Our reader David Black has collected some of the best on-stage Gillanisms from over the years, and here we present them to you with a little judicious editing from everyone involved. Oh, we’d love to be the flies on the wall of the train of Gillan’s thought. Knockin’ at Your Back Door — Knebworth 1985 […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2024-09-05
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Ritchie Blackmore reminisces from his bar about various encounters with Eric Clapton he had over the years.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-08-30
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Roger Glover posts on his website a eulogy for the late Mick Underwood: Mick Underwood was a lovely man. I was deeply saddened to learn that he had died. It’s taken me a while to digest the news and put in perspective what he meant for Ian Gillan and me. When he joined Episode Six, […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-08-19
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Steve Morse was featured on the latest (July 25, 2024) instalment of the Ernie Ball String Theory web series. Here it is — the story of Steve’s life as told by the man himself in 20 minutes.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-07-26
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=1 is upon us, and here’s the “official interview” from the band, posted today
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-07-19
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Nick Simper continues working on his autobiography, which has now reached the summer of 1969 and his dismissal from Deep Purple. June ended with a show at London’s prestigious Revolution Club, followed by a BBC recording session for the David Symonds radio show. On July 1st I again met Rod Freeman, who was now manager […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-06-18
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Roger, Paicey, and Simon discuss Simon’s first gig with Deep Purple.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-06-14
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Ian Gillan talks about Deep Purple’s journey to musical freedom. This clip appears to be a part of the promotion campaign for the new album.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-05-29
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Ian Gillan provided his top 5 favourite Purple tracks to Louder Sound: Mary Long (Who Do We Think We Are, 1973) “I’d like to point out that I’m choosing these songs spontaneously, they could all change tomorrow. I like Mary Long because nobody had written a song like that before. [The name Mary Long was […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-05-20
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In this short clip, Roger Glover, Don Airey, and Ian Paice talk about old rumours.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-05-17
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