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Guitar World has a short interview with Simon McBride on what the Blackmore’s guest appearance at the Deep Purple gig in Jones Beach looked like from his perspective: I got to stand on stage beside the guy who started this whole thing. Ritchie is a legend, a great player, and a great innovator. I think […]
Read more »A pleasant surprise when I arrived at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada for the Deep Purple show last night. As my assigned seat had been swallowed up by the sound board, I was upgraded to row 7 near the front of the stage. After some fine performances by Jefferson Starship and Kansas, […]
Read more »Deep Purple Concert Review RBC Amphitheatre – Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 18, 2026 Could they do it again, and do it even better than the last time I saw them two years ago in 2024? Could they pull off absolute magic again? This was the question on my mind tonight as I geared up to […]
Read more »Long Island Sounds empathically reviews the gig on August 12, 2026, at the Jones Beach Theater: There are some concerts you attend. There are others you experience. Deep Purple at Northwell at Jones Beach Theater was very much the latter. At 80 years old, vocalist Ian Gillan is no longer the singer who effortlessly unleashed […]
Read more »Guitar Player posts Blackmore’s reaction, both given directly to the publication, and collected from social media, in the aftermath of his guest appearance on stage with Deep Purple at the Jones Beach in Long Island on August 12, 2026. It was very moving because I went on very quickly and had to play immediately. I […]
Read more »Here is something a bit different for THS. It’s an article by an actual journalist! Marcelo Soares is a Brazilian journalist and a huge fan of Deep Purple. Some of you probably know him from the comments here at THS and in various forums online. This article was written for a Brazilian magazine so some […]
Read more »Classic Rock has a long feature on Deep Purple, the latest album Splat!, and complete with an off-the-beaten-path interview with all five gentlemen. There’s the snatch of a moment tacked on at the close of Diablo, the rolling and tumbling second track on Deep Purple’s new studio album Splat!, that’s as good a summation as […]
Read more »The tour moves on through the US and in Mansfield on August 13, the band got some help from two members from support band Jefferson Starship.
Read more »Deep Purple live at Jones Beach Theater (Wantagh, USA 2026-08-12) Blackmore Joins Purple for Epic Encore at Jones Beach Theater Reviewed by The Highway Star Reader “Albania” When my younger son greeted me in the morning by asking if I knew where we kept the several sets of glasses that are needed to watch solar […]
Read more »Just as anticipated, on August 12, 2026, Ritchie Blackmore joined Deep Purple on stage at the Jones Beach Theater for a guest performance of Smoke. As an engineering wisdom goes, with sufficient thrust pigs fly just fine. Here is the evidence.
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