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Archive for September, 2009



Ritchie Blackmore makes another top 10 list

This one’s from Review Fix, and focuses on Classic Rock guitar players. Everyone has an opinion, to be sure, but this list offers justifications along with the names, which is a nice change from the usual here’s a set of names approach. Read the details at http://reviewfix.com/2009/07/our-ten-best-episode-11-classic-rock-guitarists/

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Gillan on Rockpages

Rockpages Web Magazine in Greece conducted an exclusive interview with Ian Gillan before the recent band’s appearance in Athens. And as it is often with the Big Ian’s mind process it’s all in there — state of the British health care, prospects for a new album, the writing process, idiocracy, Cold War, and Darwin’s theory […]

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Don Airey: “You have to keep on going”

Don Airey recently gave an interview to Get Ready to Rock that covers a lot of his career, from the very first gig on a cruise ship to the recent (and now infamous) Oasis story. What have been your highs and lows in the music industry? Oh God! Well, the highs, they keep coming thick […]

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“Rock seniors took the festival by storm”

German newspaper Suedkurier has an article going into further details of the fascinating story of quick thinking, snap decisions and triumph of open mind that resulted in Deep Purple headlining Rock am See festival in place of Oasis. Here is the English translation: Deep Purple save the “Rock-am-See” festival Oasis: Cancellation Last Friday night, Oasis […]

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Purple to the rescue

Showbiz oriented website Pollstar tells the story behind Deep Purple saving the night at the Rock am See festival: Waking to a 2 a.m. phone call telling him Oasis wouldn’t appear at that day’s Rock Am See, it took Dieter Boes only a couple of hours to bring in Deep Purple as a replacement headliner. […]

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