Joe Lynn Turner recently gave an interview on Eddie Trunk’s satellite radio show, and Blabbermouth has big chunks of it transcribed. And what is transcribed is mostly JLT taking pot shots at Blackmore for excluding him from the Rainbow comeback, and insisting that he’s not feeling sour grapes at all. I thought it was a […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2016-02-22
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Glenn Hughes US tour dates for march this year had to be rescheduled for August / early September due to his slow recovery from a recent double knee replacement surgery. Most of the dates have been successfully moved, with a handful that had to be cancelled. We can only presume that original tickets will be […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2016-02-13
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Ronnie Romero, the singer in the latest incarnation of Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, has spoken to Metal Shock Finland about his appointment and first impressions of working with the legend Ritchie is: We had some jamming sessions and some new ideas for the songs. Ritchie is different from what the people think – it’s very easy […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2016-02-12
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Four fifths of the Mark 2 (Gillan, Glover, Paice, and Jon Lord’s estate) issued an official response to the news that their former management companies DP(O) and HEC went into administration: It has come to our attention that two companies, Deep Purple (Overseas) Ltd (“DPO”) and HEC Enterprises Ltd (“HEC”) have recently gone into administration […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2016-02-03
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In a new episode of Banger TV, David Coverdale is discussing bear population of Yorkshire (watch inside)
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Posted in News by Nick on 2016-02-03
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HEC Enterprises and its successor Deep Purple (Overseas) are essentially bankrupt. Details are pretty scarce as to how and why did this happen, but both companies have been administered since January 19 by a firm called ReSolve Partners Limited with the goal of offering their business assets for sale. HEC Enterprises and Deep Purple (Overseas) […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2016-02-01
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Roger Glover pays tribute to the recently deceased Lemmy, iconic BBC DJ Ed Stewart, and David Bowie (who managed to turn dying from cancer onto a work of art): It’s said that bad news comes in threes. It did this last week. RIP Lemmy, Ed Stewart and now Bowie. Ashes to ashes. I met Lemmy […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2016-01-12
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Classic Rock reached out to Nick Simper for a comment regarding his his conspicuous omission from the Hall of Fame inductees: The first I knew about the Hall Of Fame induction was when I read about it and fans were complaining that I wasn’t being inducted. Maybe I am being naive, but I always thought […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2016-01-08
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Detroit classic rock radio station WCSX has a quote from Ian Paice regarding the band’s immediate plans: We all come over to your huge country after the Christmas break. We start around the end of January. We’ll go back into the studio in Nashville with Bob Ezrin; We had such a great time making the […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2016-01-04
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Deep Purple’s monitor company HK Audio interviewed Ian Paice during the last German tour: Band’s monitor engineer extraordinaire Rob Hodgkinson speaks about the nuts and bolts of the job. Most of you would not be familiar with his work, as he is the man responsible for members of the band hearing each other on stage. […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2015-12-30
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