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An outfit called Rock ‘n’ Roll Grad School talks to Dr. Donald Airey about his new album. If you’ve been paying attention, you may have already heard bits and pieces of what Don has to say here. Nevertheless, here it is

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The tale of two Davids

Steve Vai shares with Music Radar a couple of stage mishap stories from his stints with David Lee Roth and Whitesnake. Vai recalls a similar incident on stage with Whitesnake and the band’s singer David Coverdale. “It wasn’t too different,” Vai says. “Fast forward a couple of years and I was playing Jones Beach Theater […]

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Very much calling the shots

Truemetal.it has an interview with Don Airey on the occasion of his new solo album Pushed To The Edge about to be released. The conversation also veered to discuss other parts of Don’s illustrious career — just check out the anecdote of parting the Red Sea at six o’clock in the morning to meet Jerry […]

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She was a weird one in the setting sun

Vincent Price the other day seemingly opened a floodgate, and a generous helping of live clips from 2013 got posted today. We are talking, of course, about From The Setting Sun (Live In Wacken), which was a sibling release for To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo).

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The benefit of copious amounts of hindsight

In January 2024, Louder Sound reprinted a Classic Rock feature on Deep Purple Mark 4, which apparently slipped under our proverbial radar. It was penned by Geoff Barton for the issue 58 (October 2003) of the magazine. “I must say that the las tour for me was horrendously wrong,” Glenn Hughes says today of Deep […]

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What’s not to like?!

Simon McBride talks about touring with Deep Purple with his guitar company PRS. Sounds like a thinly veiled commercial, don’t say you haven’t been warned.

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The joys of country living

This is a 1977 vintage interview with the country gentleman Ian Gillan, taken during the IGB Japanese tour.

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Vincent Price is back again

For no apparent reason, the record company has posted a live clip of Vincent Price from To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo), released almost 10 years ago.

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Rarely trod the conventional path

Louder Sound has a recent (conducted in November 2024) interview with Ian Gillan about his Gillan the band years. Big Ian seems frank, not avoiding unpleasant topics, and does not mince words much. Gillan the band’s forerunners the Ian Gillan Band had come to an end when keyboard player Colin Towns brought in a song […]

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Lavishly repackaged

Another massive (re-)release from Whitesnake — an 8-CD box set of live material, all of which has been previously released separately. Titled Access All Areas: Live, it is lavishly packaged in an imitation travel case, and is slated for release on April 25th, 2025, on Rhino. The material included was previously released in the following […]

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Honeysuckle’s bloomin’ on the honeysuckle vine

We were wrong, and the classic Gillan video bonanza continues unabashedly. In this instalment: frenetic miming to New Orleans at the Top of the Pops, dated March 26th, 1981.

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This chord in his head

Don Airey appeared on the Sonic Perspectives podcast, promoting his upcoming solo album. The is also a fair bit of talk about his day job and the whole career.

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Slide down the mountain

Elizabeth the opera singer is getting her Dio fix by listening to Man on the Silver Mountain, and rather surprisingly, it is the album version.

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Glenn’s Chosen Years in UK

Glenn Hughes’ management has announced another leg of his Chosen Years tour — 8 dates in the UK in October 2025. Various presales seem to be already in progress, with general availability slated for March 7th. The powers that be want to steer your money towards the Ticketmaster, however we’ve also included some links to […]

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Sometimes difficult to cure

In this video, dated December 1979, Ritchie Blackmore makes some noises for a few minutes, eventually settling upon Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Supported by Messrs. Glover, Airey, and Powell.

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The last man standing

Ian Paice has appeared on the dopeYEAH Podcast, interviewed by Rob Cass, and it was a very interesting conversation over an hour long. The blurb reads: What does it take to be the backbone of one of the greatest rock bands of all time? Ian Paice, the powerhouse drummer of ‪@DeepPurpleOfficial‬ and one of the […]

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No words necessary

Speaking of newly restored classic videos, here’s Wring That Neck from the French TV show Chorus on November 14th, 1970.

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That’s frenetic!

A probably final (at least, for a while) instalment in the restored classic Gillan video series. Behold the infamously frenetic version of the rock’n’roll classic Lucille

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Not so hot on ‘why’

That other opera singer is getting awestruck again by Ian Gillan’s take on Gethsemane

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Moon Rising

Another single from the upcoming Don Airey’s solo album Pushed To The Edge has been released. Moon Rising

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