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A lengthy and rather entertaining interview with Don Airey appears in Metal Shrine: I just realized that you´ve spent a great deal of time in Deep Purple by now. How would you describe these years? Don Airey: Yes, I´m amazed myself. Well, very fruitful and I couldn´t have wished for anything nicer to happen to […]
Read more »Classic Rock has a feature story on Mary Long, based on interviews (which may or may not be from the archives) with Ian Gillan and Roger Glover: If there’s anything likely to upset Ian Gillan more than a self-styled moral crusader with a viewpoint diametrically opposed to his own, it’s two of them. Back in […]
Read more »Get Ready To Rock radio has an early review of Don Airey’s solo album Keyed Up. Don himself will appear on the air on Sunday, February 2, at 18:00 BST to talk to the host David Randall, while later on, at 20:00 Stuart Hamilton will profile him in his Purple People series. Get Ready to […]
Read more »Ian Gillan gave an interview to Classic Rock on the occasion of, ahem, 27th anniversary of The House of Blue Light release. He spoke about doing crosswords, cooking breakfast, fixing his roof (and he did’t mean a hair transplant), and the importance of always ending up at the pub. And what’s a good interview without […]
Read more »Jeb Wright interviewed Roger Glover for the Goldmine magazine. They started with Now what?!, but quickly switched to topics not covered in recent interviews. Roger touched upon a couple of things that to say always cause heated debates on this site would be an understatement of the millenium: GM: How do Steve Morse and Don […]
Read more »Cameron Crowe’s official site The Uncool has a reprint of his article in Rolling Stone #184 from 1975, based on an interview he did with Ritchie Blackmore just a couple of days after the first Rainbow single was penned in the studio. Jacksonville, Florida – Ritchie Blackmore’s face fell into a tortured grimace. “Fucking hell,” […]
Read more »Back in October Roger Glover gave this interview to Vigier Guitars. It was probably recorded around Deep Purple’s date in Paris on October 20. He talks about Bob Ezrin, the guitars that just stay in tune, Love is All, and Ronnie James Dio: Thanks to Something Else! Reviews and Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
Read more »Back in September, the BassPlayer.com published an in-depth interview with Roger Glover, which for one reason or another, went under our radar until now. It covers most of Roger’s illustrious career, from his first band The Lightnings, to Now what?! How do you come up with your bass parts during the jam-to-recording journey? Do you […]
Read more »An interview with Nick Simper was posted a couple of weeks ago (although it is not clear when it was recorded). Nick talks about his work with The Good Old Boys, Nasty Habits, the days long gone with Jonny Kidd & the Pirates, and of course Deep Purple. Listen to the interview on Mixcloud (warning: […]
Read more »Berlin’s Rock City Radio Show will be airing an interview with Don Airey on Sunday, Nov 10. The interview is from October 26 when Don played with Deep Purple in Berlin. The part with Don & Purple is about 30 minutes long (including music). The show also features an interview with Nick Fyffe & Phil […]
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