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All that glitters

A boutique Dutch label Music On Vinyl has announced a 4LP Deep Purple Greatest Hits compilation with a rather curious track list that is light on the hits and heavy on deeper cuts. Side A 1. Highway Star (Live at Schleyer-Halle) 2. The Cut Runs Deep 3. Vavoom: Ted The Mechanic 4. Ramshackle Man 5. […]

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Loosely tight

Another online outfit Sleaze Roxx pays tribute to Come Taste the Band on the occasion of its roughly 50th anniversary. While featuring a loosely tight Deep Purple from start to finish, it could be said that Come Taste The Band is a tale of two album sides. Side A is a funk fortified groove fest […]

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Where angels fear to tread

Noise11 celebrates the 50th anniversary of Come Taste the Band, which was released on November 7, 1975. (Updated Nov 11)

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Ride off into the sunset

An online magazine called eonmusic has an interview with Steve Morse. It was done, like many others these days, on the occasion of Steve’s new solo album Triangulation, but unlike those, it does not shy away from his 28 years with Deep Purple. I wanted to touch on a little bit of your Deep Purple […]

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Portable door to Saratoga

Here’s an almost complete recording of the Deep Purple show in Saratoga Springs, NY, on September 4, 2024. It’s an audience recording of exceptional quality, the only drawback is the audio mix that is relatively low on Hammond. Enjoy!

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Spirit of the cow in a dungeon

Glenn Hughes recently made an appearance on the Mick Wall’s podcast (season 5, episode 9). It’s over an hour long, with lots and lots of dirt being turned over and war stories told, good half of it Purple-related one way or the other. We highly recommend finding the time to listen to the whole thing […]

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Just a piece of wood

Music Radar has an interview with Steve Morse, where he talks about various modifications he made to his guitars over the years. Like the rather irreverent but practical grinder mod he has done in 2000 after breaking his wrist right before performing with Deep Purple at the Montreux Jazz Festival. But speaking to MusicRadar earlier […]

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Ladies and gentlemen, in the blue corner…

Back in November 2003 Deep Purple played a gig in Basel, Switzerland, about 60 minutes of which was broadcasted on Swiss TV, and became known as the Avo Session (after the name of the programme). Many a moon later, the Avo Session has become known as the Baloise Session, and a few days ago they […]

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Track that would propel them to stardom

Louder Sound profiles Purple’s original take on Hush for their The story behind the song series, with the input from Roger Glover, of all people. The story is reprinted from the Classic Rock magazine issue #297. Recorded at London’s Pye studio in the spring of 1968, during sessions for their debut album Shades Of Deep […]

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Fire in the bassement

The infamously apocryphical mark of Deep Purple performs Fire in the Basement somewhere behind the freshly fallen Iron Curtain (JLT says it’s Budapest, but the hazy memory says it was the Ostrava show that was filmed for TV).

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