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Introducing the man who has worked with everyone from Pat Thrall to KLF. He was even in the mighty Deep Purple for awhile! Glenn soulfully live. This is commercially available for Christmas and many other holidays. Glenn and Tony Iommi. Did I mention this guy has worked with everyone? This is Glenn in Deep Purple. […]
Read more »‘ere’s a video for ya! It’s the “Now You’re Gone” video! Oh. It’s *that* song. This WAS rumored to have been Jon Lord’s last appearance with Whitesnake. Joerg Planer wrote and told us that ain’t so. Thanks, Joerg. Joerg Planer also wrote and told us this IS Jon’s last appearance with Whitesnake. Thanks again, Joerg. […]
Read more »Okay, then. It’s Gillan day here at Joanna’s Place. I’ve had a few pints of Watney’s, so be patient.
Read more »I’ve just landed in London for a reunion, and I rung up an old lawyer friend of mine to invite her out for a martini. She says she’s too busy handling various lawsuits against Borat to break away until the new year! I said as long as she was suing Borat, I would like to […]
Read more »*thump* *thump* Is this thing on? Greetings all. It is I, Joanna, your international Deep Purple and family entertainment correspondent. Just two quick notes tonight. First, The Highway Star gave me thing blog. You send over an exotic dancer with a case of Balvenie, and the next thing you know, you have a blog. Second, […]
Read more »Last night I went to Oslo, Norway to catch Glenn Hughes at small club (Smuget) where he was doing a gig. This was not Glenn Hughes 1974 or 1994, this was Glenn 2006. Out of those 15 songs he played, 11 was from his last 2 albums (Soul Mover 2005 and Music For The Divine […]
Read more »Reports are coming in that merchandise sold on the current Deep Purple tour includes a Machine Head t-shirt with Ritchie Blackmore’s face missing from the album design. And thanks to Luke Antosz we can now show the infamous t-shirt. Now you see him – the original Machine Head sleeve with Ritchie Blackmore: Now you don’t […]
Read more »As many of you already know (thanks for the emails), Sir Malcom Arnold died last Saturday at the age of 84. He had a long and distinguished career, but he is best known to Deep Purple fans as the main champion of Jon Lord’s Concerto For Group And Orchestra in 1969, conducting the Royal Philharmonic […]
Read more »I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere – not that I am present anywhere on Deep Purple related ‘net communities anymore – but Drew Thompson’s releases of Purple stuff seems to be readily available via iTunes – at least my local, Norwegian version, but I guess this is global. The original 12-CD box “The Soundboard Series” […]
Read more »The other day, we posted a news report based on Deep Purple’s press release about the band still wanting to go to Lebanon. I added some info from my local Swedish morning paper on the town Baalbeck to the news story to add something that the other reports didn’t have. Mention of the Baalbeck info […]
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