Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen Germany 20-07-2011 The whole day it was raining in Eindhoven. And when we left to Germany, Gelsenkirchen at some places it was still raining and busy on the road. In Gelsenkirchen no rain the whole concert. It was awesome Steve Morse a lot of solo’s, same as Roger Glover when he communicate with […]
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Posted in 2010-2012 Tours by user on 2011-07-21
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Euronews has a news report on the closing of the 45th Montreux Jazz Festival featuring our heroes. Watch it inside.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2011-07-19
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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 […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2011-07-18
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For all of us who could not be at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday, Youtube to the rescue.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2011-07-10
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The Australian release date for Phoenix Rising has been set for July 29th through Shock Records. This will be a standalone DVD with Rising Over Japan, the Gettin’ Tighter documentary, and bonus features of Jakarta 1975 and Come Taste The Band remaster electronic press kit. The booklet will be a basic 4-page inlay. The DVD […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2011-07-10
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The Sunflower Jam 2011 is upon us. Tonight, July 8, the Purple world will converge at the Royal Albert Hall to witness what could possibly be a historic event. The Highway Star will be there and our special correspondent will be tweeting the proceedings live from the hall.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2011-07-08
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Coinciding with the North American release, AOL is now streaming the whole Phoenix Rising CD online. It can be listened to at this location. If you get a Beyonce CD instead, wait until the whole page finishes loading. And never mind the screwed up track listing, after all it’s a record company we’re dealing with. […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2011-06-29
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The budding anthropologist in me (with no thanks to Dr. Brennan) says — here’s a fine specimen of the infamously dry British humour.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2011-06-25
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Both of Martin Popoff’s Deep Purple books — Gettin’ Tighter: Deep Purple ’68 – ’76 and A Castle Full Of Rascals: Deep Purple ’83 – ’09 are now available in electronic form. The ebooks have been published in PDF format, which is probably not the best option for pocket size readers, but are DRM free […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2011-06-17
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Colin Hart’s book of memoirs A Hart Life is due to be published by Wymer on September 26, 2011. The book first saw the light of day in Japan a couple of years ago, and now will be finally available in English. This edition is co-authored by Dick Allix with forewords by Roger Glover and […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2011-05-28
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