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The packaged Rock Legends Tour, featuring Joe Lynn Turner, among others, was supposed to take place in Germany and Austria throughout this October. The tour website now informs that for one reason or another it is not taking place. Some dates have been rebooked for late 2026 (some of those into smaller venues), others cancelled […]
Read more »Blabbermouth reports that Joe Lynn Turner will be a member of the jury for the Russian song contest Intervision that will take place in Moscow on September 20, 2025. Intervision 2025 is a Russian state-sponsored music competition, decreed by Russian president Vladimir Putin in February as an alternative to the popular Eurovision Song Contest, which […]
Read more »Music Radar has a short interview with Glenn Hughes, focusing mainly on his bass gear. How has your bass rig evolved since your days with Trapeze in the early ’70s? Well, Trapeze was all Hiwatt amps. And I wasn’t using pedals back then. I started using pedals in Deep Purple. But for me, it was […]
Read more »John McCoy has appeared on the Now Spinning Magazine podcast, talking about the Gillan band. It was an in-depth conversation, at 1 hour and 16 minutes, so we haven’t listened all the way through it yet. But we’re being assured that here John does not sound as bitter as in his other recent interviews.
Read more »The Telegraph has a fluff piece on the worst rock lyrics of all time. Dunno about the worst, but there are some awful stuff in there. Amongst it all, the two tracks are on topic for us. It is Highway Star, and Rainbow’s Man on the Silver Mountain. Anyone who loves the Ronnie James Dio-era […]
Read more »A couple of long term Gillan’s talks. You’ll need an hour and a half to go through them, so plan accordingly. On September 11, 2025, Ian Gillan was a guest in a Zoom meeting organized by The Third Age Trust. Here he talks about all thing in his life, from the early childhood to celebrating […]
Read more »A slideshow of historical photos, some very well known, some not so much. Caveat: dating for quite a few of them seems dubious. Best viewed in full screen.
Read more »In other Steve Morse news, he was recently featured in the American Musical Supply series Punch In with the Pros. Steve Morse, legendary guitar virtuoso, came through our studio and played a little game that we like to call “Punch In with the Pros”! We had Steve listen to the track “Fix You” by Coldplay, […]
Read more »Steve Morse Band’s new album Triangulation will be released on November 14, 2025, via Mascot Records. The album will feature Steve’s long time collaborators Dave LaRue on bass and Van Romaine on drums, plus guest musicians. Eric Johnson contributed his guitar to TexUS, and John Petrucci did the honours for the title track. Steve’s son […]
Read more »Get Ready to Rock‘s review of Rapture of the Deep remix is chock-full of most superlative terms, going as far as calling it “release of the year”. The opening track ‘Money Talks’ is a great start, the new mix showcasing a hard and crunchy guitar, and Don Airey’s inner Jon Lord shines through on the […]
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