[hand] [face]
The Original Deep Purple Web Pages
The Highway Star

Archive for February, 2008



Montreux 2008

The 42nd Montreux Jazz Festival will be held on July 4-19 this year. Deep Puple are included in the preliminary festival program announced a couple of weeks ago. The program should be finalized by April 17th. Our boys established a good tradition of coming back to the Lake Geneva shoreline every few years — they’ve […]

Read more »

Smoke on the Kremlin

The Kremlin gig from February 11 was broadcasted today, February 15th on Russian ORT Channel 1. Smoke on the Water from Purple’s set was included in the broadcast.

Read more »

New Coverdale interview

A new interview with David Coverdale appeared this morning on several sites. He talks mostly about the new album, Good To Be Bad: Would you say that GOOD TO BE BAD is a mixture between your blues roots and a modern attitude? Any other influences? For me it has all the elements, all the ingredients […]

Read more »

Nobody’s gonna take my car

Deep Purple are confirmed to play in London, UK on July 30 at the ExCeL. This is the venue for the British International Motor Show. Tickets can be ordered at www.seetickets.com and concert tickets include admission to the motor show during the day.

Read more »

JLT in Classic Rock Revisited

New interview with Joe Lynn Turner on Classic Rock Revisited. Quite interesting even if you don’t agree with everything he has to say. He talks about his latest album Second Hand Life, his days in Deep Purple and the prospects of a Rainbow reunion and other things. Here are some tidbits: Jeb: Do you think […]

Read more »

Been to a concert?

Have you been to a concert? Want to share your experiences with other fans? Write a review right here.

Read more »

Good To Be Bad artwork

Whitesnake.com reveals cover art for the new Whitesnake album Good To Be Bad: Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson for the info.

Read more »

To thine own self be true

DeepPurple.org has an exclusive interview with Don Airey. He talks about his new album A Light in the Sky, Stanley Kubrick, Aurora Borealis, ways to cope with musicians’ stress, and jamming in 7/4. Read the interview here. Thanks to Mike Garrett and Gordon Dale for the info.

Read more »

Now we going to the palace…

Since our favourite rumour mistress is on extended vacations on a private exotic island, I’ll have to do the honours of spreading the gossip myself. As we’ve mentioned previously, Deep Purple plays an important role in the bizarre world of Russian politics. This little birdie told me today that the band is about to play […]

Read more »

Pisco Sour under Peruvian skies

Deep Purple are a hard touring band. They stay on the road sometimes for months non-stop. Sometimes they manage to play concerts across 7 timezones in that many days. As Roger Glover once said: “I will play for free, but I want to be paid for being on the road.” Next week the band embarks […]

Read more »

||||Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
© 1993-2024 The Highway Star and contributors
Posts, Calendar and Comments RSS feeds for The Highway Star