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Here is a summary of the recent developments on the touring fronts of Purple family. Deep Purple‘s appearance at a Russian festival on June 12 has now been confirmed. They have also a new Italian open air tour pencilled in for July, which is still being shaped up and for now remains unconfirmed by the […]
Read more »The band formerly known as Black Country got together at a Joe Bonamassa show in Riverside, CA, March 17, to make their first live appearance. Glenn Hughes has promsied an announcement of the new band name “soon”.
Read more »Black Country, the new band featuring Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian, need to think up anew name. “There is a band already called Black Country and their legal representatives have already reminded us of that fact,” Joe Bonamassa told Undercover.com.au. Bonamassa told Undercover that the name was never have meant to […]
Read more »Back in 2008 Metal-Temple.com published an interview with Neil Carter of UFO/Gary Moore/Wild Horses fame, who is now teaching music at Brighton College. Here are the juicier bits: A special quote should be given for Glenn Hughes: your impression, working with him? He was a great influence on me, I loved TRAPEZE and DEEP PURPLE […]
Read more »This coming Sunday, February 28th, Glenn Hughes will appear in a live chat with fans on his website. The chat will run between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. PST. In order to participate you will need to register at his Fan Forum and post at least 1 message. Transcript of the chat will be made […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes did an interview about his new band, Black Country, with the blog Rock Guitar Daily. We’re as bombastic as The Who, and as bluesy as Free, but we are doing some different kinds of things in terms of structure, and tempo: 7/8, 6/8, even 5/8 time, so it’s not just a few chords […]
Read more »In Kevin Shirley’s online diary, he confirms what Jason Bonham said about Black Country and also confirms the rumour that there is a keyboard player in the group. Maybe no one told Bonham that. 🙂 Kevin Shirley writes: So there it is folks – the cat is out the bag! This is BLACK COUNTRY. I […]
Read more »At the Guitar Center’s Drum-Off last weekend, Jason Bonham did a tribute to his father, the late John Bonham from Led Zeppelin. Glenn Hughes was Bonham’s guest at the show. In an interview before the show, Bonham talked about his new band featuring Joe Bonamassa and Glenn Hughes. “I just literally went into the studio […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes has broken the news that he’s been indeed working with Kevin Shirley, and they are working on the Come Taste The Band remixes.
Update — Kevin Shirley: “I’m diggin’ it… I was a Deep Purple fan before I was a Zeppelin fan…”
Is Glenn Hughes going to be part of a new supergroup? Recent Twitter comments from Hughes suggest something is in the works: “In Newport Beach havin’ lunch…on my way to Malibu to work with possibly the greatest hard rock producer on the planet…? Love….GH” (November 16) “I’ll be writin’ Lyrics to Brand new songs for […]
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