album (including my only smash hit single as an artist - The Lone Ranger).
He left England to follow a dream in California in the mid-70s. He’s massively original, hysterically funny as a human bean and cunningly witty as a writer of unabashed charm. He lives in semi-retirement in New Mexico these days and was due to join us on the 5th, prevented only by a couple of physical barriers. Instead he wrote and recorded a song about us which will appear on the website in due course.
Jeannette Thérèse Obstöj
After David had moved to the US in the mid-70s, I quickly realised that an equally original writer was right by my side - a lively painter and expressive poet who found that the parallel journeys of being a poet and a lyricist were not such a gulf as she had assumed at the start of our relationship. All my own albums from 1979 onwards plus the songs for everyone from Tina Turner to Dusty Springfield were co-written with JTO.
It is a matter of great sadness that she passed away early in 2015, following a short and unexpected illness.
Jeannette Thérèse Obstöj
After David had moved to the US in the mid-70s, I quickly realised that an equally original writer was right by my side - a lively painter and expressive poet who found that the parallel journeys of being a poet and a lyricist were not such a gulf as she had assumed at the start of our relationship. All my own albums from 1979 onwards plus the songs for everyone from Tina Turner to Dusty Springfield were co-written with JTO.
It is a matter of great sadness that she passed away early in 2015, following a short and unexpected illness.
Roger Glover
Having spent much of the night hearing such touching stories re my involvement with, and encouragement for, artists, writers, engineers, musicians, collaborators… the end of the evening was to be my turn to thank the one person in my life to effect the same level of change to my own life-story.
Having started my creative life with a rare recording opportunity of a contract with Decca Records (The Rolling Stones label amongst many, many others) and a first single produced by the Decca equivalent to George Martin (at EMI) - Dick Rowe - things plummeted to nothingness over the succeeding months. I continued to write songs with my lyricist partner David MacIver for some four years, whilst working on what seemed like hundreds of two or three week temp jobs for the rent. This, not particularly promising way of life, was beginning to feel somewhat fruitless when a chance discovery that my old Episode 6 mate from the early Sound of Silence days, was now with a rather successful band called Deep Purple. Given their massive change of appearance from mid-sixties mop-tops / suits to late 60s waist-long hair / jeans, beards and moustaches, I needed to call the record label and see if he was indeed the same Roger Glover.
He was, and when I cheekily asked if a message could be passed on to him, it was - and we met again. I played him the intervening years worth of songwriting and he immediately loved them.
Deep Purple had already been given their own imprint and Roger suggested to the managers at the helm that they should sign both myself and David to Purple Records… and while he was at it - also suggesting that he produce us. Imagine our delight, five years after experiencing such an immediate high followed by a bleak and sustaining low - we should re-surface signed and produced by an old friend - to his own label! The entire experience was such a joy. Still to this day much of that sounds original and colourfully rich. Exquisite string arrangements and witty Hi-fidelitous production.
Which directly led to….
This opening chapter to the next creative phase started when David and I were asked to write and record a 2nd album for Purple and due to Deep Purple’s ever-expanding global domination of early ‘heavy’ rock bands, Roger was simply not available to produce.
His recommendation for a substitute producer was… well…. me! I told him I had no idea how to do all that! He calmly instructed me to do what I did at home with my bits of string and tin-can studio - only - bigger!
And that’s how I became a producer.