Ep 791 : Don Airey - Keyboard Legend, Deep Purple, Ozzy, Rainbow and Gary Moore

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Today I have an absolute legend on the show Mr Don Airey keyboard player on over 600 Hard Rock and Heavy Metal records.

Don stops by and talks about his incredible career playing keyboards with all of the guitar legends including Ritchie Blackmore, Micheal Schenker, Randy Rhoades, Gary Moore and so many more.

Don has played Keys on some of the most iconic records ever including Ozzy's Blizzard Of Oz,

all of the great Raibow albums, and the huge 1987 Rainbow release.

Don has a brand new solo record coming out in a few weeks called Pushed To The Edge and I gotta tell you this record fully rocks.

Make sure you check it out March 28th 2025 on all the streaming platforms.

Come see me out on tour this week in San Francisco at The Punchline Feb 26th - Mar 1st

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show, everybody. It is February 24th, the Monday. This is episode number 791. I am kicking the two-week cold or whatever the fuck I had is gone and I'm ready to rock.
0:13.6	Headed to San Francisco this week on Wednesday playing the punchline headlining four nights punchline Wednesday the February 26 through
0:24.1	March 1st the Saturday night get your tickets there some tickets left for Friday night big time
0:30.0	I don't know what's going on grab Friday night all the other nights are doing good so grab some
0:35.2	Friday night Bay Area and tell friends, come on out and see me.
0:40.1	Tickets are at Dean Dale Ray.com. Also the Patreon. I just dropped another bonus episode.
0:45.5	If you want to hear lots more, let there be talks. Join the Patreon. Patreon.com slash
0:51.6	Dean Dale Ray. Today we have an absolute god on the show don erie the keyboard
0:59.7	legend been playing heavy metal and hard rock almost his entire life rainbow ozzie uh gary
1:09.4	and of course deep purple for the last 20 years. This is insane this guy's
1:14.4	career. He's played on over 600 records. It said 300 on his Wikipedia and then he quickly
1:22.8	corrected me, which I knew was pretty wild. What I didn't know was he actually played the
1:31.0	bass parts on the painkiller record, Judas Priest, with some, you know, foot pedals, because
1:39.3	I guess Ian Hill was unable to play on that record.
1:44.7	Now, I don't know.
1:46.3	I didn't ask him that question because I asked him about everything else going on in
1:51.1	his life, including his brand new solo record coming out called Push to the Edge,
1:55.7	which is absolutely fantastic, sounding somewhere in between Deep Purple's Perfect Strangers and Michael
2:05.4	Shanker's first solo record, which by the way, he played on that classic Michael Shanker's
2:11.8	solo record. He also played on that huge White Snake record, the big one was still of the night and all of that.
2:19.0	This guy's played on everything.
2:21.9	Pretty much all of the early hard rock that I listened to growing up.
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