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David Baranowski, a.k.a. Bard David, keyboard player for Blackmores’s Night for some 11 years, was interviewed by his local Connecticut e-paper. This provides a rare glimpse of the band’s inner workings from a perspective slightly different from the titular couple. Q: How did you end up playing with Blackmore? A: There was a guy that […]
Read more »Direct from Paul Mann, here’s complete setlist of the evening of April 4, 2014: Jimmy Smith playback as audience arrives Introductory remarks by Vicky Lord Introduction by Bob Harris Fantasia from Sarabande House Band/Orch. Durham Awakes from Durham Concerto Orchestra Jacqueline Martens (Violin) Matthew Barley (Cello) Kathryn Tickell (Northumbrian Pipes) Nigel Hopkins (Hammond Organ) All […]
Read more »RockPages.gr has an interview that they recently conducted with Bernie Torme. No wonder that a large chunk of it is about his Gillan years: Your career includes many and very significant collaborations. You are well – known from the period with Gillan. What does Bernie Torme feel for this period among all the other collaborations […]
Read more »Mickey Lee Soule, who not only was the keyboard player in Elf and Rainbow, and not only worked as a keyboard and guitar tech for Purple for years, but also was on a very short list to stand in for Jon Lord when the latter injured his knee back in 2001, has a new project […]
Read more »Classic Rock has a feature story on Captain Beyond, based on two interviews with the band’s guitar player Larry ‘Rhino’ Reinhardt and drummer Bobby Caldwell, who kept remembering things slightly differently from each other: Looking for bright new horizons, Evans moved to Los Angeles. He soon found himself jamming with Captain Beyond. The results, according […]
Read more »David Coverdale has contributed guest vocals to his former guitarist Andrian Vanderberg’s new band MoonKings. He recorded Sailing Ships which will appear on their debut self titled album due on February 24 via Mascot Records. Thansk to Classic Rock for the info.
Read more »Proud father Roger writes: My daughter Gillian Glover has a new CD out. It’s called Still Life With Music. If you’ve heard any of my last two solo recordings then you will know what an original voice she has. If you’ve heard her debut album, Red Handed, then you will also know that she has […]
Read more »Gibson.com has an interview with Bernie Marsden, in which he reveals that he’s finishing a solo album and how quite a star studded it is turning to be: Who else is on the album? David Coverdale has graciously sung a song for me, which is, of course, fantastic. We’ve re-recorded “Trouble” from our Whitesnake days […]
Read more »Rockpages has an interview with Russ Ballard — the man who wrote Since You’ve Been Gone and I Surrender, among many other tunes: Rockpages.gr: How about Rainbow…? Their biggest hits were two of your songs…did you have the chance to meet Ritchie Blackmore? Russ Ballard: I’ve never met Ritchie. Rockpages.gr: Have you talked on the […]
Read more »Rick Freeman offered us for publication an interview with Doogie White that he did recently. Rick: How did the solo album come about? Hard to believe that this is your first! Doogie: Well I had a great many songs kicking around that I had written over the years and during the down time after parting […]
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