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Lucky thirteen

Roger Glover has posted the first studio report from the new album sessions:

DP STUDIO REPORT – MARCH 2016

We started the next album in Nashville on the 28th January. Thirteen days of pre-production and thirteen days recording in the studio. Lucky thirteen because we have thirteen tracks, all but finished except for vocals.

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Live at Donington 1980

Edel will release Rainbow Monsters of Rock – Live at Donington 1980 on April 22. It will come as a CD+DVD set in a jewel box and as a digital download. The CD will cover complete performance, while DVD will include 30 minutes of the conclusion of the show as this is all the footage […]

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It’s bad news week

Roger Glover pays tribute to the recently deceased Lemmy, iconic BBC DJ Ed Stewart, and David Bowie (who managed to turn dying from cancer onto a work of art): It’s said that bad news comes in threes. It did this last week. RIP Lemmy, Ed Stewart and now Bowie. Ashes to ashes. I met Lemmy […]

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Who knows where the time goes?

In his customary end-of-the-year address, Roger Glover reminisces on 2015, which for him culminated with a low(-ish) key 50th anniversary reunion of Episode Six (we admit, that one flew completely under our radar). Sandy Denny’s song is as relevant now as it ever was. Steve Miller sang about time slipping into the future. Our Time […]

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Oberhausen TV report

Local TV station ARD Brisant showed this report from the gig in Oberhausen on November 13. Unfortunately, the interviews are overdubbed, but looks like nothing groundbreaking has been said. Don Airey told that nowadays he has a reserved seat at his doctor as he’s going more and more to regular check-ups. He also pointed out […]

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Halfway between musician and a drummer

A 2002 vintage interview with Roger Glover done by Eric Blair was recently posted on YouTube (watch inside)

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A stone thrown into the pond

Goldmine magazine has interviewed Roger Glover on the occasion of Wacken/Budokan release. A lot has been covered — from differences between German metalheads and Japanese audiences, to getting not tired playing Smoke every night, to producing Judas Priest, to being snubbed by a certain Hall of Fame. Roger also confirmed his view on bootlegs, which […]

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It’s later than you think

Roger Glover checks in with an update on his website: Those were the words on a famous poster at a time when posters seemed to matter, in the late 60s. Here in 2015, posters are old hat, summer’s gone and winter’s coming on. And that’s that. Life has been packing and unpacking itself over the […]

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tHis is the tHing#1 gets worldwide release

Purpendicular, a Purple tribute band which released an album of original material back in March, has some news for you. The good news is that the band has secured a three album deal with Borila Records and said album — This is the thing#1, previously only available directly from the band — will be re-released […]

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Roger’s back room career

On October 24 at the Soundedit’15 festival in Poland Roger Glover will receive The Man with a Golden Ear award for his work as a producer. On this occasion the festival published an interview with the man: Why at some point in your career did you decide to take music production? You wanted to have […]

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