A fairly in depth interview with David Coverdale in the Goldmine magazine:
Now you produced and co-produced with Doug Aldridge and Michael Macintyre?
DC: Well we are “The Brutal Brothers.” It started way back when. I did a deal with an European independent company for a live greatest hits. And then I said ‘well, I don’t want to just keep re-working the old stuff. What about if we included a couple of songs?’ And I didn’t want to get myself too overwrought by writing a whole record because when I revamped Whitesnake I didn’t intend to make another record. That just unfolded that way. Thank God.
So we did four songs. Michael Macintyre has worked with me for years. He’s a fabulous Pro-Tools engineer and a dear friend. He’s my right hand guy. Michael, as I say, he’s recorded my voice for the last bunch of projects, and he has my total trust.
Doug, of course, came in as a guitar hotshot. We developed a great friendship and discovered we could write simply as an extension of our friendship. I’ve been in relationships that have been the equivalent of 12 root canals writing songs. Whereas this is more or less natural. You know, it’s a marriage made in heaven in other words. So we did these songs and it went very, very well. And then f**k it, the next album unfolded.
But we are really hard on each other to get the best out of each other. I turned around and I made a remark one day and Doug went ‘DC, man, that’s brutal.’ I said, ‘We’re the f**king brutal brothers, what do you expect!’ The way there’s the Glimmer Twins or the Toxic Twins, it’s just fun. But the three of us work together extraordinarily well. It’s just worked out really, really well for us.
Back in 1990s Joe Lynn Turner was a member of project called Mother’s Army. Jeff Watson was playing guitar, Bob Daisley was on the bass and Carmine Appice on drums, later replaced by Aynsley Dunbar. The band managed to put out 3 albums: self titled (1993), Planet Earth (1997) and Fire On The Moon (1998), all of which were now only available as expensive Japanese imports, or so we’re told.
In early May Edel/earMUSIC without much fanfare reissued the three albums in one package called Mother’s Army — The Complete Discography. These appear to be straight reissues, no bonus tracks or anything, but at €15/£12 it might be worth picking up if that’s your thing.
Steve Morse gave a brief interview to the New Jersey’s Star-Ledger:
This one isn’t going to be orchestra-based so much as: It’s the rock band Deep Purple playing, with strings and horns being added for some color textures.
We’re not going to change the songs — I mean, there’ll be a few little cameos and features — but the basic idea of the show is: We’re doing what we do, and having more texture where it’s appropriate.
Bernie Marsden (right) and Arian Vandenberg (background) performed onstage with Whitesnake at Sweden Rock Festival tonight.
This is the news fresh in from The Highway Star’s on-site reporter Svante Axbacke, tweeting from the festival site.
‘He helped me start this band,’ David Coverdale said about Bernie Marsden, and the two hugged and played Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City with Marsden taking the second solo after Reb Beach took the first.
Marsden also performed Fool For Your Loving with Whitesnake – though without trying to upstage Coverdale’s young guns at the edge of the stage.
‘Please say hello to my Dutch brother,’ said David Coverdale to welcome Adrian Vandenberg to the stage. With four guitarists – current players Doug Aldrich and Reb Beach with both guests, Whitesnake closed their main set with Here I Go Again.
For the encores both guests came back onstage and did Still Of The Night.
This hodgepodge collection of songs reveals or obscures a range of emotions over a turbulent decade; separation, divorce, injustice, uncertainty, new love, escape, fatherhood, grand-fatherhood, emigration, touring and losing my mother are some of the extreme highs and lows during this storm-tossed period. All were written wherever I was living – on a MacPro with ProTools and a few instruments and gadgets – extra musicians were added in the studio as needed. By the way, I know that it should be If Life Were Easy – it’s a subtle irony.
I am most grateful to The Guilty Party, my collaborators, whose patience and alent has graced these humble efforts; Joe Bonadio – musical director, Randall Bramblett, Oz Noy, Nicky Moroch, Joe Mennonna. My guests; Gillian Glover, Dan Cafferty, Pete Agnew, Walther Gallay, Mickey Lee Soule, Sahaj Ticotin, Sim Jones, Don Airey, Eliot Denenberg, Harvey Jones.
~ Roger Glover, Mai 2011
Tracklist:
DON’T LOOK NOW [EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED] (Roger Glover/Randall Bramblett)
Randall Bramblett – vocals, keyboards, saxophone
Gillian Glover – vocals
Roger Glover – bass, baglama, guitar, piano
Joe Bonadio – drums, percussion
Oz Noy – guitars
Harvey Jones – synthesizers
BOX OF TRICKS (Roger Glover)
Roger Glover – Vocals, bass, guitar, programming
Eliot Denenberg – drums, guitar atmosphere
MOONLIGHT (Roger Glover)
Gillian Glover – vocals
Roger Glover – Godin fretless bass
Randall Bramblett – keyboards
Joe Bonadio – drums, percussion
Oz Noy – guitars
Joe Mennonna – horns, horn arrangement
THE CAR WON‘T START (Roger Glover)
Roger Glover – vocals, guitar, harmonica, Godin fretless bass, keyboards, percussion, programming.
