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Bravewords has a Martin Popoff’s interview with Nick Simper (with contributions from Mick Underwood). Simper talks about his current projects — The Good Old Boys, Purple Mk1 shows with Nasty Habits, and the old days. Although no groundbreaking revelations there, Nick is not being inertviewed too often these days, so it’s an interesting read.
Read more »Frontier Records is set to release as a live album Joe Lynn Turner’s performance at the United Forces Of Rock Festival in Ludwigsburg, Germany on September 30, 2007. The new live album will be aptly (if a little unimaginatively) titled Live In Germany and will hit the street on October 10. This will be the […]
Read more »It looks like there’s a new band in the purple family. It’s called Purple Rainbows and the lineup is Joe Lynn Turner — vocals, Bobby Rondinelli — drums, Tony Carey — keyboards and Craig Goldy — guitar (no word yeat as of who’ll take bass duties, but I hear that Glenn Hughes might be available). […]
Read more »Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night will be interviewed live on Kerrang! Radio. They will be guests of the “paranormal radio presenter” Yvette Fielding on her Fright Night show on Friday March 14th 2008 at 10:30pm UK time (5:30pm EST). You can try your luck listening to the station online and access archives at whatson.com (“for […]
Read more »More Black Than Purple will be hosting a Purple convention on May 3rd in Bedford, UK: Wymer UK is pleased to announce a Deep Purple convention celebrating the momentous occasion of forty years since the inception of this classic hard rock band with a 12-hour marathon of all things Purple. The event will be held […]
Read more »A new interview with David Coverdale appeared this morning on several sites. He talks mostly about the new album, Good To Be Bad: Would you say that GOOD TO BE BAD is a mixture between your blues roots and a modern attitude? Any other influences? For me it has all the elements, all the ingredients […]
Read more »New interview with Joe Lynn Turner on Classic Rock Revisited. Quite interesting even if you don’t agree with everything he has to say. He talks about his latest album Second Hand Life, his days in Deep Purple and the prospects of a Rainbow reunion and other things. Here are some tidbits: Jeb: Do you think […]
Read more »Whitesnake.com reveals cover art for the new Whitesnake album Good To Be Bad: Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson for the info.
Read more »DeepPurple.org has an exclusive interview with Don Airey. He talks about his new album A Light in the Sky, Stanley Kubrick, Aurora Borealis, ways to cope with musicians’ stress, and jamming in 7/4. Read the interview here. Thanks to Mike Garrett and Gordon Dale for the info.
Read more »In a message posted on Myspace Glenn Hughes reveals title of his new album: Hi Everyone, I am very happy to announce the world release of my new Album: “First Underground Nuclear Kitchen”…… It will be available the first week of May. I am extremely proud of these songs. When I record songs, I never […]
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