Steve Vai shares with Music Radar a couple of stage mishap stories from his stints with David Lee Roth and Whitesnake. Vai recalls a similar incident on stage with Whitesnake and the band’s singer David Coverdale. “It wasn’t too different,” Vai says. “Fast forward a couple of years and I was playing Jones Beach Theater […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-03-18
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Vincent Price the other day seemingly opened a floodgate, and a generous helping of live clips from 2013 got posted today. We are talking, of course, about From The Setting Sun (Live In Wacken), which was a sibling release for To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo).
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-03-15
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This is a 1977 vintage interview with the country gentleman Ian Gillan, taken during the IGB Japanese tour.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-03-15
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For no apparent reason, the record company has posted a live clip of Vincent Price from To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo), released almost 10 years ago.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-03-15
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We were wrong, and the classic Gillan video bonanza continues unabashedly. In this instalment: frenetic miming to New Orleans at the Top of the Pops, dated March 26th, 1981.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-03-08
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Elizabeth the opera singer is getting her Dio fix by listening to Man on the Silver Mountain, and rather surprisingly, it is the album version.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-03-04
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In this video, dated December 1979, Ritchie Blackmore makes some noises for a few minutes, eventually settling upon Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Supported by Messrs. Glover, Airey, and Powell.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-03-02
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That other opera singer is getting awestruck again by Ian Gillan’s take on Gethsemane
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-02-28
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A couple of items from the desk of our trainspotting department. British TV series SAS Rogue Heroes is a WW2 action/adventure drama based on “mostly true” events. What it lacks in historical accuracy, it makes up in the entertainment value. And a very anachronistic soundtrack. Season 2, episode 5 features a convoy of said rogue […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-02-20
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A piece in Ultimate Guitar goes all drooling over this guitarist’s take on Blackmore’s solo in Burn: Here’s How Ritchie Blackmore’s ‘Burn’ Solo Should Sound in 2025 Now, I know what you’re thinking: “What do you mean it ‘should’ sound like anything?” Of course, you’re right, Ritchie Blackmore’s solo section in “Burn” is the stuff […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-02-18
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