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German online retailer Nuclear Blast specializing in exclusive coloured vinyl editions, among other things, is advertising inFinite on purple vinyl. This edition is said to be limited to 1,000 copies and available exclusively through them. Caveat: while it is only €3 more expensive than the regular black vinyl edition from the same retailer, the shipping fees are quite hefty.
Glenn Hughes has posted this on his Facebook page:
RIP MOM : Sheila Born dec 1, 1928
Passed away Feb 1, 7.15pm UK time 2017
Now with my father William
I was holding your hand at your bedside for 18 hours Mom , and God took you into the light to join our loved ones… Each person in their last breath drops all that they are carrying…
Each breath is a little death that can set us free… words cannot describe how deeply sad I am, but I will do as you wish , and stay on tour and be of service. Losing you & Dad 9 months apart is massively heartbreaking. For those reading this, please reach out to your loved ones to let them know they are loved. #loveistheanswer #musicisthehealer
Our sincerest sympathies from all of us here at THS.
While doing one of his low key gigs in Italy this January, Ian Paice spoke to Radio 2.0 from Bergamo. This resulted in an very interesting interview:
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A new interview with Graham Bonnet, where he is introduced as “talkative and often brutally frank”. And brutally frank he is all right.
On the second disk of his latest album The Book that consists of re-recorded classic tracks from Graham’s career:
How did the idea of doing the re-recordings for the second disc come about?
That was the record company’s idea – much to my chagrin, actually. It’s hard to do those songs again and feel enthusiastic about that after 30, 35 years on some of them. To record them again means you have to put them under a microscope and make sure that everything is kind of living up to as good as the old version or better than the old version, or that it’s good in its own way. I think the band actually reinterpreted the songs pretty much in a really good way; I just was worried about the vocals being sort of like the old ones. It’s a long time ago; it was hard to get through those songs and re-record ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’ and ‘All Night Long’ and whatever else because the originals, to me, are still the better versions… To be honest with you, I can’t listen to them again because I like the way it felt to do those songs years ago. To do them now was harder work than the original sessions.
On his days in Rainbow:
In addition to your voice, you’re known for having one of the more unique images in the scene. How were you able to maintain your identity and image back in a time when the industry was perhaps calling for a much different look for a frontman in your genre?
I really didn’t think I belonged when I joined Rainbow, for instance. I went to sing the audition with a suit and tie on; I looked like a bank manager or whatever. There were a few jokes and snickers around the room when I approached ready to sing my audition piece. But after I had done the song, they all smiled and laughed and made me sing two or three more times over to make sure I wasn’t kidding when I sang it. I got the job not because of my suit or whatever, but because of my voice, I hope. The music comes before the way you look. But I’ve always been into 1950s music and the 1950s look, and I wasn’t going to change just because I was asked to join a so-called ‘hair’ band, a Heavy Rock band or ‘Heavy Metal’ band, if you will. It wasn’t my thing; I never knew who Rainbow was, so it was totally different for me. Eventually, I fit in; they got used to me looking the way I looked. As long as I sang okay, everything was good. With the album I sang on, I sang my heart out because it was something I had never done before; it was all new music to me. I learned along the way from [then-Rainbow bassist] Roger Glover and from [Rainbow founder] Ritchie Blackmore how these songs were written, because I was used to more sort of R&B-type songs… I thank Ritchie and I thank Roger for guiding me through it, but it felt absolutely wrong for me to be there. [After the audition], I went home to my manager in London and said, ‘I don’t think I belong in this band.’ He said, ‘What the hell are you talking about? I heard you sang your balls off on the audition piece.’ I said, ‘But I look wrong. The music they’re playing is sort of classically influenced; it’s not like the stuff I do.’ He said, ‘You’ve gotta do it.’ I went back again to finish off the album… It worked out well, but it was a long procedure because it was something totally new to me. I felt very, very green and pretty much like a baby being introduced to this genre of music.
Read more on joelgausten.com.
Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info and to Jari Kaikkonen for the videos (which were shot in Helsinki on April 21, 2016).
Don Airey was inducted into the Hall of Heavy Metal History at the ceremony held on January 18 in Anaheim, California. Here is his well thought out and pretty rousing acceptance speech and bits of rather interesting backstage interview:
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The record company posted a promo clip for the documentary included with some editions of the upcoming new Deep Purple album inFinite:
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A second single for the upcoming Deep Purple album inFinite has surfaced at German online retailers. It is called All I Got Is You and is scheduled for release on March 10. It will be available as a maxi-CD (presumably, that’s regular size 120 mm CD) and 12″ vinyl. There is no track list or cover art at this point.
Track listing:
Last time the band played in Aalborg was on August 8, 2013.
Thanks to Lutz Reinert and Hristo Yankov for the info.
American leg of the Long Goodbye Tour has just been announced today. 19 shows in total (including a token Canadian date in Toronto). The tour starts on August 12 in Las Vegas and wraps up on September 10 in Cincinnati. Most of the venues are sheds belonging to the Live Nation and named after corporation du jour. Alice Cooper will be a co-headliner on all shows, with Edgar Winter Band as a special guest on some.
There will be a plethora VIP packages, with first presales starting January 30 at noon (which is just about now). General public onsale starts February 3 at 10:00 AM.
Full details in our calendar.
Thanks to Nigel Young, Lutz Reinert, and Mike Whiteley for the heads up.
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