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Voice that shone through
Paicey remembers Gary Brooker, who passed away on February 19, 2022, at the age of 76.
Read more »Archive for February, 2022
Sail your ship across the water
Deep Purple managed to play one show on board of the rock cruise before it went sideways. Here’s a clip from it with a rising rendition of Perfect Strangers
Read more »The cruise goes sideways
The following message has been posted on the band’s official site: Due to three members of the band testing positive for Covid-19, we are hugely disappointed to have to share the news with everyone that we are not able to play the remaining shows aboard the Rock Legends Cruise. It’s a terrible shame …. Stay […]
Read more »Definite Convert
Deep Purple live at Hard Rock Live (Hollywood, USA 2022-02-10) All my life, I had only known the radio hits from Deep Purple. But when I saw they were coming to town, I figured “Why not?” I like the older stuff as well as the Purpendicular album. And with all the bands that made real, […]
Read more »Piña coladas and gettin’ caught in the rain
Everett Post (which hails from Washington state) has a short piece based around an interview with Ian Paice on the occasion of the band visiting across the continent state of Florida. About the Rock Legends Cruise that departed on February 14: I’m not trying to get any pre-formed ideas about it. I’m sure it’ll be […]
Read more »Ten out of ten
Deep Purple live at Mahaffey Theater (St. Petersburg, USA 2022-02-12) My 10th time seeing Deep Purple perform. 1st time in that venue. The theatre hold a litttle over 2000 and appeared to be full. The horseshoe shapes made it so that there wasn’t a bad seat in the house and the acoustics were very good. […]
Read more »Waving the middle finger to Father Time
BraveWords has an illustrated review of the band’s first gig of 2022: If you are one of those who believe that there’s a certain age in which we are too old for rock n’ roll, any of the current members of Deep Purple would politely ask you to hold their beers. Despite being Steve Morse […]
Read more »They smile to themselves
An embryonic version of Fools, with ad-lib lyrics
Read more »Caught in the act
The band have played their first live show in nearly 2 years yesterday, February 10, 2022, at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida. Let’s see how the gentlemen have weathered the storm.
Read more »Dominus Orchestra
Dominus Orchestra is a project that is a tribute to all things Jon Lord. It is a brainchild of a Greek musician Panos Politis, who plays the Hammond, piano, and other keyboards, and makes the arrangements. Their latest release is a live tribute to Paice Ashton Lord‘s Malice In Wonderland, recorded in Athens on December […]
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