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John “Dawk” Stillwell has passed away unexpectedly earlier this week. He was a musician and electronics engineer from Ithaca, NY, who started working with the local band Elf in early 60s. When Roger Glover and Ian Paice started producing Elf in 1972, Roger liked the sound of Ronnie’s bass so much, that he commissioned Dawk […]
Read more »Doogie White celebrates 20th anniversary of Stranger In Us All with this podcast special, full of good old Scottish joviality and excellent music: And because Doogie is such a good lad, we’ll also plug a new album with his old pals from La Paz — Shut Up And Rawk! — to be released in April. […]
Read more »Well, if one good thing came out of this whole Hall of Fame saga, it’s additional publicity for the band. And in show business there’s no such thing as bad publicity. In anticipation of 2016 inductees being announced on December 17, Classic Rock reached out to Paicey for a comment: Well, who would they induct? […]
Read more »Classic Rock has an opinion piece by Neil Jeffries titled Will Ritchie’s RAinbow rise… or plummet down to earth?. Which, really, says most of it. He has his doubts, and so does truly yours. So, almost two decades after giving up rock to play alongside his wife in the semi-acoustic Blackmore’s Night, the Deep Purple […]
Read more »Mike Eriksson (of the Swedish Deep Purple Forever fan club fame) is posting a series of articles in his blog dedicated to what ended up being the last Deep Purple tour in the 1970s. Which, coincidentally, was happening 40 years ago as we speak — at the end of 1975 and beginning of 1976. 40 […]
Read more »Deep Purple Italia has an interview with David Keith, the drummer from Blackmore’s Night who was also tapped to play the three gigs next summer under the Rainbow moniker. How is it working with Ritchie Blackmore? Ritchie certainly has a reputation for being difficult to work with, but I have honestly found it to be […]
Read more »Purple music is prominently featured in the new installment of the Evil Dead horror comedy franchise — TV series Ash vs. Evil Dead. The first episode theme was Space Truckin’, with Highway Star featured in the second. For all the wrong reasons. Creator Sam Raimi explains: When my brother Ivan and I were writing the […]
Read more »A 2002 vintage interview with Roger Glover done by Eric Blair was recently posted on YouTube (watch inside)
Read more »The world is not exactly inundated with books detailing the story of Deep Purple. Chris Charlesworth’s Illustrated Biography had been pretty much the only source for decades, but it’s been out of print for a very long time, and nowadays is not considered terribly accurate. The text has been updated by Simon Robinson into the […]
Read more »Several of our readers have commented encouraging other people to participate in the Hall of Fame voting. Here’s why this is a bad idea. It seems that many people are still under the impression that the winner of the fan ballot is automatically inducted into the hall. This is not the case. The the fan […]
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