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Recently THS has been receiving enthusiastic emails about a new Deep Purple DVD with the words ‘Made In Japan’ in title. ‘Were those Japanese shows really filmed after all? Wow! I can’t wait to get this!’ Sadly, the definite answer is that NO, Deep Purple’s Japanese shows in August 1972 were NOT filmed. If anyone […]
Read more »One of the best footballers the world has seen passed away last Friday. Belfast-born George Best, born the year after Messrs Gillan, Glover, and Blackmore, was one of the most unique football players the world had seen. But his career only lasted for about six years, and he’s ever since been famous mostly for his […]
Read more »I saw Deep Purple Rock in Rio (Rio de Janeiro) the other night. It was a late show, no opening act and Deep Purple hit the stage around 11 pm. “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye” was really hard live. Other new songs was, “Rapture Of The Deep” and “Wrong Man”. Liked the new intro to Highway Star. […]
Read more »There is still a bunch of hardcore Deep Purple fans who stand up against the spam and crap present on usenet these days. They hang out in the original forum for Deep Purple fans, the usenet group alt.music.deep-purple. An idea that came up in the group recently was to map out where on earth the […]
Read more »For about a month ago, I wrote a review about Rapture Of The Deep. Since then, I have listening a lot on the album and I still enjoy every minute of it. It’s hard to pick favourite songs, since every one is really good. If it was up to me, Deep Purple could play the […]
Read more »Nick Simper has opened a personal website with all info about what he is up to at the moment. Mike the Webmaster says, “we are still building it, as Nick has to go through all the stuff in his attic, but we hope to have it fully functional pretty soon.” The Rainbow Fanclan Legacy reports […]
Read more »ROTD will be premiered on Swedish national radio on Saturday. Two full tracks will be played and commenting on the album is THS editor Svante Pettersson. Er, that would be me then. 🙂 Tune in to P4 and “Dist” at 18.06 local time on Saturday. The show will be available for one week on the […]
Read more »Our mail is up again. The mail outage also affected some moderation of comments in this blog but everything has been approved now and all should be back to normal operations.
Read more »We’re having mail problems again. If you want to reach any of us, mail me at svante.pettersson@gmail.com and I’ll forward the mail to the right people. You can also leave a message here in the blog. Thanks.
Read more »A member of the Russian group called “BaBaDoBas” posted a sound file of a Deep Purple medley in the Russian Deep Purple forums. It is done in Russian folk music style and it is pretty cool if you ask me. You can download the song here.
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing