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A website aptly called Maximum Volume Music reviews the Birmingham gig of the band that once held the title of the loudest band in the world: From that song to that riff, and the main set ends with arguably the best ever, and as Simon McBride starts it up, all of a sudden the crowd […]
Read more »Ahead of the current =1 More Time UK tour, Ian Gillan spoke to the PA News Agency, and the conversation steered, of all things, onto the ’72 tour that produced Made in Japan. In Japan, I noticed the first thing was the cultural change. I was able to do two things, one to learn about […]
Read more »Westfälische Nachrichten reviews the October 26 Deep Purple gig in Lingen. It starts with mentioning the combined age of those on stage (354) and continues: Superlatives that raise questions among the 4,500 visitors in the sold-out Emsland Arena. Can the old rockers still do it, or are they resting on their laurels for “Smoke on […]
Read more »Back in 2021, around the time Nature’s Light was released, Ritchie Blackmore gave an interview to the German magazine Gitarre & Bass. And for a change, he seemed to be completely serious throughout. Which phase of your rock career is your songwriting today closest to? And which one is it most different from? To be […]
Read more »A vintage article about Roger Glover and his then upcoming project Butterfly Ball. This originally appeared in Sounds on November 9, 1974. Glover has a ball By Pete Makowski Roger Glover is a satisfied person nowadays. Since his departure from Deep Purple, Glover has steadily been building up a good reputation as a record producer […]
Read more »On this slow(ish) news day, we will leave you with a couple of items that the mailman delivered to our trainspotting department. Sir Elton Hercules John writes about the keyboard geniuses who blew his mind for The Guardian. Jon Lord gets a mention: And as the decade progressed, keyboard players progressed too, away from their […]
Read more »An online publication called Cult Following somewhat belatedly, but eloquently reviews =1: New hard rock from the Smoke on the Water gang. Some things never change. With Deep Purple, a lacklustre album image and the promise of unwavering rock fundamentals are a guarantee. No problem for those stuck with this sound for decades but some […]
Read more »Louder Sound prints some quotes from a 1975 vintage Blackmore interview that originally appeared in the inaugural issue of the International Musician and Recording World magazine: Assessing some of his peers, Blackmore confessed that he “wasn’t struck” on Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, and admitted “I never saw what was in Clapton at all.” In a […]
Read more »The Fireworks magazine, hailing from the UK, has Deep Purple as the cover story of their issue #108: The evergreen Deep Purple are our cover stars, providing us with an amazing three-page interview courtesy of the great Ian Gillan – as interviews go, it’s an unmissable one covering album names, band members and producers! The […]
Read more »Metal-Rules.com has a review of the Purple gig in Montreal from August 27. It’s well written and may put a smile on your face, even if the author doesn’t quite get all the facts straight. But to the Purple at hand! And don’t come at me with the “Deep Purple was better when they extended […]
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