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Chicken pickin’ counterpoint

Steve Morse talks to Rick Beato and plays some music. Dig in!

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Named after Glenn Miller

Louder Sound is reposting an interview with Glenn Hughes, first published in 2020. Flying away from the site of the California Jam, Glenn Hughes only twigged that he wasn’t actually under arrest when the ‘policewoman’ sharing his helicopter took off her hat, shook her hair loose and knelt down to unzip his white satin trousers. […]

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How blue can you get

We don’t know what exactly happened to Coverdale’s grandiose plans for the 30th anniversary of Coverdale/Page album, but it has been re-released in Japan as a limited edition 2LP on transparent blue vinyl. There does not appear to be any bonus material included. This reissue can be ordered from the Tower Records in Japan.

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Albums that changed Steve

In an interview for ClassicRockHistory.com, Steve Morse lists 10 albums that changed his life. And some of those might surprise you. # 10 – Meet the Beatles – The Beatles (1964) I first heard The Beatles on [the] Ed Sullivan [Show], which was a family show. I had gotten a small tape recorder and recorded […]

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Here she goes again

Lovely Elizabeth the opera singer is counting dead bugs on Tawny’s face while trying to figure out the difference between White Stripes and Whitesnake.

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Nice bell bottoms

Glenn Hughes played in São Paulo, on November 11, 2023, in the course of his Marks 3&4 tour. Red-hot chili pepper Chad Smith happened to be in the neighbourhood and sat behind the kit for a couple of tunes.

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Out standing in their print

A new transcription book of Steve Morse composition for the SMB 2009 album Out Standing In Their Field is now available. The book covers the following tunes: Name Dropping Brink of the Edge Here and Now and Then Relentless Encroachment John Deere Letter More to the Point Time Junction Unnamed Sources Flight of the Osprey […]

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Fired a couple of times, then hired back

A few months ago, we’ve posted an interview with Tony Carey. Here is a much, much longer version of that conversation that has surfaced on YT since then. Tony digs deeper into his Rainbow story, and talks at length on other aspects of his career and the state of music business in general. Yep, it’s […]

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Had a letter, once

Don Airey and Cozy Powell promote the Down to Earth Rainbow tour on British telly

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As subtle as a flying mallet

Louder Sound reprints a feature from the Classic Rock magazine on Whitesnake’s 1979 Lovehunter album: Working at Clearwell Castle, the 18th-century estate in the Forest Of Dean where Purple had prepped for both Burn and Stormbringer, the band re-hired Purple’s producer of choice, Martin Birch, who had also overseen Trouble, to man the console of […]

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