![[hand]](/hs-pics/portraits/hands/gillan3.jpg)
![[face]](/hs-pics/portraits/faces/airey.jpg)
Gillan on Metal File
Big Ian has appeared with an interview on the Montreal’s CHOM-FM show The Metal File. Nothing really new was said there, but for the sake of completeness, here is the podcast.
Read more »Archive for the 'News' Category
Gillan at the Bruce Dickinson’s radio show
Ian Gillan will appear on the Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show on Friday, May 22. The show airs each Friday on BBC 6 Music between 9 p.m. and midnight and is available online for a week after that. In other news, a new installment of the Wordography is up on Caramba: She Thinks It’s a […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes joins Rhapsody in Rock
Glenn Hughes has been confirmed as one of the guest artists on this summer’s Rhapsody in Rock tour of Sweden. The tour will do seven shows in Sweden this summer. Other guest artist at the shows will be Albert Lee and LaGaylia Frazier. “Now this really lives up to the name Rhapsody in rock. This […]
Read more »The Naked Truth
Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited has done an interview with Gillan: Jeb: Are you comfortable that your music makes up some of those deep roots? Ian: I have constantly said, with the greatest respect to everyone, that you only have a very short time where you have any contemporary value. The rest of it […]
Read more »Montreux on German TV
German TV channel ZDFdokukanal is currently showing a documentary about Montreux Jazz Festival. From what we understand, the film includes an extensive interview with Claude Nobs and covers both the story of burning down the gambling house and the recent Deep Purple appearances at the festival. The documentary started airing on April 25 and will […]
Read more »Gillan and the human nature
On arrival for the brief visit to Moscow, an extremely tired and jetlagged Big Ian gave an interview on April 17 to Nevsky Express TV. Here are the excerpts from his stream of consciousness on his solo album, quantum theory, religion and human nature: Further instructions on operating nevex.tv’s player are just like before. Thanks […]
Read more »Guitar World Record on German TV
A new attempt on the Guitar World Record will happen on the German TV show Fernsehgarten on May 10th. We have covered the previous two records, both set in 2007 and both featuring Smoke On The Water: 1,802 players in Leinfelden, Germany and 1,721 players in Kansas City, USA. The new attempt will be made […]
Read more »Graham Bonnet interview
Rockpages.gr has a rather interesting interview with Graham Bonnet. While undoubtedly it was prompted by his resurrection of Alcatrazz, a good half of the interview is about the Rainbow days.
Read more »Jon Lord jam with Deep Purple in Tokyo – and Yngwie too
Last night, on April 15, Deep Purple were joined onstage by original keyboard player Jon Lord and Swedish speed shredder Yngwie Malmsteen at the International Forum in Tokyo. Jon Lord played two songs with the band – Perfect Strangers and Smoke On The Water. Yngwie Malmsteen only guested on Smoke. This marks the third time […]
Read more »Hughes: Mk3 reunion not happening
In case any of you had any doubts, now even Glenn Hughes says that he can’t see a Mk3 reunion happening. In his April 11 interview to The Classic Metal Show he says: You know, David (Coverdale) and I have been discussing this with Jon Lord for the last three years. It’s been on the […]
Read more »
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing