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Back in 2016, when Deep Purple were performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Simon Robinson arranged a visit of Roger Glover and Don Airey to the building that used to be The Grand Hotel in 1971. Here is Roger talking about the events that unfolded 45 years prior right where it happened.
Read more »Roger’s bass playing rarely get the same recognition as the other musicians in the band. Here’s one example when it does — a professional, Berklee educated, and Deep Purple hating (shock! horror!) bass player learns the Highway Star bass line and discovers the beauty of it. For bass players, tackling a Deep Purple song means […]
Read more »Speaking of the “best of 2024” lists, Machine Head made it to the Classic Rock magazine Best rock reissues of 2024: Yup, the one with Smoke On The Water. That song, and this album, made Deep Purple legends all over the globe. This, essentially, is a three-CD version. The first disc pairs the Dweezil Zappa […]
Read more »Rhino Entertainment in the US will be re-releasing a number of their back catalogue items on vinyl as part of their Rocktober event. The following items could be of particular interest for our pages. Available October 4 Deep Purple — Machine Head 1-LP on Black vinyl IOMMI — The 1996 Dep Sessions 1-LP on Translucent […]
Read more »One of our most prolific commenters Uwe Hornung writes: I know, I know, we’re not a guitar player forum, but this here is real interesting. It shows how Blackmore created THAT otherworldly studio sound of the Highway Star solo by harmonizing it (and breaking traditional harmony rules in places as he did not properly discern […]
Read more »Analog Planet has an extensive interview with Roger Glover, accompanied by a brief review of =1. Roger talks about the new album, the bad old days, various Machine Head remixes, including the latest, working with Bob Ezrin, and many other things. Mettler: None of us are perfect strangers to any of that, to borrow an […]
Read more »The second part of the Sound & Vision interview with Dweezil Zappa on his Machine Head remix. Part 1 was here. Mike Mettler: Did you reference, or at least get to listen to, the previous quad and 5.1 mixes of Machine Head as reference points for your Atmos remix? Dweezil Zappa: I didn’t have access […]
Read more »Louder Sound has a article on Machine Head remix, based around an interview with Ian Gillan, with some contributions from Ritchie Blackmore, Dweezil Zappa, and Bruce Dickinson. Couple of quotes from Big Ian: I can see why [the record companies] are doing it. They have to make the music reach today’s audiences, I suppose. Everyone […]
Read more »As promised earlier, Sound & Vision publishes their full review of the 2024 Machine Head remix: The more aurally adventurous among us are in for one helluva ride. Dweezil’s stereo remix will indeed grab you in somewhat unexpected ways (a la “Never Before”), but it’s in Atmos where Machine Head gets to do some literal […]
Read more »Sound & Vision magazine (of an audiophilious inclination) has an interview with Dweezil Zappa on remixing Machine Head in Atmos surround. Zappa’s Atmos mix of Machine Head—which has quite specifically and very deliberately been dubbed a “remix”—will most definitely challenge the ears of any Deep Purple fan, new or old, who knows the core album […]
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