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Gillan on Artisan News Service
New York based Artisan News Service did a short interview with Ian Gillan about the current orchestral tour. Watch it inside.
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Martin Popoff’s ebooks
Both of Martin Popoff’s Deep Purple books — Gettin’ Tighter: Deep Purple ’68 – ’76 and A Castle Full Of Rascals: Deep Purple ’83 – ’09 are now available in electronic form. The ebooks have been published in PDF format, which is probably not the best option for pocket size readers, but are DRM free […]
Read more »The “new” guy in the band
In anticipation of the June 11 show in Atlantic City, another interview with Steve Morse appeared in the local press: I love being part of this. Musically this has been the easiest group I’ve been a part of. It’s a relaxed atmosphere.The songs are simply structured. I play with a band that has lots of […]
Read more »Inspiration, indulgence and turning 60
A fairly in depth interview with David Coverdale in the Goldmine magazine: Now you produced and co-produced with Doug Aldridge and Michael Macintyre? DC: Well we are “The Brutal Brothers.” It started way back when. I did a deal with an European independent company for a live greatest hits. And then I said ‘well, I […]
Read more »Mother’s Army reissue
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: “We’re doing what we do”
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 »Phoenix Rising chart positions
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 and Adrian Vandenberg onstage with Whitesnake
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 »Roger Glover “If Life Was Easy” album details
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 »Teraz Purple Rock
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 […]
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