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Rising sun and down under
It looks like the band will spend this spring (or autumn, depending on how you look at it) in Australia and Far East. Lennard Promotions has just announced the 2010 Deep Purple Australian tour
Read more »Archive for January, 2010
New album from Don Airey?
Joe Bonamassa has reported on Facebook that he recorded with Don Airey this week. No more information at this moment but Bonamassa referred to it as “Don Airey’s record”.
Read more »More details on the Hughes super group
At the Guitar Center’s Drum-Off last weekend, Jason Bonham did a tribute to his father, the late John Bonham from Led Zeppelin. Glenn Hughes was Bonham’s guest at the show. In an interview before the show, Bonham talked about his new band featuring Joe Bonamassa and Glenn Hughes. “I just literally went into the studio […]
Read more »Jon Lord announces new album
Jon Lord will release his new all instrumental album, “To Notice Such Things”, on April 5, 2010 through Avi Records. Titled after its main work – a six movement suite for solo flute, piano and string orchestra – the album was inspired by, and is dedicated to the memory of Jon’s dear friend Sir John […]
Read more »Morse: “Music works across the borders”
On January 3rd Steve Morse spoke at length to the Long Live Rock show. The hour-long interview covers a lot of ground — touring all the weird places, the act of recording being a charitable event, his new SMB album, Steve Howe influences, Steve’s stint with Kansas, Purple camp plans for 2010 (touring in Australia, […]
Read more »Double dose of Steve for California
Steve Morse has six dates lined up in California in January with his band. He will support himself with the public debut of the Angelfire project — a collaboration with young vocalist Sarah Spencer.
Update: Angelfire will appear only on January 14th, 15th and 16th dates, not on all six as we reported earlier.
Kevin Shirley remixing CTTB
Glenn Hughes has broken the news that he’s been indeed working with Kevin Shirley, and they are working on the Come Taste The Band remixes.
Update — Kevin Shirley: “I’m diggin’ it… I was a Deep Purple fan before I was a Zeppelin fan…”
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow and other things
The Rainbow Fanclan has a new interview with Graham Bonnet where he delves into some historical anecdotage: – You recorded “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” before you were in Rainbow, so I assume it was your idea to do it live. No, not at all [laughs] – Did Ritchie hear you sang it before. […]
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