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Here’s the original Deep Purple improvisation vehicle Mandrake Root, performed on November 14, 1970 for French TV show Chorus, and now all cleaned up and upscaled to HD by the latest wonders of technology undistinguishable from magic
Read more »Steve Vai shares with Music Radar a couple of stage mishap stories from his stints with David Lee Roth and Whitesnake. Vai recalls a similar incident on stage with Whitesnake and the band’s singer David Coverdale. “It wasn’t too different,” Vai says. “Fast forward a couple of years and I was playing Jones Beach Theater […]
Read more »Vincent Price the other day seemingly opened a floodgate, and a generous helping of live clips from 2013 got posted today. We are talking, of course, about From The Setting Sun (Live In Wacken), which was a sibling release for To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo).
Read more »This is a 1977 vintage interview with the country gentleman Ian Gillan, taken during the IGB Japanese tour.
Read more »For no apparent reason, the record company has posted a live clip of Vincent Price from To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo), released almost 10 years ago.
Read more »We were wrong, and the classic Gillan video bonanza continues unabashedly. In this instalment: frenetic miming to New Orleans at the Top of the Pops, dated March 26th, 1981.
Read more »Elizabeth the opera singer is getting her Dio fix by listening to Man on the Silver Mountain, and rather surprisingly, it is the album version.
Read more »In this video, dated December 1979, Ritchie Blackmore makes some noises for a few minutes, eventually settling upon Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Supported by Messrs. Glover, Airey, and Powell.
Read more »That other opera singer is getting awestruck again by Ian Gillan’s take on Gethsemane
Read more »A couple of items from the desk of our trainspotting department. British TV series SAS Rogue Heroes is a WW2 action/adventure drama based on “mostly true” events. What it lacks in historical accuracy, it makes up in the entertainment value. And a very anachronistic soundtrack. Season 2, episode 5 features a convoy of said rogue […]
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