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In anticipation of the kickoff of the world tour (as festival appearance in India has been cancelled) TimeOut Dubai publishes an interview with Roger Glover, where he displays quite a bit of humility: I don’t believe we sold 100 million records. People make things up because it goes down well with the press. I’m a […]
Read more »Roger Glover sends his traditional end-of-the-year message to the world: From winter in Canada to another winter in France. In all, three months of touring, several hot months spent recording a new album, get the laundry done and that’s it; a year slips by. A bittersweet year. It was in the studio in Nashville that […]
Read more »Roger Glover has posted another progress report on the state of the new Deep Purple album: As I stated in the last missive, after five weeks the band left Nashville with fourteen tracks all but complete. The only thing missing was the vocals. IG had several ideas floating around but only one or two were […]
Read more »As the band has gathered in a Russian studio to rehearse for the upcoming tour, Roger Glover spoke to ITAR-TASS. Here are the highlights (in reverse translation, so take it with a grain of salt): There are 14 tracks ready for the new album, probably 11 or 12 of them will pass the final selection […]
Read more »Roger Glover has posted the first studio report covering events that transpired behind the purple curtains between March last year and today: March 2011 – The quest starts at a mountaintop retreat in the south of Spain – a hidden studio in a house called El Cortijo, ruled by a veteran skin-beater by the name […]
Read more »While being in Nashville working on the new album, Roger Glover, Ian Paice and Don Airey took part in the benefit show for Jamie Simmons, a local bass player who was severely injured in a motorcycle accident earlier this year. Here they are, with Mike Simmons on Guitar and Greg Mangus singing, at the Mercury […]
Read more »Roger Glover posts an update on his website. Except it’s not an update, really, but one of those semi random collections of musings which are always a fascinating read. Sometimes I write music. I am excellent at imagining a song in my head and then battling to get some semblance of it down on tape […]
Read more »Update (Apr 7): It appears that the show is not a new production, but will be a rebroadcast of the 15th anniversary show aired in 1987. (thanks to Nigel Young for spotting this) Syndicated US radio show In The Studio is producing a 40th anniversary Machine Head special. Roger Glover and Ian Gillan were interviewed […]
Read more »On March 21 Ian Paice was playing a gig with the tribute band Purpendicular in Pratteln, Switzerland. The band received a surprise reinforcement as Roger Glover “happened to be in the neighbourhood” and joined them on stage. Update (Mar 27): Apparently, Roger dropped by unannounced before the gig to say hello and was talked into […]
Read more »Roger Glover will support Hard Rock Cafe’s “Street 2 Sanctuary” campaign to help girls forced to prostitution and their children from the streets of Bombay red light district and place them into the sanctuary and care of the Bombay Teen Challenge. Deep Purple, of course have a history with HRC Venice charity projects as in […]
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