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Images of sorrow, pictures of delight
A slideshow of historical photos, some very well known, some not so much. Caveat: dating for quite a few of them seems dubious. Best viewed in full screen.
Read more »For added grandeur
Louder Sound republishes online a Classic Rock feature on Rainbow Rising and subsequent tour. It originally appeared in the Classic Rock magazine issue #158, dated June 2011. The feature was written by Pete Makowski with input from Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Bain, Ronnie James Dio, Tony Carey, and Cozy Powell, all collected over the years. Tokyo, […]
Read more »Smoke on the Dundee
Newspaper The Courier has another piece of Scottish Purple history: a picture of the band taken backstage at the Caird Hall in Dundee on October 15, 1970. It is published as a part of their 1970s illustrated nostalgia trip. Check it out in The Courier. In other trainspotting news, a cassette tape with handwritten label […]
Read more »In the year nine-ninety-two
Classic Rock has a feature on Glenn Hughes’ appearance on a KLF track America: What Time Is Love?, although there is little that we didn’t know from before. All they needed was someone with a screaming voice to match the song’s beefed up sound. Enter Glenn Hughes. “We were originally supposed to be doing the […]
Read more »Lyon 1973
A recording of a Deep Purple performance in Lyon, France, on March 16, 1973 has been posted to YouTube. It is purported to be from an FM radio broadcast, but don’t get your hopes too too high. It sounds more like an audience recording, albeit a good one for the time.
Read more »Chasing the goat
Garth Webber, guitar player, sound engineer, and owner of the Red Rooster Studios in Berkeley, California, reminisces about his encounters with Tommy Bolin
Read more »The public decide those things
The Guardian has a piece on the casino burning down and associated shenanigans as a part of their How we made series. With input from Roger Glover and Ian Paice. RG: There’s a great photograph of singer Ian Gillan with his notebook open and the first two verses written. I’m sat opposite him listening to […]
Read more »He said a hey, hey, hey yeah!
A newly restored and robotically upscaled Gillan live video from the BBC’s Rock Goes to College series. It is the ever so frantic performance of New Orleans, complete with guitar demolition (wonder where Bernie got this from).
Read more »Eye for eye, tooth for tooth
Another track from Gillan’s performance at Rock Goes To College from February 23, 1981, has been posted. Here’s Big Ian seeking Vengeance.
Read more »No funky music for him
A couple of historical clips. The first one is about Mark 3, with snippets of contemporary interviews from Glenn Hughes and Ritchie Blackmore: The second one is a report on the 1975 Sunbury Festival from Australian TV, including an interview with Jon Lord and Glenn Hughes: Thanks to Ritchie Blackmore Official channel for posting these.
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