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‘Ere’s a song fo’ya, one last time

A pro shot of a complete Whitesnake show from June 2, 2022, in Hamar, Norway, was posted to them intertubes. It is described to be the video wall production with front-of-the-house soundboard sound. It is one of the last Whitesnake live performances (if not THE last one) that was professionally recorded. The tour imploded under […]

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Couldn’t get any weirder

A couple of letters addressed to our trainspotting department. White Stripes were inducted to the infamous Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame this year, and in his acceptance speech, Jack White mentioned Rainbow among their inspirations: Meg and I want to thank just a few of the bands and artists that inspired us and came before us, […]

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Aged by typhoons and sweat

Music Radar has an interview with Steve Morse that appears to be a revised and expanded version of the one we reported a couple of weeks ago. Is there any style or technique that you find hardest to get under your fingertips? Anything that’s written on keyboards is gonna have some difficult stretches in them. […]

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A brilliant emulator

In these two episodes, the banjo player talks about banjo strings and the genius of Jon Lord.

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Fastest music you’ll ever hear

A new instalment of Ritchie Blackmore reminiscing abut his early days.

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Live in Kuala Lumpur

Here is a complete recording of the Deep Purple show in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on November 23, 2025. It is a decent quality audience recording, albeit with some audio distortion on the left channel.

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Lost in Hollywood Again

Graham Bonnet has appeared on the Different Stages Radio podcast. The occasion was an impending release of his new live album Lost in Hollywood Again, recorded in 2024 at the storied Los Angeles club Whisky A Go Go. The album is due out on December 12, 2025 via Frontiers, and Graham mentions a studio album […]

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Complex, but not mathematically so

Steve Morse appears on the latest episode of the Now Spinning Magazine podcast, talking with Phil Aston mostly about his latest album Triangulation. In this episode of the Now Spinning Magazine podcast, I sit down with legendary guitarist Steve Morse to dive deep into his new instrumental album Triangulation. Steve talks about the freedom of […]

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Let’s try ending on the four chord

Music Radar has an interview with Steve Morse. It is apparently published on the occasion of the recent album, but deals with his Purple years. Steve particularly fondly talks about Jon Lord: During one writing session for 1996’s Purpendicular, Morse’s debut on a Deep Purple record, a tea break was called, and Morse played on […]

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Steve on the cover

Steve Morse is the cover story of the Finnish magazine Riffi, issue 4/2025. The magazine is about all things for practicing musicians: advice, gear, and associated stuff. Inside is a three-page special on Steve, his band (and, we presume, probably their latest album). And it is all in Finnish, of course.

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Glenn cancels South American dates

According to the local promoters, three shows on Glenn Hughes’ South American tour will be rescheduled for March 2026, with new dates TBA. These are: 2025-11-23 Córdoba, Argentina 2025-11-25 Salta, Argentina 2025-11-25 Quilmes, Argentina 2025-11-27 Santiago, Chile As Glenn explains himself, he has caught laryngitis and is unable to sing. The show in Córdoba on […]

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He had his reasons

The following message from Ritchie Blackmore was posted today. November 23, 2025, on his Facebook page: Ritchie would like to explain his reason for having to postpone the recent shows. “Very quick history, for those who have nothing better to do: I have a long history of lumbar and neck herniated discs. Consequently, I would […]

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One for the bookworms

Martin Popoff talks to the Now Spinning Magazine podcast host Phil Aston. The occasion is Martin’s new book Seven Decades of Deep Purple, but the conversation went way beyond that. Updated Dec 1 with a link to book review.

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They come in threes

Here’s the latest triplet of snippets from that Ritchie Blackmore interview, talking about days long passed, Don Arden, Jerry Lee lewis, the other Man in Black, earning hemorrhoids with Screaming Lord Sutch, and taking the blame for Gene Vincent.

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Stuck to their own ways of evolution

Ian Gillan was interviewed by Dubai 92. The hosts have obviously skimmed the relevant Wikipedia article(s), but managed to get it “nearly right”. Nothing groundbreaking was revealed, but probably with regard to another of his recent interviews, from which too many people seem to have read way too much, Big Ian reiterated that the band […]

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Secret of a happy household

The second instalment of Ritchie Blackmore interview snippets talking about the olden days, going back to Charles Dickens.

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She made the place to sweat

Classically trained pianist Alexandra Kuznetsova, known under nom de guerre Gamazda, performs piano covers of rock compositions to the effect that her YouTube channel has amassed almost a million subscribers. Check out her performance of Smoke in an Amsterdam church from earlier this month.

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An exhibition of living heritage

Georgia Today reviews in most transcendental terms the recent Deep Purple gig in the country: The evening of 16 November in Tbilisi transformed the Sports Palace into an environment that resembled a vast anthropological chamber. Deep Purple appeared onstage as the custodians of a fifty-year cultural archive, and the audience moved through the space as […]

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Looking back across the years

Whitesnake have released what is claimed to be the last ever music video — 2025 remixed title track from the Forevermore album. This is the “unzipped” version, featuring the Hook City Strings ensemble and a gracefully aging DC.

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Smell of cedar trees

In the anticipation of Deep Purple’s gig in Dubai, local newspaper The National publishes an interview with Ian Gillan. Three years before joining the British band that is regarded as one of the pioneers of hard rock and heavy metal, Gillan was singing the harmonies of American jazz and doo-wop groups with Episode Six, a […]

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