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Trevor Morris, a student at Ravensbourne College, is working on a research project and is hoping to gain some insight from the Deep Purple fan community. He looking for your views on the following: When attending a concert, what are the main issues with finding your way to the event? How do you tend to […]
Read more »While the fans are still hoping and waiting for a new DEEP PURPLE studio album, most of the current band members release solo stuff or team up with other musicians for album projects: Ian Gillan joined forces with Tony Iommi to record two songs under the “Who Cares”-banner, Steve Morse teamed up with singer/songwriter Sarah […]
Read more »Slipped Disc reports that Moray McMillin, Deep Purple’s front-of-the-house sound engineer between 1995 and 2004, has passed away. He died of lung cancer. I had the privilege of meeting Moray on his last tour with Purple in 2004. A lovely man and a consummate professional. Anyone who wishes to pay final respects via a donation, […]
Read more »Here are a couple of videos from the Black Country Communion gig in Copenhagen on July 12 (the one that Svante was tweeting live): Man in the Middle and a very fiery rendition of Burn, with Søren Andersen guesting.
Read more »It struck me the other day that we at THS have seen Deep Purple an awful lot of times throughout the years, but at each concert there are people there seeing the band for the very first time. Have you just been to see Purple for the first time? We’d like to hear about your […]
Read more »Urban Outfitters (shock! horror!) has a Deep Purple t-shirt for sale in Europe. The Chaos At A Concert male tee sports the infamous picture of the concert hall ravaged by fans after a gig on the Mark 2’s last Japanese tour in 1973. And at €12.00/£10.00 it’s a steal. We have reports of this piece […]
Read more »For all of us who could not be at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday, Youtube to the rescue.
Read more »Amazing, but true. Geoff Barton writes in the Classic Rock Magazine blog: Steve Morse has become the longest-running guitarist for Deep Purple, having joined the band in 1994. Morse’s unbroken 17-year tenure beats founding guitarist Ritchie Blackmore’s stints with the band from 1968-1975 and 1984-1993 (we make that 16 years). While Geoff didn’t quite get […]
Read more »The budding anthropologist in me (with no thanks to Dr. Brennan) says — here’s a fine specimen of the infamously dry British humour.
Read more »Automobile magazine reports that Nissan is introducing a new minivan to the Japanese market: Chances are when Deep Purple wrote the song “Highway Star” back in 1971, the “driving power” they sang about wasn’t a family-friendly minivan. Nevertheless, Nissan’s used the same title on its latest minivan, the Lafesta Highway Star — which, for all […]
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