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Gillan’s brief foray into producing other bands in the early 70-s is getting new attention. Jerusalem was an early 1970s British heavy rock five piece outfit. The band released one self-titled album worldwide in 1972 on Deram (UK catalogue number: SLD 6), which was produced by Gillan. Jerusalem’s only other release was a 45 rpm […]
Read more »It looks like the hotly debated Purple Rainbow story is getting an unexpected twist. A press release from Russian promoters Prestige Concert states that the new band will be called Over The Rainbow and will consist of: Joe Lynn Turner — vocals Bobby Rondinelli — drums Tony Carey — keyboards Greg Smith — bass Jürgen […]
Read more »Ian Gillan’s new solo album called One Eye To Morocco is mostly ready, apart from the track listing which is being finalized. DPAS reports a January release date, but we’re being told by the man himself that it will be out in March. The album is produced by Nick Blagona. Joanna overheard a demo tape […]
Read more »Martin Popoff has a new book published — Gettin’ Tighter: Deep Purple ’68 – ’76. According to his press release, the book is 250 pages long and covers “every last recorded track throughout the band’s celebrated albums from the ’60s and ’70s”, “b-sides and key solo career moments” together with “previously never published photos by […]
Read more »There’s another Steve Morse’s guitar clinic on November 17. It will be held at the Musikhaus Thomann, Treppendorf 30, Burgebrach (near Bamberg). The clinic starts at 16:00. For further information please call +49 9546-9223-0. The clinic is once again sponsored by Engl.
Read more »Steve Morse will hold a signing session in Basel in the afternoon of November 18. The session is organized by Engl to promote their Steve Morse Signature E656 amplifier. Admission is free, but interested parties are required to register beforehand (click on ‘zum Anmeldeformular‘ to get to the registration form and enter your name, address […]
Read more »Steve Morse will hold a guitar clinic in Stuttgart, Germany this Saturday, November 8. The Clinic will be at the Liveclub Samba, Max-Eyth-Str. 54 (Industriegebiet Langes Gewand), Winnenden. Doors open at 15:00, clinic will start at 16:00. Free admission. The clinic is sponsored by Engl and Soundland. Call +49 711-510980-0 for more info. Thanks to […]
Read more »Whitesnake has won the Album Of The Year for the Good To Be Bad at this year’s Classic Rock Roll Of Honour awards. Here’s a picture of one very happy Mr. Coverdale collecting the prize. Other celebrated glitterati included Ozzy Osbourne (living legend award), Foo Fighters (band of the year), Paul Stanley (best showman), Airbourne […]
Read more »Our very own undercover war correspondent reports with a despatch from the New Forest: In the 11th century on boggy marshland near the south coast of England, King William 1 created The New Forest. It came as quite a shock to the Boggy Marshans who’d been used to scraping a living on open ground. Rapidly […]
Read more »In the cockpit of a Tu-134, the “Russian GPS”, playing gargantuan arenas and pondering finite moments of life — read all about it in the latest installment of Steve Morse’s Notes from the road.
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