Music Radar has an interview with Glenn Hughes, from which we learn what he thinks of his days in Deep Purple, as well as the nerdy stuff like the fact that Geezer Butler has Glenn’s old Rickenbacker. And he won’t sell it back to Hughes! What was it about your playing that made you a […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-02-27
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Glenn “I don’t wanna live in the past” Hughes raised the issue of Mk.3 reunion once again in an interview to the Cleveland CBS affiliate radio WCNX. And he is pointing finger at Blackmore’s camp for it not happening: Jon, David and I were trying to get it together. […] We couldn’t get ahold of […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2012-09-12
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British publisher Rufus Stone Limited Editions has announced an upcoming Deep Purple at the California Jam book being prepared for publication some time autumn this year. The book will include hundreds of black and white and colour images, many of them previously unpublished, and a lengthy essay on the show, it’s build up and aftermath. […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2012-05-27
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I had a chance to preview Gettin’ Tighter: The Story of Mk.IV Deep Purple (a.k.a. Phoenix Rising documentary). Here are my first impressions. First of all, it is a misnomer to call it a Mark 4 documentary. It starts with the demise of Mark 2 and we don’t get into Mark 4 territory until half […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2011-05-19
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Here is a new installment of the “hot air and wild speculation” saga of the Mk.3 reunion. A couple of days ago Blabbermouth posted a story in which they referred to two interviews given to VH1 Radio Networks by David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes respectively. WHITESNAKE/ex-DEEP PURPLE frontman David Coverdale recently told VH1 Radio Networks’ […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2011-05-03
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Jon Lord has posted a comment on his website to recent press rumours of an impending Deep Purple Mark 3 reunion with Lars Ulrich offering himself for the drum stool: ‘It all seems like a lot of hot air and wild speculation to me,’ writes Jon Lord, and states that he has not been asked […]
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Posted in News by Rasmus Heide on 2009-01-06
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A Japanese group has Youtube’d their own feisty instrumental take on Deep Purple’s Burn – complete with special slowed down guitar lesson at the end.
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Posted in Blog by Rasmus Heide on 2008-08-17
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