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Australian outfit Noise11 has interviewed Simon McBride. Simon talks about his early influences, working with Bob Ezrin, making up for the Australian dates that fell through, possibility of another Purple album, and many other things.
Read more »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 […]
Read more »Deep Purple’s drum tech Cimi Mezzano posts a vlog summarizing his day on tour with the band.
Read more »Simon McBride gave an interview to the Ultimate Guitar. It is short on length, but not on substance: I recently interviewed Steve Morse, and he praised your playing. Are you aware that Steve Morse is a fan of your playing? No, I’m not aware of it. That’s an amazing thing to hear because Steve is […]
Read more »Some time in June, Just before the start of the tour, Ian Paice was interviewed by Paltrocast. He spoke about the band’s writing process, why Deep Purple are more popular in some countries than the others, how he keeps sane on the road, and a few other things. Enjoy!
Read more »Deep Purple were featured in the BBC Radio 2 show The Rock Show with Johnnie Walker that aired on July 19, 2024. Ian Gillan and Roger Glover were guests of the show. You can listen to it on the BBC player, where it will be available for 30 days after the first airing. Gillan’s bit […]
Read more »UK newspaper The Independent has a feature on Deep Purple, with a review of =1, and an interview with Ian Gillan. It’s also, I suggest, a surprisingly lusty record for a band who long since swapped the Jack bottle for the travel kettle. “You mean salacious?” Gillan chuckles. “It’s a bit naughty in places I […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »The Highway Star reader Jameson Rock reviews =1 I’ll be brief: Deep Purple In Rock was the first album I ever bought, =1 is the album I’ve been waiting 50 years for. (Well, apart from the fade-out on Now You’re Talking!) I thought they’d find it hard to follow Whoosh! but =1 is just such […]
Read more »The Highway Star reader Roska Posti reviews =1 I became a Deep Purple fan in about 1997, and the two first current albums, Abandon and Bananas, blew me away. The problem was that while Rapture of the Deep is half-great, half-baked, those two left me waiting for them to follow up every time a new […]
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