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CNN has a less-than-a-minute-and-a-half long report on the new album Splat!. Apparently, dropping the name of Keith Urban into the mix doesn’t hurt with getting some mainstream exposure. Ain’t no such thing as bad publicity, right? Watch is on CNN.com.
Read more »Deep Purple have returned to reign on Olympus of hard rock. Magnificent, one of the best Deep Purple records ever. It has everything inside: riffs, catchy melodies, groove, inspired solos, and guitar/keyboard duels. The BPM is generally high; the slow pace of many — too many — mid-tempo songs from the Morse era is a […]
Read more »Location: Auditorium de Castrelos, Vigo, Spain. A fantastic location in the style of an amphitheater in Vigo’s largest park. Conditions: a hot summer evening/night – still around 29 degrees Celsius when the concert began (22:00) Entrance fee: 15€ price sponsored by the City of Vigo, as they do it every year for a series of […]
Read more »Stick Twirlers Monthly, also known as Modern Drummer, has posted a close-up study of Ian Paice playing Highway Star with his closest friends. This is a follow-up of a video relased in late 2024 where Paice did a rundown of his drums and towel holders for the Modern Drummer YouTube channel. Question is of course […]
Read more »Another British newspaper, The Telegraph profiles Ian Gillan, and while our regulars probably won’t learn much new from there, it is well put together and without glaring mistakes (which as all know, is not a given). In 1970 his voice prompted an unexpected call – would he sing the role of Jesus in the recording […]
Read more »Blues Rock Review reviews Splat! in absolutely glowing terms: As AI inexcusably blitzes a forgettable culture of monotonous mediocrity, Deep Purple auspiciously land with a balls-to-the-wall Splat! to the good old days. This is what you call ‘musicality’ kids. If a band that spacetrucked and highway starred in the 70s can still produce songs this […]
Read more »A couple more interviews in the anticipation of the new album release. Roger Glover talks to Noise11 straight from his slightly dishevelled hotel room
Read more »The new album Splat! is technically still a few hours away, and it seems like everybody and their dogs are reviewing it. Ultimate Classic Rock: There’s no theme here per se, but Gillan does populate the songs with cautionary tales and characters falling from grace, some reflection on aging and tongue-in-cheek macho posturing (“I’m a […]
Read more »Simon McBride talks to Andy Guitar about the new album, the first riff he ever learned, and 65 thousand people singing Highway Star.
Read more »Simon McBride talks shop to the Guitar World: “I played everything on this record with a prototype from PRS,” McBride tells Guitar World ahead of SPLAT!’s release on July 3. “The idea is that there’s no truss rod,” he continues. “It goes back to the early days when guitars had no truss rods because I’m […]
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