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All Night Long in Munich
Don Airey is wrapping up his solo tour of Europe that was rescheduled from last September. On January 20 he and his band have performed in Munich. Here’s some video evidence from the act.
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Paice! Moore! Airey! Murray!
Gary Moore, Ian Paice, Don Airey and Neil Murray performing Hurricane in 1982 at the Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany.
Read more »Taking off the mask with Roger Glover
The promo video for Roger Glover’s single The Mask from 1984 has surfaced on Youtube. Peter Lippman directed the video for Roger Glover and PolyGram Records. He writes: ‘Gotta say, this was a unique video to work on! Roger’s song is very interesting and he has excellent showmanship!’ The album showed yet another fascinating side […]
Read more »Retrofashions
For now particular reason. Just made me burst. I remember my 14 year-old niece. She was wearing a t-shirt that said “The Beatles” as everyone in her school wore them. I asked her if she ever listened to “The Beatles” and she replied “Who?” and I said “The Beatles, you know like your T-Shirt says.” […]
Read more »Mark III reunion: episode MMIX
Rumours of a Mk3 reunion have been flying around for a while now, always turning to sum up to about exactly nothing. In the most recent resurrection of the idea, Peter Makowski of Classic Rock talks about it like of a definite possibility: In separate interviews David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes and Jon Lord have all […]
Read more »Top 40 Singers in Rock
UK digital radio station Planet Rock has complied another indispensable top list that we can get upset over and correct to our own liking. Because we always know best, don’t we? The Greatest Voice in Rock Top 40 was compiled by the station’s DJs, presenters and listeners with the help of musicians, rock critics and […]
Read more »See Smoke On The Water
This one is for the science geeks. You’ve all heard Smoke On The Water, perhaps several times too many. But ever wondered what it looks like? Here’s your big chance. An inventor from Norway demonstrates his gas burner that visualizes sound waves (in quite ingenious way, I must say). A tank of propane gas, a […]
Read more »Coverdale offers advice to Jimmy Page
David Coverdale has offered his advice to Jimmy Page on how he thinks the Plant-less incarnation of Led Zeppelin should work. He thinks that a number of different singers should perform with the band instead of just one: My suggestion to him when I saw him in the summer was to do what Carlos Santana […]
Read more »Most complete guitar players top list
Envision Radio Networks’ Chop Shop Guitar Show has announced The Chop Shop’s Top 100 Most Complete Guitar Players of All Time. Yes, yet another top list. You have every right to be sceptical, but this one at least makes an attempt of being quasi-objective. Each guitarist was ranked by a five member panel of “industry […]
Read more »Ashton’s tribute to Lennon
Back in 1996 Tony Ashton recorded a song in tribute to John Lennon. The song is called The Big Freedom Dance and is named after Hamburg’s Grosse Freiheit Strasse, which housed the famous Star Club, showcase for many of Britain’s young musicians in the 60s. This was where the Beatles first made their mark, and […]
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