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Archive for February, 2009



Over The Rainbow premieres live

Setlist and a couple of short clips from Minsk, February 14 for your viewing pleasure.

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South American tour confirmed

All South American dates that we had listed for a while now, have been officially confirmed by the Deep Purple management. The only additional date is March 5 in Florianopolis, Brazil. We still do not know anything about the venue in Antofagasta, Chile, so if anyone has more information, please get in touch or leave […]

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Sleazeway Star

Los Angeles sleaze rockers Snew get a gold star in the “somewhat innovative covers dept.” because they: a. Didn’t choose Smoke on the Water as a Deep Purple cover to record. b. Invited an unlikely guest musician to solo on the track. The guest is legendary prog/fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth who delivers two of his […]

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Whitesnake at Castle Donington

Whitesnake will play this year at the Download festival in Castle Donington. The festival will run on the weekend of June 12-14 with Coverdale and his boys reportedly appearing on the 14th, just before headliners Def Leppard. Festival passes and packages go on sale Friday, February 13, at 9 a.m. (more info). Live Nation presale […]

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The effigy of Rainbow

Joe Lynn Turner has a couple of interviews out, dealing mostly with Over The Rainbow, with some old time Rainbow anecdotage thrown in for the good measure, and also the recent JLT’s Live in Germany record. The first one is with AntiMusic: Morley: I understand you’ll start off by touring. Do you anticipate recording new […]

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Globetrotting in Perm

Last October Deep Purple toured Russia and for the first time performed in the city of Perm. The people there are not (yet) spoiled by the international rock stars of such calibre, and the visit drew significant attention in the local media. If you ever were interested what do the eat and drink backstage, now […]

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Blackmore’s Night in Brescia and Trento

In Brescia and Trento the man in black was in the mood for some encores. Here are the setlists and a few video clips.

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Love Is All in the charts

Roger Glover’s Love Is All continues to pop up in different cartoons. This version by Florabelle et la Mushroom Family has been listed for 40 weeks in the France Singles Top 100. It entered the chart at number 65 in the week starting July 10, 2006, and it’s last appearance was in the week of […]

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Rebel On The Run

The Moonstone Project has signed a deal with Swedish label Blistering Records to release their new album Rebel On The Run. Glenn Hughes contributed music and vocals on the track called Closer Than You Think. Moonstone’s guitarist Matt Filippini recalls: Closer Than You Think is a beautiful gift from Glenn. He wrote that magical piece […]

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“He’s not poking me!”

Ross Halfin reminisces in his blog: Jerry Bloom the editor of www.moreblackthanpurple.co.uk and www.bloomsbagels.com (more Purple than Black Bagels) has written a very good letter making some valid points on Deep Purple and how the story could have been, well, better. It wasn’t that bad a story, it was just a bit matter of fact. […]

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