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North American tour’s finally happening?

Looks like it. There is no official word yet from the band’s management, but there are 4 North American dates that have surfaced so far with tickets already on sale: June 3 – Rama, Ontario (just north of Toronto) June 4 – Quebec City June 18 – Chicago June 23 24 – Los Angeles The […]

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Jon Lord public lecture

Jon Lord will deliver a lecture on improvisation and musicianship at the University of the West of Scotland on Thursday, 24 February 2011. The lecture will take place at 2pm in the Brough Hall, Paisley Campus. The lecture is free and open to all UWS students as well as members of the public but seats […]

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Sunflower SuperJam 2011

This year Sunflower Jam is taking it up a couple of notches. First of all, it will be held at the Royal Albert Hall, on July 8. Second, the lineup they have so far secured for the event looks pretty spectacular: Jon Lord Rick Wakeman Keith Emerson Joe Bonamassa Newton Faulkner Deep Purple with special […]

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Drummer’s album finally out

“Stay Tuned” is the title of Austrian drummer Bernhard Welz’ first solo album released on December 18 2010. It features a slew of prominent guest musicians, including Roger Glover, Steve Morse, Don Airey, Ian Paice (live drum solo 2002) and Jon Lord – along with Neil Murray, Steve Lukather, Mike Stern, Mark King, Katrina (Ex-Katrina […]

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Touring 2011

As the New Year approaches, here’s the summary of the upcoming tour dates we have lined up so far. Glenn Hughes will do a brief tour of Brazil in December, rounding up the year with a 2 date public live debut of Black Country Communion in Wolverhampton and London. Gillan will kick the year off […]

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More Purple in Polish press

There is more Purple content in the latest issue of Polish Teraz Rock magazine, November 2010: Page 38: a 2 page interview with Joe Satriani, dealing with his new album Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards as well as Chickenfoot and Deep Purple. Page 46: a 2 page interview with Glenn Hughes, dealing with his project […]

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CTTB special on Welsh radio

Welsh radio station GTFM has featured Come Taste The Band reissue on it’s recent The Rock Show. The show was based around an interview with Glenn Hughes which he gave during the recent UK tour. Jon Lord also chimed in with his memories, which sound strangely similar to what he recently said to Planet Rock. […]

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Jon Lord joins Anna Phoebe for a new band

In his last week Rock Planet interview Jon Lord mentioned that he is getting an itch of playing more Hammond and is putting a new prog band together with acclaimed violinist Anna Phoebe. It looks like that the things are moving, as Anna posted yesterday in her Classic Rock blog: I […] spent the weekend […]

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Jon Lord on Planet Rock

On Wednesday, October 13, Jon Lord dropped by the Planet Rock studio to talk to Nicky Horne about the brand new Come Taste The Band remaster and the 30th Anniversary reissue of Deepest Purple. Both releases are due on October 25th. You can listen to his interview through the Planet Rock Soundcloud using their player […]

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Armenian projects update

There are two new developments in Gillan’s Armenian projects. First, the Who Cares did get into the studio and recorded a song. There is a brief report on Tony Iommi’s website. Caramba! also reports that bass duties will be handled by Jason Newsted, who could not make it to the studio in London and will […]

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