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Current Deep Purple’s front of the house soundman Gert Sanner gave a brief interview published by soundcraft.com. Among fairly technical things, he shares his memories of the recent Japanese tour: Purple don’t use a set list, so I have to be on my toes all the time ready to make adjustments in a split second, […]
Read more »20 years ago, on July 8, 1989, a group of musicians gathered at the Metropolis Studios in Chiswick, London to make a benefit record to raise money for the 1988 earthquake relief in Armenia. In early October this year Ian Gillan, Tony Iommi and Geoff Downes will visit Armenia together with Jon Dee who organized the original Rock Aid Armenia project.
Read more »Audio Fidelity’s In Rock achieved a surprising chart success in the top sellers list of an online retailer CD Universe. As of July 29, it reached #2 interrupting a bevy of Michael Jackson’s albums. Meanwhile this release is only at #325 in Amazon.com charts. Thanks to JL from deep-purple.ru forum for spotting this.
Read more »Audiophile label Audio Fidelity has released on July 21 their own remastered version of In Rock on a limited edition 24 karat gold CD (yep, that’s real 24 karat gold instead of aluminum; which has nothing to do with sound quality, just longevity). Mastering for the CD was performed by a cult engineer Steve Hoffman. […]
Read more »The concert on September 15 in Madrid, Spain, has been moved from La Cubierta to Palacio Vistalegre. Both are big modern arenas of similar capacity (10-15,000), so it is likely it has something to do with e.g. hall availability, rather than ticket sales.
Read more »On his official website, JonLord.org, the maestro has confirmed three concerts for October. The dates and cities are: Oct 9 – Yekaterinburg, Russia – tickets Oct 12 – St. Petersburg, Russia – tickets Oct 15 – Moscow, Russia – tickets At the concerts Jon Lord will perform his Concerto for Group and Orchestra along with […]
Read more »A Russian court has fined Deep Purple for “illegally” performing their own songs, according to russiatoday.com. The concert in question took place on October 19, 2008 in Russia’s southern city of Rostov-on-Don. According to the court’s ruling, the musicians – Ian Gillan, Ian Paice and Roger Glover – should have obtained a license from the […]
Read more »Blabbermouth reports that Steve Morse has been interviewed on Rocknation TV. The interview is featured in episode 46 and can be viewed online at www.rocknation.us/tv. Rocknation TV is a weekly 30-minute metal program featuring metal videos and interviews. It is available online and airs in the USA on Time Warner, Comcast, Service Electric and Charter […]
Read more »Keyboard player Tony Carey has left Over The Rainbow and has been replaced by Paul Morris. Here is Over The Rainbow’s own press release: After he received a great reception from over 12,000 fans at the Sweden Rock Festival, Over The Rainbow has officially added keyboardist Paul Morris to the band’s roster for several USA […]
Read more »Another interview with Ian Gillan, this time at KNAC.com (Big Ian is certainly getting his money’s worth from the PR agents). Amid the familiar by now story behind One Eye To Morocco, he made some interesting remarks, particularly about his songwriting process: I never write the lyrics first, but I do make a lot of […]
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