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Joe Lynn Turner was featured in couple of recent podcasts, promoting Rated X and talking Rainbow. Talking Metal 504: his interview runs from around 22 minutes to 46 minutes mark into the podcast. Or listen to it in your favourite mp3 player. Iron City Rocks episode 253: pretty much the whole episode is dedicated to […]
Read more »Joe Lynn Turner gave an interview to Metal Forces promoting the freshly released Rated X debut album. He said that guitar player Karl Cochran suffered a stroke while recording the album and Nikolo Kotzev had to finish it in his stead. He will stay with the band until Cochran recovers. He also mentioned that the […]
Read more »The record company obviously sees that Joe Lynn Turner’s new project Rated X is worth promoting, and produced an electronic press kit and a couple of promo videos in anticipation of their self titled debut album. EPK: This is Who I Am: Stranger In Us All (where did we hear that title before?): Album track […]
Read more »Joe Lynn Turner gave an interview to Rock Overdose and a question of Rainbow reunion popped up: Rock Overdose So, talking about Ritchie, do you see maybe a reunion for the band of Rainbow? Joe Lynn Turner Well, I’m gonna be honest with you, right now. Yes! Possibly. It’s very possible. Last year, I wouldn’t […]
Read more »We’ve reported back in December that Joe Lynn Turner is starting a new project called Legacy X with drummer Carmine Appice and bassist Tony Franklin. The news just came out that the project has been renamed Rated X, guitarist Jeff Watson has been replaced with JLT’s long time collaborator Karl Cochran, and they will be […]
Read more »Ian Gillan, Steve Morse, Joe Lynn Turner, and Graham Bonnet, along with extravaganza of classic rock luminaries, contributed to the Light My Fire – A Classic Rock Salute To The Doors CD which is due out on July June 24 via Cleopatra imprint Purple Pyramid Records. Steve Morse says: [The Doors were] a soundtrack, literally, […]
Read more »The Schubert in Rock project, led by Austrian musician Klaus Schubert, performed in Innsbruck on December 6. It and featured quite a few members of the Purple family with Don Airey on keyboards, Neil Murray on bass, Klaus Schubert himself on guitars, and Bernhard Welz on drums; with vocal duties shared between Tony Martin, Joe […]
Read more »Joe Lynn Turner revealed to The Rainbow Fanclan Legacy that he is starting a new project with Carmine Appice, Tony Franklin and Jeff Watson: I can leak it now. I got the e-mail last night, we finally found it. We’re now Carmine Appice, Tony Franklin and Jeff Watson from Mother’s Army & Night Ranger. Originally […]
Read more »Universal/Polydor is set to release a Rainbow Singles Box Set 1975-1986 that will include 19 CD singles spanning these years. CD 1 Man On The Silver Mountain (7″ Edit) 03:57 Snake Charmer 04:28 CD 2 Still I’m Sad 03:53 Temple Of The King 04:43 CD 3 Man On The Silver Mountain (7″ Edit) 03:57 Snake […]
Read more »Joe Lynn Turner has recorded an original tune called Tied Down with Norwegian outfit Come Taste the Band. It has been featured in Classic Rock AOR magazine. Geoff barton writes: …Now, we don’t really include the Purps within the hallowed pages of AOR, but when ace Norwegian guitarist Jo Henning KÃ¥sin contacted me with the […]
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