Ian Paice

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A Year In Rundowns

2024 featured 47 episodes of Modern Drummer’s popular “Tour Kit Rundown” YouTube series, highlighting some of the best professional drummers in the game and the gear they use on the road, performing for thousands of fans. Pictured throughout this gallery…

Modern Drummer
Dec 1, 2024

Ian Paice

Recording Deep Purple’s Turning to Crime When fans and critics talk about the pantheon of British greatness in heavy-rock drumming, there are the beatmasters, such as John Bonham, Ginger Baker, Keith Moon, Cozy Powell, Phil Rudd, Bill Ward, and so…

By Bob Girouard
Dec 17, 2021

Deep Purple’s Ian Paice

Of all the remarkable rock drummers to have originated in the late 1960s/early 1970s, none was more astonishing than Ian Paice. If John Bonham was the zeppelin, Carl Palmer the tank, and Nick Mason the perpetual clock, Ian Paice was…

Modern Drummer
Sep 1, 2020

8 Reasons to Love Whitesnake

Whitesnake formed soon after the dissolution of the Mark IV lineup of Deep Purple, when singer David Coverdale combined his love of blues, rock, heavy metal, funk, and soul into a blustery amalgam of white-hot riffs and soaring vocal pyrotechnics.…

Article By Ilya Stemkovsky | Photo by Paul Natkin
Sep 28, 2018

Ian Paice — Freedom

FIFTY minutes outside London, lan Paice awaited my arrival in his Porsche. How but good, having just watched lush, rolling countryside from my train window? Time passed quickly as we sat in a pub and lan related his story to…

by Robyn Flans
Aug 8, 2018
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Ian Paice

How does a band—and not just any band, mind you, but one that’s among the loudest and baddest to ever walk the earth—keep up the intensity decade after decade after decade? TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG…

By Pete Kaufmann | Photos by Sayre Joan Berman
Feb 23, 2018

Deep Purple’s Ian Paice

Deep Purple's drummer riffs on Made in Japan, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Long Goodbye. TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN

Interview by Mike Haid
May 31, 2017

Carmine Appice: Leadin' The Way

Since Vanilla Fudge, Carmine has anchored Cactus, Beck/Bogart and Appice, and KGB. Now he is the driving force behind Rod Stewart. TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN

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Feb 23, 2017

December 2011 - Volume 35 • Number 12

Neil Peart, Jeremy Spencer, Clem Burke, Jim Riley, Ian Paice, Justin Foley, Richard Christy, Jen Ledger, Paul Guerrero, Bill Rieflin, Travis Barker TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN

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Dec 1, 2011

February 2009 - Volume 33 • Number 2

Daniel Adair, Derico Watson, Kenny Washington, Buddy Harman, Alan Hertz, Andres Patrick Forero, John Convertino, Pete Best, Eric Valentine, Steve Reid, Ian Paice, Devin Chaulk, John McEntire TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN

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Feb 1, 2009

May 2006 - Volume 30 • Number 5

Taylor Hawkins, Jason McGerr, Mike Clark, John Wackerman, Peter Erskine, Mark Craney, Jamie Oldaker, Chad Sexton, Travis Smith, Tennessee Thomas, Brad Pemberton, Vinnie Fiorello, Ginger Baker, Paul John Jr., Ian Paice, David Garibaldi TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO…

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May 1, 2006

April 2006 - Volume 30 • Number 4

Neil Peart, Steve Smith, John Riley, Rod Morgenstein, Stanton Moore, Billy Ward, Ian Paice, Rob Zgaljic, Kofi Baker, Orri Pall Dyrason, Steve Davis, Aaron Spears, Jimmy Chamberlin, Scott Travis TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN

Modern Drummer
Apr 1, 2006
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November 2005 - Volume 29 • Number 11

Ringo Starr, Danny Carey, Chad Smith, Ian Paice, Steve Smith, Paul John Jr. Stanton Moorse, Michael Travis, Jason Hann, Tony Allen, Adam Topol, Kevin March, Mark Guiliana, Des Kensel, Sean Rickman, Tris Imboden, Rick Marotta, Eddie Bayers TO READ THE…

Modern Drummer
Nov 1, 2005

March 2005 - Volume 29 • Number 3

Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson, Terry Bozzio, Chuck Comeau, Earl Palmer, Billy “Thunder” Mason, David Garibaldi, Rodney Green, Chris Vrenna, Rod Morgenstein, Joel Rosenblatt, Sebastian Thomson, Billy Ward, Chuck Morris, Roger Taylor, Ronnie Vannucci, Scott Rockenfield, Brad Morgan, Terry Bozzio, Steve Smith,…

Modern Drummer
Mar 1, 2005
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