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The rest is not history
Ritchie Blackmore tells the story of how Deep Purple Mark 1 coalesced together, eventually morphing into Mark 2. That’s a lot of history in 3 minutes.
Read more »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 »This is a towel holder
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 »By the candlelight
Ritchie Blackmore talks about guitar players that influenced him in his early years — Big Jim Sullivan and Joe Moretti.
Read more »Feeling slightly inadequate
A new instalment of tales from The Tavern by His Blackness. It’s short and sweet.
Read more »The cunning linguist, vol. 2
Since the first collection seemed to go down well, the inimitable aficionado of Gillanisms David Black has sent us another one. No Staffordshire bull terriers were harmed while preparing this for publication. Or so we’re told. Smoke On The Water — Nobody’s Perfect This may seem like a devilish ploy, but it’s one way to […]
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 »Gotta keep it simple
Ritchie Blackmore tells the story of writing and recording of Smoke on the Water.
Read more »But we won’t go into that…
Ritchie Blackmore recalls the story of how Child in Time (née Bombay Calling) came into being.
Read more »The best of the cunning linguist
Our reader David Black has collected some of the best on-stage Gillanisms from over the years, and here we present them to you with a little judicious editing from everyone involved. Oh, we’d love to be the flies on the wall of the train of Gillan’s thought. Knockin’ at Your Back Door — Knebworth 1985 […]
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