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Martin Popoff has a follow up to his Purple family book. The new book is called The Deep Purple Royal Family: Chain Of Events ’80-’11. This picks up where that book left off, offering a few modest milestones within its pages, namely: the most comprehensive information on the Gillan band ever stuffed in a book […]
Read more »The new Black Country Communion live DVD Live Over Europe was recorded during their summer tour and will be released on October 24 with Blu-ray to follow on November 15th. Watch the trailer inside.
Read more »In July 1971 Colin Hart, a Geordie lad from South Shields, was on his first tour of America as a roadie for Matthew’s Southern Comfort. The group was part of a three-band bill with The Faces and Deep Purple. Following the tour he joined Deep Purple’s road crew. Ian Gillan just knew Colin had to […]
Read more »Don Airey’s new solo album All Out is now available on Music Theory/Mascot. Besides Don himself, who handled all the keyboards, musicians on the album are: Bernie Marsden (Guitar), Carl Sentance (Vocals), Darrin Mooney (Drums), Keith Airey (Guitar), Laurence Cottle (Bass), Joe Bonamassa (Guitar), and Rob Harris (Guitar). Track list: The Way I Feel Inside […]
Read more »In view of the recent news, Jon Lord’s live appearances have been cancelled for the remainder of this year. Attempts are being made (with Jon’s blessings) to salvage the situation and proceed with the shows whenever possible. Concerto for Group and Orchestra performance in Wiesbaden on November 6 will go ahead with a local keyboard […]
Read more »Tony Iommi was a featured guest on the last episode of VH1’s That Metal Show, but despite of that most of the show revolved around Purple. Or maybe not even ‘despite’, given the rather incestious relationship between the two bands. Iommi discussed past experience with Ian Gillan and Glenn Hughes as singers in Sabbath. He […]
Read more »Deep Purple will spend this October touring Latin America. We have confirmed dates starting October 5 in Belem, Brazil, and finishing in Panama on the 27th. Full details in our calendar.
Read more »Jam Magazine has a new in-depth retrospective interview with David Coverdale. David talks about what went wrong with Slip of the Tongue, how the Coverdale/Page project came about, and why it didn’t last long. The Coverdale / Page project would revitalize the spirits of both musicians. Though the album was mostly overlooked by the grunge […]
Read more »Steve Morse has contributed a solo for the track called Pilgrim’s Wake on the new album of Kerry Livgren’s pre-Kansas band Proto-Kaw (now reformed for the third time). The album is called Forth and was released earlier this month. You can order the album here. Thanks to Alwin Bastiaansen for the info.
Read more »Glenn Hughes was in Berlin earlier this summer and gave an interview to More-Classic-Rock.com.
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