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The acclaimed documentary From here to inFinite about the making of Deep Purple’s latest album will be shown on German TV channel Nitro this Thursday, November 23, starting at 23:05.
The film, of course, has been released on blu ray earlier this month, accompanied by a plethora of bonus material.
Thanks to Axel Dauer for the info.
It has been quite a while since Joe Satriani played with DEEP PURPLE, but he’s back with a new album and a G3 tour in January.
The G3 tour will feature Joe Satriani, John Petrucci and Phil Collen for the US leg and replace Phil Collen with Uli Jon Roth for the European dates.
For further details and tour dates visit Joe Satrianis website.
Deep Purple live at Jäähalli (Helsinki, Finland 2017-11-11)
What a great show again. The band just gets better and better with the approaching dead line (!) The crowd and the band both were so enthusiastic. Icehall was full of DP fans and they showed their love for the band. Bedlam, Fireball, Bloodsucker, SKoW. What a start for a concert! Great vibes. The four songs really worked well. After that some “light jazz”: All I Got is You! What a nice piece of music it was with Paicey being the centre piece of the groove. After that I must have lost the sense of the running order of songs but at least these were played: Surprising and Birds of Pray from InFinite album; Lazy, Smoke and Space Truckin from the Machine Head album. From Perfect Strangers album there were two songs played: the title track and Knockin at Your Back Door! This was a big surprise for most of the audience. Uncommon Man for the late Jon Lord. In his solo number Don Airey played some Sibelius, actually quite an extensive section of Finlandia on piano. It was greeted with roaring applause. Encore: Green Onios, Hush, Black Night with a longish bass solo by Mr. Glover. It was kinda funky. It was all fun. Great night! Hope to see the band next year again in Helsinki 😉
review by Rajaseudun Rampe
Between the Copenhagen and London Radio shows this week, BBC Radio2 will be hosting a ‘Deep Purple’ day. Details are as follows:
Radio 2 is streamed in the clear worldwide.
Thursday 16th November
0900-1200
https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl8v/2017/11/16
Live session in the Ken Bruce show
1700-1900
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09dwcdc
Ian Gillan is guest on Simon Mayo show
2000-2200
Purple live in concert
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09dwcdf
Also in vision via the BBC Red Button for UK audiences.
available on BBC iPlayer for thirty days after.
Radio 2 schedule for the day
https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl8v/2017/11/16
All I Got is You got its live premiere in Stockholm on November 6. Here is a recording, and in pretty good quality too (if a little bass heavy on the sound):
Thanks to Björn Sandström for the video.
First date for the 2018 leg(s) of the Long Goodbye Tour has surfaced — Deep Purple are slated to play in Kraków, Poland, on July 1. Tickets are going on sale November 3 trough a variety of outlets: www.ebilet.pl, www.eventim.pl, www.ticketpro.pl, www.biletin.pl (hooray to the competition).
Keep your eye peeled for the other dates that are surely to follow and be sure to drop us a line when you spot them.
A new Rainbow photo book is coming out in Japan. It is quite a hefty volume at 288 pages and promises a wealth of pictures from the band’s Japanese tours from 1976 to 1984, many of them previously unpublished. The pictures were taken for the Music Life and Young Guitar magazines. The promo blurb mentions that the book is being published in the hopes of enticing a certain guitar player to tour Japan with his current lineup.
Anyhow, at ￥2,592 (about $23/€20/£17) + delivery charges, it’s not all that bad. It is also already a #1 bestseller in the ‘Foreign Rock & Pops Music’ books category on Japanese Amazon.
Publication date is set for December 14.
Thanks to Akemi Ono for the info.
So sad to hear of his passing. Sad, for several reasons… when a hero dies, of course, one thinks first of the person and his family and the sorrow about it all, followed with the wider recognition of the rich legacy he left behind. But linked with that, somehow there is grieving for one’s own lost childhood.
Head over to RGs official website to read the complete post
After the release of “inFinite”, the newest record of Deep Purple, BassplayerRoger Glover had time to visit german Radiostation SWR1 having an exclusive Bass2Bass-Talk with Thomas “Chuck” Tscheschner, german bassplayer and editor at SWR1 in Mainz.
Head over to RGs official website for the english version of the radio interview.
Dixie Dregs will tour the States in March, reuniting the lineup that recorded their first major label album — the 1977 Free Fall — Steve Morse and Rod Morgenstein will be joined by Allen Sloan, Steve Davidowski, and Andy West. 8 dates in total have been announced so far, starting with Atlanta on March 3, 2018 (and already sold out), and finishing on March 24 in Chicago. The tour is billed as The Dawn of The Dregs.
Blackmore camp has announced two Rainbow dates in Russia: April 8 in Moscow and 11th in St. Petersburg. Judging by the promo picture of the band, the lineup is apparently the same as 2016 and 2017 shows.
Full details for the upcoming shows are in our calendar.
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