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Interview with Paul Mann

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Good morning all! Today I am very pleased to introduce to you Paul Mann. Paul is a renowned conductor of orchestras but you may also know him for his extensive work with Deep Purple and Jon Lord. Throughout this fascinating interview we discus Paul’s life and early career from the Norther Ballet and his conducting…

Interview with Nigel Hopkins Part2!

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GMGAGE to you all! Today I was lucky enough to snag a little time with a great keyboard player and musician Nigel Hopkins. Nigel has toured the world with Chris DeBurgh, Bonnie Tyler and more and played a pivotal role in Jon Lord’s classical shows and his celebration concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Over…

Modern Rock Organ: An interview with Andy Gotteri

Inspiration, Organs
Hi there, how are your holidays? Late December at time of writing this and I hope all is well with you and yours? Today I am chatting to Hammond and synth player Andy Gotteri, a busy UK musician on the gigging circuit over in Blighty. We deep dive into Hammond Organs as you might expect…

Interview with Jon Lord’s keyboard player: Nigel Hopkins

Inspiration, Organs
GMGAGE to you all and Happy Holidays! Today I was lucky enough to snag a little time with a great keyboard player and musician Nigel Hopkins. Nigel has toured the world with Chris DeBurgh, Bonnie Tyler and more and played a pivotal role in Jon Lord’s classical shows and his celebration concert at the Royal…

Isolation Collaborations

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Hi there, For those of you living in the future get off your hover bikes and understand that we are in 2021 currently back here and hopefully coming towards the end of the global pandemic that was Covid-19. Remember that? I’ll leave you to your Covid-29 but just to say that during this past 16…

Deep Purple’s Highway Star Organ Solo

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Hi folks, hope you are well. This week we’re going to take a look at a recent lockdown video I put together with a few friends. We covered Highway Star and it occured to me that you might like to see how I approach Jon Lord’s organ solo in this track. I’m sure there might…

Gig Report – Watching Blackmore’s Rainbow

Inspiration, Organs
When I heard last year that Richie Blackmore was considering playing live and loud music again for a limited time I thought that I’d have to take a look. I mean here is a guy I last saw in his prime way back in 1987 (I know!) when he ripped the National Exhibition Centre in…
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