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Ritchie Blackmore’s interview that he gave to Radio Veronica (and was teased online a few weeks ago) has been now posted in its entirety. It is more entertaining rather than informative, owing that to the very dry sense of humour of said gentleman.
Read more »A press release was issued today with details on the new Glenn Hughes solo album. The album is called “Resonate” and will be released on Friday 4th November 2016. The press material doesn’t mention if this is in Europe only or world-wide. Glenn Hughes has produced the album together with his current guitar player Søren […]
Read more »The Graham Bonnet Band is releasing a brand new album called The Book, It will be a double, with 11 new songs, and a bonus disc with 12 rerecorded classics, including 4 Rainbow tracks.
Read more »Glenn Hughes posted on his Facebook page that him and Joe Bonamassa have started writing new music for an upcoming Black Country Communion album (scheduled for release in May 2017): Here we go #BCC friends – followers & fans .. Here is @joebonamassa and I @glennhughesonline ?we started writing BCC4 at my LA home today […]
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And we’ll leave you today with this little gem. (watch inside)
Read more »Pat Thrall joined Glenn Hughes for a couple of songs at the latter’s gig in Las Vegas the other day. They performed Muscle and Blood and First Step of Love from their 1982 eponymous album.
Read more »British paper The Guardian has published a retrospective of their coverage of heavy metal “from its inception almost 50 years ago”. The interesting part are the reproductions of two contemporary reviews of seminal Purple performances: the premiere of the Concerto for Group and Orchestra and the California Jam. Attempts to unite European “classical” music with […]
Read more »Our Japanese correspondent sent in this interesting piece of Mk1 memorabilia. It is one of those compilations that can now be considered as bizarre, but at the time probably made quite a lot of sense to the record company. I bought this at a second-hand record shop in the 1970’s. Entitled “Battle of Deep Purple […]
Read more »An interview with Jon Lord recorded in June 2011 at the Blues en Bourgogne Festival in Le Creusot, France. It is relatively unknown as having been published in early July this year, it managed a whopping 32 views on Youtube by the time of this publication almost 2 months later. The fact that the video […]
Read more »To quote the source, “Here’s something that you don’t see every day…” Well, let’s continue quoting. Just because. Put together by Australian TV “Guitar Gods and Masterpieces” host Hack Wanger, “Don’t You Tell Me Not To Play Guitar” is a massive international charity effort to raise money for the E.J. Whitten Foundation to promote awareness […]
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