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Kayla from the Third Stage
Another track from the upcoming Flying Colors live album Third Stage was posted today — Kayla.
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Dead Daisies, Tony Iommi, and Trapeze
If you need a reprieve from all the Whoosh hoopla, here is an interview with Glenn Hughes done by Thunder Underground podcast. The interview itself starts at around 23 minute mark.
Read more »To be a musician, not a rock star
Here is the third and the final installment of the interviews from the Japanese Burrn! magazine Deep Purple special, courtesy of Akemi Ono who graciously supplied us with the reverse translations. Roger Glover’s interview from the series can be found here and Ian Gillan’s here. Burrn! August 2020 edition Ian Paice Interview Ian Paice is […]
Read more »Call it impressionistic
Cleveland.com has an interview with Ian Gillan. And if by reading it you get a sense of deja vu, you’re not alone. After all, there are only so many ways to answer the same questions being asked over and over again. The track “Man Alive,” which you released in advance of the album, is about […]
Read more »A household name
PR people at Edel are certainly learning their upkeep this time around as Whoosh got a mention on CNN (watch inside)
Read more »A songwriter that happens to play bass
Here is the second part of the interviews from the Japanese Burrn! magazine Deep Purple special, courtesy of Akemi Ono who graciously supplied us with the reverse translations. Burrn! August 2020 edition Roger Glover Interview Roger Glover considers himself very lucky. At a bass players conference, he said “If you want to move forward, find […]
Read more »Whoosh previews
The band’s record company posted this preview today. Here’s another chance to judge the album before listening to it in its entirety. 😉
Read more »Getting the facts straight
Ian Gillan spoke to Songfacts, explaining the lyrics for Throw my Bones and Nothing at All, before moving to “a few red lights”, “Perfect Strangers”, and “pony trekker”. Songfacts: What was the lyrical inspiration for the song “Throw My Bones”? Gillan: “Throw My Bones” is something that people did in prehistoric times to see if […]
Read more »We’re talking about state of the art
Roger Glover was on WLVQ radio a few days ago, having another one of those “Mr Grover ‘n’ Mr Gillian” moments — speaking about Whoosh for one second, and then retelling the story behind Smoke for the umpteenth time.
Read more »The joy of music
Japanese Burrn! magazine has a 17-page Deep Purple special in its August 2020 issue. The feature includes pictures, discography, and interviews with Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and Ian Paice. Our Japanese correspondent Akemi Ono has graciously supplied us with the reverse translation of the more interesting tidbits of the three interviews. Here is the first […]
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