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A lifestyle/travel publication TimeOut (somewhat belatedly) reviews the 2024 Montreux Jazz Festival: There are few riffs more recognisable than the four-note sequence of ‘Smoke On The Water’. It’s been 53 years since a fire destroyed Montreux Casino during a Frank Zappa concert; a scene which members of Deep Purple watched from afar and would later […]
Read more »Roger Glover posts on his website a eulogy for the late Mick Underwood: Mick Underwood was a lovely man. I was deeply saddened to learn that he had died. It’s taken me a while to digest the news and put in perspective what he meant for Ian Gillan and me. When he joined Episode Six, […]
Read more »Sonic Perspectives has a review of the opening gig of the North American tour on August 14 in Hollywood, FL. There’s no point in wasting lines to explain why Deep Purple is one of the most revered and genre-defining rock n’roll bands of the last century, that has been said time and time again. But […]
Read more »Rhino Entertainment will be reissuing the three David Coverdale’s solo albums — WhiteSnake, Northwinds, and Into the Light as a 6CD box set. Rather confusingly, the box set is titled Into The Light: The Solo Albums, with no explicit mention of the other two on the cover, and a latter-day Whitesnake-the-band logo to boot. Inside, […]
Read more »A second single from the upcoming remix of Blackmore’s Night third album Fires at Midnight. Has been released. Listen to the remixed Sake of the Song on your favourite streaming service or right here.
Read more »It’s been the same story many times before — the band releases a new album, starts touring, puts several new tracks into the setlist, but after some time the new material starts to dwindle. By the time they reach North America, few, if any, are left in the set. Not this time around. [spoilers ahead]
Read more »In anticipation of the Deep Purple North American tour on the double bill with Yes, Ian Gillan spoke to the Ultimate Classic Rock: It’s great to see Deep Purple hitting the road with Yes. What sort of bond was there between the two groups back in the day? There wasn’t much of a bond. [Laughs] […]
Read more »Analog Planet has an extensive interview with Roger Glover, accompanied by a brief review of =1. Roger talks about the new album, the bad old days, various Machine Head remixes, including the latest, working with Bob Ezrin, and many other things. Mettler: None of us are perfect strangers to any of that, to borrow an […]
Read more »Couple more =1 reviews from different corners of the world. Malaysia’s newspaper The Sun: As a unit, Deep Purple swing with a panache expected of seasoned pros who have perfected their craft through the decades. Tracks such as Portable Door and Sharp Shooter groove along with a care-free attitude of a band fully enjoying the […]
Read more »Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger has a fairly rare beast — an interview with Bob Ezrin. It is published in German, so all the usual caveats about reverse translation fully apply here. Today, studio technology is very different from when you started out with Alice Cooper. In the 21st century, you no longer capture performances live in […]
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