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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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Montreux calling

Montreux Jazz Festival is not happening this year just like everything else. They’ve decided to celebrate their 54th summer by posting a series of select performances from the past years. Yesterday they posted clips from the 2011 Deep Purple performance. Yep, that’s the year when the band toured with orchestras.

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From Trapeze to Spring & Airbrake

Cherry Red Records in the UK will be releasing the third installment of Glenn Hughes’ Official Bootleg Box Set on July 31, 2020. It will contain 6 disks. CDs 1 & 2: Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, November 17, 1995; CD3: Astoria 2, London, November 18, 1995; CD4: Esquires, Bedford, May 3, 2008; CDs 5 & 6: […]

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Lucifer, Isaac Asimov, and Ringo Starr

Classic Rock has an article on the intriguing story behind The Mule, with multiple quotes from the star of the hour himself — Paicey. As with the majority of compositions by the Mk II Purple line-up, The Mule is credited equally to the classic quintet of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Jon Lord, Roger Glover and […]

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Nothing at All

Another single — Nothing at All — from the upcoming Deep Purple album Whoosh was released today, July 10.

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Here comes the drum solo

A new installment from Ian Paice Drumtribe — couple of drum solos recorded during one of the An Evening With clinics some time around 2007.

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26 if you count

A lengthy (over an hour) and thus very interesting chat with Steve Morse, courtesy of Sea of Tranquility. Dig in!

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The headless drummer

Paicey posted a video of him playing with the Buddy Rich Orchestra at the Ronnie Scott’s Club in London last year. Watch out for the quick recovery at 10:52 — blink and you’ll miss it.

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