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Joe Lynn Turner’s web site posted a studio report on his new “Second Hand Life” solo album. In the track-by-track comments there are some interesting bits giving insight into Purple connections of the album: Second Hand Life This is a song that came out of the Deep Purple sessions with Jim Peterik in Roger Glover’s […]
Read more »Here is the selist Deep Purple played in Parma, Italy, March 7. Pictures Of Home Things I Never Said The Battle Rages On Strange Kind Of A Woman Rapture Of The Deep Fireball Wrong Man Steve Morse Solo The Well Dressed Guitar When A Blind Man Cries Lazy Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Don Airey Solo Perfect […]
Read more »The last issue (issue 147, Feb 07) from a Brazilian magazine called Backstage has Steve Morse on the cover. Thanks to Albertino Viveiros for the information.
Read more »Iceland maybe a small nation, but not without it’s passions. We’ve been informed that May 27 show in Reykjavik is already almost sold out and Deep Purple has sold the most tickets by single band in Iceland beating bands such as Metallica, Roger Waters, Foo Fighters, Led Zeppelin, Incubus, Bryan Adams, Iron Maiden and many […]
Read more »Deep Purple family extends far and wide and one of it’s members is in need for help. Gordon ‘Gungi’ Paterson, long time sound engineer for Deep Purple, Rainbow and a host of other bands was diagnosed with cancer last year and needs assistance. A website has been set up by his good friends in the […]
Read more »David Coverdale has become a U.S. Citizen. On Thursday March 1 he raised his right hand in Reno, Nevada, and swore to the U.S. Constitution. He has been living on the north shore of Lake Tahoe for the past 22 years (that’s since 1985, for the mathematically challenged of us). I’m no lawyer, but to […]
Read more »As we announced earlier, Blackmore’s Night are featured in issue 53 of the Renaissance magazine. Ritchie is on the cover and there is an extended interview with both him and Candice. You can subscribe and order back issues on their web site, although issue 53 is not in the back catalogue yet. In other news, […]
Read more »The new Joe Lynn Turner’s solo album Second Hand Life will be released in Europe by Frontier Records on April 20. The album features a track co-written by Ritchie Blackmore and Roger Glover called “Stroke of Midnight”. This one is probably a from the sessions for a follow-up to Slaves And Masters. Joe also collaborated […]
Read more »We have reported yesterday that Gillan is unhappy with BMG re-releasing the Birmingham NEC 1993 show on CD. The plot thickens. In an interview conducted by BBC he said that the album was re-released without his knowledge. BMG immediately announced that they are withdrawing the album, all the grand total of 2,000 copies that were […]
Read more »As we announced earlier, Glenn Hughes has appeared at the Musician’s Institute in Los Angeles on February 15. Here’s a brief report from the Institute’s graduate and teacher Christopher Maloney: Glenn Hughes was one of the most entertaining and enlightening performers we’ve ever had at the Musicians Institute. His stories of his own personal and […]
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