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Faithfully
Steve Morse and Bob Daisley — among other luminaries — appear as guest musicians on Engelbert Humperdinck’s new album of mostly covers called Faithfully.
Read more »With a flying V and long hair
In a new interview to the Ultimate Classic Rock, Ritchie Blackmore confirms the story that in 1970 Christopher Cross has played a gig with Deep Purple in his place. This episode became a minor controversy in the Purple lore as over the years Cross himself claimed it, with further corroboration by Eric Johnson, who opened […]
Read more »Can’t happen here
More details have surfaced on the William Shatner’s upcoming “metal” album, and it sounds like Blackmore will not be appearing on it after all. AntiMusic reports: Cleopatra Records shared a new update on William Shatner’s forthcoming metal album and revealed that the Star Trek icon reached out to Deep Purple legend Ritchie Blackmore to record […]
Read more »Beam us up, Scotty
The latest album from William Shatner has been announced, and it is promised to be “a heavy metal extravaganza powered a veritable army of metal stars – each one personally selected and hand-picked by Shatner”. Said stars include Ritchie Blackmore, Zakk Wylde, Edgar Froese (Tangerine Dream), Wayne Kramer (MC5), and Henry Rollins (Black Flag, The […]
Read more »Chop it down with the edge of his hand
Steve Morse made a guest appearance on the single by a band called Dead Groove. They recorded a cover of a Jimi Hendrix classic Voodoo Child (Slight Return). LA’s heavy blues powerhouse return with a stunning cover of Hendrix’s classic for this highly collectible 7″ vinyl! Features guest appearances from Deep Purple/Dixie Dregs guitar legend […]
Read more »Get yourself tangled up
Ian Gillan contributed vocals to a track on a new album from Italian band UROCK. The band is led by singer Umberto Urock, and the track in question is called The Line, which is the title track of the band’s second album. Umberto lives just down the road from me in Portugal. He did a […]
Read more »‘Till she said “burn!”
Glenn Hughes has played a gig at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London on October 18, 2025, and was joined on stage by Sophie Lloyd for an earth-scorching twin guitar performance of Burn.
Read more »The missing D on a breakdown
Guitar World has an interview with the Swedish session man Tommy Denander, who has more than 3,500 albums to his credit — from Michael Jackson to Jeff Beck, to Alice Cooper. He is also one of the go-to session musicians for Bob Ezrin, so you might guess where this is going (and we’ve covered the […]
Read more »In the year nine-ninety-two
Classic Rock has a feature on Glenn Hughes’ appearance on a KLF track America: What Time Is Love?, although there is little that we didn’t know from before. All they needed was someone with a screaming voice to match the song’s beefed up sound. Enter Glenn Hughes. “We were originally supposed to be doing the […]
Read more »Good times, bad times
Steve Morse took part in a jam that happened in Annapolis, MD, on May 31, 2025. The occasion was the release of a novel Punk Force by Steve’s friend Ward Carroll. Ward is a retired navy F-14 Tomcat pilot, an author of books about life in an F-14 squadron (Punk series), a military commentator, and […]
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