Prior to his recently concluded Australian tour, Glenn Hughes appeared on the Scars and Guitars podcast. He talked about Purple marks 3 & 4, the Hughes/Thrall project, collaborations with Tony Iommi, Dead Daisies, and many other things.
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2024-10-14
4 Comments
The year was 1976, and on March 24 Sweet were playing a show in Santa Monica, California. It was just days after the death of Paul Kosoff, so they decided to pay him a tribute by performing a cover of Free’s All right now for the encore. Ritchie Blackmore was in the neighbourhood, and joined […]
Read more »
Posted in Blog by Nick on 2024-10-08
41 Comments
Ritchie Blackmore recounts George Harrison joining Deep Purple on stage on the Perfect Strangers tour in Australia
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2024-10-05
48 Comments
Nathan and John at the Deep Purple Podcast are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Concerto for Group and Orchestra resurrection with a couple of episodes. The cherry on top is a bonus podcast with almost an-hour-and-a-half chat with Paul Mann. We highly recommend picking up a time to listen through it.
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2024-09-30
34 Comments
The Bass Player magazine reprints online a 2010 vintage interview with Glenn Hughes conducted in the wake of the first Black Country Communion album. How did Black Country Communion come together? Joe was a fan of my work with Trapeze. We’d been hanging out, secretively making music, knowing that one day we’d do something. Then […]
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2024-09-29
22 Comments
Ritchie Blackmore tells the story of writing and recording of Smoke on the Water.
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2024-09-22
89 Comments
Louder Sound prints some quotes from a 1975 vintage Blackmore interview that originally appeared in the inaugural issue of the International Musician and Recording World magazine: Assessing some of his peers, Blackmore confessed that he “wasn’t struck” on Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, and admitted “I never saw what was in Clapton at all.” In a […]
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2024-09-13
61 Comments
Ritchie Blackmore recalls the story of how Child in Time (née Bombay Calling) came into being.
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2024-09-09
22 Comments
Louder Sound reprints Ian Gillan’s 1973-84 out-of-Purple career retrospective that originally appeared in the Classic Rock magazine issue #92. There has never been a dull moment in Ian Gillan’s career. From his 60s bands The Moonshiners, The Javelins and Episode Six to his three separate stints in Deep Purple, via an unlikely one-album service in […]
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2024-09-03
12 Comments
Ritchie Blackmore reminisces from his bar about various encounters with Eric Clapton he had over the years.
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2024-08-30
15 Comments