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Mel Galley R.I.P.
Mel Galley of Whitesnake and Trapeze fame passed away on July 1, at his home in Heath Hayes, UK. He had suffered from cancer and in February had announced that doctors determined his condition as terminal.
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Purple Rainbow
It looks like there’s a new band in the purple family. It’s called Purple Rainbows and the lineup is Joe Lynn Turner — vocals, Bobby Rondinelli — drums, Tony Carey — keyboards and Craig Goldy — guitar (no word yeat as of who’ll take bass duties, but I hear that Glenn Hughes might be available). […]
Read more »Blast from the past
Okay, maybe not that distant past… Not wanting to start a yet another pointless Blackmore vs Morse debate, ‘ere’s a though for ya: Blackmore leaving back in 1993 was the best thing that happened to this band in 20 years. We, as fans, got twice the music to enjoy.
Read more »Rainbow Copenhagen’77
Some rare and, as far as we know, previously uncirculated Rainbow footage have surfaced. The film is from a gig on October 1, 1977 at the Falconer Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is 13 minutes long and includes an almost complete take of Kill the King, plus bits and pieces from Mistreated, Sixteenth Century Greensleeves, […]
Read more »Smoke inna reggae style
From the Yet Another Smoke On The Water Cover department, we present you Smoke On The Water done by funky Elvis and a band called Dread Zeppelin. Their specialty is Zep (and other classic rock covers) inna reggae style.
Read more »Somebody stole my guitar
Here’s a very decent quality video of this rarely performed track from early in the Purpendicular tour. March 23, 1996, Brussels, Belgium.
Read more »The way to go
At the end of the last year we have started discussion about the state of the music business where a lot of people lamented demise of the physical medium as a primary way of distributing the music. Nine Inch Nails have recently released their new album Ghosts I-IV which success may indicate the way of […]
Read more »Doogie White saves the day & Buy a lesson from Paicey
Doogie White, who has recently parted ways with Yngwie Malmsteen, came to the rescue of a Purple tribute band at a charity gig in UK: Disaster was turned to triumph for another local act on the night after Deep Purple tribute band the Purple Project from Newbury lost their lead singer after developing laryngitis. At […]
Read more »Jeff Healey R.I.P.
Bad news in the family. Canadian blues guitarist Jeff Healey has lost his lifelong battle with cancer. He was 41. Jeff’s uniquely emotional playing earned him respect and admiration from fans and musicians around the globe. For the last few years he had been in ailing health and was a resident player at his blues […]
Read more »Smoke on the Kremlin
The Kremlin gig from February 11 was broadcasted today, February 15th on Russian ORT Channel 1. Smoke on the Water from Purple’s set was included in the broadcast.
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