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This Wednesday morning Jon Lord will talk to TotalRock radio in London in an interview with Malcolm Dome. You can listen online from anywhere. Jon Lord will appear on Malcolm Dome’s Phantasmagoria between 10am and 12am, chatting about his music and his appearance on ChildLine Rocks. You can listen live online via Total Rock’s website […]
Read more »Big Ian teamed up with Steve Morris some time ago and they have recorded an unplugged session for UK’s Absolute Radio.
Read more »Before the Purple gig on May 1 in Wroclaw, Steve Morse joined the croud of six thousand other guitar players to set the new world record at the Thanks Jimi Festival. The official tally was 6,346 people playing together Hey Joe, more than tripling the standing record for the “Largest Guitar Ensemble” of 2,052 set […]
Read more »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 »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 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 »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 »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 »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 »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 […]
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