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Johnnie Bolin R.I.P.

Johnnie Bolin, Tommy’s brother, has passed away on September 5, 2024. He was known as a musician in his own right (played drums for Black Oak Arkansas since the mid-1980s), and an enthusiastic supporter of keeping his brother’s memory alive. A funeral service will be held at 2:00pm Saturday, September 14, 2024, at the Sioux […]

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The best of the cunning linguist

Our reader David Black has collected some of the best on-stage Gillanisms from over the years, and here we present them to you with a little judicious editing from everyone involved. Oh, we’d love to be the flies on the wall of the train of Gillan’s thought. Knockin’ at Your Back Door — Knebworth 1985 […]

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The dissonant beauty of Highway Star

One of our most prolific commenters Uwe Hornung writes: I know, I know, we’re not a guitar player forum, but this here is real interesting. It shows how Blackmore created THAT otherworldly studio sound of the Highway Star solo by harmonizing it (and breaking traditional harmony rules in places as he did not properly discern […]

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Review: Far better than inFinite

=1 reviewed by The Highway Star reader Mike Whiteley. After listening through my laptop speakers for a week, the CD/DVD arrived three days ago, now two full listens thru my stereo. Show Me – Pretty poor opener. The descending, repeated riff is almost as irksome as the one in Throw My Bones. Moog synth solo […]

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A Third Youth and almost a masterpiece

After a few listens to the new album, I would call =1 an “almost” masterpiece. Review by The Highway Star reader Flavio Romoli. How much MKII and Blackmore do I hear in here? Not much, very little, McBride’s guitar riffs are different, the rhythms too, and the solos and other solutions are closer to Morse, […]

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This week in science

Our ever so vigilant trainspotting department presents you with news of science and technology. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in USA reports about their new telescope becoming operational after a successful launch into space on August 16, 2024 on board of the NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-R (PTD-R) satellite. The instrument is of a new design […]

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Sweet home Chicago

A few live clips from Tinley Park, IL, to brighten your day. That’s some pretty decent quality audience recording.

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Jon Lord making love to his organ

Straight for our trainspotting department, Louder Sound has a nostalgic piece dealing with the bad old times: Back when the UK still had weekly music magazines – iconic titles such as Kerrang!, NME, Melody Maker and Sounds – having rock stars visit the editorial offices to review singles by their peers was always an entertaining […]

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=1 Will Have a Respected Place in the Band’s Catalogue

The Highway Star reader Albania reviews =1 My first listen to the material from =1 was somewhat unusual/disjointed as it occurred incoherently in bits and pieces (at airports, in the car driving my kids to soccer matches, in the office, etc.). Thus, this review might seem a bit disorderly given the various mental notes at […]

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I get it now!

Simon Zyla (Wieliczka, Poland) sends us this review of =1 Steve Morse is on this album I’ll make no secret of the fact that I’m ‘Steve’s baby’ and a fan – all my Deep Purple listening for over 30 years has been Morse on guitar. So I will always look for his distinctive sound in […]

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