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Chasing the goat
Garth Webber, guitar player, sound engineer, and owner of the Red Rooster Studios in Berkeley, California, reminisces about his encounters with Tommy Bolin
Read more »The public decide those things
The Guardian has a piece on the casino burning down and associated shenanigans as a part of their How we made series. With input from Roger Glover and Ian Paice. RG: There’s a great photograph of singer Ian Gillan with his notebook open and the first two verses written. I’m sat opposite him listening to […]
Read more »He said a hey, hey, hey yeah!
A newly restored and robotically upscaled Gillan live video from the BBC’s Rock Goes to College series. It is the ever so frantic performance of New Orleans, complete with guitar demolition (wonder where Bernie got this from).
Read more »Eye for eye, tooth for tooth
Another track from Gillan’s performance at Rock Goes To College from February 23, 1981, has been posted. Here’s Big Ian seeking Vengeance.
Read more »No funky music for him
A couple of historical clips. The first one is about Mark 3, with snippets of contemporary interviews from Glenn Hughes and Ritchie Blackmore: The second one is a report on the 1975 Sunbury Festival from Australian TV, including an interview with Jon Lord and Glenn Hughes: Thanks to Ritchie Blackmore Official channel for posting these.
Read more »Stealing Deep Purple
A new book about the 1980 bogus Purple debacle is available from a print-on-demand house Lulu Press. It is also said to be going out to regular retailer channels at the end of September. In 1980, greed was good and you could get away with stealing just about anything, even a band name. At the […]
Read more »Act like a clown, without being laughed at
A vintage interview Ritchie Blackmore gave to Melbourne radio in November 1976.
Read more »Heating has improved since then
Back in 2016, when Deep Purple were performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Simon Robinson arranged a visit of Roger Glover and Don Airey to the building that used to be The Grand Hotel in 1971. Here is Roger talking about the events that unfolded 45 years prior right where it happened.
Read more »Let’s see the accounts
Here’s a “preview” of the second part of John McCoy’s interview with Rock Daydream Nation. Mind you, the complete first part, of which we also featured just a preview, clocked at an hour and 14 minutes. Here John continues lamenting the many wrongs that happened during the run of the Gillan band.
Read more »Hold tight
Another Friday, another (yep, you’ve guessed it) classic Gillan video clip. This time it’s On the Rocks off the Rock Goes to College from February 23, 1981.
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing