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Sakartvelo, here we come

On this tour Deep Purple have played two more countries they’ve never played before — Morocco and Georgia. Here are a few tidbits from the visit to Tbilisi. DFWatch has reports of band’s arrival and the gig: Next was the Subways, an indie rock band from England, followed by long-awaited Deep Purple, which played more […]

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The Moon Is Shining video

A new promo video of Blackmore’s Night track The Moon Is Shining (Somewhere Over The Sea) from the new album Dancer And The Moon.

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Exquisite synchronicity

Deep Purple opened the next min-leg of tour and they have included three new songs in the setlist: Vincent Price, All the Time in the World and Body Line. These were performed in Rabat and Kavarna, with the next night in Plovdiv reportedly Above and Beyond taking the place of Body Line. It appears that […]

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Here we go again

On May 23 Whitesnake show in Manchester Bernie Marsden joined the “new new” band on stage for performances of Fool for Your Loving and Here I Go Again: Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info and to mick parry for the video.

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Vincent Price video premiere

And here it is, in all its glory, the first Deep Purple promo video since… whatever:

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Behind the music documentary

Behind the music documentary which was recently shown on VH1 in the US has been posted on Youtube. Act fast before Powers That Be(tm) take it down. All in all, I must say it’s rather well done, considering the enormity of the task of covering the 45-year history of the band in 45 minutes. Blackmore, […]

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Will it happen again?

Ian Paice has appeared on the Metal XS show and talked about the past, present and future of Deep Purple. He went to considerable length explaining, among other things, his point of view on whether the band will appear on the same stage with Blackmore again. Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info.

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“Larger than life”

Steve Morse remembers Jon Lord:

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Adrenaline Mob — Kill the King

Adrenaline Mob is a project of ex-Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy with Symphony X vocalist Russell Allen. Guitar player Mike Orlando and bassist John Moyer (Disturbed) round up the band. They have released an album of original material last year, followed this March by an EP of covers, with Rainbow’s Kill the King among them:

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They’ve got elephants!

Ian Gillan and Ian Paice did a press conference in Paris on April 18 and ventured pretty far from the beaten track (as far as those promotional interviews go, which often sound like the same canned answers to the same canned questions): A longer video of the press conference (with much worse audio): Thanks to […]

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