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Ian Paice’s homage to Jon Lord became the subject of a cover feature for the French magazine Batteur. The feature appears in November 2014 issue (No. 285). If you have your subscription lapsed, the magazine can be ordered via journaux.fr (€5.90 + shipping).
Read more »Guitar World has an article on Yngwie Malmsteen’s 80s cover of the Highway Star which contains an undated quote from Blackmore about the two solos on the track, both becoming legendary: I wrote that out note for note about a week before we recorded it. And that is one of the only times I have […]
Read more »This may look like yet another cover band, but what’s interesting about this one, is that it is made of students and teachers of a school in Oskarshamn, Sweden. They played a concert last Friday, November 22, which included Burn, The Mule, Space Truckin’ and Smoke On The Water. The core of the band consists […]
Read more »Twin sisters Camille and Kennerly Kitt, better knows as the Harp Twins, made their name by playing covers of rock tunes and music from the movies arranged for two harps. And being very easy on the eye doesn’t hurt either. 😉 Their latest instalment is Smoke on the Water: Frankly, this one leaves me a […]
Read more »Adrenaline Mob is a project of ex-Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy with Symphony X vocalist Russell Allen. Guitar player Mike Orlando and bassist John Moyer (Disturbed) round up the band. They have released an album of original material last year, followed this March by an EP of covers, with Rainbow’s Kill the King among them:
Read more »Can a lady at the piano sound just as badass as messrs. Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord and Paice did back in 1972? Judge for yourself.
Read more »Billboard reports that Carlos Santana is going to record a cover of Smoke on the Water for his next album: Santana hopes to keep the love going on his next album, another project overseen by [Sony executive] Davis that continues the guest-laden path of “Supernatural,” “Shaman” (2002) and “All That I Am” (2005) — only […]
Read more »Dream Theater are releasing their new studio album called Black Clouds & Silver Linings on June 23. The special edition of the album will include a bonus CD of covers, with Rainbow’s Stargazer and Dixie Dregs’ Odyssey among them. Drummer Mike Portnoy talks about the decision to cover Rainbow: The album is given an elaborate […]
Read more »Musical tastes of the current Russian president Dmitry Medvedev have been well publicized. Undoubtedly, Finnish president Tarja Halonen was aware of this when choosing entertainment for the official state dinner this Monday April 20 in honour of Medvedev’s visit to Finland — she invited singer Timo Kotipelto and guitarist Matias Kupiainen (both from Stratovarius) and […]
Read more »In case you’ve been wondering what Doogie White is up to these days, he got back with his old friends from the Scottish band La Paz. A couple of weeks ago they did a Rainbow/Purple tribute show in Glasgow. Here’s a clip of Mistreated performed that night:
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