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While on tour in São Paulo, Brazil (the gig there was on April 22), Roger Glover spoke to Rock Hard Greece. Among other things, he was asked about the possibility of announcing a “special” final show: No, I don’t think that’s a great idea. I’ve never liked that idea. In fact, I don’t even like […]
Read more »In a dark and sweaty room
Several bootleg quality audio tracks purported to be from the 1984 tour rehearsals have been posted on Youtube.
Read more »Invoking ghost of Sharon Osbourne
David Coverdale appeared on Paltrocast promoting the Still Good to Be Bad reissue. Some of it you may have heard before, and some other probably not. I can’t not be honest about this, that and the other, who’s the inspiration for this song, who was that… it would be a spilling of the beans, which […]
Read more »A freshly coiffed DC
David Coverdale recently appeared on That Rocks! podcast. He talks about flying in hairdressers, the future of Whitesnake, brutalist architecture, and the “nether region”, among other things. Some of which you may or may not have heard previously. The episode is over 1 hour and 20 minutes long, and David joins about halfway into it.
Read more »Worn in, but not worn out
A short, but sweet interview with Steve Morse in Beaver County Times on the occasion of a couple of upcoming SMB gigs in Pennsylvania. I quit (Deep) Purple because the tours were too long and we had a health emergency in my family with my wife having Stage 4 cancer. I told those guys ‘I […]
Read more »Glenn and Yngwie to tour US
Glenn Hughes will take his ‘Celebrating 50th anniversary of Burn‘ to the United States. The tour will start on August 16 in New Jersey and stretch into late September. The opening night in NJ and the Dallas show will be just Glenn and his band, while the rest of the tour is a double bill […]
Read more »Buffet of all the sounds
David Coverdale spoke to the Metal Edge magazine, mostly about the ’87 self-titled Whitesnake album. Coming out of Deep Purple, what was your vision for Whitesnake? And how have you expanded on that since the ’70s? David Coverdale: It’s a buffet of all the sounds that I love. Some of the arrangements are symphonic because […]
Read more »But no emptiness, no eagles, and no snow
This gentleman travelled all the way down to Montreux to tell the story we all know. The short film is nicely put together, and he managed to get inside the Résidence des Alpes (née THE Grand Hotel).
Read more »You can’t hold him
Fans of Mark 3, rejoice! Glenn Hughes has opened his 50th anniversary of Burn tour with a couple of shows in Gothenburg, Sweden. Here is a video from the concert on May 6, 2023.
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