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Roger Glover chats with Martin Popoff about musical blitzkriegs, styles, sonics, prolific players, dull strings, abrasive admirals, leaping out, and being easy to get along with: DEEP PURPLE’s first platter in eight years, NOW What?!, began life on the internet with a light advance track called ‘All The Time In The World’, one that had […]
Read more »Ian Paice will be inteviewed on French Metal XS show on May 2 during a Deep Purple special (presumably timed to promote Now what!?). Metal XS is part of L’Enorme TV network. If you know the details, e.g. what time it’s on the air, please leave a comment below. The show should be available for […]
Read more »Music Radar has track-by-track commentary of Now what?! from Steve Morse: A Simple Song This was Rog playing a dyad riff on the bass. We had a lot of variations on that part. Whenever anybody brings in an idea, they have to be prepared that it’s going to change. But this thing of Roger’s was […]
Read more »A long(ish) and rather interesting interview with Roger Glover on Rockpages.gr: Rockpages.gr: What really surprised me in the new album is that you weren’t afraid to have long tracks, longer than regular 4, or 5 minute rock songs, you went a little further trying new stuff that I haven’t heard from Deep Purple again, what […]
Read more »(Updated Apr 24) Ian Paice and Ian Gillan made a very entertaining appearance today on BBC Radio 2. The show will be available for listening online until April 30 from the BBC. Chat with Ians starts approximately 65 minutes into the recording. Both Ians were also on BBC Radio 4 Front Row last week recalling […]
Read more »Roger Glover chatted with Detroit’s radio station 94.7 WCSX about Now what?!, ‘live in the studio’ approach, his songwriting philosophy, and being simple. Listen to it at wcsx.com. Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
Read more »Ian Gillan and Ian Paice did a press conference in Paris on April 18 and ventured pretty far from the beaten track (as far as those promotional interviews go, which often sound like the same canned answers to the same canned questions): A longer video of the press conference (with much worse audio): Thanks to […]
Read more »Ian Gillan and Ian Paice have appeared on france24.com to promote Now what?!. Get the scoop on Gillan’s secret balletic past and other things at their website (the interview starts about 4:20 into the video). An audio track of the EPK chat that will be included on the DVD of the deluxe edition of the […]
Read more »An excerpt from the promotional interview with the band recorded in December 2012. (watch inside)
Read more »Both Ians will be on the BBC Radio 2 show Simon Mayo’s Drivetime on Tuesday, April 23. The show is on the air between 17:00 and 19:00. As a matter of rule, BBC programming is available online from their site for a week after the air date. Thanks to Peter Cross for the info.
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