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Caught in the act
The band have played their first live show in nearly 2 years yesterday, February 10, 2022, at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida. Let’s see how the gentlemen have weathered the storm. Continue Reading »
Dominus Orchestra
Dominus Orchestra is a project that is a tribute to all things Jon Lord. It is a brainchild of a Greek musician Panos Politis, who plays the Hammond, piano, and other keyboards, and makes the arrangements. Their latest release is a live tribute to Paice Ashton Lord‘s Malice In Wonderland, recorded in Athens on December 9, 2018.
This release can be ordered by contacting the band at dominusorchestra@gmail.com.
My name is Panos Politis, founder member, pianist and Hammond organist of Dominus. A student of the piano and the theory of music, during the second decade of my life I also became actively involved with rock music, especially that of the British music scene. In particular, I become involved with the music of Jon Lord, playing and promoting both his work as a solo artist and with his bands, notably Deep Purple. The Dominus project began to take shape in 2013 [we’ve announced it — THS] and brought together the most capable Greek musicians who were willing to support and share in its ideals. It was an enormous challenge. It had to be undertaken with the seriousness and respect, the devotion and dedication that the music deserved. For me, it was a labour of love. The Dominus Orchestra is a versatile band that can adapt from being a basic five-member rock group into an extended band of rock musicians performing with a string chamber orchestra together on the same stage. The Orchestra’s premiere took place in 2013, accompanied by an eight-piece string section, when it presented a concert of the music of Jon Lord. Since then, Dominus has performed three more concerts devoted to his music, the last of which was a tribute to the unique album by Paice, Ashton and Lord, ‘Malice In Wonderland’ in 2018. If you are interested in the music of Jon Lord and Deep Purple, and our tribute to their music, then do please browse our website. Here you will find out more about who we are and what we do, and can keep up to date with the band’s latest news. Thank you very much for your time.
And we leave you with a recording of their complete show from 2013:
Thanks to andreas leutgeb for the info.
The Deep Purple Rockshow
Radio BOB! in Germany has a monthly show hosted by our own Ian Paice and Don Airey. The Deep Purple Rockshow is on the air every first Saturday of the month from 18:00 to 19:00. We are being told that the radio announcement also mentioned that from time to time they might be joined by Roger Glover. Radio BOB! can be streamed worldwide from their website.
Thanks to Timo Teichert (aka Deep Diography) for the info.
Live from Daisyland
The Dead Daisies released a new digital single — live version of Rise Up, which originally appeared on their 2018 album Burn It Down, before Glenn joined the band. Continue Reading »
From Hush to Gimme Some Lovin’
Goldmine magazine has a six-page feature on Turning to Crime in their February/March 2022 issue. It is written by Dave Thompson and based around an interview with Ian Paice.
Vintage Rock magazine has has a 2-page article on the Green Bullfrog project in their February/March 2022 issue.
And last, but not least, Classic Rock has a short feature on how it all started — the original 1968 Purple’s version of Hush. It is published in their March 2022 issue as a part of the Rock’s Greatest Cover Versions series.
Thanks to Yvonne for the heads up.
Bring your flight jackets
Ian Gillan was interviewed for the Palm Beach Post in anticipation of resuming the touring activities in Florida later this month.
If there is one thing that is true about Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan, it’s that not everything he says is true.
“Somebody once asked me, ‘Are you a truthful person?’ I said yes — except when I’m doing interviews,” Gillan said with a sly chuckle.
Hard to believe that someone who so passionately played Jesus could be anything less than honest.
Continue reading in the Palm Beach Post.
Celebrator of all colours, shapes, and sizes
David Coverdale was recently interviewed by the Radio Forrest podcast. New projects, reissues, Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame, Coverdale/Page, and a few other things were discussed. Continue Reading »
Reduce, reuse, recycle
Here is a small collection of various odds and ends that accumulated in our mailbox over the past few weeks. They might be of interest, but probably each of them don’t warrant a separate post.
A German band called Santiano has been spotted recycling props from the inFinite photo shoot Continue Reading »
It’s Burrn!
25th anniversary of Whitesnake’s Restless Heart album is the cover story of issue #2022-02 of the Japanese Burrn! magazine. This issue also includes an interview with Roger Glover about the Deep Purple’s first album of covers. Continue Reading »
Complete circle
Don Airey was interviewed for the Rolling Stone Unknown Legends series. It’s a long form interview, with a lot of ground covered — from the humble beginnings in a cruise ship house band to the next Purple gigs, once again on a cruise ship. And everything in between.
So how did the Rainbow period start?
I got a phone call from Cozy Powell. They’d phoned me twice before and I was always leaving on a tour or something. I could never go and audition. But Cozy said, “Airey, get your ass over to New York tomorrow.” And when the boss speaks, you do what you’re told. He met me when I got off the plane at JFK and took me to a hotel in Connecticut. Next day, they took me to meet Ritchie [Blackmore].
He said to me, “Do you like Bach?” I said, “Yeah.” He gave me a piece of Bach to read, which I kind of knew, but I pretended I’d never seen it before, so he thought I was sight-reading it. We played it together. I forget what piece of Bach it was, but we kind of rocked it up together. And then he said to me, “Do you know Beethoven’s Ninth?” I said I did. We worked on the song that became “Difficult to Cure.” That was kind of my audition with the band. And then I went into rehearsals with them. It was just me and Cozy and Ritchie, just the three of us, in the middle of winter.
Read more in Rolling Stone.
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