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A review of the Don Airey’s show in Zoetermeer on January 22 and a brief interview with the man himself apears on the Here Comes The Flood blog: Any chance of Deep Purple recording one of your songs on a new studio album? I don’t know. I contributed a lot to the last one, Rapture […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes was interviewed by Eric Blair at the NAMM, which was held January 15-18, 2009 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Glenn talks about his plans, his life, the F.U.N.K album, and the much discussed here and elsewhere Mk3 reunion, which he says is definitely not going to happen this year.
Read more »A 12-track list for Ian Gillan’s forthcoming solo album One Eye To Morocco has been published on Amazon Germany with a release date of March 6. No cover is shown. 1. One Eye To Morocco 2. No Lotion For That 3. Don’t Stop 4. Change My Ways 5. Girl Goes To Show 6. Better Days […]
Read more »Greg Prato continues promotion of his new book Touched by Magic: The Tommy Bolin Story. He will appear with an interview in the Electric Ballroom show on New Jersey radio station 95.9 WRAT FM this coming Sunday, January 25 at 10 am EST. WRAT says they broadcast over the Internet (see their website), but it […]
Read more »Czech media reports that Deep Purple will play at the opening ceremony for the World Championship in Nordic skiing. The championship opens on February 18 at the Tipsport Arena in Liberec, Czech Republic. Deep Purple’s appearance was announced by Kateřina Neumannová, president of the local organizing committee, and so far is not confirmed by either […]
Read more »Back in 2006 Deep Purple were booked to play at the Baalbeck International Festival in Lebanon. The show had to be cancelled due to war that broke out in that country. The band were still committed to play up until the last moment when escalating violence forced the organizers to cancel the event. This year […]
Read more »The Perfect Strangers of Finland is organizing a second Purple Night, which is now becoming a good tradition. A project called 10 Perfect Women will perform music from Deep Purple, Rainbow and Whitesnake. 10 Perfect Women includes singers Maria Hänninen, Lotta Lené, Erja Lyytinen, Maya Paakkari and Marenne. The house band will be Joe Doakes, […]
Read more »Kansas are celebrating their 35th anniversary this year with a gala performance at the White Concert Hall in Topeka, the eponymous state of Kansas. Both founding guitar player Kerry Livgren and Steve Morse are confirmed as special guests. Steve was a lead guitarist for Kansas between 1986 and 1989 and played on two of their […]
Read more »Jürgen “J.R.” Blackmore talks about his career, his father and the Over The Rainbow project in a recent interview with Rockinform Magazine: Your father is Ritchie Blackmore. How do you feel about it, that he’s a legendary guitarist? Jürgen: – Oh well……it was a very hard childhood time for me because everyone is looking at […]
Read more »All the Scandinavian dates that we had listed in our tour dates calendar for a while now are also confirmed. One more date was added: Meri Päivät (Sea Days) Festival in Kotka, Finland on July 17. (I know, technically Finland is not Scandinavia, but let’s not raise a fuss about it, shall we? 😉 )
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