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Classic Rock has a promo piece for the Hard Road box set with several quotes from the rarely interviewed Nick Simper: It was a very exciting time – the band was brand-new and we were thrust together to make the first album in 18 hours. I think we did a pretty good job. It’s quite […]
Read more »Roger Glover spoke to Ultimate Classic Rock on the occasion of upcoming North American tour. As usual with Roger’s interviews, it’s rather off the cuff and thus very interesting. He also once again confirmed that the band is working on a follow up to Now what?!, and it will be produced by Bob Ezrin. Bob […]
Read more »In his September 2013 interview with Songfacts Graham Bonnet talked about the guitar player luminaries he had worked with during his career: Ritchie Blackmore, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Michael Schenker. He took time explaining how he got into Rainbow and how he got out of it: Songfacts: If you think back to 1985/1986, it seemed […]
Read more »Guitar World has an article on Yngwie Malmsteen’s 80s cover of the Highway Star which contains an undated quote from Blackmore about the two solos on the track, both becoming legendary: I wrote that out note for note about a week before we recorded it. And that is one of the only times I have […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes is still busy doing interviews and promoting California Breed. In the course of this, he spoke to SparkTV (who really should brush up on their phone interview recording techniques): Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.
Read more »It’s been a slow news week, but finally here’s a good one.
Swiss newspaper Basellandschaftliche Zeitung published an interview with Ian Gillan, in which he said (in reverse translation):
Read more »Good morning, Mr. Gillan, they told us you were in Portugal. May we ask what are you doing?
Ian Gillan: The whole band is there. We have a studio in the Algarve and working on new songs.
Classic Rock Revisited has a new interview with Glenn Hughes, talking about California Breed: Jeb: What pushed you [to get an unknown guitar player]? Glenn: I won’t say too much, but after Black Country broke up, it was kind of private, but some of my friends said that they could do some shows with Jason […]
Read more »[Updated] Andy Fox from the Welsh radio station GTFM continues to provide an excellent coverage to all things Purple. This week he will be interviewing Ian Gillan in celebration of the Made in Japan reissue. His Rockshow is on the air every Thursday at 21:00 and can be listened worldwide online. For further listening options […]
Read more »The highly controversial Northern Cyprus gig held this past weekend was a free concert, organized by the Near East University on occasion of their 25th anniversary. Ian Gillan did interviews, parts of which you can see below (in piss poor editing): Some more bits appear on the university web site, albeit still mostly exchange of […]
Read more »Friday morning (May 23) Glenn Hughes and Andrew Watt appeared on The Heidi & Frank Show on KLOS 95.5 FM radio station in Los Angeles. An interview with Glenn Hughes recorded on March 24 during his publicity tour has recently appeared on the French TV Rock Live. (watch both inside)
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