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One take with a bit of a jam at the end

A lengthy and rather entertaining interview with Don Airey appears in Metal Shrine: I just realized that you´ve spent a great deal of time in Deep Purple by now. How would you describe these years? Don Airey: Yes, I´m amazed myself. Well, very fruitful and I couldn´t have wished for anything nicer to happen to […]

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The art of not ticking the boxes

Martin Popoff did an interview with Bob Ezrin for BraveWords: I didn’t come into this thinking that I had a mission. I came into this a little bit reluctantly, thinking that they were looking to me to make a contemporary rock album with Deep Purple, which I didn’t feel was appropriate, or could be done […]

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Bob Ezrin on KLOS

Bob Ezrin was interviewed by Los Angeles radio KLOS, with a good half of the conversation revolving around Deep Purple and Now what?!. Ah, and he also tells an anecdote how way back then he turned down an offer to produce none other but Made in Japan:

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Hell to Pay choir

Nimbus School of Recording Arts is a music production, audio engineering and recording facility in Vancouver, Canada, of which Bob Ezrin is one of the co-founders. In October 2012 students of the school got an opportunity to be on the new Deep Purple album: Bob Ezrin was recording with Deep Purple at his studio in […]

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Putting the deep back into Deep Purple

Bob Ezrin gave a keynote interview on Saturday, March 23, at the Canadian Music Week in Toronto and told the story of how he got to be the producer of Now what?!: I wasn’t really thrilled with the idea because I didn’t want to be pegged as ‘the guy who does old people,’ so I […]

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Heartbreak Hotel… and everything changed!

Now what?! promotional campaign is upon us and Big Ian spoke to Noisecreep. He talked about Bob Ezrin, garage bands, Cliff Bennett, Rock’n’Roll HoF, congregational euphoria, and his most memorable show. Bob Ezrin, huh? Not too shabby. Between you and me [laughs], because this is just like us sitting in a bar or something, the […]

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WhoCares to release an album

Ian Gillan and Toni Iommi’s charity project WhoCares will release a compilation (with a few rarities thrown in) on June 22 via earMusic. Geoff Barton of Classic Rock Magazine spoke to Big Ian about the project: Tell us about some of the stuff on the WhoCares album, beginning with the Repo Depo track. Repo Depo […]

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New album producer

Darker Than Blue reports that in an interview to the French magazine Rock Hard Steve Morse said: Well I think it’s now confirmed, it’s Bob Ezrin who will produce the new Deep Purple album Bob Ezrin is, of course, known for his production and songwriting work for Alice Cooper (most recently on Welcome 2 My […]

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