An interesting chat with rather rarely interviewed Don Airey have appeared on Hungarian ekultura.hu before the start of current Don’s solo tour.
On
his solo career:
ekultura.hu: What
happened after your second album with Deep Purple? What prompted you
to launch a new solo career?
Don
Airey: Ed
van Zijl from Mascot Records offered me a record deal – I think he
was fed up with just signing guitar players to his label. There was a
gap in Purple’s schedule so I wrote some songs around the theme of
astronomy, (a hobby of mine), booked studio time and musicians and
went and made a record (Light in the Sky).
On
Jon Lord and Deep Purple:
ekultura.hu: On
a totally different note, how did the death of Jon Lord affect you
personally?
Don
Airey: I
lost someone whose playing and quintessential Englishness I admired
immensely, and who over the last ten years had been kindness itself
to my tech son Mike, and myself. We were in the middle of recording
the new DP album in Nashville when the awful news about Jon came
through. It was difficult to get anything done for the next couple of
days.
ekultura.hu: How
does your solo project relate to what Deep Purple is doing now? Will
it in any way have an impact on the music of the new album of the
band?
Don
Airey: It
is separate - a whole different vibe! There is nothing in the world
quite like Deep Purple I have to say.
Read
more on ekultura.hu. Thanks
to The Highway Star for the info.
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