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Feb 24
Roger's Final Studio Report
Deep Purple has finished the recording of the new album, so Roger wrote a report about it. Here is a few bits.

"It was pure joy to record with a classy producer, especially for me. I watched him deal with the pressure, the stress, the heartache, the loneliness of the long distance runner - and he did it with such style and aplomb (which in French means perpendicularity, by the way). It was a relatively quick recording - all of the work was completed in three hours and four minutes, although it felt like more."

"I will not dangle names, meddle with semantics or play peek-a-boo with details except to say that we have completed thirteen songs. We have a title, which I cannot divulge - I can't even tell you what it's called. Until they are mixed no decisions have been made regarding what goes on the album or what's included out, if and when, or at all. Michael Bradford did some writing with us, and he engineered the recording as well as produced. He's very good with menus. There is no rapping and we don't sound like Kid Rock. No Balinese drummers. It will be released sometime late August /early September - as far as any fule kno."

Read Roger's full report
Thanks to www.rogerglover.com

Feb 16
The New Album Is Finished
The new album Deep Purple has been working on is finished. Ian Gillan says: "The album is finished. I think it sounds great, but my viewpoint is what you might call subjective. You can't compare it with anything we've done in the past, which is the whole point of doing it as we have done."
Thanks to Caramba for the information.

Feb 2
Deep Purple in the studio - Report 2
Roger Glover and the rest of Deep Purple have spent some time in the studio with the producer Michael Bradford. Roger Glover took some time off and wrote another studio report. Here is a few bits.

"The recording is going very well. I won't go into details as they are yet evolving but we have made great progress."

"We work in the studio each day, except Sunday, starting at elevenish and finishing anywhere between six and nine. It is a good regimen. There are those visions of the band sweating it out all night, recording take after take, to get it just right, losing the groove, taking a break, going back in to try again, changing the arrangement, learning the new bit, breaking a string, losing your temper, taking another break over a warm Chinese meal delivered by a dodgy looking teenager with tattoos and fangs, go back in and get as good a take as the night will allow before starting to write, record and mix the B side."

"Michael is a joy to work with - professional, witty, quick, decisive, nurturing, hungry. He has a great appetite, I am in awe of the guy. He is an excellent player and writer, does all his own engineering, runs the computer, and laughs a lot. He and the band have a genuine mutual respect. He had a birthday last week and we celebrated in the studio by listening to the stuff we've done so far over a superb bottle of malt whisky, and it was good to the last drop."

Read Roger's full report
Thanks to www.rogerglover.com

Jan 28
Deep Purple On TV

Jan 9
California Jam Again

Jan 8
Deep Purple In Red Hot Rock