Roger posted this on his website: I’ve known Pete York and Miller Anderson since the late 60s. Several early DP tours were with Hardin/York and we’ve often met from time to time since then. Over the years, Pete has organized lots of these special events, featuring a phalanx of great musicians. In 1970, Ian Paice, […]
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2018-07-17
4 Comments
Yesterday, June 14, Ian Paice and Roger Glover introduced Lars Ulrich and Robert Trujillo of Metallica at the Polar Music Prize Awards ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. The Polar Music Prize is a Swedish international award founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, manager of ABBA, with a donation to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The […]
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2018-06-15
4 Comments
The sketchbook pages on RGs official website have been updated with new items.
Read more »
Posted in News by Andreas Thul on 2018-04-10
1 Comment
There are 8 dates in Germany announced towards the ends of this year for an outfit called Pete York’s Rock and Blues Circus doing a Ticklin´da´Groove tour. Said circus consists of Pete York himself, our own Roger Glover, plus Miller Anderson, Zoot Money, and Albie Donnelly.
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2018-03-19
7 Comments
The same people responsible for the restoration and re-release of the Butterfly Ball video last year are now working on the remaster of the original album. The 3CD box set is due to be release on April 27 via Cherry Red Records and can be preordered via their website. DISC ONE Roger Glover And Friends […]
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2018-03-10
13 Comments
Back in July Sverige Radio published an interview with Roger glover, done at his home in Switzerland. Roger baked a banana bread and talked about what he wants to do when he grows up. The interview itself is in English and starts about 2’15” into the clip. Bonus: Roger’s banana bread recipe 1.25 dl butter […]
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2017-11-22
7 Comments
After the release of “inFinite”, the newest record of Deep Purple, BassplayerRoger Glover had time to visit german Radiostation SWR1 having an exclusive Bass2Bass-Talk with Thomas “Chuck” Tscheschner, german bassplayer and editor at SWR1 in Mainz. Head over to RGs official website for the english version of the radio interview.
Read more »
Posted in Blog by Andreas Thul on 2017-10-15
1 Comment
A new addition to “Videos from the bottom drawer” on RGs official website: Read Rogers comments about the video and join the discussion.
Read more »
Posted in Blog by Andreas Thul on 2017-07-31
1 Comment
It was around the mid eighties, after Perfect Strangers, that Bruce, Jon and I decided to have a ski holiday in Colorado and to that end we rented a huge house in Keystone for nine days. I think it had five or six bedrooms, a massive kitchen, and the living room was three stories high […]
Read more »
Posted in Blog by Andreas Thul on 2017-05-20
4 Comments
A PledgeMusic campaign is underway to raise funds for reissuing Butterfly Ball & The Grasshopper’s Feast: The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast is a concept album and subsequent live rock opera appearing in 1974 and 1975 respectively, based on the children’s poem of a similar title. The work was originally conceived as a solo […]
Read more »
Posted in News by Nick on 2017-05-13
6 Comments