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David Coverdale spoke to eonmusic about various remixes, remasters and other embellishments of his back catalogue, prospects of Coveradle/Page reissue, and many other things. You wanted Rory [Gallagher] for Deep Purple, didn’t you, when Ritchie Blackmore left? I loved him so much that when Ritchie said he was leaving [in 1975], the first guitar player […]
Read more »Geir Myklebust continues doing God’s work with posting a New Musical Express feature on Jon Lord originally published on March 6, 1971. Here is how Jon describes the pivotal moment in his musical development: The group changed its name to the Art Woods and Jon bought a Hammond and became influenced by Graham Bond and […]
Read more »Ian Gillan, sitting at home in Lyme Regis, amidst of all the gold records and memorabilia, talking to Nicky Horne of Vintage TV. That was recorded in 2016, back in the time when social distancing was unheard of. Enjoy!
Read more »David Coverdale talks to Darren Paltrowitz for the latter’s podcast. They spoke about degenerative arthritis, tax evasion, naked puppets, ear candy, handsome devils, coats of arms, choking on smoke, ancient Egypt, mutual respect, and in between it all, music.
Read more »Paicey’s Drummers of note continues today, October 29, with the second installment that will premiere in about 2 hours, or around 18:00 UTC. There will be a live chat available on Youtube.
Read more »Steve Morse spoke to the Total Guitar and his interview became the basis for a feature promoting Whoosh, and how the new album harks back right into the classic Purple way of constructing the music: I’m very proud to be still playing with my British brothers. Diversity has been a big part of the sound. […]
Read more »Paicey talks about his favourite drummers. Unsurprisingly, many of them come from jazz.
Read more »Blackmore’s Night will release their new album called Nature’s Light some time in the spring of 2021. To that extent they’ve signed up with their old label — Edel/earMUSIC — which back in the day had released their first two albums. Yep, they are on the same record label as Deep Purple now. The new […]
Read more »My Things – Music history for those who are able to read is a music blog dedicated to reprinting articles from old music magazines and papers from the past 50 years or so. And there are quite a few Purple related ones. Take, for example, this report in Sounds, dated March 13, 1976 — from […]
Read more »The new Dead Daisies’ (now with more Glenn Hughes™) album Holy Ground is due out on January 22, 2021. It will be available at least in some territories as a digipack CD and transparent violet vinyl 2LP, in addition to the now usual MP3s and streaming. The album will contain 11 tracks: Holy Ground (Shake […]
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