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Keeping it dry

The third installment of Glenn Hughes’ UK tour diary, complete with a shopping trip, laundry instructions and a singing lesson: Also, please note the venue change for Dublin gig on October 10: it has been moved to The Academy 2. Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen and Daniel Bengtsson for the info.

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Glenn Hughes tour diary 2010, part 2

The second part of the Glenn Hughes UK tour diary 2010 has appeared on Youtube.

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Glenn Hughes tour diary 2010, part 1

As the Glenn Hughes Band have started an extensive tour of the UK, which will take them to every nook and cranny of the country, they have posted part 1 of the tour diary. We hope parts 2, 3, and so on will follow. Enjoy!

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Autumn Sky album teaser

New Blackmore’s Night album Autumn Sky is due to be released in a few days and what appears to be an electronic press kit has found it’s way to Youtube. Featuring (shock! horror!) smiling and happy Blackmore, here it is.

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From Bob Daisley’s attic

Bob Daisley has posted on Youtube three promo videos for the Long Live Rock’n’Roll album. They all appear to be excellent quality, albeit the band is obviously not playing live (look for Blackmore in his typical fashion barely even pretending to play his parts). Long Live Rock’n’Roll: L.A. Connection: Gates of Babylon: Once you’re at […]

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JLT will be “celebrity face” for a festival

Joe Lynn Turner’s management has issued the following press release: While vacationing in Antayla, Turkey this summer, some Turkish businesspeople approached Joe Lynn Turner with the idea of presenting a major rock music festival in or near the city sometime in 2011. Turner agreed that this was a great concept. While the festival is only […]

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Windows on Youtube

A complete video of the 1974 Windows performance has appeared on Youtube. It was perhaps the most experimental of Jon’s work and people tend to either love it or hate it (myself falling firmly into the former category). This is rather long, including several parts that were omitted from the album. If that’s your cup […]

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The Seventies: 1970

Swedish channel SVT is broadcasting a new 10-part series called The Seventies. Deep Purple are prominently features in the first episode — 1970 — which was shown on July 17 and now you can watch it online at svtplay.se. Unless you think you’ll enjoy Joe Tempest talking in Swedish, you can skip straight to around […]

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Purple videos on iTunes

There is a new previously unreleased video of Deep Purple performing Black Night in Hamburg circa December 1970. The footage have been partially available on YouTube for some time now, but the release features complete song and in much better quality video (perhaps as good as could be expected from that period), albeit the sound […]

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From Mandrake Root to Mozart

In his 1997 interview for the Japanese TV RB explains origins of riffs for several Purple classics. Some are very well publicized, some are not. Some connections are pretty obvious, while others not so much.

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