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Still fresh from disturbing the priest, Deep Purple gained another unusual support act for September 9 performance in Tel Aviv, Israel — a Spinal Tap-ish muppet outfit called Red Band, which is a regular on local TV: Throw into a blender the puppet mastery of The Muppets, the satirical insight of classic Christopher Guest music […]
Read more »Martin Ashberry has started a project of enormous proportions, which goal is to catalogue not only all Purple concerts, but include descriptions of all corresponding audio and video live recordings (including bootlegs), document setlists and support acts. Anyone who has specific recollections of setlists for the shows they’ve been to are cordially invited (nay, begged) […]
Read more »Another one from the vaults — Stormbringer performed live in Germany some time in 1975. Although recording quality is far from great, the band is on fire. This recently surfaced clip also gives hope that there might be a better (and even longer!) tape sitting on a dusty shelf somewhere…
Read more »My previous copyright rant sparked a lively discussion with Mike Eriksson who argued Personally, I still buy my music and my DVD´s and I do not like all this downloading. If somebody, like this author, wants to give his stuff away for free, good. The problem arises when somebody wants his or hers work protected… […]
Read more »An alternative version of the No, No, No video from September 1971 performance at the Beat Club.
Read more »A Japanese group has Youtube’d their own feisty instrumental take on Deep Purple’s Burn – complete with special slowed down guitar lesson at the end.
Read more »This interview with Gillan and Lord filmed circa 1999 Concerto performance tells some amusing anecdotage. Enjoy!
Read more »This report of the last Mk2 gig was shown in Finnish TV next morning, November 18, 1993. Gillan’s interview seems to have been done before the Helsinki show.
Read more »I’ve been wanting to submit this “lost treasure” for a long time, but I couldn’t find it. Well I couldn’t wait any longer. While digging through my Deep Purple Collection, I recently unearthed this one of a kind collector’s piece. This is the actual finished cover for the Gillan “Glory Road” LP which was rejected […]
Read more »Even your favourite records tend to disappear in the depths of your collection very now and then. I’ve recently rediscovered the excellent solo albums from Deep Purple family friend Sam Brown. These are albums packed with soulful, bluesy, well played, well arranged, well, simply great music from, in my opinion at least, one of the […]
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing