Ian Gillan Band – “Clear Air Turbulence”

2 thoughts on “Ian Gillan Band – “Clear Air Turbulence””

1. 

   Dan E.

   March 27, 2009 at 12:29 pm

   Here’s my original note to Paul L. about the Ian Gillan Band song.
   -Dan
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   I did an interview with Ian Gillan of Deep Purple back in 2001 before a show at the Target Center. After the interview, Gillan asked me where I was from and I said “Duluth” … to which he started singing “get in to Duluth, get in to Duluth.” I asked him what that was from and he said it was a song from one of his solo albums from the 70s … and he wrote it about a really rough plane ride that Deep Purple had taken for a gig in Duluth! Pretty cool huh?

   Anyway, the song is called “Clear Air Turbulence” by the Ian Gillan Band.

   Here are the lyrics:

   Get up
   Get right up
   Get it up
   Up in the sky
   White knuckles and blank staring faces
   Get a leg up head for them spaces

   Panic
   And confusion
   Electric voices
   Creating morbid delusions
   White knuckles and blank staring faces
   Get a leg up head for them spaces

   Ten thousand
   Astral explorers
   Head for the lights
   Ace cosmic tours
   Caught up in slow races
   Motionless jets in turbulent spaces

   Smooth blue sky
   Feeling high
   Turn back the page
   Peaceful as a bygone age
   Chariot to the sun Safe as a gun
   Get in to Duluth

   I’ve got it
   Now I’m learning
   A million souls
   Helplessly returning
   To blue dawn before the beginning
   Ancient bells are ringing
2. 

   Tim K

   March 27, 2009 at 2:42 pm

   I think I went to that concert! The Duluth Arena was so thick with pot smoke, everyone was high!