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Mike Portnoy wrote to the world a couple of days ago: On my way to Nashville for the week to begin my drum tracks for the new @FlyingColors album! We have 10 songs written and we are shooting/hoping for a late summer/early fall 2019 release if all goes well…(& yes, praying that the stars align […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes reports via his Twitter that Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham, Derek Sherinian, and himself are back in the studio and recording a new Black Country Communion album, with Kevin Shirley producing.
Read more »Glenn Hughes posted on his Facebook page that him and Joe Bonamassa have started writing new music for an upcoming Black Country Communion album (scheduled for release in May 2017): Here we go #BCC friends – followers & fans .. Here is @joebonamassa and I @glennhughesonline ?we started writing BCC4 at my LA home today […]
Read more »Swiss music magazine Tracks has a Deep Purple studio report in their July/August issue. If you have followed our news thoroughly, there is not much in the article that you don’t already know. Our correspondent summarizes the gist for the rest of us who do not speak German: in February 2015, the band met in […]
Read more »Roger Glover has posted the first studio report from the new album sessions:
Read more »DP STUDIO REPORT – MARCH 2016
We started the next album in Nashville on the 28th January. Thirteen days of pre-production and thirteen days recording in the studio. Lucky thirteen because we have thirteen tracks, all but finished except for vocals.
Detroit classic rock radio station WCSX has a quote from Ian Paice regarding the band’s immediate plans: We all come over to your huge country after the Christmas break. We start around the end of January. We’ll go back into the studio in Nashville with Bob Ezrin; We had such a great time making the […]
Read more »Roger Glover spoke to Ultimate Classic Rock on the occasion of upcoming North American tour. As usual with Roger’s interviews, it’s rather off the cuff and thus very interesting. He also once again confirmed that the band is working on a follow up to Now what?!, and it will be produced by Bob Ezrin. Bob […]
Read more »It’s been a slow news week, but finally here’s a good one.
Swiss newspaper Basellandschaftliche Zeitung published an interview with Ian Gillan, in which he said (in reverse translation):
Read more »Good morning, Mr. Gillan, they told us you were in Portugal. May we ask what are you doing?
Ian Gillan: The whole band is there. We have a studio in the Algarve and working on new songs.
Back in 2006, when Deep Purple undertook a massive tour of France, their support was a French band called Café Bertrand. Their guitar player Stéphane “Steph” Honde moved to California a couple of years ago and there he befriended Tim Bogert of Vanilla Fudge fame and convinced him to play on his debut album. The […]
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