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July 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 32 – Deep Purple, “Concerto For Group And Orchestra”

Deep Purple, Concerto for Group and Orchestra, 1969 I have a complicated history with this one – I probably thought about it before hearing it more than has been the case with any other album… Let me explain. Deep Purple was one of my first loves – a Singles collection by the band was the […]
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March 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 22 – Screaming Lord Sutch, “Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends”

Screaming Lord Sutch, Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends, 1970 I first learned about Screaming Lord Sutch because I was, at one point, so obsessed with the band Deep Purple that I found this tape called Rock Profile Vol. 1 which showed off some of the early session work by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. It also featured […]
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January 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: When I Met Ian Gillan

The first really famous person I met – at least as far as I can remember – was Ian Gillan from the band Deep Purple. I was super exited, too, I loved Deep Purple (still do). Great band. Great singer. And it seemed kinda odd, kinda brilliant to be meeting him on the set of […]
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December 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Deep Purple: Live in Newcastle 2001

Deep Purple Live in Newcastle 2001 EARMUSIC Deep Purple has readied a brand new album for 2020, apparently. So, either beware or be excited. At any rate, to get us to that date the band has started to pour out a few archival sound-desk recordings; you know the thing – “authorised bootlegs” – a clearing […]
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April 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 111 – Gil Eva Craig

Welcome to episode 111 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I had a chat with Gil Eva Craig – a sound engineer, producer, tech and musician. She was in the band Sugarbug (I loved them!) and she continues to make music in a variety of sporadic projects including as […]
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February 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Bashing Out: My Top 10 ‘Drum’ Albums

I was hooked on Modern Drummer magazine as a teen. And I always liked reading the record reviews at the back of the Modern Drummer, they focused on drums and ‘drum’ albums or at least highlighted the drums and drumming on pop and rock records when they reviewed them. They might write-up a pop album because of […]
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December 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Several Shades of Deep Purple

Of course I knew that Deep Purple had that song Smoke on the Water. I knew that at an early age – before I knew anything else about the band, in fact. And like Stairway to Heaven with Led Zeppelin, it’s a song that is a classic – has crossed over to the mainstream – but it’s not the best example […]
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July 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Here He Goes Again – David Coverdale of Whitesnake: An Interview by ‘Mark Reid’

For a while there, many years back now, I wrote a series of reviews and interviews for an Auckland newspaper under a fake name. I needed a generic-sounding – safe – pen-name. I chose ‘Mark Reid’. A little tribute to Chopper eh? Something like that…In fact it just seemed like a safe/boring name that couldn’t be […]
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April 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Metal on Metal – That’s What I Crave: Ten ‘Gateway Drug’ Metal Albums In My Life

Recently I posted this – about “Ten important hip-hop albums”. I’m going to repeat the opening paragraph from that post: We all know that lists are subjective – that is the point of them. So I’ve decided to do a series of top 10 albums across genres. They’ll appear sporadically. And rather than call them “Top 10” […]
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November 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Blackmore’s Night: From Spinal Tap to A Mighty Wind in One Career

Right, I’m a big fan of Deep Purple, as I must have mentioned more than once. I have interviewed both the drummer (Ian Paice) and main lead singer (Ian Gillan) and they were great interviews. I never got the chance to interview Ritchie Blackmore, but one of my favourite cassette tapes when I was 14-15, […]
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July 18, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 667

Terry Reid, Bang, Bang You’re Terry Reid (1968) A lot of people know the “unluckiest man in rock” story attached to Terry Reid – the man who was going to be the voice of Led Zeppelin (nearly) and who turned down being the singer in Deep Purple…the guy who has played sessions with and for […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1968, Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), Bang Bang You're Terry Reid, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, LP, Punk, San Francisco, Terry Reid, The Vinyl Countdown # 667, Thrillhouse, Vinyl ·

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April 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 710

Deep Purple, In Rock (1970) I hardly ever seem to write about Deep Purple yet at one point they were one of the most important bands in my life. Discovering them – and I sort found them all by myself really – seemed like such a big deal. I’d grown up hearing Smoke on the Water […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged "Mk II", 1970, Deep Purple, Deep Purple In Rock, Flight of the Rat, In Rock, LP, Mark II, Record, Smoke on the Water, The Vinyl Countdown # 710, Vinyl ·
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