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Tag Archives: Glenn Hughes
News: STONEDEAF – one day event features headliner Glenn Hughes (24 August 2019)
Stonedeaf was previewed on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio on Sunday 12 May with tracks from Glenn Hughes, The Amorettes and Samarkind (16:50) This year’s Stonedeaf event takes place on Saturday 24 August at Newark Showground in Nottinghamshire. Headliner Glenn … Continue reading
Gig review: GLENN HUGHES – Electric Ballroom, London, 15 October 2018
For many years, high on my diminishing bucket list was a reformation of Mark 3 Deep Purple, from the years when the contrasting vocal talents of David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes revitalised the band, throwing fresh soul, blues and funk … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, David Coverdale, Deep Purple, gig, Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonnamassa, Jon Lord, Laurence Jones, live, review, rock, Smoke On The Wate, Stormbringer, Tommy Bolan
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News: Get Ready to ROCK! Radio celebrates 10 years (September 2018)
A month long promotion highlights the station’s 10 year interview archive As part of the station’s 10th anniversary celebrations, Get Ready to ROCK! Radio will be replaying a selection of interviews gathered since 2008. Most tie in with the artists’ … Continue reading
Posted in ALL POSTS, Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, INTERVIEWS, NEWS, Radio interview
Tagged 10th anniversary, Andrew Latimer, Camel, Europe, Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Glenn Hughes, highlights, Ian Anderson, interview, Jethro Tull, Martin Turner, September 2018, Steve Hackett, Wishbone Ash
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Album review: DEAD CITY RUINS – Never Say Die
AFM Records [Release date 13.04.18] Now here’s something of a novelty, a rock band from Australia who actually don’t sound like AC/DC – meet Dead City Ruins from Melbourne and their third offering Never Say Die. Built on very solid … Continue reading
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Tagged Budgie, Dead City Ruins, Glenn Hughes, hard rock, Never Say Die, review, rock, Thin Lizzy
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Gig review: BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION – Hammersmith Apollo, 4 January 2018
About time. Over six years on from their last shows, Black Country Communion were hitting the boards again. Just when we thought it was all over, the band put on a brace of shows full of zest and rediscovered comradeship … Continue reading
News: A Year in Rock 2017 – Get Ready to ROCK! photo highlights
Get Ready to ROCK! ends 2017 by publishing a selection of photos taken by their photographers during the year following on from the publication of the Best of 2017 popular poll results. Says Reviews Editor Jason Ritchie: “Each year we … Continue reading
Posted in GIG REVIEWS, NEWS, Photo Galleries, The Best of 2017
Tagged 2017, best of, Download, festivals, gigs, Glenn Hughes, highlights, HRH Prog, Kiss, Marillion, Michael Schenker, photographs, reviews, rock music, Steelhouse
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Album review: JOE SATRIANI – What Happens Next
Sony Music [Release date 12.01.18] Satch’s energy and work output seem to have no chance of exhaustion. He releases fairly regular albums, always including a smattering of greatness, and making his peers sometimes seem lazy. That continuing zest for performance … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chad Smith, fusion, Glenn Hughes, guitar, guitarist, Joe Satriani, review, rock, What Happens Next
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Album review: RONNIE MONTROSE – 10×10
Rhino [Release date 29.09.17] Renowned guitarist Ronnie Montrose sadly passed in 2012, having left a long hard rock legacy, best known for his work with Gamma, Edgar Winter, Johnny Winter and Sammy Hagar as well as his eponymous band Montrose. … Continue reading
Posted in ALBUM REVIEWS, ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile), ALL POSTS
Tagged 10x10, album, Edgar Winter, Eric Martin, Gamma, Glenn Hughes, guitarist, Jeff Scott Soto, Montrose, review, Ricky Phillips, rock, Ronnie Montrose, Sammy Hagar
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Album review: BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION – BCCIV
Mascot Records [Release date: 22.09.17] When Bonamassa walked out of Black Country Communion in 2013, you could have taken long odds on a reunion. Particularly given the relative success both camps have had with their own projects in the … Continue reading
Album review: THUNDER- Rip It Up
In this interview edit Pete Feenstra chats to Danny Bowes from Thunder (3:10). Check out the full interview: earMUSIC [Release date 10.02.17] The claims that Thunder are bigger, better and harder than before are indeed born out by their new … Continue reading
Posted in ALBUM REVIEWS, ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile), ALL POSTS, INTERVIEWS, Radio interview, The Best of 2017
Tagged album, Ben Matthews, blues, Chris Childs, classic rock, Danny Bowes, David Bowie, Glenn Hughes, Harry James, Isaac Hayes, Led Zeppelin, Luke Morley, Paul Kossoff, review, Rip It Up, rock, Steely Dan, Thunder
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News: GLENN HUGHES UK tour dates 20 January-2 February 2017
David Randall chatted to Glenn Hughes in October 2016 for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio and the sequence includes tracks from ‘Resonate’. Glenn Hughes plays a series of dates in the UK – rearranged from November 2016 – in January/February. … Continue reading
Album review: GLENN HUGHES – Resonate
Frontiers Music Srl [Release date 04.11.16] To say that ‘Resonate’ lives up to its name is to understate Glenn Hughes’ pivotal role in hard rock related music. Both his music and his stage performance has always been about the twin pillars … Continue reading
