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Rolling Stone magazine (shock! shudder! who’d have imagined they still write about music?) has an interview with Ian Gillan, in which answers the question recently raised elsewhere. After the conversation detoured from the new album to the Rock’n’Roll HoF nonsense, it ended up with this: There was a lot of controversy this year with Kiss’ […]
Read more »[Warning: contains setlist spoilers] Cory Frye, who became mildly famous in these quarters after his passionate review of Now what?!, has a feature in Oregon’s Albany Democrat-Herald promoting Purple tour. It is a well written introduction of the state of the band in 2014 for the uninitiated, based on an interview with Steve Morse.
Read more »Eagle Rock will release a new Deep Purple video, titled Live in Verona. This is the show at the Arena di Veriona — an ancient Roman amphitheater — on July 18, 2011, from the orchestral tour. It is due on October 20 in the UK in DVD and blu-ray formats. There are no further details at this point.
Read more »Illinois Entertainer has a cover story on Deep Purple with interview from Roger Glover, who seems to be the go-to spokesperson for the band on the upcoming tour. The nice bit is also that the anonymous interviewer(s) seem to know their Purple marbles. IE: Most fans and music industry insiders consider Machine Head to be […]
Read more »Roger Glover spoke to the Arizona Republic to promote the upcoming tour. After telling the now familiar story of making the last album, an interesting questing popped up: Q: You and Ian made your first appearance on 1970’s “Deep Purple in Rock.” Were you a fan going into that? A: Ian and I differ on […]
Read more »California Breed has announced more European tour dates in November. It appears that on the continent they will be headlining the shows. Full details in our calendar. News also came out that Joey Castillo (Queens of the Stone Age) will be playing drums on all upcoming dates as “it became clear that Jason Bonham’s professional […]
Read more »Obligatory disclaimers: 1. The quote below is in reverse translation from Polish. No translation is 100% accurate. Double translation… 2. The interviewee has a quite a track record of trolling performing practical jokes. Given both points, take the following with a generous pinch of salt and don’t get too too excited just yet. Ritchie Blackmore […]
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