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Steve Morse is listed among guest contributors on the upcoming album by Peter Frampton. The album is a collection of Frampton’s favourite blues standards and is called All Blues. It is due for release on June 7 via Universal.
Read more »Ian Paice has guested on the new album Linked to Life from a band called Dark Blue Inc. The album is out on April 26, 2019 via El Puerto Records. It can be preordered via the label. Dark Blue Inc. are: Frank Pané (Bonfire, Sainted Sinners), Göran Edman (ex- Malmsteen), Hal Patino (ex King Diamond), […]
Read more »Don Airey has played a gig in Pratteln, Swirzerland, on March 20. Roger Glover was in the neighbourhood (again), and came up on stage to jam on Pictures of Home. Carl Sentance has a video posted on his Facebook. Because it’s bloody Facebook, we can not show it here, so you’ll have to head over […]
Read more »Ian Paice will be a special guest on the new album by Purpendicular, called Venus to Volcanus. The album is due on April 14, via German label Fastball Music. Ian is also continuing to perform with Purpendicular live, with the last gig of the latest string of European dates happening tonight, April 26, in Savigny-le-Temple […]
Read more »Pat Thrall joined Glenn Hughes for a couple of songs at the latter’s gig in Las Vegas the other day. They performed Muscle and Blood and First Step of Love from their 1982 eponymous album.
Read more »Yesterday, June 9, Whitesnake played a gig in Glenn Hughes’ neghbourhood — Beverly Hills, California. You can guess what happened. (watch inside)
Read more »Perfect Strangers of Finland will be holding their 7th Purple Night event on Friday, May 29, in Helsinki, Finland. This year it will be dedicated to Ritchie Blackmore, who has celebrated his 70th birthday a couple of weeks ago. Doogie White will be a special guest of the night, performing Purple and Rainbow classics with […]
Read more »Bernie Marsden’s new solo album called Shine (about which we wrote in November) is ready and will be released on August 18 via Provogue/Mascot Records. Although Marsden was wary of flooding the credits with too many special guests, Shine does feature some extremely well-known names, from Joe Bonamassa to Whitesnake singer David Coverdale and the […]
Read more »Back in 2006, when Deep Purple undertook a massive tour of France, their support was a French band called Café Bertrand. Their guitar player Stéphane “Steph” Honde moved to California a couple of years ago and there he befriended Tim Bogert of Vanilla Fudge fame and convinced him to play on his debut album. The […]
Read more »As Roger Glover wrote, he guested at Don Airey’s gig in Switzerland on March 13. You can check out a video clip on Facebook: Thanks to Gloria Lu for the video and to Yvonne Osthausen for bringing it to your attention.
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