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Concerto’99 on vinyl

Concerto’99 officially known as Deep Purple In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra Live at the Royal Albert Hall has just been released on vinyl by a boutique label Night of the Vinyl Dead. The release is said to be limited to 500 copies and contains the album spread over no less than 4 LPs […]

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BCC summer dates in Europe

Black Country Communion promised a summer tour of Europe and the dates are starting to roll in. Below are the scheduled dates so far. They will also play the Azkena Rock Festival in Spain. The festival takes places June 23-25 but it’s not yet clear which day BCC will play. Do we dare to guess […]

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Callouses and Christmas shopping

Steve Morse writes in his blog: Well, it’s been a long time on the road. I’ve been able to use up every minute of every day without ever catching up on all the things I should get done. This tour seems like 2 lifetimes ago that it started, and indeed it’s close to 2 months […]

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Whitesnake donates to charity auction

Members of Whitesnake have donated several items to a charity auction for the benefit of Y&T bass player Phil Kennemore, who is battling metastatic cancer. Items available are Doug Aldrich’s Fender Telecaster, a 1987 tourbook signed by Coverdale, Coverdale/Page CD signed by both of them, and an original print of a photograph by Timothy Drury. […]

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Nick Blagona is mixing new Gillan’s album

Billboard has an article about a new state of the art Jukasa Studios built last year on a native reservation in Canada, just an hour outside of Toronto. Enjoying the tax exempt status, the studio can save it’s clients paying the 13% Ontario tax on it’s services. Nick Blagona is the chief engineer and he’s […]

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Down to Earth remaster

Rainbow’s Down to Earth album remaster will be released (presumably in the UK) at the end of January (on the 24th if you believe Classic Rock or on the 31st if you believe Amazon). The track list, however, seems to be finalized and will span 2CDs as follows. CD1: All Night Long Eyes Of The […]

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This isn’t cricket!

Our favourite bass player shares some amusing travel anecdotage in his latest installment of Road Life: One of the things that intrigues me about rock concerts – everyone afterwards has a different story to tell. Did the band suck? Weren’t they fantastic? They didn’t play the favourite song, the bass player’s cute, the sound was […]

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Touring 2011

As the New Year approaches, here’s the summary of the upcoming tour dates we have lined up so far. Glenn Hughes will do a brief tour of Brazil in December, rounding up the year with a 2 date public live debut of Black Country Communion in Wolverhampton and London. Gillan will kick the year off […]

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TMIB in Hamburg

At the concert on November 27 in Hamburg’s Alsterdorfer Sporthalle the band played in front of a nearly sold out (7,000 people) audience. They had a surprise guest joining them just before the encores for Smoke on the Water. The Man In Black Jr — Jürgen Blackmore: Also, be sure to check out truly excellent […]

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Steve Morse on More Metal

During their stay in berlin on November 22, Steve Morse gave a video interview to More Metal. The questions ranged from his motivation to play music, to his opinion on live albums, to Joe Satriani, to the inevitable topic of a new album: Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.

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