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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It’s not that often that you read a reveiew of an album (any album) that is so eloquent that it makes you wipe that grin off your face, put everything aside and listen to the said album again.

Cory Frye’s review of Now what?! in Albany Democrat-Herald is just like that:

Which brings us to “Now What?!,” a palpable question for any group in its 45th year: What do you do when you’ve done it all? It also acknowledges the 2012 passing of Jon Lord, to whom this collection is dedicated. The band’s debt to him is immeasurable. ‘Twas his rumble that announced 1968’s “Hush,” a Top 5 U.S. hit; had he not fed his Hammond through a Leslie speaker and plumped its bulk with Marshall heft, the Deep Purple sound would never have existed.

Wherever he resides in the by-and-by, he must be immensely pleased. Airey dominates in aggressive tribute, his vamps and swerves sending his partners down rabbit holes they either haven’t explored in decades or never visited, period. As a result, “Now What?!” isn’t the continuation of “Bananas” or “Rapture of the Deep” but a refreshingly inventive journey that manages to be both bold and comfortable.

Read the whole thing in Albany Democrat-Herald.

Don Airey was interviewed by Classic Rock Revisited. he talked about Now What?!, Bob Ezrin, the spirit of Jon Lord, Wurlitzers, and the great guitar players he worked with.

Don Airey had the seemingly impossible task of replacing the amazing Jon Lord when he joined Deep Purple eleven years ago. To say he’s done okay is a huge understatement. While he had been with the band for over a decade, he is still considered the ‘new guy’ in the group.

Iconic producer Bob Ezrin, who was brought into to lead the charge for Deep Purple’s latest album Now What?! had this to say about working with Airey, “I was most impressed with Don Airey, who I had never worked with before and I didn’t know. He is one of the best keyboard players I have ever seen in my life. He is beyond amazing; he’s a genius.”

His bandmate and other DP newbie, twenty year member Steve Morse, also had praise for Airey, “Between Jon Lord and Don Airey I have really been blessed to work with two of the very best rock keyboardists in history.” Stalwart Roger Glover, who has been with Purple since 1969, added this “It is very difficult with Don Airey and Steve Morse, who are such great musicians, to play anything simple. They come up with ideas that I would have never thought of.”

Continue reading in Classic Rock Revisited

Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.

The Armenian music school saga nears its successful completion. After WhoCares project had donated money for the school reconstruction, the donation was tripled by another charity and Armenian government, with Millbank Music from Canada donating on top of that more than $20,000 worth of music instruments to the school in memory of Jon Lord. The Azat Shirinyan Octet School of Music opening is now scheduled for September with Ian Gillan as a guest of honour. The school was completely destroyed by an earthquake in December 1988.

Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.

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 you let an animal out of the cage and he’s channeling Jon Lord. I mean, where did that come from? It sounds like he’s really come into his own.

I think he has, especially on this record. He’s found his mark; he’s found his place. He’s had a great career working with many, many people and been in a few bands, but never in a band like this. I think he really enjoys it and he feels privileged to be in it. He was a huge fan of Jon’s all his life and he’s very reverent towards Jon and has a great deal of respect. But Don has to be Don. An organ is an organ. It sounds like a Hammond organ. It doesn’t sound like anything else. But it’s all in the playing. He couldn’t ever replace Jon, but he has to be himself. And he, himself, is a completely different player and there’s a whole different sensibility about him, which is right. But I think he’s confident enough now to really shine with it. And I think he does on this record.

There’s this idea that’s floating around that all of the living members, past and present, of Deep Purple should get together and perform the ultimate Deep Purple concert. I actually talked to Ian Gillan about this a few years ago and he told me someone in Russia had proposed that idea. Do you have any opinion about that either way?

Yes, I do. First of all, impossible. Second of all, improbable. And third of all, why the hell? (laughs). We’re here now; we do what we do now. Fans live in the past, I understand that. I’m a fan myself. I love some old recordings. My first encounter with Little Feat, for example, changed my life. I’ll always love that. But you can’t expect Little Feat to be that now, because they can’t. They’re different people.

Read more in Vintage Rock.

Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.

Steve Morse remembers Jon Lord: