British subscription TV channel Sky Arts will air highlights of this year High Voltage festival next Saturday, August 28th. The festival, which was held on July 24 in London, saw the last performance of Heaven & Hell, with Glenn Hughes and Jorn Lande joining on stage Toni Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice in tribute to the late Ronnie James Dio.
The show will air between 21:00 and 22:30 and is announced as “ZZ Top and Emerson, Lake & Palmer are the headliners giving riotous performances to a sell-out crowd in London’s Victoria Park at the 2010 High Voltage festival”, so it would probably be unwise to expect much of the H&H performance to appear.
Sky Arts does not to appear to be broadcasting online, although 2-3 minute excerpts from the recent broadcasts are available.
Steve Morse is sitting in a studio on the outskirts of Orlando, Florida, chewing on a chocolate chip cookie and waiting patiently for the members of his band to show up for rehearsal. The band that’s he’s waiting for, though, is not made up of his regular musical partners. They are not the members of Dixie Dregs, not the members of the Steve Morse Band, not even the members of Kansas. No, this time Steve Morse is waiting for Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice – a group of Englishmen known for almost 30 years as Deep Purple.
We hope your heart didn’t skip a beat. Before the rumours start spreading like a wildfire, the article containing an extended interview with Steve is a reprint from May 1995 Guitar Magazine, when the band was indeed almost 30 years old. It is, none the less, an interesting read with the benefit of the 15 years of hindsight:
They asked me when we went on tour if I wanted to play any of my stuff. I said no – not because I was scared of how it would sound, but because the tickets that people were holding started with a ‘D’ and not an ‘M.’ Like any musician that performs for a living, I just wanted to do what was right for the show. In that light, they never had to tell me how to play, or what not to play. I know what people want to hear and I wasn’t going to change it, because it’s amazing to see the power some of these songs have over a crowd – it’s like pushing a button. It’s a rush for me, but I also know that it’s coming from familiarity with what Ritchie wrote. For me the challenge, live, is to make that work. So to play someone else’s stuff literally, in the style of the tune, I’m willing to be adaptable. I would do the same thing to a bluegrass tune that I might bring into my own band. What I do is just drop some parts that I might normally play in my style, things that might not be as interesting in the context of the song. On the other hand, I’m playing a lot more with the whammy bar in Deep Purple than I have recently [Laughs]. It’s funny, because when I first started playing, and especially all through college, the whammy bar was a big part of my style.
Read the rest of this rather lengthy and in depth article on Guitar International.
Thanks to George Kikonishvili for the info. We hope he didn’t start another rumour already. 😉
Release date has no been pushed from December 2010 to some time early 2011. The good news is that the DVD will include exclusive new interviews with Glenn Hughes and founder member Jon Lord that open the lid on the problems that beset Mk4 as they toured around the world: death, drugs and devastation, which led to its ultimate demise. Archive footage from the tour includes interviews with Tommy Bolin, David Coverdale and Ian Paice. Rare and previously unreleased concert footage includes performances of Smoke On The Water, Burn and Highway Star.
Glenn Hughes recently talked to http://www.faceculture.com. FaceCulture spoke to Glenn about the Black Country, California, Joe Bonamassa, his rock dream, forming a band, writing under pressure, playing live, drugs, autobiography, age, secrets, achievements and lots more! An excerpt is available above and the full interview can be watched on FaceCulture.
Hughes also talked about BCC with MariskalRockTV in Madrid. This interview can be watched below.
Guitar effects company TC Electronic has posted a couple of videos providing inside look into the effect setup for both Steve Morse and Don Airey.
Steve’s guitar tech Tommy Alderson walks us through his onstage setup:
Choice of the soundrack, although, did raise my eyebrow.
Don Airey uses a Nova Reverb for creating that classic Hammond Spring effect; while for the Moog he has hooked up a Nova Modulator for flanger effects:
In an interview with billboard.com, Black Country Communion drummer Jason Bonham says the band is talking about recording a second album before going on tour in 2011.
