Hughes HATES cocaine, but he LOOOOOVES the smell of it. Poor guy is playing bass and singing his ass off in a band called Trapeze during the early 1970's when he gets recruited to join Deep fuckin Purple in 1973 and help revitalize the band with...

Excerpts from an interview with Mikael: During your last visit to India, you told a fan that David Coverdale (of Deep Purple and Whitesnake) is your idol. How much of an influence has Coverdale had on Opeth? He is my idol. But there are many like that.

As the lead-off track to that year's Ready an' Willing LP, Whitesnake's third official band release and the sixth recording from frontman David Coverdale in just four years, the tune works quite well as a bluesy, guitar-heavy mainstream rock standout. ...

For that reason, I won't belabor that point, other than to describe the wonderfully surprising way I happened upon this week's selection. Having recently immersed myself in the quite prolific discography of British heavy blues/hard rock band Whitesnake,...

The multi-platinum ‘Machine Head’ reached the U.S. Top Five in 1972. Gillian and Glover later left the band, while David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes were recruited for 1974's ‘Burn’. After finishing 1974's Stormbringer, Blackmore left the band to form...

He is an excellent singer in his own right but his voice was different from what one was accustomed to hearing from Deep Purple. It is gritty and in some ways more mainstream than the sonic nature of Ian Gillan and David Coverdale. With Turner hired as...