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The Guardian has a piece dealing with “how rock’s drummers cope with furious sets in their 70s”, and Ian Paice is featured there, among his peers Rat Scabies (Damned), Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden), Paul Cook (Sex Pistols), David Kendrick (Sparks, Devo), and others. Ian Paice, 76, has just finished a tour with Deep Purple, the […]
Read more »The band takes some time for a well deserved break from the touring. We hope some of that downtime is being used to make some new music. Meanwhile, various members of the family continue touring on their own and with different projects, albeit mostly in Europe. Ian Paice kicks off the year in late January […]
Read more »Taking full advantage of the lull in touring schedule, Paicey resumes the regular programming on his Drumtribe channel. Shape of Things off the Turning to Crime sessions, and all that went into it
Read more »Back in 2006 Don Airey and Ian Paice performed at the ProLight+Sound trade show in Frankfurt, Germany. Turns out that a recording was up on Youtube all this time, without us being aware. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.
Read more »Paicey provides his tour kit rundown for the Modern Drummer video channel. TMI for the most of us, but if you’re a drummer, dig in! Caveat: the sound engineer needs to figure out how to record the voice, not just the drums, so you might want to try turning subtitles on.
Read more »The Moonstone Project album New Life will see a re-release later this year via Escape Music. The Moonstone Project is the brainchild of Italian guitarist Matteo Filippini, with participation of guest musicians. New Life, originally released in 2005, features Ian Paice, Glenn Hughes, and Graham Bonnet, among many other rock luminaries and session musicians. The […]
Read more »A couple of recent magazine features that might be worth your attention. German Rock It! magazine has Deep Purple on the cover of their issue 143 (Sept/Oct 2024). Inside, there’s a 4-page Purple feature, including an interview with Ian Paice and Simon McBride. Bonus: bits of interviews with Paice and Hughes on the 50 years […]
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 »And a couple of =1 promotional interviews to wrap up the day. German site aussiedlerbote.de has an interview with Ian Gillan, and it’s in English: Is there a song on the new album that particularly touches your heart? I like them all. But “Old-Fashioned Thing” is probably my favorite. In that song, there are interesting […]
Read more »German outfit RND has an interview with Ian Paice and Don Airey promoting the new album =1. And little concerts in little churches. All the usual caveats regarding reverse translations apply. The album title is “=1”. Does this stand for the unity and conspiracy(?) of the band in the new lineup – “Deep Purple = […]
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