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Paicey reacts to Tosh Petersen’s take on Fireball
Read more »Three out of four
Watch a drummer from a different style and different generation listen to Fireball for the first time and play through with his own parts. The drummer in question is Tosh Peterson, who is 22, have been a touring musician since he was 16, and played with a bunch of bands most of us never heard […]
Read more »Fireball and S&M books
A couple of new books by Laura Shenton are due to be published by Wymer in September. These follow the “in-depth” album-by-album format pioneered in March with Stormbringer. Caveat emptor: previous output from this author drew, ahem, mixed reviews from our audience. Fireball What: Deep Purple Fireball In-depth by Laura Shenton When: September 24, 2021 […]
Read more »Commercial, but not contrived
Geir Myklebust has a new old article reprinted in his blog — a New Musical Express feature on (then) upcoming Fireball that was originally published on March 27, 1971. Deep Purple – commercial without compromise By Richard Green FOR Deep Purple fans the end of an era is approaching. After late April or May, familiar […]
Read more »Yet another remaster
According to the Uncut magazine, Rhino will be re-releasing purple vinyl editions of In Rock and Fireball on November 23. Both albums are said to have been newly remastered by Andy Pearce and Matt Wortham from the original analogue tapes, and have been cut at half-speed by Barry Grint at Alchemy Mastering. Thanks to Uncut […]
Read more »Repackage, release, repeat
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 […]
Read more »Fireball remastered by Steve Hoffman
Steve Hoffman, who has a cult following among some audiophiles, has reported in his blog that he’s working on a Fireball remaster which will be released on the Audio Fidelity label: All done mastering this album. I think this is the first time these tapes were used in over 30 years…. Now, this is going […]
Read more »The West Uzbekistan Percussion Ensemble
Back in 1970 Mike Thorne worked as an assistant at the De Lane Lea Studio in London. One day his sound recording experiment with an air conditioner became a part of Deep Purple lore: Several massively expensive tube mics (a Neumann U67 now fetches maybe $5000 on the used market) were placed strategically in the […]
Read more »Olympic Studios on the chopping block
Music Week reports that EMI is seriously considering closing down it’s Olympic Studios in London and to that effect entered into a “consultation process” with the staff of 11. It is understood that the studio is not profitable. This means that EMI could be left with only one operational studio — Abbey Road. Olympic Studios […]
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