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The timekeeper

A rather interesting interview with Ian Paice appeared almost a year ago in a watchmaking blog Quill & Pad, of all places. It was prompted by a Swiss watchmaker Corum releasing a limited edition of their Bubble model co-branded with another Swiss company — Paiste. Sometime around Baselworld 2015, an employee of Corum – who […]

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Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow “Memories in Rock – Live In Germany” CD review

Ever since Ritchie Blackmore speculated about doing a couple of RAINBOW shows in 2016, hopes and expectations have lead to very emotional disucssions between fans. To the disappointment of those hoping for one of the former lineups to reunite for the gig, Blackmore didn’t go the easy way and – as often – assembled a […]

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Review: Gillan – The Vinyl Collection 1979-1982

Five Gillan band albums reissued on vinyl, and the clarity and dynamics of these 180 gram vinyls knock spots off the original pressings. Hear the sound of firing, it’s politics expiring. Are you God, are you man, do you live in fear Are we trash in your can, a bubble in your beer As we […]

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From the family

After the furious discussion of the latest Blackers’ offering, let us check upon the rest of the big family. Glenn Hughes keeps churning out previews from Resonate. This time it’s a track called Long Time Gone:

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Metallica covers Blindman

Metallica did a cover of When a Blind Man Cries while performing yesterday, October 22, at the Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, California.

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Here I Go Again ‘spotting

Whitesnake’s Here I Go Again, as so ever expertly crafted by Messrs Coverdale and Marsden, could be recently seen on TV on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Bob’s your uncle

The press release circulated today by the Swedish Academy is a masterpiece of succinctness: The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. And that’s it. What this has to do with The Highway Star, you may ask? Well, for […]

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Mini-Purplefest in Warsaw

There will be a couple of loosely associated Purple events held next week in Warsaw, Poland. The Jon Lord Memorial Concert will happen on Thursday, October 13, at Proxima Club. Seeing as this is the fifth such occasion happening annually since 2012, it can safely be chalked as a good tradition (this tradition is the […]

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There were no goodbyes

Couple of weeks ago Team Rock did a small feature focusing on Big Ian talking about the truly sad state of affairs in the band surrounding his departure in 1973. Here is the quote: It was bizarre, actually. Because I had actually handed in my letter of resignation to the band months earlier, while we […]

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Celosia Caracas and DIY Starship

In today edition of the semi-irregular Trainspotting addendum, we are proud to present you with two items. First on the menu is a flowering garden plant called Celosia Caracas as its Deep Purple® cultivar. And then there is this: It’s a DIY 1:144 scale model kit of Boeing 720 in Starship One livery. From the […]

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