BraveWords quotes a Glenn Hughes’ message posted on unspecified social media:
Currently at home in Los Angeles, but the road is calling me…
Very busy year ahead, touring Europe & the United States, & more continents, announcing soon. Touring until November 25th.
It’s also time for me to record a GH solo album, to center me, & create new songs.
New music is vital for me, it is the Healer.
I will be in Copenhagen in June, recording in the studio.
It’s time for me to release new music in 2025, and play my solo material and retrospective songs of my career live.
To be present in the moment, and to stay free, is all I (we) need.
Sharing good loving vibrations with you all…
See you soon.
Here are a couple of excerpts from what appears the same Joe Lynn Turner interview, published on two different YouTube channels. JLT is reminiscing about his work with Ritchie Blackmore and Yngwie Malmsteen. Continue Reading »
Louder Sound reprints online a Classic Rock magazine feature on Don Airey that originally appeared in issue 249, circa 2019.
Airey thinks they might have wanted him to join [Black Sabbath] full-time, but his decision was made for him when he got a call from Cozy Powell. Rainbow were looking for a keyboard player, and Powell told his old friend he should get on a plane and go for the job. It was not a suggestion. “He said: ‘No arguments. There’s a ticket for you to New York.’”
When Airey arrived in America he was taken straight to meet Ritchie Blackmore. There was a clavinet in the room. “Ritchie walked in and said: ‘Do you read music?’ And he put this piece of Bach in front of me – which I pretended not to know but I actually did. I played it, and he was impressed. And we were off.”
Of all the difficult bastards Don Airey has ever worked with, you’d think that Blackmore was the most difficult bastard of all.
“No, he’s very easy to work with, Ritchie,” he says. “You’ve just got to be ready for whatever voodoo he’s going to conjure up on the guitar. If people are difficult to deal with, it’s because they’re looking for the next step musically. It’s your job to try and be there for them to make it happen, and maybe contribute a little on the side.”
Read more in Louder Sound.
Dweezil Zappa discusses his mix of Machine Head and compares it to the original Continue Reading »
Louder Sound publishes a Perfect Strangers retrospective penned by Geoff Barton:
Bangkok. Barcelona. Beijing. Berlin. Bedford?! Deep Purple have always been a contrary band but this is pushing contrariness to the limit. It’s October 1984 and I’m travelling in cackling PR Roland Hyams’s knackered old Saab 900 up the M1 to the markedly unremarkable capital of Bedfordshire, namely Bedford. My mission is to interview all five members of the reunited Deep Purple Mk II. In a pub. In Bedford.
The official word is that they want to rehearse their live show in an unassuming location, away from big-city scrutiny. So it is that I find myself loitering inside a Berni Inn (Google it), with the scent of cremated steaks and exotic gateaux lingering in the air.
Continue reading in Louder Sound.
Black Country Communion played their first gig since 2018 on March 17, 2024, at the Culture Room in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. A couple of new songs from the upcoming BCC V album have been premiered there. Continue Reading »
A new batch of European tour dates has been announced today. Billed as =1 More Time Tour, it will start on October 17, 2024, in Katowice, and finish on November 10 in Glasgow. Jefferson Starship will provide the support on the continent, while Reef will be supporting in the UK. Tickets go on sale within the next few days, full details in our calendar.
Caveat: some sites list October 20th gig as being in Berlin, which is obviously wrong. The correct venue is Messehalle Erfurt.
Thanks to Lutz Reinert for the heads-up.
Two more bootleg archives were dumped on YouTube by the band’s official channel. Both with the 1973 Mark 2 performances. Continue Reading »
Roger Glover and Ian Paice appeared on the Consequences Uncut podcast talking to Greg Prato about the upcoming Machine Head remix. The interview itself starts at around 5’45” into the podcast and continues at 12’20” after a commercial break. Continue Reading »
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