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Setlist poll — Now what?! edition

Bangkok 2010 setlist

Members of the band alluded in the interviews that a new setlist will be rehearsed before touring starts in earnest with more songs from Now what?! incorporated into it. Ofcourse, we all want the whole album played live. But let’s be realistic optimistic and, say, they will pick 6 songs.

Now, which ones?

There’s no guarantee that anybody will listen, but here’s a chance to voice your opinion.

Poll closes at 23:59 UTC on Monday, May 13. You’ll need Javascript and cookies enabled to vote (most browsers do that by default).

Which songs from Now what?! would you like to hear live (choose up to 6)

  • Vincent Price (14%, 867 Votes)
  • Uncommon Man (11%, 730 Votes)
  • Hell to Pay (11%, 723 Votes)
  • A Simple Song (10%, 664 Votes)
  • Out of Hand (9%, 594 Votes)
  • All The Time In The World (8%, 515 Votes)
  • Above And Beyond (8%, 491 Votes)
  • Weirdistan (8%, 478 Votes)
  • Après Vous (7%, 446 Votes)
  • Blood From A Stone (6%, 382 Votes)
  • Body Line (5%, 321 Votes)
  • First Sign Of Madness (2%, 97 Votes)
  • It'll Be Me (1%, 61 Votes)

Total Voters: 1,213

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Coverdale in Metal Express

David Coverdale; photo: Steve Johnston; image courtesy of Frontiers Records

David Coverdale gave an interview to the Metal Express Radio. He spoke about his new live releases, the upcoming British tour, his humble beginnings in Redcar, his family, and Jon Lord:

MER: Jon Lord has been a really big loss to the music world.

DC: The world is a lot worse off for his loss. I was so, so honoured to have known him and to have worked with him in two big bands. I can so easily visualise him right now. I remember bumping into him at a hotel a few years ago when he was on his way to Australia and we just sat down and had a drink together and the time just flew. It was so much fun to see him. Jon was extraordinarily articulate, charming and such a funny man. He was so gifted musically too and I totally miss him. He was from Leicester so he had a good bloke energy about him so he was able to sit down and bloke it with the best of them. It`s weird you know. I have a big 65” TV in my gym to try to distract me from the pain in my knees and it`s wired into Apple TV so I can access all my photographs. I have around 20,000 photos on there. I put in on shuffle and there`s lots of personal photos on there and lots of music related photos too. When a picture from the Slide It In era of Whitesnake came up half the band has passed away. Jon Lord, Mel Galley and Cozy Powell are all now gone and that`s such a shame. It`s chilling, it just stops you in your tracks. I really miss them all; they were great musicians and fantastic to play with. Loss is tough and to find the time to grieve and process that is difficult particularly in a public scenario. People ask how I feel when I lose a close friend but how do you think I feel? It`s hard to lose such people. The only contact I have now is with the daughter from Jon`s first marriage. On the day he died I had all my family here, it was the Olympics at the time and I just couldn`t get a flight or a hotel. We were laughing about that and in times of sadness sometimes it`s easy to grieve in laughter. Sara, his daughter joked that it was really inconvenient of her Dad to die at that time. Jon would have loved that. We talked about everything and anything.

Read more in Metal Express

Thanks to BraveWords for the info.

NOW What?! conquers Germany

NOW What?! has seized the #1 spot in Germany, Deep Purple’s unofficial second home.

This is confirmed by Media Control, who says this is the seventh time Deep Purple hit the number one spot in Germany. (Seventh Heaven?)

In the UK, NOW What?! has reached #1 in the Rock & Metal Albums Top 40 dated May 11:

DP no 1

Let us just take a moment to congratulate the band – and earMUSIC – as we look forward to hearing as many of the new songs as possible on the upcoming tour.

Thanks to Nigel Young.

Vincent Price will be the new single

Vincent Price will be the next single from Now what?!, to be released on June 7 as a download, CD single and seven-inch transparent vinyl. It will be backed by the slightly infamous First Sign Of Madness, which previously was available only as a bonus track in one the the big box chains in Germany.

Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.

The Welsh want their vowels!

Here are two more interviews from the Now what?! promotional blitz.

Virgin radio Italy (in English with Italian subtitles):

GTFM Rockshow on BBC Welsh community radio used prerecorded interviews from the EPK: listen here (MP3, 22 min).

Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info and to Andy Fox for correction.

Glover on Global Metal

Roger Glover; photo © Jim Rakete; image courtesy of Kayos ProductionsRoger 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.

Will it happen again?

Ian Paice has appeared on the Metal XS show and talked about the past, present and future of Deep Purple. He went to considerable length explaining, among other things, his point of view on whether the band will appear on the same stage with Blackmore again.
http://vimeo.com/65450700

Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info.

Ian & Ian in Moscow

Gillan and Paice continue their promotional tour. On Friday, May 3, they were in Moscow, where they have appeared on the radio. Here is TV coverage of the visit from news channel Moskva 24:

Interview to TV channel Rossija 24 (unfortunately, also with Russian voiceover), in which Gillan reveals that Vincent Price was also the working title for the album, and both state that the band will play several new songs live, but they have not decided yet which ones:

Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov and SergeyDP for the info.

Ischgl TV report

Ischgl press conference 2013-04-30

Coverage of the “top of the mountain” gig in Ischgl on April 30 from Austrian TV channel ORF. Watch it on their website.

More video coverage from MomentumSki:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CER1rmMWLg4

Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info.

Little funny ones

Joe Lynn Turner; photo: JayBeeEM Photography

Metak Shrine has a rather interesting interview with Joe Lynn Turner:

Looking back on your career, do you feel there´s one album or a specific song where you feel you really nailed it?

JLT: According to most people… for a singer or songwriter to say “This is the one.”… it´s like my children. They´re all my children and even the little funny ones, the ones that didn´t come out right, but there is one that always comes to mind. Ricky Medlocke from Lynyrd Skynyrd said “There´s no greater song or vocal performance in rock and roll than “Street of dreams” and I think Richie (Blackmore) agreed and quite a few other people. I don´t why? Everybody says the music is just right and the lyrics are just metaphysically romantic. It´s just a moment in time that was captured and it doesn´t sound like anyone else, ever or ever will. I don´t know. For me, I can´t say, but I can say that other people think it´s “Street of dreams”. I have many stories on different songs. “Jealous lover” was a great moment when Richie just threw this riff at me and said “You´ve got 10 minutes to write the song!”. I had a fight with my girlfriend, who then became my first wife and I just banged it right out. The first verse was about her and my situation and then the second verse was about her and the third verse was about the audience being jealous lovers, because they all are you know! (laughs) Love me or hate me, love me or hate me. (laughs) There are so many cornerstones.

Read more in Metal Shrine

Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson for the info.

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