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With just enough prog thrown in
Doug the classical composer reacts to Arrogant Boy and Guilt Trippin’, and gives a highly technical analysis of what went into both compositions. Brush up on your Phrygian tetrachords beforehand.
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The kind that gets written down in history
Ritchie Blackmore Official channel posted this clip of Deep Purple miming on Italian TV to Strange Kind of Woman
Read more »Poznan 1991
Ritchie Blackmore Official channel posted this local TV report on Deep Purple Mk. JLT visit to Poland in 1991.
Read more »The Hollywood minute of summer 2026
CNN has a less-than-a-minute-and-a-half long report on the new album Splat!. Apparently, dropping the name of Keith Urban into the mix doesn’t hurt with getting some mainstream exposure. Ain’t no such thing as bad publicity, right? Watch is on CNN.com.
Read more »Deep Purple 3.0 have arrived
Deep Purple have returned to reign on Olympus of hard rock. Magnificent, one of the best Deep Purple records ever. It has everything inside: riffs, catchy melodies, groove, inspired solos, and guitar/keyboard duels. The BPM is generally high; the slow pace of many — too many — mid-tempo songs from the Morse era is a […]
Read more »Give The Drummer Some
Stick Twirlers Monthly, also known as Modern Drummer, has posted a close-up study of Ian Paice playing Highway Star with his closest friends. This is a follow-up of a video relased in late 2024 where Paice did a rundown of his drums and towel holders for the Modern Drummer YouTube channel. Question is of course […]
Read more »A whopping slab of Purple enjoyment (review)
DEEP PURPLE – SPLAT! – review by Marcin Karski (Thorsun) „The sum of the parts is bigger and more significant, than the parts themselves.” It’s an old saying we most know, but that does apply mightily to the new Deep Purple album. As it always is with new records, we fall in love with only […]
Read more »How the perks were made
CBS 8 out of San Diego, California, (re)publishes this short report from 1974 about setting up for the April 9th Deep Purple concert in a local arena (that’s the show that was widely bootlegged as Perks and Tit, among many other titles). Not quite a blast from the past, but more of a gentle breeze. […]
Read more »Cortland, Sioux City, and Fife
On this slow news weekend, we offer you a few documentaries that might be worth watching. First, a couple of them generated by what is being called AI. One is on Tommy Bolin, and another one on Elf. They are not without inaccuracies, but for the most part manage to get the facts right. Another […]
Read more »Giving up the role of pretender
Another preview track from the upcoming tribute album Ride The Rainbow. It is an acoustic rendition of I Surrender by Candice Night with Marcus Nand on guitar.
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