The Blairing Out show has conducted an interview with Glenn Hughes during the Dimebash 2011 held on December 14 in L.A. Glenn spoke about the late Ronnie James Dio, his solo and BCC plans, the failed Mk3 reunion idea, Dimebag Darrell, and other things. Thanks to BraveWords for the info.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2011-12-24
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Brazilian website Wikimetal has featured Ian Gillan in podcast #50, released on November 28 (the interview starts at 15:30 into the podcast). You can listen to the podcast using Blabbermouth player or directly here (69MB mp3).
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Posted in News by Nick on 2011-12-15
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Ian Gillan was recently interviewed by The Express and Star newspaper about the upcoming Deep Purple tour in the UK. For a man with no ambition he seems to have achieved rather a lot and there is no sign of that stopping any time soon, with Deep Purple and their 38-piece orchestra descending on Birmingham’s […]
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Posted in News by The Spanish Archer on 2011-10-26
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The official Deep Purple video channel has posted a brief interview with Colin Hart (see inside). Colin’s new book A Hart Life is out (well, almost) on Wymer Publishing in the UK.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2011-10-22
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Ultimate Guitar has a new interview with Roger Glover. He talks about If Life Was Easy, the state of music, his influences, his producer work, Purple history and present day, and many other things. Episode Six came out of the English music scene in the late 1960s when everyone from Led Zeppelin to the Jeff […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2011-10-13
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Rick Freeman offered us for publication an interview with Doogie White that he did recently. Rick: How did the solo album come about? Hard to believe that this is your first! Doogie: Well I had a great many songs kicking around that I had written over the years and during the down time after parting […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2011-10-07
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Black Country’s Communion Live Over Europe will be shown on US cable channel Palladia HD on October 22 at 9 pm and repeated on October 23, 12:00 am and 4:00 pm, October 26, 4:00 pm, and October 27, 11:00 pm (time zone not specified). In the UK, it will premiere for one night only on […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2011-10-06
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Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night recently spoke to Italy’s SpazioRock. Well, Ritchie mostly kept quiet leaving his missus and the interviewer to do the talking. And this statement definitely proves wrong all those who – fifteen years later – still think that Ritchie Blackmore was somehow “pushed” by beautiful Candice into leaving Rainbow in order […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2011-10-01
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Roger Glover did an interview with the Swedish based Metal Shrine blog. He spoke about If Life Was Easy, divorce, fatherhood, Barbie Benton, Phil Collins, and touring with orchestras, among other things. During all these years, were any of these songs stuff that you brought to Deep Purple or were they just made for a […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2011-09-19
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Don Airey will do a couple more radio appearances to promote his new solo album All Out. On Wednesday, September 21st, he will appear on BBC Radio Cambridge in the Sue Marchant evening entertainment show. The show runs between 7 and 9 pm, with Don scheduled to appear between 8:00 and 8:30 pm. The show […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2011-09-15
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