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Quite carried away

A vintage article about Roger Glover and his then upcoming project Butterfly Ball. This originally appeared in Sounds on November 9, 1974. Glover has a ball By Pete Makowski Roger Glover is a satisfied person nowadays. Since his departure from Deep Purple, Glover has steadily been building up a good reputation as a record producer […]

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At the controls of a spacecraft

On this slow(ish) news day, we will leave you with a couple of items that the mailman delivered to our trainspotting department. Sir Elton Hercules John writes about the keyboard geniuses who blew his mind for The Guardian. Jon Lord gets a mention: And as the decade progressed, keyboard players progressed too, away from their […]

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The melody is hot and the message so sweet

Deep Purple opened the final leg of the 2024 tour with a show at the Spodek in Katowice, Poland, on October 17. The setlist got a bit of a shakeup, with 6 songs off the last album being played live. Spoilers inside.

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Feeling slightly inadequate

A new instalment of tales from The Tavern by His Blackness. It’s short and sweet.

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Gillan box set

7 Gillan the band albums will be reissued as a box set on February 14, 2025, by Demon Records. The albums featured in this set are as follows: Gillan (The Japanese Album) – Originally released in September 1978, this was the debut of the band formed by Ian Gillan after leaving the Ian Gillan Band. […]

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Iommi/Hughes in the charts

The two Iommi/Hughes albums — The Dep Sessions and Fused, were reissued October 4, and both entered the UK charts. The Dep Sessions at #7, and Fused at #11 in the Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart, at #62 and #77 respectively in the Albums Sales Chart, and at #63 and #80 in the Physical […]

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A Circus

Ronnie Romero has contributed vocals to the self-titled album of a studio project called A Circus. The driving force and main songwriters of the project is the father/son duo of Alfredo (bass, father) and Luca (guitar, son) Federici. The band is rounded up with Gian Marco Verdone (keyboards and arrangements), and Canadian drummer Shane Gaalaas. […]

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Couple of bars or a chord change

Prior to his recently concluded Australian tour, Glenn Hughes appeared on the Scars and Guitars podcast. He talked about Purple marks 3 & 4, the Hughes/Thrall project, collaborations with Tony Iommi, Dead Daisies, and many other things.

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The cunning linguist, vol. 2

Since the first collection seemed to go down well, the inimitable aficionado of Gillanisms David Black has sent us another one. No Staffordshire bull terriers were harmed while preparing this for publication. Or so we’re told. Smoke On The Water — Nobody’s Perfect This may seem like a devilish ploy, but it’s one way to […]

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All right now

The year was 1976, and on March 24 Sweet were playing a show in Santa Monica, California. It was just days after the death of Paul Kosoff, so they decided to pay him a tribute by performing a cover of Free’s All right now for the encore. Ritchie Blackmore was in the neighbourhood, and joined […]

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Life before Google

Steve Morse recently sat down to chat with American Musical Supply about all things music, from guitar tone versatility to J.S. Bach. This is a long conversation, at an hour plus, but if you watch it directly on YouTube, there is a convenient table of contents with direct links to individual chapters. Or just sit […]

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New country with Vivaldi

Steve Morse collaborated on a new track with guitar player Angel Vivaldi. They have recorded a cover of New Country by Jean-Luc Ponty.

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They were going nowhere

Ritchie Blackmore recounts George Harrison joining Deep Purple on stage on the Perfect Strangers tour in Australia

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Real joy flowing through it

An online publication called Cult Following somewhat belatedly, but eloquently reviews =1: New hard rock from the Smoke on the Water gang. Some things never change. With Deep Purple, a lacklustre album image and the promise of unwavering rock fundamentals are a guarantee. No problem for those stuck with this sound for decades but some […]

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Minor nines and major sevens

Another Glenn Hughes Australian interview, this time with the Spotlight Report. SR. Now that you are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Burn, how does it feel to look back on such a landmark album? GH. Look, it was a moment for all of us where we were at a castle writing that album, having fun, […]

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Doing nostalgia for Australians

In anticipation of his Australian tour, Glenn Hughes recently spoke to The Rockpit: Andrew : How did you find working with Blackmore? At that stage he was moving more towards a classical style that has distinctively become his over the years. Glenn : Ok Andrew, let’s talk Turkey here. The Holy Trinity, in my opinion […]

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Tonight on the BBC

BBC Four TV channel will be showing a Radio 2 in Concert Deep Purple appearance from November 16, 2017, playing in front of a live audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. It will air on October 4, 2024, at 22:05 local time, and will be available on the BBC iPlayer for 30 days after that. […]

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And that’s how you lose the Concerto

Nathan and John at the Deep Purple Podcast are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Concerto for Group and Orchestra resurrection with a couple of episodes. The cherry on top is a bonus podcast with almost an-hour-and-a-half chat with Paul Mann. We highly recommend picking up a time to listen through it.

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The low-end expertise

The Bass Player magazine reprints online a 2010 vintage interview with Glenn Hughes conducted in the wake of the first Black Country Communion album. How did Black Country Communion come together? Joe was a fan of my work with Trapeze. We’d been hanging out, secretively making music, knowing that one day we’d do something. Then […]

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At the most blissful

Here’s quite an off the wall conversation between Glenn Hughes and an Indian guru Atma Nambi, that happened on August 18, 2024. Among other things, Glenn confirmed that he has finished recording a new solo album, which should be out some time next year. Namaste!

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