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Wednesday morning December 24th at 8:15 am (US Central Time), Greg Prato will be a special call in guest on KKMA KOOL 99.5 FM in Sioux City, Iowa with Big Daddy in The Morning. Greg will be joined in the studio by Johnnie Bolin. Greg will be discussing his new book Touched By Magic: The […]
Read more »Roger Glover has posted an end-of-the-year message on his website, plus some photographic moments from 2008 and a new batch of fan pictures from meet&greets around the world. Of particular note, he has been digging his tape archives in search of bonus material for a Perfect Strangers reissue planned for the next year. That’s right, […]
Read more »EMI has pushed back to February release date for the Stormbringer remaster. The release was already announced for January 19 and is advertised so at online retailers. The new date that we have is February 23. There will be 3 packages: a CD+DVD (CD with original album + Glenn Hughes remixes), DVD (audio only, quadraphonic […]
Read more »A slightly squeezed Big Ian gives update on his solo album and wishes everybody Merry Christmas.
Read more »Local media in Norway reports that Whitesnake is announced to play the Rock Fæst in Halden on May 22. What’s more interesting, they will be supported by Glenn Hughes and the Come Taste The Band tribute band. A couple of weeks ago Glenn offered this caustic comment in his Twitter blog on the possibility of […]
Read more »Touched by Magic: The Tommy Bolin Story is the new book written and published by Greg Prato. To many, Tommy Bolin was the legitimate heir to Jimi Hendrix’s rock guitar throne. Stints with the James Gang and Deep Purple –- as well as solo albums and a groundbreaking release with jazz-rocker Billy Cobham –- certainly […]
Read more »Music Week reports that EMI is seriously considering closing down it’s Olympic Studios in London and to that effect entered into a “consultation process” with the staff of 11. It is understood that the studio is not profitable. This means that EMI could be left with only one operational studio — Abbey Road. Olympic Studios […]
Read more »We have an unconfirmed report that Planet Rock radio aired an interview with Ian Paice on Saturday night, December 13, and it is supposed to be repeated again on Tuesday, December 16 at 6 pm (British time presumably). Planet Rock’s schedule lists My Planet Rocks show airing on Tuesdays at 6 pm, so you might […]
Read more »Although there has been no word yet from Thames Talent, it looks like the summer Deep Purple tour is shaping up. New tour dates are being announced by the local media and are trickling in almost on a daily basis. For some of these, tickets are already on sale or going on sale shortly. So […]
Read more »On the eve of the first ever Whitesnake concert in Ukraine, David Coverdale appeared at a press conference in Kiev. Here we present you with the complete video recording of the event (about 20 minutes long). There’s quite a few of Purple reminicencies in there and plenty of trademark David’s joviality going on.
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