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Mike Eriksson recalls in his blog Trinkelbonker the end of the first run of Deep Purple — which reached its lowest point 40 years ago today, on March 15, 1976. When Deep Purple did their five shows back in Britain between March 11 and March 15 1976 it was actually a pretty big homecoming. UK […]
Read more »A 1992 vintage interview with Ian Gillan recorded during his tour of Brazil. (watch inside)
Read more »German TV show Rockpalast will be showing on March 28 a 4 hour retrospective on the Essener Pop & Blues Festivals held in 1969 and 1970. The broadcast is touted to include excerpts from the shows, contemporary TV reports, and concert specials. Footage of Deep Purple performing in 1969 is known to exist, so fingers […]
Read more »Mike Eriksson (of the Swedish Deep Purple Forever fan club fame) is posting a series of articles in his blog dedicated to what ended up being the last Deep Purple tour in the 1970s. Which, coincidentally, was happening 40 years ago as we speak — at the end of 1975 and beginning of 1976. 40 […]
Read more »The world is not exactly inundated with books detailing the story of Deep Purple. Chris Charlesworth’s Illustrated Biography had been pretty much the only source for decades, but it’s been out of print for a very long time, and nowadays is not considered terribly accurate. The text has been updated by Simon Robinson into the […]
Read more »Darker Than Blue has an article with recollections of one Rob Munton. In the 60s he was a guitar player in a semi-pro English band called Force Five, and in 1966 they happened to open for Neil Christian and the Crusaders. At the time, Ritchie Blackmore was the Crusaders’ guitar player: The guitarist sounded pretty […]
Read more »Video recording of the Glenn Hughes’ Q&A ‘storyteller’ session in April 2013 in Australia. Prepare yourself for an hour plus of stories about booze, drugs, more drugs, then even more drugs, and, occasionally, music. (watch inside)
Read more »Stowe Guide & Magazine has a short feature on the band’s 1980s stay in town in their Summer/Fall 2015 issue. Why this small resort town seemingly in the middle of nowhere, one may ask? The article quotes Roger Glover from a 1985 interview in Boston Globe: In Stowe, people accepted us as a just of […]
Read more »The upcoming Ritchie Blackmore documentary appears to have undergone a facelift — it has been retitled from the quirky Uneasy Rider — The Talented Mr. Blackmore to more pedestrian The Ritchie Blackmore Story and release date has been pushed back to November 6. It will come out on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download. The documentary […]
Read more »A vintage interview with Ritchie Blackmore has appeared recently in Ultimate Guitar. The backstory as told by Jim Esposito, the interviewer, is kinda interesting in itself. Just mentally replace 1974 with 1973 as from the sound if it the interview was taken on or around June 17, 1973, when the band was playing at the […]
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