I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s mystery like playing more outside he US because they can play their newer music, versus in the US they are do only their classic rock hits because here in the states that how they are labeled. Think you know who demands an audience for their newer albums??

I have always thought this must be how classic rock artists feel because we all want to grow and change.  These feeling were found expressed on Ultimate Classic Rock as the interviewed Roger Glover of Deep Purple about two new releases and why their set lists and so different abroad. Roger Says:

Here in the States, we’re much more labeled as classic rock, whereas in Europe, we’re not. In most of the world, we’re not.  It’s just a radio thing that has hung on here and once you’re classic rock, you are forever classic rock. We don’t think like that, of course. We’re a band. We just play and write, and that’s that. We don’t think about it in those terms. So, it’s been a little frustrating in the States to have a new album out and not get any plays because we’re classic rock. None of the plays mean that much anymore, and I don’t know what means anything anymore in the music business. You know, they say albums are dead – but for us, it’s very important to do an album. An album is a whole thing. It’s not just a collection of singles or one or two good tracks and a load of bum [tracks]. An album is a state of affairs of the nation, if you like, the nation of Deep Purple. They mark time, you know, people talk about this album or that album. We’re an album band. We can’t help it.

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