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Hughes on Berlin radio

[Updated] A Glenn Hughes’ interview will be on the air this Sunday on the Rock City Radio Show Berlin. The interview is from November 23 when California Breed played in Berlin. The presentation of the show is in German, but Glenn is not overvoiced. The part with Glenn is about 45 minutes long (including music).

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Essentially loud

French-German TV channel Arte will be airung a new documentary called Hauptsache laut (Essentially Loud) this Saturday, January 17 at 22:00 CET, repeated on Saturday, January 24 at 1:55 CET. The documentary focuses on how the rock music became the loud music. A number of very loud luminaries have been interviewed for the film, including […]

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California Breed no more

And just as some of our readers have predicted, California Breed is no more. Less than a year after the project was revealed to the world. The band has announced today via Twitter:

We are no more… another thing we couldn’t keep together.

and on Facebook:

The band is over. What a logo though, right?

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Santomato Live

An Italian new report on Paicey’s appearance in Santomato on December 19. Includes a bit of the press conference where he talks about challenges of playing under less than perfect conditions. (watch inside)

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Live for the moment

In his annual end-of-year message, Roger Glover recaps what happened in 2014 and concludes with holiday greetings: The best of the season to all and thank you to friends old and new, the steadfast DP crew and management, my band-mates, my webmaster Andreas Thul, and not least of all to the people that came to […]

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Long Beach 1971

Another archival release is being prepared by Edel, and this one looks quite interesting. Titled simply Long Beach 1971 it contains a widely bootlegged show from July 30, 1971, recorded for University of Southern California’s radio station KUSC, to be aired on their Monday Night Airbag Live show hosted by Elliot Mass. Darker Than Blue […]

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Yet another JLT interview

Joe Lynn Turner appeared on the Sex, Drugs & Rock’n’Roll podcast. Frankly speaking, none of us had the patience to sit through it, so if anyone does and finds that there was something interesting, please post in comments.

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Repackage, release, repeat

Parlophone will be re-releasing the Concerto’69, In Rock and Fireball repackaged as a 3CD box set on January 9. Curiously, Concerto track listing includes both the Hush / Wring That Neck / Child in Time trifecta and the 3rd Movement encore, somehow all squeezed on one CD (the 2002 remaster came out on 2CDs clocking […]

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Roger gets university fellowship

[Updated with video] BBC reports that Roger Glover has been made an honorary fellow of the South Wales University “in recognition of his contribution to music and the creative industries.”

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Sunflower Jam 2012 release

Sunflower Jam and earMUSIC are going to release the 2012 show on CD and DVD on March 2, 2015. Titled Paice’s Sunflower Superjam – Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2012, it will be available in CD+DVD and DVD+CD editions. As far as we’ve been able to ascertain, both will include the same content, the […]

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