Deep Purple is currently promoting their new album "=1" but besides talking about the new release, the band's vocalist Ian Gillan is always asked about the past of the band and frequently about the former guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (Who left the band in 1993). In an interview with Ultimate Classic Rock, the musician recalled a feud between Deep Purple and Yes one night that ultimately made Ritchie Blackmore decide to set the stage on fire so that the Progressive Rock couldn't play after them. Curiously, the two bands will tour together this year. Ian Gillan recalls feud with Yes that made Blackmore set the stage on fire "We were doing a festival (in) Plumpton, the first rock, jazz, and blues festival that became the Reading Festival, run by Jack Barrie at the Marquee. He'd put on some absolutely great bands." "Of course, we'd worked with most of them in those days. It was fantastic. They were all good in their own way – but I think Yes were a bit miffed because they wanted to close the show, and it wasn't in their contract." "It was (in our contract) that Deep Purple would close the show, so they refused to leave the hotel room. Jack said, 'Guys, would you mind going on a bit earlier? I don't want to push you but it would help me and it would help the crowd.' 'Yeah sure, okay, no worries.' Then, Ritchie decided that if we weren't going to close, nobody was." Ian Gillan continued: "He ordered some gasoline to be brought in. He threw it all over the equipment and then had the roadie light a broom, which had a petrol-soaked rag on the end of it to ignite the lot. Of course, it did ignite – because the fumes just exploded. Within a half-hour, there were blue lights flashing." "The police, the fire brigade and ambulances were all coming in and there was complete chaos. Everything was on the front page of the Sunday papers the next morning, and it was all quite rock 'n' roll," Ian Gillan said. Deep Purple continued after Blackmore decided to leave for good more than three decades ago. Since then they had in his place Joe Satriani (From 1993 to 1994) and Steve Morse (From 1994 to 2022). Now the band’s guitarist is Simon McBride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCj7ZnW135E&pp=ygUPZGVlcCBwdXJwbGUgeWVzThe post Ian Gillan recalls feud with Yes that made Blackmore set the stage on fire appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

Born in Toronto, Canada back in 1945, Neil Young started his musical career in 1963 and became in the following decades one of the most prolific and successful songwriters of all time. Besides being a praised solo artist he was also a member of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Only as a solo artist, he simply released, until 2024, 44 studio albums and 22 live albums. So it's really hard for him to answer which are some of his favorite songs but he once revealed which is one of them and explained why. The song that Neil Young said is one of his favorites In an interview with Dan Rather back in 2013 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage), the Canadian musician was asked which were some of his favorites from his career. Young explained that they were actually all the same to him and always left that to the audience to choose. However, when Dan Rather asked him about “Harvest Moon”, the musician revealed that the song was actually one of his favorites. "That's one of my favorite songs because it's a real song about real feelings I kind of remember when I first started writing the melody and everything I was on my boat in the Caribbean. I started writing this melody and then finally the whole thing came to me (and) then I had the words. What really touched me about that song, even more than singing the song, even though it was fun to do it and make the record. Linda Ronstadt came in and put these beautiful vocals on and it blew my mind how well it all turned out." He continued: "But the thing was that people come up to me now and they say we played that at our wedding, we played that song when we first met, things like that. A romantic atmosphere of the song, there's something about it that brings that out on people. So it's interesting, it's nice to see it's like if you're a farmer and you're out there and you're throwing these seeds out and everything. Then you reach in this other bag and throw out the seeds." "Suddenly there's like eight or ten cows out there just all checking out those seeds. Now, what's the difference between that one and the other ones? I don't know but there they are. They're all beautiful, blue-eyed, big eyelashes, cows, looking at you, you know. It's all good, it's perfect. They're so happy to have the food. I mean, what happened? I don't know what happened. But that's the same thing that happened with that song," Neil Young said. "Harvest Moon" is the title track of the 1992 album released by the musician, which he co-produced with Ben Keith. Other famous tracks from that record are "Unknown Legend" and "From Hank to Hendrix". The song "Harvest Moon" was also released as a single at the time, peaking at number 5 on Canadian charts. Although he co-produced the album with Ben Keith, this track was produced by only Neil himself. He said "Harvest Moon" was a sequel to "Harvest" (1972) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MtEsrcTTs 20 years before releasing "Harvest Moon", Young had released one of the most important albums of his career: "Harvest" (1972). That record had songs like "Heart of Gold", "Old Man" and "The Needle and the Damage Done". In an interview with Q magazine in 1992, the musician said that he felt that "Harvest Moon" was a sequel to "Harvest". “Now that it’s created, it seems to be related to Harvest. But when I started work on it, I had no idea that it was gonna be like that. The first thing I did was to finish a song called You And Me, which I’d started writing in 1975. Then I wrote a few more songs until I had enough to start thinking about doing a session." "I began to figure out which musicians to use. Once I’d written down the various names and started calling them, I realized, this is the same band I used on Harvest. So it was the songs which dictated who I played with. Luckily, there was no problem getting the guys together again. Everybody was available; it all happened real easy,” Neil Young said.The post The song that Neil Young said is one of his favorites appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

Donald Trump may have coined a new term in his latest false attack on Kamala Harris' presidential campaign. In a pair of posts on Truth Social over the weekend, the former president said that Vice President Kamala Harris "A.I.'d" photos of a huge crowd that showed up to see her speak at a Detroit airport campaign rally last week. "There was nobody at the plane, and she 'A.I.’d' it, and showed a massive 'crowd' of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST!" Trump wrote. "She’s a CHEATER. She...

AI experts say the image of Kamala Harris' rally does show hallmarks of being heavily edited — though this was probably done using basic filters rather than AI. Donald Trump caused a furor over the weekend after claiming the picture had been 'A.I.'d' to boost the size of Harris' crowd in Michigan and exaggerate her popularity. The former president and some of his online supports pointed to the unusual lack of crowd reflection on the plane's turbine as...

Former President Donald Trump has long been obsessed with numbers that signal dominance, like net worth, television ratings, poll results and the attendance figures at his political rallies. In 2016, Trump pointed to the outsized attendance at his campaign stops to dispute the polls that showed Hillary Clinton leading him on the eve of the election. In 2017, he spent his first full day in office claiming his inauguration crowd was larger than that of former President Barack Obama...

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