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Mean one-finger Smoke on the Water
The band Primus did a series on YouTube where they auditioned new drummers for the band. There were a couple of DP family references and I have edited them together for your pleasure.
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Unbelievable!
Couple of letters from the trainspotting desk of our Department of Silly Little Things. Deep Purple got a mention on BBC Radio 4 show The Unbelievable Truth. The premise of the show is guest comedians trying to smuggle truths past their opponents. The opponents have to spot the truth among the lies. In series 31 […]
Read more »Ride Captain Ride
Joe Lynn Turner has recorded a track for the upcoming tribute album from Cleopatra Records called Yacht Metal — Yacht Rock Goes Heavier & Louder. It is a cover of Ride Captain Ride, originally by Blues Image. The track is now available as a single. It was 1970 and ‘Ride Captain Ride’ was the big […]
Read more »Bernie Marsden’s Icons
A posthumous Bernie Marsden album was released on May 9, 2025. It is called Icons and continues the Inspiration series of cover albums he started several years ago to pay tribute to the artists that were influential on his music. The album includes two Bernie’s originals — Kestrel and Barford Blues, the rest are covers. […]
Read more »Bubble in your beer
Them restored classic Gillan clips, they’re still coming! Here is Mr. Universe as performed on the BBC show Rock Goes To College on February 23, 1981, and complete with Bernie Tormé’s guitar solo. Now all cleaned up and restored by the latest wonders of technology.
Read more »The iconic guitar sound
Get My Guitar blog profiles Ritchie Blackmore, including his sound, influences, top 5 tracks, technique, and historical equipment. While our regulars probably won’t find anything new there, it can be recommended as a well written introduction for the uninitiated. Fans often note that Blackmore’s playing is not just about technical prowess—it’s about emotion, storytelling, and […]
Read more »Pretty much the first take
Bass Player magazine has an interview with session player extraordinaire Lee Sklar. And he thinks that working on Billy Cobham’s album Spectrum with Tommy Bolin, among others, was a highlight of his 2,000-album (by the latest count) career. What are some of the moments in your career that you think of as outstanding? “Stratus with […]
Read more »It did remain a side project
Louder Sound reprints online a Classic Rock interview with the members of Black Country Communion, conducted on the occasion of their second album release. The interview was originally published in the Classic Rock magazine issue #160, dated June 2011. What began as a brief side-project for Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian […]
Read more »Earth was shaking, they stood and stared
There’s a new, very unofficial remaster of California Jam. The video was cleaned up and upscaled, which is laudable, but the audio stays pretty much the same. Which is regrettable, as in our humble opinion it is the sound that’s the weakest link of the recording.
Read more »Good to see you vertical
Some time in 2019 Ian Paice visited his colleague Lee Kerslake, who was filming a documentary about his musical career and battle with cancer. Lee passed away in 2020.
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