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Christmas Crackers from Lake Tahoe
David Coverdale’s version of Christmas greetings includes the best of Whitesnake TV for the 2012, complete with some blues unlugged and personal memories of Jon Lord recalled. (watch inside)
Read more »‘Tis the season
The season is upon us and Steve Morse sends his thoughts: Holiday Time is here. The reason I know that is that I’m home and can see all the traffic in town. Before any greetings, let me voice all of our sorrow for the tragic murder of all of those children and staff in Connecticut. […]
Read more »A bittersweet year
Roger Glover sends his traditional end-of-the-year message to the world: From winter in Canada to another winter in France. In all, three months of touring, several hot months spent recording a new album, get the laundry done and that’s it; a year slips by. A bittersweet year. It was in the studio in Nashville that […]
Read more »The Road To Nashville pt.2
Roger Glover has posted another progress report on the state of the new Deep Purple album: As I stated in the last missive, after five weeks the band left Nashville with fourteen tracks all but complete. The only thing missing was the vocals. IG had several ideas floating around but only one or two were […]
Read more »The road to Nashville — a potted history
Roger Glover has posted the first studio report covering events that transpired behind the purple curtains between March last year and today: March 2011 – The quest starts at a mountaintop retreat in the south of Spain – a hidden studio in a house called El Cortijo, ruled by a veteran skin-beater by the name […]
Read more »“No plans for a new album” from Coverdale
David Coverdale posted to his message board on what he’s been up to: At this time there are no plans for a new studio album of new material… we are busily mixing & editing a ‘live’ album & a separate in concert DVD from the ‘Forevermore’ world tour, plus mixing an special expanded editions of […]
Read more »News from Nashville
Steve Morse has posted a message in his blog: Hi, everybody. I’m in Nashville with Deep Purple. We’ve been all over the place with this album project, writing, writing, rehearsing, changing…………finally, we’re working with Bob Ezrin, our producer. There were some scheduling delays, but finally everybody is in the same room making the final changes […]
Read more »So, what’s new?
Roger Glover posts an update on his website. Except it’s not an update, really, but one of those semi random collections of musings which are always a fascinating read. Sometimes I write music. I am excellent at imagining a song in my head and then battling to get some semblance of it down on tape […]
Read more »And the winner is…
The Broken Heart Invitation contest has concluded and the winner was announced earlier this week: Of the several million entrants to the competition (surely that’s wrong – Ed), the exhausted judges have spent many a long winter’s black night pouring over the images drifting past their bloodshot eyes like endless rain into a paper cup […]
Read more »Roger and out
Roger Glover takes his time reflecting on the meaning of music and how it’s shaping our lives: I was recently reading the blogger Bob Lefsetz’s eloquent words extolling his love of music, particularly songs he heard when he was younger. The songs that hit you the first time you heard them have become ingrained, standard, […]
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