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Bach as metal

Steve Morse did this interview during the recent visit to Georgia. He talks about his career, playing with G3, Above and Beyond, why the Y2D has a 5-position switch, Bach as metal, and many other things: Bonus points to everybody who can figure out what Paicey is saying in the background 😉 Thanks to Yvonne […]

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Lars on the water

Pete Makowski has published on his Facebook page an interview he did last year with self proclaimed Deep Purple fan Lars Ulrich: How did you end up getting to see Deep Purple when you were only nine years old? Lars: There was a tennis tournament at KB Halle that started on a Monday morning and […]

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The coolness of first take

Guitar World magazine has an interview with Steve Morse: GUITAR WORLD: Now What?! is Deep Purple’s first studio effort in eight years. Why did you decide to make the album now? Actually, I was one of the guys asking the same thing! My vision was every tour we’d do another song and just release it […]

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Clanking chains and creaking doors

Ian Gillan recently gave an interview to QMI Agency that was published in Toronto Sun: As the ideas come from the jam sessions every day… you get them some kind of working generic title and this one sounded like the soundtrack to a horror movie so we called it Vincent Price. And when I got […]

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Blackmore is open to playing old material again

In an interview to the Russian newspaper Kultura Ritchie Blackmore mentioned that he would be open to the idea of staging one-off shows shows playing his old material (in reverse translation from Russian, so take it with liberal serving of grains of salt): Yes, indeed, I’m proud of what I have written in the past, […]

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Importance of looking out of the window

Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night were interviewed by the Russian English language broadcaster Russia Today: Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info.

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It’s good to be king!

Watch Ian Gillan and Roger Glover being treated like royalty on a Georgian TV show. Their segment starts at around 21 minutes into the episode and runs for a good half an hour:

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DC to Plant: “can we be friends again?”

David Coverdale gave an interview to TeamRock Radio’s Classic Rock Magazine Show (to be broadcast next Wednesday, June 19) and said he wants to put his feud with Robert Plant to an end. The two exchanged bitter comments back in 1993, at the time of Coverdale/Page album, and have never spoken to each other since […]

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Understanding each other’s feel

What makes a great rhythm section? MusicRadar has a preview of the Greatest Ever Rhythm section feature to appear in July issue of the Rhythm magazine. Roger Glover: A great drummer. When I first played with Paicey my first impression was that he was just fluid and effortless. Most drummers back then were metronomic, they […]

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Sakartvelo, here we come

On this tour Deep Purple have played two more countries they’ve never played before — Morocco and Georgia. Here are a few tidbits from the visit to Tbilisi. DFWatch has reports of band’s arrival and the gig: Next was the Subways, an indie rock band from England, followed by long-awaited Deep Purple, which played more […]

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