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Japanese girls rule!
Another one from the weird covers department — an anonymous Japanese 22 year old girl amuses herself by recording guitar covers and posting them on Youtube. And did I mention she can play? See for yourself…
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Los Gauchos De Acero
Speaking of Argentina… Ladies and gentlemen, we present you (pre)teen sensation — Los Gauchos De Acero (The Steel Gauchos). The Gauchos are brothers Jorge: Victor Emilio (age 15) on guitar and vocals, Martín Gustavo (age 12) on bass, and Agustin (age 11) on drums.
Read more »Sometimes they just feel like it…
…And sometimes they don’t. While the setlist is one of the more favourite topics of lament on pretty much any Purple website and forum, sometimes they do feel like doing something a little bit different. SIFLS got two airings on the recent Ukranian/Russian tour. Here’s the second outing, which happened in Moscow on October 27: […]
Read more »Remembering Pyro
Klaus “Pyro” Porzia passed away. He was a great photographer and a dedicated Purple fan. One of us, people who love this band. I have met Pyro on several occasions while following Purple tours in Europe. He was always there, every single show, always with his cameras. His nickname came from an incident before one […]
Read more »Malmsteen on Purple
Yngwie ‘Unleash The Fury’ Malmsteen talks in a recent interview about Purple being his major influence: How do you write? Music is in your blood isn’t it – are you the sort of guy that has music flowing through you all the time? Well, in fact, it’s hard for me to listen to anything without […]
Read more »Wring That Neck
Wring That Neck appeared in the setlist this summer. The grand premier of the track, performed live for the first time since those two days in September 1999 (by the “Ian Paice Big Band”), happened in Montreux on July 17. The rumour mill has it that the track never was rehearsed or intended to be […]
Read more »The oil connection, part two
Russian press has coverage of the last weekend’s Deep Purple visit to Khanty Mansiysk. They have headlined the eighth annual Yugra Festival, which was sponsored by oil companies and this year was dedicated to the 9,000,000,000-th (metric) ton of oil extracted from the fields surrounding the city (10 billionth ton is expected somewhere in 2012, […]
Read more »Truth is stranger than fiction
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 »Deep Purple Live Index
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) […]
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