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extrait d'une interview de Don Airey :

Are there any plans for a new Deep Purple album?

Don: We will do an album, probably this year. The last one we did has kept us in business for the last three years, as we have been touring it for that long. Deep Purple are back where they belong. They are playing quite good. The crowds are big and they are full of young people who are so enthusiastic. We played three encores just last night. It was overwhelming and very gratifying. In Purple, nobody gets out of line and they all appreciate what is happening.

Tell me about the Jon Lord retirement gig.

Don: It only happened because Ian Gillan got ill and they had to put the dates back in another time. Jon and I had a ball. I did my keyboard solo, which ends up going into the beginning of "Perfect Strangers." When it got to that point, I just ducked down and Jon ducked up. Suddenly, as if by magic, I became Jon. He played about three songs and then we did the encores together. We even traveled together for the gigs and we would get lost because we were talking so much. We really are like a couple of old women when we get together. I recently played with him on The Sunflower Jam, which is Ian Paice’s charity gig. We always have a great time.

When you were playing the encores together were you thinking, "I am trading licks with Jon Lord!"

Don: It was an honor to stand behind him and watch him work. He has something that nobody else has got. When I play "Smoke On The Water" and I am playing that synthesizer sound—it makes an awesome racket. You just go, "Wow, that sounds great."

Intéressant!

Puis c'est ben vrai ce qu'il dit!

Dommage que cette version de Smoke ne t'intéresse pas!

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interessant extrait d'une interview de Don Airey..

Was any Difficult To Cure material recorded with Graham Bonnet?

Don : I think he did a version of "I Surrender", yeah, and he definitely did "No Release", I think it was, he did this duff version with alternate lyrics, he was fed up with everyone. He was a genius, Graham, he just came up with this duff load of tripe which was very funny, but it was like "I'm Leaving" kind of thing.

Do you know what happened to those recordings?

Don : I might have the tapes somewhere. I've got a big box of tapes and it's always "I'll go through them next Winter".

Ca aussi:

Citation:

Question: The two albums you did with Whitesnake were pretty successful... Yeah. I'd known David Coverdale for years, he asked me to join, I was the first choice for the Whitesnake job. I think I was playing with someone else at the time, I can't remember, but before Jon and the before guy before Jon. So I went over to Vancouver to play on it and found David in the most awful state. He was at his wits end, he couldn't sing very well. And, not that I remember but he told me I took him out for dinner and sat him down and said "Listen, you've really got something here, Don't give up hope". I thought he was sensational and John Sykes was one of the best guitarists I've ever heard, at that time. I don't know before or since but he was just at that stage in his life where he was utterly brilliant.

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MONDE DE MERDE...

DON airey est en train de repeter l'internationale pour son solo à l'Huma
il en est capable le bougre

Interview et participation de Don Airey à l'émission rock de Bruce Dickinson, sur la BBC radio, demain vendredi 09/10. Ecoutable online pendant les 7 jours suivants:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/bruce_dickinson/