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How many guitarists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Steve Morse was a guest on the No Cover Charge podcast, spreading nuggets of wisdom and jamming with the host.

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Sleep well?

In July 2025, Joe Lynn Turner was interviewed in Finland by the Southeast Wreckmetal podcast. The interview, where Joe shares some historical anectotage and his plans for the future, has now been posted on Youtube. For whatever reason, the owner(s) of the video have disabled playback on other sites, so you’ll have to watch it […]

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Fire in the bassement

The infamously apocryphical mark of Deep Purple performs Fire in the Basement somewhere behind the freshly fallen Iron Curtain (JLT says it’s Budapest, but the hazy memory says it was the Ostrava show that was filmed for TV).

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F*** off rock’n’roll

Here is what (from the memory that is hazy) looks like the Abandon EPK, with Ian Gillan and Jon Lord touting the latest at the time offering from the band.

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No short hair wigs allowed

Steve Morse was interviewed for the Metal Mayhem ROC podcast, reflecting on his storied 50+ year career. For the most impatient of us, the Purple bits start at around 43 minutes into more than an hour-long conversation. However, we encourage you to find some time to listen to the whole thing all the way through. […]

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Instantly recognizable

LA’s rock radio KNAC reviews the latest release with Ian Paice — Banned from Purpendicular, and gives it 5/5: The underlying concept of this album is the is the hypersensitive culture of our times, in which every word has to be carefully weighed up, because you mustn’t and don’t want to offend anyone, and the […]

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A drug addict with a music problem

Classic Rock has an extensive interview with Glenn Hughes. He talks about his career, from playing trombone in a school orchestra, to his mum saving him from joining ELO, to the most Ritchie Blackmore thing that Ritchie Blackmore did, to the latest solo album Chosen. Your first instrument was the trombone. This could have been […]

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Warhorse – Live At Woods

[Updated] Another new(ish) release courtesy of letters to our better-late-than-never department. A Warhorse live album was quietly released some time in January 2025 via SingSong Music (a company founded by George Harrison himself). It is a recording of their one-off reunion gig from 2001.

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Unwaveringly inspired

Goldmine magazine reviews Candice Night’s recent solo album Sea Glass, released earlier this year: Sea Glass is drenched in classically resounding pure folk and soft rock incantations, conjuring up the spirit of true singer/songwriter compositions and productions. Save for a few selections which bring in a slightly heavier production quality, the album is reminiscent of […]

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Tower of stone

Music Radar has a piece that dissects Rainbow’s Stargazer. It’ll be of particular interest to those of us who can tell their third mode of G Major from the B Phrygian Dominant scale. What really catches the ear, however, is when Blackmore decides to go off-piste and start firing out notes outside of that scale. […]

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The life-changing moment

Music Radar has another short historical piece, wherein Glenn Hughes confesses how his participation in the America: What Time Is Love? collaboration with KLF became that life-changing moment where he realized that it’s a chance to turn his life around. “That song, and that session, and the realisation that was to come was a game-changer […]

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We’re herd animals

Steve Morse was interviewed by the (we kid you not) Rockin’ 101’s The Johnny Rock Show, who’s DJ must be a close relative of Sally ‘I kin fart through my nose’ Cohen. Anyways, you gotta do what you gotta do…

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Born under a bad sign

Music Radar has a short piece on the history of Whitesnake’s first UK hit — Fool For Your Loving: As Coverdale said: “Bernie had done an interview with BB, whom we all adored, and he asked us to write something for him. He loved what we’d done with Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of […]

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In the press

The German edition of the Rolling Stone magazine features Made in Japan remix as the cover story of its 2025/10 issue. It also comes with an exclusive 7″ vinyl single containing Highway Star and Smoke on the Water, tagged as Live in Tokyo. Following Bruce Springsteen and The Doors, we are releasing our third collector’s […]

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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

This is a (part of the) recording of Glenn Hughes’ spoken word appearance at Café de Paris in London on February 25, 2017. Here, Glenn talks to the legendary British DJ Nicky Horne about joining Deep Purple and his days in the band.

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Bop till you drop

[Updated Sep 25 with link to the recording] On August 26, 2025, Roger Glover has appeared on the satellite radio SiriusXM show Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk. Blabbermouth has some quotes of what he said.

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You don’t wear that stupid shirt

Ian Paice was an inaugural guest on the Metal Sticks podcast, hosted by the recently retired from Iron Maiden Nicko McBrain and Modern Drummer CEO David Frangioni. The Made in Japan remix is mentioned as soon-to-be-released, so this must have been recorded some time in early August. Dig into the drummer talk!

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One thing led to another

Nic Simper has published the next chapter of his memoir, dealing with the immediate aftermath of his dismissal from Deep Purple and consequent stint with Marsha Hunt. I had a visit from the Deep Purple road crew, Ian Hansford and Mick Angus, who had come to collect the Jaguar. It was good to see them […]

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Too much band, not enough Smith

Here are a couple of clips with Jon Lord and Ian Paice respectively reviewing in 1970 the contemporary(ish) music. The source of these is the Melody Maker section called Blind Date, where popular musicians were asked to review the singles and records, most of which they never heard before.

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A drink or four

Music Radar has an article about Coverdale joining Deep Purple, with input from the man himself. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity but also a daunting challenge – not least because of the fearsome reputation of Purple’s moody guitar hero Ritchie Blackmore. “I think I was the only singer they auditioned,” Coverdale recalled in an interview […]

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