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TonePrints created by Steve Morse and Roger Glover are now available from TC Electronics. TonePrint technology is essentially a set of presets stored in a computer file that one can upload to the company’s effect boxes via USB to recreate particular sound. Toneprint sounds can be downloaded from TC Electronics’ web site for free, you […]
Read more »Two months after earMUSIC re-released the Copenhagen show on CD, a DVD re-release of the same show is in the pipeline. The DVD offers the same music content as the CD release, including the three live tracks (“Strange Kind Of Woman” / “Smoke On The Water” / “Space Truckin’”) from Hofstra University 1973 and is […]
Read more »Born Again has turned 30, and black-sabbath.com is celebrating the anniversary with an extended article, which includes the cover art story straight from its author Steve Joule, among many other things: OK let’s put this baby to rest once and for all. The Black Sabbath ‘Born Again’ album sleeve was designed under extraordinary circumstances; basically […]
Read more »A year ago Pearl Drums in cooperation with Ian Paice and his local drum store DrumWright produced a very limited edition signature drum kit. Grand total of 12 kits were available and each came with a promise of an invitation to a private dinner with Paicey himself. Music Radar reports that five lucky fans made […]
Read more »“Copenhagen 1972” is the second release of the earMUSIC “The official Deep Purple (overseas) live series”. While “Paris 1975” features Deep Purple MKIII in their final days, “Copenhangen 1972” captures the legendard Deep Purple MKII at the peak of their career. Same as the Paris show, Copenhangen isn’t a new release. The recording is basically the […]
Read more »Pete Makowski has published on his Facebook page an interview he did last year with self proclaimed Deep Purple fan Lars Ulrich: How did you end up getting to see Deep Purple when you were only nine years old? Lars: There was a tennis tournament at KB Halle that started on a Monday morning and […]
Read more »I was working for Swedish Radio at this year’s Sweden Rock Festival and someone in our team brought up the topic of member changes in classic rock bands. Deep Purple was of course accused of being worst, as they always are, even by fans of the band. To prove DP aren’t worst, and as research […]
Read more »Apparently the music we all love will still be around in the 31st century. Highway Star (the original album version) was featured in a new episode of Futurama — 2-D Blacktop — that had its premiere yesterday, June 19. In the episode, Professor Farnsworth takes to street racing and beats another two crews to the […]
Read more »Kamloops Daily News in British Columbia reports: She was going to a mining town Way up north to do her show I said ‘It must be cold up there’ She said, ‘It depends on who you know’ — Lyrics from Mitzi Dupree by Deep Purple They’re calling it the end of an era, the last […]
Read more »A second Jon Lord memorial concert will take place in Warsaw, Poland, on July 20, at the Club Proxima. The band Made in Warsaw, comprised of members of Panteon, Night Mistress and few other Warsaw rock bands, will play over 3 hours of Purple music, including obligatory hits and some rarities that has not been […]
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