The band’s debut album is released in the UK and the rest of Europe on Monday September 20th, followed by a North American release on Tuesday September 21st.
While the next DEEP PURPLE album still seems to be far, far away, a new Purple-related side-project faces the light of day: Steve Morse joined forces with 22 year old Sarah Spencer to release a vocal album under the “Angelfire”-banner.
Accompanied by STEVE MORSE BAND musicians Dave LaRue on bass guitar and Van Romaine on percussion, the music featured on “Angelfire” has only little to do with Steves work with DEEP PURPLE.
The primary focus is on Sarah Spencers voice with the guitar staying in the background most of the time, accompaning and accenting the vocal lines. Within this kind of clear and natural setup, it is hard to understand why Sarahs vocals have been altered on most songs by several effects, especially reverbs, instead of leaving the voice “the way it is”.
The majority of the songs on the album are of calm nature, trying to impress with the beauty of little details instead of surprising with breaks or unexpected moments. This makes it hard to distinguish between the particular songs during the first few listens, but after a while songs like the ENYA-like “Omnis Morse Aequat” begin to stand out.
However, I’m still wondering about the targeted audience: for Steve Morse fans there are way too few moments of the guitar taking the lead – for vocal fans the album has to compete with way too many albums following the “girl & guitar”-concept to have a real chance to be successful.
Black Country Communion have today posted a free MP3 download of their debut single “One Last Soul” on their official website. BCC’s debut album is released in the UK/Europe by Mascot Records on 20th September, followed by 21st September North American release on the J&R Adventures label.
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The latest press release from the Whitesnake camp informs us that the band is back in the studio, working on the follow up to Good To Be Bad, and with a new lineup to boot. Out are bassist Uriah Duffy and drummer Chris Frazier. Brian Tichy (whose resume includes Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol, Foreigner, Glenn Hughes, Slash’s Snakepit, and many others) takes the spot behind the drum kit, while the bassist position is still open.
“One never enters into a relationship expecting it to end, but, as in other avenues of life, these things happen…Often it is not necessarily any one persons fault, it just unfolds that the relationship has naturally run it’s course…I really wish Chris & Uriah well in everything they do…they are great guys & exceptional musicians…
As we bid a fond farewell to the guys, it is with great pleasure we welcome Briian Tichy to the band…I’ve personally been a fan of his work since I first heard him destroy a drum kit years ago with Ozzy & thro’ his amazing career with Pride & Glory, Billy Idol & Foreigner…I have no doubt he will help take the Snake to new & dizzying heights with his personality & powerhouse playing…& I believe he will inspire me to boldly go where no singer has gone before…
A complete video of the 1974 Windows performance has appeared on Youtube. It was perhaps the most experimental of Jon’s work and people tend to either love it or hate it (myself falling firmly into the former category). This is rather long, including several parts that were omitted from the album.
Also sprach Zarathustra — Introduction (Richard Strauss)
Continuo On B.A.C.H.
Windows 1st Movement — Renga
Windows 2nd Movement — Gemini
Windows 3rd Movement — All Marcia Allegro
Eberhard Schoener (Conductor, Moog Synthesizer), Jon Lord (Piano, Keyboards, Organ), Tony Ashton (Keyboards, Vocals), David Coverdale (Vocals), Glenn Hughes (Bass, Vocals), Ray Fenwick (Guitar), Pete York (Drums), Erminia Santi (Soprano), Sigune von Osten (Soprano), Klaus Löwitsch (Speaker), Günther Salber (Violin), Orchestra of the Munich Chamber Opera.
This performance was part of the concluding event of Prix Jeunesse International 1974 (a Foundation by the Free State of Bavaria, the City of Munich and Bayerischer Rundfunk), which was broadcast via Eurovision in 21 countries on June 1, 1974.
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While the next DEEP PURPLE album still seems to be far, far away, a new Purple-related side-project faces the light of day: Steve Morse joined forces with 22 year old Sarah Spencer to release a vocal album under the “Angelfire”-banner.
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