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Archive for December, 2010



Whitesnake donates to charity auction

Members of Whitesnake have donated several items to a charity auction for the benefit of Y&T bass player Phil Kennemore, who is battling metastatic cancer. Items available are Doug Aldrich’s Fender Telecaster, a 1987 tourbook signed by Coverdale, Coverdale/Page CD signed by both of them, and an original print of a photograph by Timothy Drury. […]

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Nick Blagona is mixing new Gillan’s album

Billboard has an article about a new state of the art Jukasa Studios built last year on a native reservation in Canada, just an hour outside of Toronto. Enjoying the tax exempt status, the studio can save it’s clients paying the 13% Ontario tax on it’s services. Nick Blagona is the chief engineer and he’s […]

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Down to Earth remaster

Rainbow’s Down to Earth album remaster will be released (presumably in the UK) at the end of January (on the 24th if you believe Classic Rock or on the 31st if you believe Amazon). The track list, however, seems to be finalized and will span 2CDs as follows. CD1: All Night Long Eyes Of The […]

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This isn’t cricket!

Our favourite bass player shares some amusing travel anecdotage in his latest installment of Road Life: One of the things that intrigues me about rock concerts – everyone afterwards has a different story to tell. Did the band suck? Weren’t they fantastic? They didn’t play the favourite song, the bass player’s cute, the sound was […]

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Touring 2011

As the New Year approaches, here’s the summary of the upcoming tour dates we have lined up so far. Glenn Hughes will do a brief tour of Brazil in December, rounding up the year with a 2 date public live debut of Black Country Communion in Wolverhampton and London. Gillan will kick the year off […]

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Smiling faces everywhere in Rouen

Show started at 6pm with Philip Sayce’s brilliant power blues-rock trio. With a set essentially based on the Peace Machine LP, Sayce took the audience by surprise using his talent to set the field for Purple. The oriental intro served by the new lightshow surprised the audience a few seconds just the time to hear […]

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