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This is Don Airey, from the Don Airey Band

Don Airey was interviewed in Austria by the Mulatschag TV. Plenty of amusing anecdotage from his illustrious career. He also mentions that he has recorded an album of piano jazz pieces, which shlould be coming out later this year. And just to make the things even more interesting, we’ll leave you with his band’s performance […]

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Sweet Tea

The record company has published promo video for Sweet Tea – a track from the upcoming BCC4 inaugural California Breed album: A promo feature with several quotes from Hughes accompanies the video release in USA Today: We were there for 17 days, and we completely recorded it — here’s the kicker, all live onto two-inch […]

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Another Made in Japan teaser

And this time it’s the one you most likely haven’t seen before 😉

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Made in Japan documentary teaser

Deep Purple (Overseas) has posted on YouTube a teaser for The Rise of Deep Purple MK II documentary (which, from this teaser, actually sounds more like The Fall of Deep Purple MK II 😉 ). The full documentary will be included on the DVD part of 4CD+DVD Made in Japan edition due out on May […]

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Bringing colour to Tel-Aviv

Israeli English language daily The Jerusalem Post has a very positive, if somewhat superficial, review of the first gig (February 22) in Tel-Aviv: The ‘explosion’ on the stage started at 9:30 p.m. Saturday night and did not stop for two hours. Yes they are senior citizens but if you put your hands over your eyes […]

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A Freudian slip

Eddie ‘Eduardo’ Trunk of VH1 Classic That Metal Show interviews David Coverdale before Whitesnake’s performance at the Monsters Of Rock festival in São Paulo, Brazil, on October 20, 2013: Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.

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Providence 1985

The official Youtube channel has posted a 16 minute fragment of the Deep Purple’s performance in Providence, RI, on March 5, 1985: Makes you want to see more, eh? 😉

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More Passaic goodies

Another Rainbow video from 1979 Passaic show was uploaded. Man on the Silver Mountain: Thanks to Anastasis Kalymnos for the upload. [Update Jan 16] More footage from the show is available at vk.com.

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In the eyes of the world

Rainbow performing Eyes of the World at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ, on December 1, 1979. The sound is rough around the edges as the mix is still being “finalized”, but the performance is smokin’. (watch inside)

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As Tears Go Passing By

Jon Lord’s estate has release a track As Tears Go Passing By performed by the Jon Lord Blues Project. (listen inside)

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