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Here are a couple of excerpts from what appears the same Joe Lynn Turner interview, published on two different YouTube channels. JLT is reminiscing about his work with Ritchie Blackmore and Yngwie Malmsteen.

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Yngwie Malmsteen covers Purple, again

Yngwie Malmsteen’s new album Blue Lightning, due for release on March 29 via Mascot Records, contains two Deep Purple covers — Demon’s Eye and Smoke on the Water. Plus a cover of Paint it Black, which may or may not be closer to Purple’s version than to the original. The album is said to pay […]

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Dm, Gm, Cmaj, Amaj

Guitar World has an article on Yngwie Malmsteen’s 80s cover of the Highway Star which contains an undated quote from Blackmore about the two solos on the track, both becoming legendary: I wrote that out note for note about a week before we recorded it. And that is one of the only times I have […]

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Video: Purple + Lord + Malmsteen in Tokyo

The first video clip of Smoke On The Water from Tokyo on April 15 2009 has surfaced on YouTube. As we previously reported, it features Deep Purple with special guests Jon Lord and Yngwie Malmsteen. The camera work is rather poor (unless you prefer to watch the ceiling and the lighting rig!), but the audio […]

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Jon Lord jam with Deep Purple in Tokyo – and Yngwie too

Last night, on April 15, Deep Purple were joined onstage by original keyboard player Jon Lord and Swedish speed shredder Yngwie Malmsteen at the International Forum in Tokyo. Jon Lord played two songs with the band – Perfect Strangers and Smoke On The Water. Yngwie Malmsteen only guested on Smoke. This marks the third time […]

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