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Snakecharmer General answers fan-submitted questions (Christmas Edition)
Read more »Sharing the personal fun
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 »The latest… whatever it is
Ritchie Blackmore becomes a grumpy old man and complains about modern times from his basement.
Read more »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
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