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Poznan 1991
Ritchie Blackmore Official channel posted this local TV report on Deep Purple Mk. JLT visit to Poland in 1991.
Read more »The grandest of intentions
Louder Sound reprints online a Classic Rock short feature on Paice/Ashton/Lord that originally appeared in issue 249 (May 2018) of the magazine. Paice Ashton Lord are the neglected branch on the Deep Purple family tree. Not surprising, given that their existence amounted to just one studio album and a handful of live gigs. But it […]
Read more »How the perks were made
CBS 8 out of San Diego, California, (re)publishes this short report from 1974 about setting up for the April 9th Deep Purple concert in a local arena (that’s the show that was widely bootlegged as Perks and Tit, among many other titles). Not quite a blast from the past, but more of a gentle breeze. […]
Read more »From black-and-white TV to colour
Yet another rehash of the Classic Rock magazine material as Louder Sound reprints Made in Japan feature penned by Mick Wall that originally appeared in September 2012 issue. Osaka, August 15, 1972. In the Kosei Nenken Kaikan concert hall, Deep Purple are playing their first ever show in Japan. Over the past three years, the […]
Read more »Never comfortable or established
Another Classic Rock magazine rehash: circa 2011 interview with Don Airey reprinted by Louder Sound: You’ve appeared on more than 250 albums between 1976 and 2011. Which are the ones of which you are most proud? Funnily enough, Roger Glover and I were talking about what an incredible time it was making Down To Earth […]
Read more »It’s a simple song
Classic Rock magazine rehashes the story we’ve heard a million times by now — how Smoke came to being. This includes an undated quote from Blackmore (that was at some point subjected to a rather poor OCR, and had to be corrected by us): I was jamming with Ian Paice at a soundcheck, because we […]
Read more »Fighting it out with swords
After a couple of teasers, Ultimate Classic Rock has posted, apparently in full, the interview they’ve recently done with Ritchie Blackmore. Release of the Rainbow 75/76 box set was the occasion, so the bulk of the conversation was actually devoted to that time period.
Read more »The supergroup that destroyed itself
Since nobody bothered to make a documentary about Captain Beyond, it was left to our robotic overlords to create one. It is done on the cheap, with no music licensed to use, still — the facts are there, so here it is.
Read more »All my life it seems just a crazy dream
Wikimetal celebrates 50th anniversary of Rainbow Rising with a short compendium of 6 interesting facts about the album. Which are in no way a surprise to anybody who’s been paying attention. Rainbow Mk1 was short lived and gutted way before work started on the second album. The artwork for the album has become iconic. Munich […]
Read more »With a flying V and long hair
In a new interview to the Ultimate Classic Rock, Ritchie Blackmore confirms the story that in 1970 Christopher Cross has played a gig with Deep Purple in his place. This episode became a minor controversy in the Purple lore as over the years Cross himself claimed it, with further corroboration by Eric Johnson, who opened […]
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