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British tabloid Daily Mail has published a curious document — it is a price list, dated January 1969, from a London-based booking agent to hire various bands to play a function at The Queen’s College in Oxford. The most expensive band on the list is Fleetwood Mac at £500 a night, which the paper claims […]
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Read more »Blackmore’s admiration for ABBA is well documented. Now it turns out that the feeling was sort of mutual. Total Guitar has a curious interview with Swedish session man Janne Schaffer, who recorded on 50 of the 98 tracks released by the band in their heyday. What were the most guitar-heavy tracks you recorded with ABBA? […]
Read more »Here is a roundup of Turning to Crime reviews from the web that passed through our mailbag over the past couple of weeks. Patch.com: Deep Purple’s new, vibrant covers disc, “Turning to Crime,” is a raucous, exhilarating effort, the latest achievement from a classic, timeless, and seemingly ageless band. Deep Purple make the songs their […]
Read more »One of our contributors has sent in his review of Turning to Crime. First off, let me get this out of the way. Was I excited up front to find this album did turn out to be a covers album as the rumors suggested? NO! On the contrary. Nobody was (Especially me). Who would look […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes got himself new favourite bass guitars — he is now playing instruments from a British company called Ashdown. Two models in particular caught his attention: The Low Rider and a P-style The Arc (pictured above). He first spotted these basses at the 2020 NAMM, and they made their live debut at the Dead […]
Read more »On November 26 the professional Purple tribute band Purpendicular played a gig at La Traverse in Cléon, France. Paicey once again joined them on drums, and the lineup featured another Purple family veteran — Neil Murray on bass. The setlist, quite understandably for the occasion, included several Whitesnake numbers: Highway Star Walking in the Shadow […]
Read more »Jon Lord’s Concerto for Group and Orchestra was performed in Győr, Hungary, on November 5, by a local orchestra with Paul Mann conducting, Bruce Dickinson singing, and Roger Glover blessing the even with his playing. The evening also included a set of Purple classics (with an occasional Beethoven tune thrown in).
Read more »Steve Morse will be once again a guest star at the Rock’n’Roll Fantasy Camp held on January 6-9, 2022, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL (caveat: camp website insists that the venue is in Deerfield Beach some 20 miles to the North). Other guest stars include Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, […]
Read more »A new album by The Temperance Movement called Covers & Rarities is a collection of songs both original and covers if the bands that influenced them. It opens with their take on You Fool No One featuring Ian Paice himself.
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