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Tagged album, bass, California Breed, Chad Smith, Deep Purple, funk, Glenn Hughes, hard rock, Lachy Doley, Pontus Engborg, Resonate, review, rock, Soren Andersen, soul, Stevie Wonder
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News: GLENN HUGHES – New album and radio interview (October 2016)
GRTR!’s David Randall caught up with Glenn recently to chat about the album and his music, playing tracks from ‘Resonate’ and other career highlights. This special feature was first broadcast on Sunday 30 October at 22:00 GMT in the first … Continue reading
Posted in Album News, ALL POSTS, Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Gigs and Tour News, INTERVIEWS, NEWS, Radio interview
Tagged album, Black Country Communion, Deep Purple, feature, funk, gigs, Glenn Hughes, heavy rock, interview, October 2016, radio, Resonate, Tour
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News: JOE LYNN TURNER Interview feature and UK festival date
Photo: Darren Griffiths for GRTR! After his stunning performance at the recent Hard Rock Hell AOR event, melodic hard rock singer Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow, Yngwie Malmsteen, Deep Purple) returns to the UK this summer for the Rewind North festival, … Continue reading
Posted in Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, INTERVIEWS, NEWS, Radio interview
Tagged 28 March 2016, AOR, Deep Purple, Fandango, feature, Glenn Hughes, hard rock, interview, Joe Lynn Turner, melodic rock, radio, Rainbow, special, Yngwie Malmsteen
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Gig review: JARED JAMES NICHOLS with GLENN HUGHES, Electric Ballroom, Camden, London, 1 November 2015
Tonight the Electric Ballroom plays host to the master and apprentice as Glenn Hughes reinforces his credentials as a rock god, while Jared James Nichols shows plenty of energy and promise, but still has a way to go to reveal his … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, David Randall, Doug Aldrich, gig, Glenn Hughes, guitar, Jared James Nichols, Jimi Hendrix, Leslie West, Mountain, Pontus Engborg, review, Rick Derringer, Robert Johnson, rock, vocals
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Gig review: GLENN HUGHES, Club Academy, Manchester, 29 October 2015
Get Ready to ROCK!’s Pete Feenstra chatted to Glenn Hughes shortly before the start of his UK tour in October 2015. This hour special includes a selection of tracks from Glenn’s solo and band/project albums. He’s a real trooper is … Continue reading
Posted in GIG REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, Radio interview
Tagged 29 October 2015, Club Academy, Deep Purple, Doug Aldrich, gig, Glenn Hughes, hard rock, interview, Jared James Nichols, Manchester, review, rock, Trapeze, Whitesnake
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Album review: VOODOO HILL- Waterfall
Frontiers Records [Release date 16.10.15] Something of a blast from the past, the last of two Voodoo Hill albums was way back in 2004. While the brainchild of Italian guitarist Dario Mollo, for most fans however the interest will be … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dario Mollo, Glenn Hughes, hard rock, melodic rock, review, Voodoo Hill
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Album review: THE LIZARDS – Reptilicus Maximus
Hyperspace Records [Release date 01.09.15] The Lizards may leave us waiting far too long between albums but when they do appear they are invariably worthy of attention. We reviewed their last “proper” 2006 release ‘Against All Odds’ noting that it … Continue reading
Album review: GERRY JABLONSKI AND THE ELECTRIC BAND – Trouble With The Blues
GJB [Release date 21.04.15] Anybody who has heard Gerry Jablonski’s ‘Slave To The Rhythm’ , the opening cut from their last ‘Twist Of Fate’ album will know the high standards the Scottish band set themselves. ‘Trouble With The Blues’ is … Continue reading
Album review: JOE BONAMASSA – Different Shades Of Blue
Mascot/Provogue [release date 22.09.14] My granddad always told me to read the small print, so having read that this was Joe’s first self penned album for years, I checked the afore mentioned small print to discover that he’s spent time … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Country Community, Chuck Berry, Cornell Dupree, Deeper Shade Of Blue, Elmore James, Gary Nicholson, Glenn Hughes, guitar, James House, Jerry Flowers, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Bonamassa, Jonathan Cain, Led Zeppelin, Lee Thornburg, Ray Charles, review, Tower of Power
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News: KIM FOWLEY, BLACK CROWES, HALL & OATES – Friday 16 January 2015
King’s X plan to release their earlier album later this year and are asking for fans to submit photos, flyers, gig tickets or other merchandise between 1988 to 1996. Daryl Hall and John Oates release ‘Live In Dublin’ on DVD+2CD, … Continue reading
Posted in Album News, ALL POSTS, Band Entrees & Exits, NEWS, RIP
Tagged Black Crowes, California Breed, classic rock, Glenn Hughes, Hall & Oates, Kim Fowley, King's X, news, rock
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Gig review: PLANET ROCKSTOCK – Porthcawl, 5 December 2014 (Day 1: California Breed, Joanne Shaw Taylor)
Planet Rockstock is one of a number of festivals springing up all over the country during off seasons in the holiday parks and I think it is safe to say that these will continue to grow in the future. Porthcawl … Continue reading
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Tagged 5 December 2014, blues, California Breed, gig, Glenn Hughes, Gun, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Motorhead, Phil Campbell, Planet Rockstock, Porthcawl, review, rock, South Wales, The Treatment
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