Vincent Price the other day seemingly opened a floodgate, and a generous helping of live clips from 2013 got posted today. We are talking, of course, about From The Setting Sun (Live In Wacken), which was a sibling release for To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo).
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-03-15
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In January 2024, Louder Sound reprinted a Classic Rock feature on Deep Purple Mark 4, which apparently slipped under our proverbial radar. It was penned by Geoff Barton for the issue 58 (October 2003) of the magazine. “I must say that the last tour for me was horrendously wrong,” Glenn Hughes says today of Deep […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-03-15
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This is a 1977 vintage interview with the country gentleman Ian Gillan, taken during the IGB Japanese tour.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-03-15
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Louder Sound has a recent (conducted in November 2024) interview with Ian Gillan about his Gillan the band years. Big Ian seems frank, not avoiding unpleasant topics, and does not mince words much. Gillan the band’s forerunners the Ian Gillan Band had come to an end when keyboard player Colin Towns brought in a song […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-03-10
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We were wrong, and the classic Gillan video bonanza continues unabashedly. In this instalment: frenetic miming to New Orleans at the Top of the Pops, dated March 26th, 1981.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-03-08
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In this video, dated December 1979, Ritchie Blackmore makes some noises for a few minutes, eventually settling upon Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Supported by Messrs. Glover, Airey, and Powell.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-03-02
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Speaking of newly restored classic videos, here’s Wring That Neck from the French TV show Chorus on November 14th, 1970.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-02-28
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A probably final (at least, for a while) instalment in the restored classic Gillan video series. Behold the infamously frenetic version of the rock’n’roll classic Lucille
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-02-28
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The penultimate instalment of the freshly restored classic Gillan videos. This week, it is Long Gone
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-02-21
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It’s that time of the week — time for another freshly restored classic Gillan video
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-02-14
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