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Poznan 1991
Ritchie Blackmore Official channel posted this local TV report on Deep Purple Mk. JLT visit to Poland in 1991.
Read more »Antenne that can use some tuning
Simon McBride spoke to ROCK ANTENNE and the end result has been posted to youtube. It’s not without some technical difficulties: audio is out of sync with video, and it sounds like audio is also cutting in and out at times. Nevertheless, here it is.
Read more »Too many buttons
Guitar World has another excerpt from the interview with Simon McBride slated to appear in the printed version of Guitarist. “Steve [Morse] is a great player, but he’s a different sort of player, so that was a big thing for me – to get that big, powerful sound,” he tells Guitarist of his tonal task […]
Read more »From Budokan to RAH
The Norway Rock Magazine features interviews with Roger Glover and Don Airey in their issue #127 (2/2026). The magazine is available for your perusal online, and the interviews in question are even in the original English, yay!
Read more »The Hollywood minute of summer 2026
CNN has a less-than-a-minute-and-a-half long report on the new album Splat!. Apparently, dropping the name of Keith Urban into the mix doesn’t hurt with getting some mainstream exposure. Ain’t no such thing as bad publicity, right? Watch is on CNN.com.
Read more »Feeling of power indescribable
Another British newspaper, The Telegraph profiles Ian Gillan, and while our regulars probably won’t learn much new from there, it is well put together and without glaring mistakes (which as all know, is not a given). In 1970 his voice prompted an unexpected call – would he sing the role of Jesus in the recording […]
Read more »Sundays are off
A couple more interviews in the anticipation of the new album release. Roger Glover talks to Noise11 straight from his slightly dishevelled hotel room
Read more »One of those odd kids
Simon McBride talks to Andy Guitar about the new album, the first riff he ever learned, and 65 thousand people singing Highway Star.
Read more »To truss or not to truss
Simon McBride talks shop to the Guitar World: “I played everything on this record with a prototype from PRS,” McBride tells Guitar World ahead of SPLAT!’s release on July 3. “The idea is that there’s no truss rod,” he continues. “It goes back to the early days when guitars had no truss rods because I’m […]
Read more »It’s not the real deal
British newspaper The Independent quotes an interview Paicey gave to the Press Association. It was most likely done on the occasion of you-know-what, however they have found Ian’s thoughts on the proliferation of artificial intelligence tools more interesting: Paice warned against the dangers of hidden AI use, particularly when artists themselves are unaware. “But where […]
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing