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Adrenaline Mob is a project of ex-Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy with Symphony X vocalist Russell Allen. Guitar player Mike Orlando and bassist John Moyer (Disturbed) round up the band. They have released an album of original material last year, followed this March by an EP of covers, with Rainbow’s Kill the King among them:
Ian Gillan and Ian Paice did a press conference in Paris on April 18 and ventured pretty far from the beaten track (as far as those promotional interviews go, which often sound like the same canned answers to the same canned questions):
A longer video of the press conference (with much worse audio):
Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
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 we work all day, I feel rough. Having used Bob’s lovely (and legendary) Fender Precision on some tracks, I am keen on getting one of my own. Kat accompanies me to a guitar shop where I try half a dozen expensive vintage Fenders but am not impressed. I’m just about to leave when I’m shown a salmon pink Fender Squier Precision, made in China. Salmon pink? I don’t know if I like that, it’s a bit bright. However, when I hear it through an amp, it sounds and plays great. I ask how much and he says something like two nine. Of course, I assume he means $2,900. No, he means $290. The salmon pink is looking not so bad. $300 with a case – amazing. It’s second hand but is like new. Whether I ever use it on stage is another matter but I have to get it. The salmon pink looks quite attractive now.
Read more on deeppurple-nowwhat.com
Deep Purple will perform this year at the Montreux Jazz festival on July 19, with tickets going on sale in the morning of April 19. Also appearing on the bill for July 19 is a member of another band intimately connected with this Swiss town — Brian May, with the festival director Mathieu Jaton strongly hinting that he is “likely to jam” with Purple.
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 album:
Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
This is an excerpt from the promotional interview with the band recorded in December 2012:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WJHa6aeowE
90 seconds from Out Of Hand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFkj0rUM6g0
A slightly different excerpt from the same inerview as the above, this one was posted by the record company:
Thanks to topartistvideos for posting it and to Andrey Gusenkov for bringing it to your attention.
Both Ians will be on the BBC Radio 2 show Simon Mayo’s Drivetime on Tuesday, April 23. The show is on the air between 17:00 and 19:00. As a matter of rule, BBC programming is available online from their site for a week after the air date.
Thanks to Peter Cross for the info.
Irish rock band / comedy troupe Dead Cat Bounce has put together a mocumentary project called Discoverdale, which is now doing rounds in the independent movie festival circuit.
The lead singer of Irish comedy rock superstars, Dead Cat Bounce, is at a crossroads. His band is about to be history, and he has never known the identity of his father. Until now…
He has just had a bombshell dropped on him. His biological father is none other than rock legend, DAVID COVERDALE.
Now he’s convinced his band-mates to join him on an unforgettable journey chasing the Whitesnake European tour, in pursuit of the mighty Coverdale. Travelling on a shoestring, busking their way around Scandinavia, these three comedy rockers get more than they could ever have bargained for…
Classic Rock has some comments from Coverdale himself:
Was the film done with your knowledge/co-operation or did they simply “stalk” you?
DC: Both, to be honest.
So you’ve seen the film in its entirety – what do you think of it?
DC: It’s very funny and the cast and crew did a stellar job. I feel it will do well. It has some very “real” moments.
Did they ask to to play a cameo role at all?
DC: I “play” myself throughout the flick. Not sure I’m BAFTA worthy, mind you!
Thanks to Classic Rock for the info.
Looks like the PR gates have opened and the promotional flood for the new album is upon us.
Ian Gillan gave an interview to the Ultimate Classic Rock:
How did you arrive at ‘Hell To Pay’ as the first single from this album?
Well believe me, it wasn’t my choice. We haven’t got a clue about what should be focused on or anything else. There were two tracks I think, that they wanted to select, probably the start of the record label debating. I guess that half of them wanted a slow one and half of them wanted a rock song, so ‘Hell To Pay’ was their choice.
I think we’re shooting a video in Berlin in a couple of weeks for another song entirely, a song called ‘Vincent Price,’ as far as I know. So I think this is just a taster, this single and they work for me, but I wouldn’t know where to start.
Read more in Ultimate Classic Rock.
Gillan also spoke to Rhode Island radio station 94HJY:
Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov and Blabermouth for the info.
Russian magazine InRock features Now What?! as it’s cover story in issue #2(58)/2013. We are working on obtaining the original English text of the interview they did with Ian Gillan for republication on The Highway Star.
Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing