Clive A. Byss

Flirting with Time

“You’re flirting with time” Tom sings. And I like that idea of not fully committing to time, just flirting with it. That’s definitely how life feels when you’re in your twenties and thirties. You don’t really have to enter into a serious relationship with time because there’s so much of it still ahead. You can…

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Episode 182 – Foreigner – Foreigner – Part 1

Episode 183: the wheel didn’t mess around and landed us on Foreigner’s debut album. You know the one—massive riffs, FM radio DNA, and songs that have been stuck in your head since 1977 whether you like it or not.

Is this the birth of arena rock greatnes

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Episode 359 – Glenn Hughes – The Way It Is (Part 2)

Show notes: https://deeppurplepodcast.com/2026/03/02/episode-359-glenn-hughes-the-way-it-is-part-2/ Disclaimer: The video used on YouTube is a byproduct of producing our audio podcast. We post it merely as a convenience to those who prefer the YouTube format. Please subscribe using one of the links below if you'd prefer a superior audio experience. Subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google…

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Spleen Merchant/Georgia On My Mind

This week on And The Podcast Will Rock, our Patreon all-stars Scott Haskin, Michael Pastore, Duane Hoffman, Dan Pappathopoulos and Kevin Brown join us as the wheel delivers one of the most unexpected pairings yet: Clutch’s “Spleen Merchant” and Willie Nelson’s “Georgia On My Mind.” Heavy groove meets country soul in a genre-bending episode that…

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S5-EP13 Sin For A Halo with Connor

This week we welcome back to the Priestcast our favorite Londoner, Connor. Connor is a NWOTHM expert as well as a fantastic music podcaster and documentarian. Connor is also a wannabe teacher apparently and assigned Jeff and Jay some homework involving three bands and records they had never heard. Of course we give oral book…

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My Melancholy Blues

Read about the things that happen throughout the world. Don’t be believing in everything you see or hear. Read all about it, read all about it. News of the world, news of the world! Yep, we’re heading back to the year nineteen hundred and seventy seven to talk about our last track and the last…

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Square One

Saving Grace is the work of a middle-aged man who fully knows himself and knows how to articulate the past and the present in three very vivid dimensions. Critical to retaining the song’s pathos though, Tom doesn’t project a future down this new path. It’s important that Square One is here and now. It’s important…

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Heaviest Songs of the Universe (Part 4- Bonus Side 2): One Second, Host, Believe in Nothing, and Symbol of Life by Paradise Lost

Quinn fights his way through Paradise Lost's mid-career experimental period, explains why he thinks he can hear 1997 so clearly in One Second, and the unique way that the band gets all… Romantic.

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Episode 181 – TigerTailz – Bezerk – Part 2

Episode 181 is in the books and we’ve officially finished TigerTailz Bezerk!
Big hair?
Bigger hooks?
Absolutely zero subtlety? DOUBLE

We cranked the volume, teased the bangs, and rode this 90s glam beast straight into the sunset. If you like your rif

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Episode 358 – Glenn Hughes – The Way It Is (Part 1)

Show notes: https://deeppurplepodcast.com/2026/02/23/episode-358-glenn-hughes-the-way-it-is-part-1/ Disclaimer: The video used on YouTube is a byproduct of producing our audio podcast. We post it merely as a convenience to those who prefer the YouTube format. Please subscribe using one of the links below if you'd prefer a superior audio experience. Subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google…

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