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We live in hope
Roger Glover is doing publicity blitz for the new album, and was a guest on Detroit radio WRIF yesterday, July 27, talking to a slightly clueless, but typically enthusiastic classic rock radio DJ.
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Ace Frehley’s Space Trucking’
Ace Frehley of Kiss fame is releasing an album of covers Origins Vol. 2 and is promoting it with a teaser of his take on Space Trucking’.
The full version of the track is expected online on July 28, with the album due later this year via eOne.
[Update Jul 28] …and here it is:
Thanks to Gary Poronovich and Blabbermouth for the info.
Decay beautifully and slowly
Paicey gives the rundown of his stage setup, including how’s and why’s. There’s not much to add here.
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Great friend and music colleague
July 16 marked 8 years since the passing of late great Jon Lord. Paicey reminisces about his brother in law.
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The Hooker Lees and other stories
Glenn Hughes was a guest on Live From Nerdville with Joe Bonamassa. A lengthy (45 minutes) chat ensued and as you can imagine, quite a lot of ground has been turned over.
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The Lockdown Sessions
The Dead Daisies digital EP, called The Lockdown Sessions, will be released on July 17 via German label SPV. The Lockdown Sessions contains four acoustic tracks recorded during the global pandemic lockdown:
- Unspoken
- Righteous Days
- 30 Days In The Hole (Humble Pie cover)
- Fortunate Son (Deen Castronovo on lead vocals)
The first three tracks in full electric treatment will also be included on the upcoming Daisies album Holy Ground, due some time in January 2021.
Thanks to Yvonne and BraveWords for the info.
Success as impediment to progress
A rather interesting interview done with Ian Gillan in Australia in 1999. It is particularly interesting to see how well what he said about evolution of the band some 20 years ago has aged.
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Ahoy, mateys!
Radio Caroline, which started as a pirate radio broadcasting from the international waters in the North Sea back in 1964, and these days is streaming worldwide over the internet, has added the latest Deep Purple single Nothing at all to their playlist. The station has also been recently spotted streaming Ghost Story by the “tremendous” (their words) Paice Ashton Lord.
Thanks to Gary Poronovich for the info.
Montreux calling
Montreux Jazz Festival is not happening this year just like everything else. They’ve decided to celebrate their 54th summer by posting a series of select performances from the past years. Yesterday they posted clips from the 2011 Deep Purple performance. Yep, that’s the year when the band toured with orchestras.
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From Trapeze to Spring & Airbrake
Cherry Red Records in the UK will be releasing the third installment of Glenn Hughes’ Official Bootleg Box Set on July 31, 2020. It will contain 6 disks.
- CDs 1 & 2: Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, November 17, 1995;
- CD3: Astoria 2, London, November 18, 1995;
- CD4: Esquires, Bedford, May 3, 2008;
- CDs 5 & 6: Spring & Airbrake, Belfast, October 9, 2010.
The usual disclaimers about bootleg sound quality apply. The box set can be preordered directly from the label.
Three archive Trapeze albums in expanded formats will be released on September 18: self-titled Trapeze, Medusa, and You Are The Music • We’re Just The Band.
Trapeze, originally released in May 1970, will be a 2CD affair, with the second disk containing
- Send Me No More Letters (UK single version)
- Send Me No More Letters (US single version)
- Across thte Water, Across the Sea (demo)
- Seafull (demo)
- New Life Again (demo)
- 40,000 Voices (demo)
BBC sessions 1969:
- Intro / Send Me No More Letters
- Another Day
- Send Me No More Letters
Live at Lafayette Club, Wolverhampton (Colour Me Pop 1969):
- Intro
- Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf cover)
- Meet on the Ledge (Fairport Convention cover)
- Open My Eyes (The Nazz cover)
The artwork is augmented by an extended essay from music journalist Malcolm Dome based on interviews with Glenn Hughes & John Jones.
This can be preordered directly from the label.
Trapeze’s second album Medusa will be no less than a 3CD affair, with two full disks of bonus tracks (caveat: track listing on the label website is all wrong and appears to be copy’n’pasted from You Are The Music • We’re Just The Band reissue). The blurb describes bonus tracks as
This classic has been expanded with two bonus discs, packed with extras. It kicks off with a stereo edit and then a mono edit of the ‘Black Cloud’ single, followed by radio session versions of ‘Makes You Wanna Cry’ and ‘Medusa’. Disc Two finishes with an unreleased live show from the United States in March 1971, where the band had a growing following, thanks in part to the opportunity to tour America with mentors, The Moody Blues.
Disc Three features a second complete unreleased show from 1971, featuring all but two tracks from the “Medusa” LP.
The 3CD set includes a reproduction of original concert poster from the band’s archives. Liner notes are based on interviews with Glenn Hughes, John Jones, Trapeze’s original manager Tony Perry, Trapeze’s photographer David Rohl and Mel Galley’s brother and Trapeze co-writer, Tom Galley.
This item can be preordered directly from the label.
Trapeze third album You Are The Music • We’re Just The Band, originally released in 1972, now also appears as a 3DC set with two CDs full of bonus material.
CD2
- Coast to Coast (mono version)
- Good Love
- Dat’s It
Radio One In Concert 1973 (off the air recording)
- You Are the Music
- What Is a Woman’s Role
- Way Back to the Bone
- Your Love Is Alright
Dallas 1972
- Black Cloud
Houston 1972
- Way Back to the Bone
- You Are the Music
CD3
Houston 1972 (continued)
- Jury
- Seafull
- Your Love is Alright
- Medusa
- Black Cloud
- Touch My Life
- Keepin’ Time
The set includes extensive liner notes by Malcolm Dome based on interviews with Glenn Hughes, manager Tony Perry, producer Neil Slaven, Tom Galley and Rod Argent.
This item can also be preordered directly from the label.
Thanks to our editor emeritus Benny Holmström for the info.
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