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On this rainy Friday, I figured we'd venture back to the testosterone-filled days of my youth where it was cool (at least to me) to head bang and wear nothing but concert shirts every single day. Among the bands I was into back then was Triumph, Rush and The Man: Ronnie James Dio. Dio had a voice that remains the most-powerful in music. He could reach notes that were absolutely bone shattering
When Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple for the second time in 1993, many predicted the end of the group who put the classic in rock. Now the guitarist and his madrigals have fallen so far off the radar he only registers the odd play on Radio 2, while his former bandmates have been wowing audiences all over Europe this summer.
By the time Deep Purple released Burn and Stormbringer (both 1974), Ian Gillan and Roger Glover had already left the band but some fans still considered Burn to be a worthy successor to the earlier albums. But in April 1975, Richie Blackmore too decided to move, leaving Jon Lord (organ, piano) and Ian Paice (drums) from the classic line up. If Blackmore wanted out, vocalist David Coverdale managed...
An old schoolfriend told me on the phone the other day that she had just been thinking of me. She had gone with her sons to Stowe to see Roger Hodgson (an old boy) perform Supertramp numbers (Supertramp were big when we were at secondary school together, which ages us both, I guess), and her [...]
Death metal band Asphyx headbanging during a performance. Origin The term “headbanger” was coined on Led Zeppelin’s first US tour in 1968.[citation needed]During a show at the Boston Tea Party, audience members in the first row were banging their heads against the stage in rhythm with the music. Lemmy from Motrhead, however, said in an interview on the documentary The Decline of Western Civilization...
This weekend we saw Sepp Blatter clutch the Emancipation Proclamation to his breast as he impassionately spoke about the need to free slaves. He dispatched Ramon Calderon who swept through Manchester and set the slaves in United free. Chief amongst...
I watched my copy of Jesus Christ: Superstar(2000) over the weekend. I bought it back in 2001. Since then I've watched it perhaps 50 to 60 times. "Watched", may be an overstatement, as many of those times it just played in the background; I haven't watched it in the last few years. Quite an interesting production really, I'm glad they went in a different direction compared to the 1973 version. It does...
British rock legend IAN GILLAN and former CREAM bass player JACK BRUCE will join JEFF HEALEY’s backing band to pay tribute to the late blind bluesman in Canada this weekend (11-12Apr08). Healey’s band, the Jazz Wizards, will support a host of top names at the Toronto memorial for Healey, who lost his battle with cancer on [...]
British rock legend IAN GILLAN and former CREAM bass player JACK BRUCE will join JEFF HEALEY's backing band to pay tribute to the late blind bluesman in Canada this ...
Reviewed by Victor Valdivia Quote: "Serves as a welcome opportunity to reassess a career that has been long forgotten, especially in the U.S. Fans of classic hard rock, particularly Deep Purple, should definitely seek this out."
Q. Our 13-year-old son started guitar lessons a year ago, and is something of an aspiring rock star. He'd love to learn more contemporary styles, but that isn't offered at his school. Are there music camps where he could develop his skills?
Posted March 3, 2008 MOSCOW—On a stage in Moscow's Kremlin Palace, Ian Gillan of Deep Purple was barefoot as he sang the British rockers' celebrated track "Smoke on the Water." Staid, ...
The Guardian's Michael Hann invites readers to nominate your favourite flop follow-up albums So, fellow pop snobs - and don't lie to me, you're out there - which are the commercially disastrous follow-ups to smashes that set your pulses racing? And no nominating the Stone Roses’ Second Coming, which was a bigger hit, I am told, [...]
