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Glenn Hughes was interviewed by Eric Blair at the NAMM, which was held January 15-18, 2009 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Glenn talks about his plans, his life, the F.U.N.K album, and the much discussed here and elsewhere Mk3 reunion, which he says is definitely not going to happen this year.
Read more »Jürgen “J.R.” Blackmore talks about his career, his father and the Over The Rainbow project in a recent interview with Rockinform Magazine: Your father is Ritchie Blackmore. How do you feel about it, that he’s a legendary guitarist? Jürgen: – Oh well……it was a very hard childhood time for me because everyone is looking at […]
Read more »Ian Gillan and Glenn Hughes, along with Brian May and Bryan Adams will appear on Planet Rock in Tony Iommi’s Guestlist show on Sunday, January 11, at 10 pm. Planet Rock broadcasts worldwide via the internet.
Read more »Rumours of a Mk3 reunion have been flying around for a while now, always turning to sum up to about exactly nothing. In the most recent resurrection of the idea, Peter Makowski of Classic Rock talks about it like of a definite possibility: In separate interviews David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes and Jon Lord have all […]
Read more »Joe Lynn Turner will be the featured guest on Eddie Trunk’s “Friday Night Rocks” radio show on New York’s Q104.3 FM on Friday, January 9. We have no idea what they will be talking about, but an educated guess would be the Over The Rainbow project, which now has a string of confirmed live dates […]
Read more »David Coverdale has offered his advice to Jimmy Page on how he thinks the Plant-less incarnation of Led Zeppelin should work. He thinks that a number of different singers should perform with the band instead of just one: My suggestion to him when I saw him in the summer was to do what Carlos Santana […]
Read more »Classic Rock Magazine has made good on their promise to (finally!) put Deep Purple on the cover — they appear on the February 2009 issue. Inside the issue there is a 20-page Purple feature with interviews from Gillan, Glover, Paicey and Coverdale, excerpts from an old Blackmore interview, and sidebars on Steve Morse and JLT. […]
Read more »Touched by Magic: The Tommy Bolin Story is the new book written and published by Greg Prato. To many, Tommy Bolin was the legitimate heir to Jimi Hendrix’s rock guitar throne. Stints with the James Gang and Deep Purple –- as well as solo albums and a groundbreaking release with jazz-rocker Billy Cobham –- certainly […]
Read more »We have an unconfirmed report that Planet Rock radio aired an interview with Ian Paice on Saturday night, December 13, and it is supposed to be repeated again on Tuesday, December 16 at 6 pm (British time presumably). Planet Rock’s schedule lists My Planet Rocks show airing on Tuesdays at 6 pm, so you might […]
Read more »On the eve of the first ever Whitesnake concert in Ukraine, David Coverdale appeared at a press conference in Kiev. Here we present you with the complete video recording of the event (about 20 minutes long). There’s quite a few of Purple reminicencies in there and plenty of trademark David’s joviality going on.
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