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Cover artwork for the upcoming Long Beach 1971 has been released to the media, together with the accompanying press release:
Read more »Welcome to Long Beach 1971, the latest album in earMUSIC’s Deep Purple reissue series that, over the last two years, has seen the release of rare live material from the band, including “Paris 1975”, “Copenhagen 1972”, “Stockholm 1970” and “Graz 1975”.
A radio station KYGT from Idaho Springs, Colorado, will be airing The Life & Music Of Tommy Bolin on Friday, February 6th, from 9:00 am to noon MST. It will be a 2+ hour commercial free radio documentary featuring interviews from Glenn Hughes, Kenny Passarelli (Barnstorm, Elton John band), Stanley Sheldon (bass player on Teaser and Frampton Comes Alive!
Read more »French-German TV channel Arte will be airung a new documentary called Hauptsache laut (Essentially Loud) this Saturday, January 17 at 22:00 CET, repeated on Saturday, January 24 at 1:55 CET.
Read more »We are no more… another thing we couldn’t keep together.and on Facebook:
The band is over. What a logo though, right?Read more »
In his annual end-of-year message, Roger Glover recaps what happened in 2014 and concludes with holiday greetings:
Read more »The best of the season to all and thank you to friends old and new, the steadfast DP crew and management, my band-mates, my webmaster Andreas Thul, and not least of all to the people that came to our shows around the world and gave us such a welcome – you are the reason we exist.
Another archival release is being prepared by Edel, and this one looks quite interesting. Titled simply Long Beach 1971 it contains a widely bootlegged show from July 30, 1971, recorded for University of Southern California’s radio station KUSC, to be aired on their Monday Night Airbag Live show hosted by Elliot Mass.
Read more »Parlophone will be re-releasing the Concerto’69, In Rock and Fireball repackaged as a 3CD box set on January 9.
Curiously, Concerto track listing includes both the Hush / Wring That Neck / Child in Time trifecta and the 3rd Movement encore, somehow all squeezed on one CD (the 2002 remaster came out on 2CDs clocking out of 90 minutes in total).
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
