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We’ve gotten a report from Reinder Dijkhuis regarding the European tour edition of Rapture Of The Deep — according to the package labelling, it apparently won’t play in PCs: Consumer warning to continental European Deep Purple fans: Do not buy the Tour Edition of Rapture of the Deep! Even though I already own a copy […]
Read more »Jon Lord and Pete York are playing together at the Boogie Woogie Blues Festival in Kitzbühel on Saturday Jul 15, 2006. Tickets go on sale Mar 6, and apparently can be ordered via an email to christoph.steinbach@chello.at Thanks go to Gerhard Jahnel for this information.
Read more »Jon Lord takes “his Musical Friends” along and does a charity show in Zermatt. Here are the details from the promoter’s website. Matterhorn Musical Madhouse Charity Circus & Concert One Show Only! 22 March 2006 Jon Lord & his Musical Friends The fun begins at 19:00 Clasic Concert – 20:30 Jam Session – 22:30 After […]
Read more »At the show in Trier in Germany on February 14, the guitarist from Alice Cooper’s band joined Deep Purple for “Smoke on the Water”.
Read more »We’ve posted weird Deep Purple covers before and here’s another one. Highway Star, indigenous Siberian style: http://music.lib.ru/b/bugotak/alb3.shtml#highway_star Pretty massive vocals, if you ask me! In a more traditional vein, here is Mr. Big trying their way around an instrumental version of “Burn”:
Read more »Dream Theater continue their tradition of covering a classic album in it’s entirety at any two-night stands in the same city. Earlier this month they performed Deep Purple’s “Made in Japan” at two shows in Japan (January 13 in Tokyo and January 15 in Osaka). The setlist was: 01. Highway Star 02. Child in Time […]
Read more »On January 22 Dutch keyboard wizard Rick van der Linden passed away after suffering a brain stroke in November. Rick was the very best keyboard player ever in the Netherlands, better than Keith Emerson and on a par with Rick Wakeman. As far as I know the only (remote) connection to Deep Purple is Rick […]
Read more »Ever wondered what Jon Lord is up to these days? Apparently he has heard that the Brazilian government likes musicians so he took the name Jacques Wagner and became Brazil’s Minister of Institutional Relations. 🙂 (Thanks to Rodrigo Werneck for the picture!)
Read more »I’ve been known to bitch about Deep Purple setlist over the years and after reports from London last night, I have to say that the setlist looks very promising this time with a clear focus on the current line-up. Sadly, I don’t have time to see the band now in January but have to wait […]
Read more »November 27 marks the 21st anniversary of Deep Purple’s original reunion. Tonight in 1984 Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord and Paice strolled onstage in Perth, Australia for the first time together since 1973. In 1984 electronic mail was in its infacy. The (very hip) band members were running up and down hotel hall ways to check […]
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