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Gillan Day!
Okay, then. It’s Gillan day here at Joanna’s Place. I’ve had a few pints of Watney’s, so be patient.
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Borat? <- shameless search engine bait
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 »Good Morning!
*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 »Glenn Hughes Live 2006
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 »Blackmore erased from Machine Head?
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 »Malcolm Arnold died Sep 23, 2006
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 »“The Soundboard Series” on iTunes
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 »News around the world and back
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 […]
Read more »Blackmore Music Bar
Did you know there’s a bar in São Paulo called Blackmore Music Bar?
Read more »Concerto for Group and Orchestra in Italy
Jon Lord’s “Concert for Group and Orchestra” will be performed live in Italy by an Italian jazz trio and the “Arturo Toscanini Foundation” orchestra. The jazz band’s members are Vito Di Modugno (organ) , Mimmo Campanale (drums) and Massimo Sutera (bass). Special guests will be guitarist Ricky Portera and popular Italian singer Alberto Fortis. The […]
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