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What’s gonna happen when they’ll run out of movie titles?

Italian webzine Truemetal has a lengthy interview with Roger Glover, which was done by an obvious fan. That makes it twice as interesting for us as the usual fare from the mainstream press (even the musical mainstream press). This album is the band’s twenty-first over more than 50 years of career. I guess this is […]

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We do is what pleases us

Rock Candy magazine has Deep Purple as their cover story of issue 21 (August/September 2020). Inside is a feature promoting Whoosh that includes interviews with both Ian and Ian. Check out the opening spread (pdf). Couple of quotes from Gillan: The early days were fabulous. Everything was new and wonderful and shocking. Things got bigger […]

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Learning what not to do

Paicey with the new installment of The Chief answers your questions on his DrumTribe channel.

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Unboxing Whoosh

Paicey is unboxing the Whoosh box set. The album is due for release on August 7, finally!

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We live in hope

Roger Glover is doing publicity blitz for the new album, and was a guest on Detroit radio WRIF yesterday, July 27, talking to a slightly clueless, but typically enthusiastic classic rock radio DJ.

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Decay beautifully and slowly

Paicey gives the rundown of his stage setup, including how’s and why’s. There’s not much to add here.

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Great friend and music colleague

July 16 marked 8 years since the passing of late great Jon Lord. Paicey reminisces about his brother in law.

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The Hooker Lees and other stories

Glenn Hughes was a guest on Live From Nerdville with Joe Bonamassa. A lengthy (45 minutes) chat ensued and as you can imagine, quite a lot of ground has been turned over.

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The Lockdown Sessions

The Dead Daisies digital EP, called The Lockdown Sessions, will be released on July 17 via German label SPV. The Lockdown Sessions contains four acoustic tracks recorded during the global pandemic lockdown: Unspoken Righteous Days 30 Days In The Hole (Humble Pie cover) Fortunate Son (Deen Castronovo on lead vocals) The first three tracks in […]

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Success as impediment to progress

A rather interesting interview done with Ian Gillan in Australia in 1999. It is particularly interesting to see how well what he said about evolution of the band some 20 years ago has aged.

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