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The Steve Morse Band Delivers the Goods at the Ridgefield Playhouse

The Steve Morse Band delivered a solid performance in front of a packed house at the Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, CT, on February 26, 2023. With, obviously, Steve at the helm, the three-piece group’s other two members included Dave LaRue on bass and Van Romaine on drums. Each band member got their time in the […]

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Liberty Bells and parking lot shenanigans

Shout out to the fellow purple maniacs Nathan and John at The Deep Purple Podcast. They’ve started in 2019 and now are up to 200+ episodes. Each episode is about 2 hours of Purple-filled banter from the hardcore fans. The latest, #202 is dedicated to the recent shows in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with our […]

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The tenure, the royalty, and the status

A review of the St. Petersburg, FL, gig on February 20, 2023, from the Creative Loafing Tampa Bay e-paper. Forgive them for their ‘Mr Grover, Mr Gillian’ snap of judgment, if you can. There aren’t a whole lot of bands around who have the tenure, the hard rock royalty, or the status of Rock and […]

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Amazing (despite)

Deep Purple live at Steinmetz Hall (Orlando, USA 2023-02-21) Hi Folks, Had the pleasure of seeing the band last night in Orlando. Fantastic show. Set list as has been for the last 6 months or so. One bad thing about the internet, no surprises because everything gets posted (my own fault I guess, i dont […]

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Splendid show at a packed theater

Deep Purple Delivers Splendid Show at Packed State Theater Deep Purple delivered a splendid show at the State Theater New Jersey on February 11, 2023, in New Brunswick, NJ. The band was on fire, Ian Gillan was on top form, and Simon McBride projected such great chemistry on stage that it felt like he had […]

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Choosing not to do just staples

Delaware Daily News has a tad superficial, but without any major mistakes review of the Deep Purple gig in Philadelphia metro area: It was about a 90 minute show on February 10, 2023, and this band could have walked through all of the radio staples they have and called it a night. They chose not […]

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Collar, tie, shades

Bristol 24/7 has a positively glowing illustrated review of the last gig of the Dead Daisies/Graham Bonnet UK tour held in town this past Thursday, December 15, 2022. Graham Bonnet was always the unlikeliest looking hard rock star. At a time when those filthy herberts of Motörhead were winning over pimply metalhead teenagers, the clean-cut […]

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Ian Paice feat. Purpendicular – Human Mechanic Tour – Riom 26/11/2022

Ian Paice and Purpendicular were in Riom, at la Puce à l’Oreille, on Saturday 26th November. It was their third time there after two sold out shows in 2016 and 2018. The venue was really packed (around 450 people). The show started on time, at around 9PM and ended at about 10.15PM. That was very […]

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Please hang on

The latest issue of the Eclipsed magazine (#246, Dec 2022/Jan 2023) in Germany has the 50th anniversary of Made in Japan as the cover story — unabashedly tagged “The mother of all live albums”, plus a review of the November 2 gig in Oberhausen: “Please hang on for a few more years!” Rockhard magazine reviews […]

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Anniversary with attention to detail

We have announced the 50th anniversary of Made in Japan and associated commemorative events taking place in the country. Our Japanese correspondent went to one of those and reports. Legend of Rock – Deep Purple Mark 2 50th anniversary of Made in Japan Date: November 5, 2022 Venue: EX Theater Roppongi (Tokyo) Performer: Deep Purple […]

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