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Joe Lynn Turner did a couple of dates recently with an outfit known as Scrap Metal Band. Tracy Heyder was at one of the shows and reports: On Dec. 15th, what turned out to be the ’80s rehash band known as “Scrap Metal” played at the Wildhorse Saloon, in Nashville, Tennessee. They called their show […]
Read more »Here’s a little peek into what could have been going on in some heads during those jams at the Hanwell Community Centre in 1969. Little Richard performing Good Golly Miss Molly, recorded for UK TV in 1963. It’s not unthinkable that an 18 year old Gillan was in the audience:
Read more »There are several clips from the current tour posted on YouTube. Here’s one that most of us have never heard performed live. Loosen My Strings, PalaWhirlpool, Varese, Italy, November 12, 2007:
Read more »Despite the, ahem, dubious artistic merits of Ian Gillan’s drawing auctioned on eBay for the Dorset Wildlife Trust, it fetched a whopping £225. To put things in perspective, the Trust auctions in the past weeks offered a number of drawings by different celebrities from world class to “where are they now” to obscure. For most […]
Read more »NASA has a long standing tradition of greeting every morning the astronauts in space with music: Use of music to awaken astronauts on space missions dates back at least to the Apollo Program, when astronauts returning from the Moon were serenaded by their colleagues in mission control with lyrics from popular songs that seemed appropriate […]
Read more »Now that we’ve figured out how many new songs you want to hear in the setlist, here’s your chance to tell the world which of them you want to hear. You can select up to 10 songs To participate you’ll need cookies and JavaScript enabled in your browser. Poll closes on November 5 at 23:59 […]
Read more »If our first setlist poll have proved anything, it’s that most people can agree on what exactly the golden oldies are (and even there opinions varied wildly). Let’s tackle it from a slightly different angle — how many new vs. old songs should be in the setlist? By “new” we mean anything starting from 1995. […]
Read more »GHPG.net has posted a video of Glenn Hughes performing Mistreated on The Slavi Show in Bulgaria. Recorded in Sofia and as broadcast on Thursday, September 27th, 2007. He was supported by in-house The Cuckoo Band.
Read more »Deep Purple never made a secret of the fact that the tune for Child in Time was borrowed from the song Bombay Calling that appeared in 1969 on eponymous album by It’s A Beautiful Day. Let’s take a look at it. Bombay Calling by It’s A Beautiful Day, Live at the Chet Helms Tribal Stomp, […]
Read more »Ritchie Blackmore was featured in the French/German TV program Tracks that aired on Arte TV Germany on September 28. The show is posted online and, as far as we know, will be available there for 7 days:
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing