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Glover on Global Metal
Roger Glover chats about Now what?! with Portuguese radio show Metal Global. You can listen to it at rtp.pt (the interview is in English). Thanks to Jorge Botas for the info.
Read more »Glover in Vintage Rock
Roger Glover chats with Vintage Rock about Now what?! from his home in Switzerland (this was done probably before the album was released): This is your fifth record with Steve Morse and your third with Don Airey and I have to say, these two guys really come to the fore. With Don Airey, it’s like […]
Read more »Never in fashion
Music Radar has an interview with Roger Glover presented in the form of a monologue. Interestingly enough, Now what?! gets a fairly brief mention, with the bulk dedicated to Roger’s illustrious career with Purple, solo, Rainbow, as a songwriter, and as a producer. We’re not very good at planning things to be honest. We’re a […]
Read more »Purple blitzkrieg
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 »Roger: “we have to be the dog!”
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 »Simple is a difficult thing
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 »The Nashville diaries redux
Part 3 of Roger Glover’s diaries covering the vocal sessions in Nashville has been published. OCTOBER 2012 1 Monday Up at dawn trying different lyrics for Weirdistan. In the studio, IG starts A Simple Song and makes good progress, finishing writing as we go. Lunch at a local kebab place makes me ill and although […]
Read more »Secret balletic past and inhaling with more pathos
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 »Stretching out
Roger Glover gave an interview to Guitar International, which, quite naturally, started out with the talk of the new Deep Purple album. After opening with excuses for the eight year wait, he proceeds straight to the catalytic role of the new producer, the eminent Bob Ezrin: Robert: I have to say the band sounds really […]
Read more »The Portuguese diaries
The official Now what?! web site has published the second installment of Roger Glover’s diaries: AUGUST 2012 21 Tuesday I fly to Lisbon and connect to Faro, where IG meets me. Twenty minutes to his house. He gives me warm welcome. Like me, is raring to go. We have some great sounding tracks and both […]
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