By Steve Newton
I interviewed Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover for the third time back in January of 2004, when the band was touring with another one of my fave groups from the ’70s, Thin Lizzy.
Purple was touring in support of its latest release, Bananas, the third album to feature American guitar wizard Steve Morse, who’d joined the band ten years earlier. (Morse would leave Deep Purple in July of 2022 to care for his cancer-stricken wife Janine, who sadly passed away last month.)
At one point in the conversation I asked Glover if he’d been a fan of Morse’s previous band, the Dixie Dregs, and it turns out he sure the hell was.
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