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Music Radar has track-by-track commentary of Now what?! from Steve Morse: A Simple Song This was Rog playing a dyad riff on the bass. We had a lot of variations on that part. Whenever anybody brings in an idea, they have to be prepared that it’s going to change. But this thing of Roger’s was […]
Read more »German chain Media Markt sells Now what?! CDs with a sticker that unlocks a free download of a bonus track called First Sign of Madness from it’s own website.
Read more »Today, April 24, the band also appeared on the German TV show TV Total. They performed Hell to Pay live (and not All the Time in the World as was announced earlier). Watch it on ProSieben.de Thanks to Milan Fahrnholz and Ralle for the info.
Read more »A long(ish) and rather interesting interview with Roger Glover on Rockpages.gr: Rockpages.gr: What really surprised me in the new album is that you weren’t afraid to have long tracks, longer than regular 4, or 5 minute rock songs, you went a little further trying new stuff that I haven’t heard from Deep Purple again, what […]
Read more »(Updated Apr 24) Ian Paice and Ian Gillan made a very entertaining appearance today on BBC Radio 2. The show will be available for listening online until April 30 from the BBC. Chat with Ians starts approximately 65 minutes into the recording. Both Ians were also on BBC Radio 4 Front Row last week recalling […]
Read more »Classic Rock magazine is running a competition in which they are offering 5 Deep Purple hardback special edition magazines signed by both Ians. The competition is apparently open worldwide. Head over there and fill in the form to enter.
Read more »(Updated Apr 23) Deep Purple are scheduled to appear on German late night comedy show TV Total this Wednesday, April 24. We don´t have any details about the taping and if there are any tickets left but the broadcast will start at around 11 pm CET on German private TV channel Pro Sieben. This time […]
Read more »The last time there was this long a gap between Deep Purple studio albums was in the period 1976 – 1984. Back then Amazon was the forest which no doubt provided the cardboard for the record sleeve, not the company you most likely bought the cd from! In the days preceding the release of Perfect […]
Read more »Roger Glover chatted with Detroit’s radio station 94.7 WCSX about Now what?!, ‘live in the studio’ approach, his songwriting philosophy, and being simple. Listen to it at wcsx.com. Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
Read more »Mathieu posted this as a comment to Stathis’ review and we thought it deserves to be promoted to a separate post. I was able to hear NOW What?! before the press conference the two Ians gave in Paris two days ago. Let me share my thougts. The first thing that strikes me is I’m unable […]
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