Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. McBride was first appointed as a stand-in guitar player back in March 2022, after Steve Morse announced a temporary hiatus due to ...

Shredding. Slapping. Fingering. Oh my. Three-fifths of the ‘classic’ Deep Purple team that wrote the famous “Smoke on the Water” descended upon Verizon Theatre Sunday and squeezed every possible solo ...

In 1968, Blackmore co-founded Deep Purple with keyboardist Jon Lord, drummer Ian Paice, singer Rod Evans, and bassist Nick Simper. The group was initially heavily influenced by psychedelia and ...