On June 8 German TV station SWR Baden-Württemberg aired an interview with a local photographer Harald Kümmel. Harald was an enthusiastic concert goer back in the seventies and took a lot of pictures from the concerts which he attended. He showed his photo album to the host and talked about some backstage memories from that […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2010-06-10
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It looks like Black Country Communion, or BC Communion, is the new name for the band featuring Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherenian.
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Posted in News by Svante Axbacke on 2010-05-27
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The official Deep Purple video channel is now available on YouTube as well. You will definitely be pleased to notice that the channel is inclusive of all lineups, although availability of the video footage that can be properly licensed varies due to obvious reasons. We are being told that the number of videos will be […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2010-05-12
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To celebrate the 65th birthday of Ritchie Blackmore, Lick Library is promoting four instructional DVDs from its library of titles, all featuring Ritchie’s style of playing. All these lessons are taught by Danny Gill, who himself studied from Joe Satriani. All Lick Library guitar DVD lessons are filmed in high definition and include double screen […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2010-05-04
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Sadly, the Burn cover went up in smoke to the Youtube heavens (my personal wish to Warner Music and their lawyers is to go bust ASAP), but here is another one that you might enjoy.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2010-04-06
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As we reported earlier, on March 28 Ian Gillan appeared on the Hay Superstar show which was broadcast on Shant Tv in Armenia. He sat in as a honorary judge for the competition where aspiring musicians performed Deep Purple songs. The song selection was rather peculiar, certainly shunning away from the greatest hits formula, and […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2010-04-01
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The year was 1984, the spring was in the air, the video machines were all the rage, and Deep Purple were celebrating their reunion with a red carpet press conference in New York City. The banjo player stayed in his dungeon though. Or something 😉
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2010-03-31
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The brand new official Deep Purple video channel has opened: Encompassing the band’s ongoing 42 year career, and backed by multi label collaboration, Deep Purple is proud to release DPTV as part of the growing MUZU phenomena: http://www.muzu.tv/deeppurple MUZU.TV is a video streaming site dedicated to music. MUZU.TV serves high quality video and provides a […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2010-03-16
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Very interesting interviews with Roger Glover, Ronnie Dio, Eddie Hardin, Ray Fenwick, and Alan Aldridge (author of the book). This was filmed circa 1999 (a poster of a 1999 DP gig in Hamburg can be seen at one point).
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2010-01-15
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Last night in Amsterdam Warren Haynes of Gov’t Mule fame joined Deep Purple on stage for a jam over Black Night. Pictures and videos from the show are already surfacing.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2009-11-18
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