Talk:Rod Evans

Current whereabouts

Sourced information on his current whereabouts is urgently needed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TomGreen (talk • contribs) 17:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC).

I think he may be in Nevada --Blue Tie 06:24, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Rod Evans lives in Grass Valley,CA.

Yes thee Rod Evans Deep Purple AnthonyDup (talk) 21:53, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Dodgy writing

In 1980 he was approached by a management company which specialized in questionably-reformed bands with big names, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.78.183.249 (talk) 11:29, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

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In what universe is 'Someone also called them sci-fi rock, but anyway their first self-titled album became a rarity, because it was only distributed by Capricorn Records, a small label from Macon, Georgia ...' considered a good sentence for a reference encyclopaedia?

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"genuine Deep Purple"

Should the suing members be described as genuine when Rod was an original band member and so should have more, or at least equal, right to the name than anyone who came after him and equal right to the sametime members. Also, the other lineup had split in 1976 and stated they would never perform again, so no valid case at all for them to sue. Middle More Rider (talk) 17:43, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

A judge, clearly, disagreed with you about the validity of the case. Hondo77 (talk) 13:36, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

And in any case, the Talk Pages are not a forum to discuss your personal views - it is for the discourse on Reliable Sources for the improvement of the articles. 50.111.56.58 (talk) 05:38, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

If you want to play the attitude like that,

From the article, "sing again under the Deep Purple name", "again", meaning he was someone who had genuinely been in Deep Purple before. And "management of the genuine Deep Purple, which had disbanded in 1976", "disbanded", so they were no more or less Deep Purple than him. He and them were all ex-members of the original. Not opinion, fact.

Also, a judge's opinion in making a judgement may or may not be based on fact, the judge ruled based on either what he truelly thought was justice, or what he claimed was justice.

Middle More Rider (talk) 19:50, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Place of birth?

The article has Rod Evans down as being born in Buckinghamshire, which is supported by 2 sources. One source indeed leads to a birth record showing a Rod Evans born in that county (indeed, time-wise it is a good fit), the other from what I can see makes no mention of Buckinghamshire. However,the book "Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story" (p 17) gives his birthplace as Edinburgh, Scotland, with him moving to Slough, Bucks. as a child.

Should I include Edinburgh in the article? JoeyofScotia (talk) 11:43, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

If the sources are equally reliable, it is good practice in Wikipedia to mention all, either in prose ("some sources state... other sources...") or in a footnote. But one of the sources, findmypast.co.uk, is deprecated and should therefore not be used. On first glance I'd say that the book Smoke on the Water might be the most reliable of these three, as it is written by Dave Thompson, who I expect would have done some research. But I am by no means knowledgeable on the subject of Deep Purple and related subjects and have not read the book. Thanks for your work on this article! Mark in wiki (talk) 12:10, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, and you are welcome. I am in agreement, in the absence of other reliable sources, IMO we should use the Dave Thompson book and its stated place of birth in Edinburgh.

If I can find a source that mentions him being born in Bucks. then that can be mentioned as well with the formula ("some sources... other sources..") that you suggest. JoeyofScotia (talk) 12:45, 15 August 2024 (UTC)