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Check out an excellent interview with Roger Glover published on Jambase.com: Face-to-face backstage, Glover was a casually dressed, quiet, very articulate gent with reading glasses hanging from a chain around his neck. It’s a far cry from the perpetually erect persona he thrusts at us onstage, the one with a bandana clinging tight to his […]
Read more »Recording of Jon Lord’s Durham Concerto is scheduled for a CD release on January 28, 2008 on Avie Records. Track list: Part 1: Morning 1. The Cathedral at Dawn 11:31 2. Durham Awakes 8:25 Part 2: Afternoon 3. The Road from Lindisfarne 7:18 4. From Prebends Bridge 8:27 Part 3: Evening 5. Rags & Galas […]
Read more »Some things are happening at the DeepPurple.org: there’s a new installment of Q&A with Steve Morse and they are asking fans to send memorabilia for a fan scrapbook they’re compiling: DeepPurple.org is compiling a fan scrap book and we need your help! We want you to submit a page to be included in the scrap […]
Read more »UPDATE (Dec 13, 2007): See our retraction on this story. Don Airey will be taking keyboard duties on the upcoming UK tour of Michael Schenker Group. He will be joined by Gary Barden on vocals, Simon Philips on drums and Neil Murray on bass. The tour is said to start January 10 and “stretch as […]
Read more »Polish TV channel Planete will be showing a program called “Gwiazda autostrady” (Highway Star) about Ian Gillan tomorrow, December 8 at 20:45. Thanks to Joasia Ostrowiecka for the info.
Read more »Just as 2007 tours wrap up and musicians take a well deserved break, news started trickling in about plans for the next year. It looks like Deep Purple will be undertaking another one of the annual summer tours of Germany (2007 was the first year since, well, time immemorial, when the band didn’t play in […]
Read more »In the latest issue of Notes from the road Steve Morse explains why one day he’ll be referring to the present as the good old days, how he copes with being on the road and his favourite — perils of international travel. Read all about it on stevemorse.com. Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson for the info.
Read more »Classic Deep Purple tune Highway Star is featured in the soundtrack for a new video game called Rock Band. U.S. cable channel VH1 Classic is currently running a 5 part special in promotion of the game (the special itself is called “Rock Band Countdown”). Each segment is based on the Top 10 in each category: […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes has issued the following statement regarding Kevin DuBrow’s (Quiet Riot singer) death: We are all grieving. Kevin and I were brothers. We spoke daily, and I mean on the phone, not e-mail. The Kevin that I knew was a beautiful human being. He was kind, giving, nurturing. And generous. He would stay at […]
Read more »According to Billboard.com (their braindead site doesn’t allow deep links) Rapture Of The Deep peaked in 2005 at #43 on the Independent Albums chart. It may look like small peanuts, but this is the first time since 1993 that the band has even registered on the Billboard charts radar. The full listing (or whatever is […]
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