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Leicester Mercury has a short interview with the two Ians. The bigger one states his view on the alleged upcoming AI armageddon of creativity: My feeling about anything artistic is the beginnings of it should be organic but the development and production values, that can be technical. We’ve always benefited from advances in technology, whether […]
Read more »The Dead Daisies have announced a second show featuring their reunion with Glenn Hughes. It is scheduled for October 2, 2026, in the Los Angeles area. What started as a one-night-only event at Chicago’s Arcada Theatre in May has become something much bigger! Following an incredible fan response and overwhelming demand, The Purple Daisies continue […]
Read more »Steve Morse has appeared on the RealMusicAI podcast. In this special excerpt from a full conversation with Dr. Bill Evans, legendary guitarist Steve Morse joins the discussion to react to something unexpected. Using AI, Bill was able to recreate a missing portion of one of Steve’s live performances, filling in a section that was never […]
Read more »Simon McBride spoke to ROCK ANTENNE and the end result has been posted to youtube. It’s not without some technical difficulties: audio is out of sync with video, and it sounds like audio is also cutting in and out at times. Nevertheless, here it is.
Read more »Louder Sound reprints online a Classic Rock short feature on Paice/Ashton/Lord that originally appeared in issue 249 (May 2018) of the magazine. Paice Ashton Lord are the neglected branch on the Deep Purple family tree. Not surprising, given that their existence amounted to just one studio album and a handful of live gigs. But it […]
Read more »Guitar World has another excerpt from the interview with Simon McBride slated to appear in the printed version of Guitarist. “Steve [Morse] is a great player, but he’s a different sort of player, so that was a big thing for me – to get that big, powerful sound,” he tells Guitarist of his tonal task […]
Read more »The Norway Rock Magazine features interviews with Roger Glover and Don Airey in their issue #127 (2/2026). The magazine is available for your perusal online, and the interviews in question are even in the original English, yay!
Read more »Ian Gillan gives a track-by-track rundown of the Splat! lyrics for his hometown newspaper The Portugal News: “Arrogant Boy” Billy is an ordinary guy who sticks his head up above the parapet and says to the political elite: “Hey do something, stop arguing, just get on with it, make life better for us”. And they […]
Read more »Another British newspaper, The Telegraph profiles Ian Gillan, and while our regulars probably won’t learn much new from there, it is well put together and without glaring mistakes (which as all know, is not a given). In 1970 his voice prompted an unexpected call – would he sing the role of Jesus in the recording […]
Read more »Blues Rock Review reviews Splat! in absolutely glowing terms: As AI inexcusably blitzes a forgettable culture of monotonous mediocrity, Deep Purple auspiciously land with a balls-to-the-wall Splat! to the good old days. This is what you call ‘musicality’ kids. If a band that spacetrucked and highway starred in the 70s can still produce songs this […]
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