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Sing not the same old song
We’ve announced earlier this year a cover of Sail Away done by an Austrian trio Restless Bones with Don Airey adding the Hammond magic touch from his home. The video is now available on Youtube.
Read more »Archive for October, 2021
Not in Kansas anymore
Steve Morse has been spotted among the musicians on the first solo album of violin player and a fellow Kansas alumnus Robby Steinhardt (albeit they never were in the band at the same time). The album is naturally called Not in Kansas Anymore and is touted as a prog opera. This Steinhardt’s solo outing also […]
Read more »Through the windows of room 56
A contemporary report from deep in the bowels of a certain Grand Hotel in Montreux, Switzerland. This was originally published in January 1, 1972, issue of New Musical Express. Charlie Chaplin would approve Richard Green, mixing with the Rothschilds, reports from the bizarre home-made studios in Switzerland where Purple are cutting their new album, `Machine […]
Read more »Shoveling snow in Staffordshire
Metro UK e-paper has an interview with Glenn Hughes in their Lifestyle section. It covers an angle of Glenn’s life that probably hasn’t been covered before — his experience as a homeowner. When did you buy your first home? The first home I bought was in Penkridge, Staffordshire in 1971. It’s a very beautiful area […]
Read more »Dismissed and vilified
Far Out magazine just published an opinion piece on the much maligned Velvet Underground album Squeeze. Yep, the one featuring the one and only Ian Paice on the drums. There’s not a whole lot on how exactly Paicey came into the picture, but more on how the album itself fits into the VU legacy. Reed’s […]
Read more »The classical side of Mr. Morse
For the guitar players out there, Premier Guitar has a tutorial focusing on “a very refined technical and compositional approach steeped in classical studies” of Steve Morse. The classical influence of Morse’s playing is where I want to focus. Below, I’ve touched on a few examples in the style of some of Morse’s more well-known […]
Read more »Remember, remember the 5th of November
Roger Glover, Bruce Dickinson, et al. tout the upcoming performance of Jon Lord’s Concerto for Group and Orchestra in Hungary.
Read more »Heads and tails
A vintage interview with Ian Gillan, originally printed in the December 26, 1970, issue of the New Musical Express. Snob groups make Ian purple with rage By Richard Green It becomes a bit strong when groups get so selective in their attitude towards work that they cut their dates down to one or two a […]
Read more »Out on parole
Apparently the promotion campaign for Turning to Crime has already begun, quietly so far. Roger and Big Ian have been spotted doing interviews on October 11 at the Park Hotel in Oberhausen, Germany. Check the photo gallery at a stock photography website.
Read more »Jailhouse Rock in Saltburn-by-the-Sea
A lengthy interview with david Coverdale in the Antihero magazine provides a nice distraction certain criminal activities going on around us. Antihero Magazine: Taking you back, what would’ve been the first music that you remember hearing? David Coverdale: Oh, the first influential song? It’s so interesting, after losing my mom some years ago, I was […]
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