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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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” […]Archive
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, […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
April 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
TV Shows That Meant The World To Me: # 11 – Good Morning
I got this message one day at work – someone had called up The Dominion Post looking for me (I have never worked “at” The Dominion Post, I write some reviews for them, so people assume I work there). They said they wanted to talk to me about being a music reviewer for the Good […]Archive
December 11, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Drummers You Just Can’t Beat: # 4 – Ian Paice
Of course I knew Smoke On The Water growing up, from possibly the very youngest age even – but it was a revelation to me when I heard a compilation called The Deep Purple Singles. It stopped before Smoke. (Although you can get an updated version with that track). One of my mum’s all-time favourite […]Archive
October 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Deep Purple: Graz 1975
Deep Purple Graz 1975 earMUSIC I owned half of this concert on a shitty bootleg tape – and it was one of the most exciting musical experiences for me in those formative years, the yelp on Mistreated, the guitar playing throughout, an explosive – extraordinary – version of Burn (I’d yet to hear the studio […]Archive
February 14, 2014 by Simon Sweetman