Welcome
Welcome to the official Bernie Marsden Site. Hope you all enjoyed the Paul Jones session on BBC radio 2, it was a pleasure to play in the Maida Vale studios, a studio with great history.
European shows were very good, Austria, Switzerland for a short tour, I had the pleasure of working with original Deep Purple bass player Nick Simper, his band playing original LP Purple stuff, very good they were as well.
On a sad note I would like to pay tribute to the late Ronnie James Dio who recently passed away.
I first met Ronnie in Germany, I think in Munich Rainbow were headliners, Cozy Powell took me to the hallowed Rainbow dressing room area! Ronnie was very charming, asked lots of questions about Paice and Lord, he thought we had an invisible bond because we both worked within the Deep Purple family.
He was a great rock singer, inventive lyricist and wonderful live performer, I liked him a lot, one of the nice guys.
Now both CP and Ronnie are gone, and the music world is worse for it.
I will be almost ready to get some of the recorded stuff available, I know it has taken some time.
The “Covers” sessions are finished, there is also a studio acoustic Rory session I have found, early B plays R ideas, sounds great!
I am working on a Stacks “box” set, outtakes, alternative mixes etc, some of you may have a copy of the “Jam” guitar CD, I will probably include some of that in the set.
Spent a very pleasant afternoon and evening with Peter Green recently, he is playing great, and seems a happy person, he was playing The Stables gig, which reminds me.
Thank you all for selling out the February Stables show a week in advance, it was a great show made all the better by the packed out audience, there was some filming done.
The PRS signature guitar is looking good, I saw the prototype in Germany in April, very exciting project.
Check out Davy Knowles, a dangerously gifted guitar player from the Isle of Man, but residing in Chicago, I played with Davy in Germany and plan to to do it again as soon as I can, his band is called Back Door Slam, check them out on YouTube.
I also had the great pleasure of jamming with Whitesnake guitarist Doug Aldridge at a private party for Dr Jim Marshall, it seems there is some footage on YouTube.
Doug is a great guitar player and very nice man, I hope we can do it again sometime, somewhere.
I will endeavour to get these things together,
See you out there people
