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Archive for June, 2023



Blind man cries in Kraków

Our contributor Tobias Janaschke writes: Hello from the Baltic ocean, I would like to take this opportunity to say a few open and appreciative words to/about Ian Gillan: This man (like the others) gives everything for this band and is the only one who cannot change his instrument — his voice. And he has no […]

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Love, The Duke

In the latest installment of Question Time with DC (hat airs on Whitesnake TV), the aforementioned DC shares a story of how he traded autographs with Hollywood icon John Wayne (the Alamo, Crazy Horse, and Geronimo not included). There used to be a lovely dark bar at the Beverly Regent hotel called the El Padrino […]

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They All Came Out To Montreux

A three part documentary about the Montreux Jazz Festival, titled They All Came Out To Montreux, will air in the UK on BBC Four starting at 10:15 PM on June 16. The film was directed by British filmmaker Oliver Murray. If you are interested in music documentaries, you might have seen his previous works Ronnie’s […]

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No chain of events can shackle him down

Graham Bonnet appeared on the Vintage Rock Pod(cast), talking about his illustrious career, starting all the way from back in the 60s. Almost half of the conversation dealt with his days in Rainbow. That segment starts at about 7’15” into the podcast, however, we encourage you to listen to the whole 50+ minutes thing — […]

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BCCV in the works

[Updated] Black Country Communion has been resurrected. Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Derek Sherinian, and Jason Bonham are working on their fifth album right now, at the Sunset Studios in Los Angeles.

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Leave it at that

While on tour in São Paulo, Brazil (the gig there was on April 22), Roger Glover spoke to Rock Hard Greece. Among other things, he was asked about the possibility of announcing a “special” final show: No, I don’t think that’s a great idea. I’ve never liked that idea. In fact, I don’t even like […]

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In a dark and sweaty room

Several bootleg quality audio tracks purported to be from the 1984 tour rehearsals have been posted on Youtube.

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