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Martin Popoff has a follow-up volume to his book Gettin’ Tighter. A Castle Full Of Rascals: Deep Purple ’83 – ’09 follows the tradition of Gettin’ Tighter and Rainbow: English Castle Magic by narrating the band’s history “in their own words”, through extensive original interviews. Which makes for a very entertaining reading, if maybe slightly […]
Read more »Promoting his band’s US tour, Blackmore gave to Fender one of his rare interviews. He talked about his writing process these days, castles and ghosts (what else!), why he started to play guitar and not trumpet, ticket prices, and many other things: FN: Could you talk about your evolution as a guitar player, from those […]
Read more »Last night at House of Blues, Ritchie Blackmore again showed Chicago why he is considered among the greatest guitar players on earth. Ritchie, Candice and the rest of the lords and ladies of Blackmore’s Night turned in a spectaular two and a half hour show whose duration was only limited by Chicago’s youth curfew. In […]
Read more »Hate to say this but the Blackmore’s Night show in Cleveland was one of the most boring shows I have ever seen. Candice seemed to lose her enthusiasm half way thru the show. If you have insomnia, this show would have cured it.RB was non-existent, very unenthusiastic playing. Could it be because it was the […]
Read more »Doctoral dissertation on the music of Deep Purple (Helsinki University, Finland): “Theory and Analysis of Classic Heavy Metal Harmony” by Esa Lilja. The thesis was published 17 October 2009. ABSTRACT: The study looks into heavy metal harmony from the point of view of music theory and analysis; the main focal point is the era that […]
Read more »A Swedish promotor in Gothenburg, Sweden, has been fined by the local authorities for not being able to keep sound levels at legal limits. One of the shows this summer that reached an illegal level was the Deep Purple show at Trädgår’n in Gothenburg where the band played at an average of 102 dB. The […]
Read more »Blackmore’s Night Official Scandinavian Fan Club has posted two new exclusive interviews with Joe Lynn Turner and Bobby Rondinelli on their website. The questions for the interviews were sent in by fans.
Read more »Planet Rock will be running a contest between October 12th and 26th: How do you fancy seeing Deep Purple live? OK, how do you fancy watching the gig from the stage? Now, how do you fancy sitting next to Ian Paice’s drumkit for the duration of the show? We thought so. From Monday 12 October […]
Read more »It’s Bombay calling again and it says that nothing is new under the moon. Many years ago there was a Canadian band called Warpig. Their music sounded clearly inspired by Deep Purple and Uriah Heep. They even shared a sound engineer with Purple — Tom Brennand: It was during a concert by Deep Purple, that […]
Read more »Child in Time, Edinburgh, Usher hall, October 5, 2009. The singer’s name is Grant Barclay. He had been given a tremendous voice and talent to use it, as evidenced by this recording. We wish him all the best in his endeavours.
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