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Making stroboscopes for submarines
This spoken word artist that is rumoured to dabble on guitar continues his Tales from The Tavern with an episode about Jim Marshall, Mitch Mitchell, and associated bits and ends.
Read more »By the candlelight
Ritchie Blackmore talks about guitar players that influenced him in his early years — Big Jim Sullivan and Joe Moretti.
Read more »Quite carried away
A vintage article about Roger Glover and his then upcoming project Butterfly Ball. This originally appeared in Sounds on November 9, 1974. Glover has a ball By Pete Makowski Roger Glover is a satisfied person nowadays. Since his departure from Deep Purple, Glover has steadily been building up a good reputation as a record producer […]
Read more »Feeling slightly inadequate
A new instalment of tales from The Tavern by His Blackness. It’s short and sweet.
Read more »Couple of bars or a chord change
Prior to his recently concluded Australian tour, Glenn Hughes appeared on the Scars and Guitars podcast. He talked about Purple marks 3 & 4, the Hughes/Thrall project, collaborations with Tony Iommi, Dead Daisies, and many other things.
Read more »All right now
The year was 1976, and on March 24 Sweet were playing a show in Santa Monica, California. It was just days after the death of Paul Kosoff, so they decided to pay him a tribute by performing a cover of Free’s All right now for the encore. Ritchie Blackmore was in the neighbourhood, and joined […]
Read more »They were going nowhere
Ritchie Blackmore recounts George Harrison joining Deep Purple on stage on the Perfect Strangers tour in Australia
Read more »And that’s how you lose the Concerto
Nathan and John at the Deep Purple Podcast are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Concerto for Group and Orchestra resurrection with a couple of episodes. The cherry on top is a bonus podcast with almost an-hour-and-a-half chat with Paul Mann. We highly recommend picking up a time to listen through it.
Read more »The low-end expertise
The Bass Player magazine reprints online a 2010 vintage interview with Glenn Hughes conducted in the wake of the first Black Country Communion album. How did Black Country Communion come together? Joe was a fan of my work with Trapeze. We’d been hanging out, secretively making music, knowing that one day we’d do something. Then […]
Read more »Gotta keep it simple
Ritchie Blackmore tells the story of writing and recording of Smoke on the Water.
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