Read the full-text online article and more details about "Rock Legends Enjoy a Belated Purple Patch; Deep Purple Lead Singer Ian Gillan Talks to Simon Evans" - The Birmingham Post (England), October 5, 1998The Birmingham Post (England)...
The sympathy, that one would like to extend to him ( Morse) after the first incredulous listen is insofar no surprise. He, who kept Purple alive for so long and accomplished great things, but who, for many, played too delicately, with too little power and, after all, not dominantly enou...
As for Blackmore, who stays in a separate dressing room, he is forming a blues power-trio as an alternative to Deep Purple. While maintaining that both bands will hold him as their lead guitarist, Ritchie is already speaking about his involvement with Deep Purple in the past tense. “I w...
" Gillan recalls. "You can never improve on an original, so it's a challenge. But Deep Purple primarily is an instrumental band. It always has been. The music comes first to us. So the songs we selected were songs we could Purple-ize. I think I wasn't looking at it that way, bu...
so it's a challenge. But Deep Purple primarily is an instrumental band. It always has been. The music comes first to us. So the songs we selected were songs we could Purple-ize. I think I wasn't looking at it that way, but the guys were, and I'm so glad they did. It was re...
so it's a challenge. But Deep Purple primarily is an instrumental band. It always has been. The music comes first to us. So the songs we selected were songs we could Purple-ize. I think I wasn't looking at it that way, but the guys were, and I'm so glad they did. It was re...
The Hollywood Reporterhas learned that in the series’ final episode, Deep Purple lead singerIan Gillanand bassistRoger Gloverwill have speaking parts, as the hopeful Jerusalem rockers locate their idols and beg to join them onstage. PHOTOS: U2 Over 38 Years ...
so it's a challenge. But Deep Purple primarily is an instrumental band. It always has been. The music comes first to us. So the songs we selected were songs we could Purple-ize. I think I wasn't looking at it that way, but the guys were, and I'm so glad they did. It was re...
With Deep Purple, there's a lot to harness when it comes to getting the sound on record. It is if you’re trying to impose a sound. If you just let it flow naturally: If it’s organic, it’s wonderful. You know, back in the day when I had my first recording contracts, one of...
Dead Daisies made another personnel change for their fifth album, 'Holy Ground.' Former Deep Purple singer/bassist Glenn Hughes joins founding guitarist David Lowy and relatively new additions Doug Aldrich (lead guitar) and Deen Castronovo (drums). They previewed new work over the course of 2020...