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Back in 1990s Joe Lynn Turner was a member of project called Mother’s Army. Jeff Watson was playing guitar, Bob Daisley was on the bass and Carmine Appice on drums, later replaced by Aynsley Dunbar. The band managed to put out 3 albums: self titled (1993), Planet Earth (1997) and Fire On The Moon (1998), […]
Read more »Steve Morse gave a brief interview to the New Jersey’s Star-Ledger: This one isn’t going to be orchestra-based so much as: It’s the rock band Deep Purple playing, with strings and horns being added for some color textures. We’re not going to change the songs — I mean, there’ll be a few little cameos and […]
Read more »The Mk.4 DVD Phoenix Rising was released in Europe on May 20 and went into the charts in several countries: #4 Finland Album charts #2 Sweden DVD charts #38 Norway general charts #50 Austria Album and DVD charts #25 UK Indie charts #22 Germany General Music Charts This release came out in several packages, which […]
Read more »Bernie Marsden (right) and Arian Vandenberg (background) performed onstage with Whitesnake at Sweden Rock Festival tonight. This is the news fresh in from The Highway Star’s on-site reporter Svante Axbacke, tweeting from the festival site. ‘He helped me start this band,’ David Coverdale said about Bernie Marsden, and the two hugged and played Ain’t No […]
Read more »This hodgepodge collection of songs reveals or obscures a range of emotions over a turbulent decade; separation, divorce, injustice, uncertainty, new love, escape, fatherhood, grand-fatherhood, emigration, touring and losing my mother are some of the extreme highs and lows during this storm-tossed period. All were written wherever I was living – on a MacPro with […]
Read more »The latest issue (No. 6/2011) of Teraz Rock, a Polish hard rock magazine, has just appeared and contains lots of Purple related stuff: It’s the 100th anniversary issue of the magazine, and it publishes a list of 100 the greatest albums of all time. Three Deep Purple ones are mentioned: In Rock, Machine Head and […]
Read more »Yiannis Dolas of RockPages.gr did a lengthy interview with Ian Gillan regarding the WhoCares project: Rockpages.gr: You performed in front of the crowd in Armenia, both just after the earthquake in 1990, as well as now, 20 years later. What was the reaction you got, now, and twenty years ago? Ian Gillan: Well, times are […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes recently spoke to Jeb Wright and his interview now appears on Classic Rock Revisited: Jeb: I think Derek is the band’s secret weapon. His solo albums have great guitar players on them like Zakk Wylde. He is amazing. Glenn: Derek’s role is very, very important to our band. He is like Jon Lord […]
Read more »Prior to the beginning of this North American tour Roger Glover spoke to Boston Herald. His interview now appears online: It’s a Deep Purple gig. There’s no concession to the fact there’s an orchestra there, and it’s not really even an orchestra. It’s some strings, some horns and it’s as much jazz as it is […]
Read more »In anticipation of the June 11 gig in Atlantic City, NJ.com has an interview with Steve Morse: Steve Morse’s idea of a week off from touring as part of the rock band Deep Purple? Putting in 18-hour days at his Florida hay farm. “I am arranging to do a little cutting” of the hay, Morse […]
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