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Leading up to the 44th Montreux Jazz Festival (which will be held in July), MontreuxJazz.com started a weekly column of ‘behind the scenes’ reminiscences. This week Claude Nobs recalls the events of the Casino fire in December 1971. Nothing really new in his story, but there are photos of the fire that I’ve never seen […]
Read more »Back in 1970 Mike Thorne worked as an assistant at the De Lane Lea Studio in London. One day his sound recording experiment with an air conditioner became a part of Deep Purple lore: Several massively expensive tube mics (a Neumann U67 now fetches maybe $5000 on the used market) were placed strategically in the […]
Read more »Very interesting interviews with Roger Glover, Ronnie Dio, Eddie Hardin, Ray Fenwick, and Alan Aldridge (author of the book). This was filmed circa 1999 (a poster of a 1999 DP gig in Hamburg can be seen at one point).
Read more »The Rainbow Fanclan has a new interview with Graham Bonnet where he delves into some historical anecdotage: – You recorded “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” before you were in Rainbow, so I assume it was your idea to do it live. No, not at all [laughs] – Did Ritchie hear you sang it before. […]
Read more »Mickey Moody gave an interview to RockPages.gr. Not surprisingly, good three quarters of it revolves around his days in Whitesnake: Rockpages.gr: Did you feel a full member of Whitesnake or just a player in David Coverdale’s band? Micky Moody: Full member, indeed. I wasn’t getting the full money, but that’s another story! The only time […]
Read more »David ‘Rock’ Feinstein told Classic Rock magazine a story of Blackmore the weatherman causing a riot by refusing to go on stage: It happened when I was in Elf in the early 1970s. We supported Deep Purple at an outdoor show in the grounds of Cornell University, in Ithaca, Upstate New York. It was a […]
Read more »Martin Popoff has a follow-up volume to his book Gettin’ Tighter. A Castle Full Of Rascals: Deep Purple ’83 – ’09 follows the tradition of Gettin’ Tighter and Rainbow: English Castle Magic by narrating the band’s history “in their own words”, through extensive original interviews. Which makes for a very entertaining reading, if maybe slightly […]
Read more »Classic Rock magazine reports that there is a new live compilation in the works by Purple Records. It will be released in November and will mark the 10th anniversary of the label. The double CD compilation will be called Space Truckin’ Round the World Live 68-76. Track list: CD 1 1 Hush (Inglewood 1968) 2 […]
Read more »Back in 2003 ITV1 Wales did a documentary on Roger Glover. Now, with it’s appearance on Youtube, all of us who missed it on TV and on the bootlegger’s grapevine, have a chance to see it.
Read more »Don Airey recently gave an interview to Get Ready to Rock that covers a lot of his career, from the very first gig on a cruise ship to the recent (and now infamous) Oasis story. What have been your highs and lows in the music industry? Oh God! Well, the highs, they keep coming thick […]
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