Nicky Moroch – guitar
THE DREAM I HAD (Roger Glover)
Dan McCafferty and Pete Agnew – vocals
Roger Glover – guitar, bass, percussion
Joe Bonadio – drums, percussion
Oz Noy – slide, guitar
STAND TOGETHER (Roger Glover/Randall Bramblett)
Randall Bramblett – vocals, keyboards
Gillian Glover – vocals
Roger Glover – bass, keyboards, programming
Don Airey – pianet
Joe Bonadio – drums, percussion
Oz Noy – guitars
IF LIFE WAS EASY (Roger Glover)
Roger Glover – vocals, Spanish and electric guitars, Godin fretless bass, percussion
WELCOME TO THE MOON (Roger Glover)
Roger Glover – vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards, percussion, programming
SET YOUR IMAGINATION FREE (Roger Glover/Gillian Glover)
Gillian Glover – vocals
Roger Glover – bass, guitar, strings
Randall Bramblett – keyboards
Joe Bonadio – drums, percussion
Oz Noy – sitar guitars
WHEN LIFE GETS TO THE BONE (Roger Glover)
Roger Glover – vocals, guitar, bass, percussion
WHEN THE DAY IS DONE (Roger Glover)
Walther Galley – vocals
Roger Glover – guitar, keyboards, percussion, programming
Sim Jones – strings, string arrangement
STARING INTO SPACE (Roger Glover)
Roger Glover – vocals, bass, guitar, synthesizer, percussion, programming
GET AWAY (CAN’T LET YOU) (Roger Glover /Gillian Glover)
Gillian Glover – vocals
Randall Bramblett – piano
Roger Glover – bass
Joe Bonadio – drums, percussion, electric drill
Oz Noy – guitar
Nicky Moroch – guitar
Joe Mennonna – horns, horn arrangement
THE GHOST OF YOUR SMILE (Roger Glover)
Mickey Lee Soule – vocals
Randall Bramblett – keyboards
Roger Glover – Godin fretless bass, keyboards, percussion
Oz Noy – acoustic guitar
Joe Bonadio – drums, percussion
Nicky Moroch – lead guitar
CRUEL WORLD (Roger Glover)
Roger Glover – vocals, bass, acoustic and ‘Tin–Tone’ guitars, percussion, programming
Randall Bramblett – keyboards
Joe Bonadio – drums, percussion
Oz Noy – sitar guitar
FEEL LIKE A KING (Roger Glover)
Sahaj Ticotin – vocals
Roger Glover – vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, bass, programming
Joe Bonadio – drums, percussion
Nicky Moroch – guitar
The album will be published by earMusic/edel on July 08, 2011.
The latest issue (No. 6/2011) of Teraz Rock, a Polish hard rock magazine, has just appeared and contains lots of Purple related stuff:
It’s the 100th anniversary issue of the magazine, and it publishes a list of 100 the greatest albums of all time. Three Deep Purple ones are mentioned: In Rock, Machine Head and Made in Japan (pages 22-32).
Michal Kirmuc interviews Dough Aldrich, who talks about two of Whitesnake’s latest albums on pages 49-51.
Editor-in-chief Wieslaw Weiss interviews Ian Gillan, who talks about WhoCares, Armenia, Tony Iommi, Steve Morris, and Born Again. He also remembers his friend Tomasz Dziubinski (pages 60-61).
Wieslaw Weiss interviews Glenn Hughes who talks about Black Country Communion albums on pages 66-67.
Wieslaw Weiss interviews BCC guitarist Joe Bonamassa, who talks about Glenn Hughes, Black Country Communion, his concerts in Poland and his own album Dust Bowl (pages 68-69).
Teraz Rock also invites fans to the Deep Purple concert in Slupsk at the Dolina Charlotty festival on July 24, 2011.
Yiannis Dolas of RockPages.gr did a lengthy interview with Ian Gillan regarding the WhoCares project:
Rockpages.gr: You performed in front of the crowd in Armenia, both just after the earthquake in 1990, as well as now, 20 years later. What was the reaction you got, now, and twenty years ago?
Ian Gillan: Well, times are different, people behave differently. Everyone thinks that in ‘69 and the ‘70s the crowd used to go crazy… well the didn’t actually, they were very quite! They used to applaud politely, and clap, and dance, and whatever… it wasn’t the complete mayhem that it is today. When I was in Armenia I played four nights at the Sports Hall in Yeodrum with the Gillan band and I was there with Deep Purple, we played the same venue. And, the audience, generally speaking on the Deep Purple gig was 18year old kids, so that was very strange… an entirely different generation enjoying the music. And should I say different generation? Yeah, they behaved differently…
Glenn Hughes recently spoke to Jeb Wright and his interview now appears on Classic Rock Revisited:
Jeb: I think Derek is the band’s secret weapon. His solo albums have great guitar players on them like Zakk Wylde. He is amazing.
Glenn: Derek’s role is very, very important to our band. He is like Jon Lord was in Deep Purple. He is featured more on 2 because he is simply brilliant. Musicians are a weird breed, as is Derek, but he brings something very special to this band. With Joe, Jason and myself, what you see is what you get. Derek is really the glue that holds us all together.
Jeb: How does Black Country Communion, in terms of a band feel, compare to the version of Deep Purple you played in?
Glenn: It is very simple, around 1973, before all the shit started, things were great in Deep Purple. Being in the room with these guys is very much like being with Deep Purple at their peak. The musicianship in this band is of the highest quality and you’ve got to be very strong to be in this band.
Jeb: At what point will the business interfere with the music?
Glenn: I know what you’re referring too. The elephant in the room is that there is no such thing as record sales anymore. There are no CDs and everyone just downloads music. Young people growing up will not even know what CDs were. Now, we are looking at the 3D performance and we are looking at Blu-rays and the visual aspects of the performers. People want to look at, and try to touch, the live aspect of the band. This band, BCC, is embracing this. We are shooting a Blu-ray in July in Germany that will come out around Christmas. We are looking at the visual side of our band. I am very involved in the marketing of the band. Joe is not too involved with that as all he wants to do is play guitar. Kevin Shirley and I are the ones who are dealing with where this band, visually, will go in the future.
Black Country Communion tour starts on June 9 in San Diego, California, and will continue until early August throughout United States and Europe. Their new album, simply called 2 is due out on June 14.
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