Don Airey will release his new solo album One of a Kind on May 25, 2018 via earMusic. The album is touted as a “true classic hard rock gem with melodies, great riffs and solos” and features members of Don’s solo band Carl Sentance, Laurence Cottle, Jon Finnigan, and Simon McBride. It will be released in 2CD (including a bonus live CD), vinyl and digital formats.

Track list:

CD1 One of a Kind

1. Respect
2. All Out Of Line
3. One Of A Kind
4. Everytime I See Your Face
5. Victim Of Pain
6. Running Free
7. Lost Boys
8. Need You So Bad
9. Children Of The Sun
10. Remember To Call
11. Stay The Night

CD2 recorded live at Fabrik, Hamburg on March 14, 2017.

1. Pictures of Home (originally by Deep Purple)
2. Since You’ve Been Gone (originally by Rainbow)
3. I Surrender (originally by Rainbow)
4. Still Got The Blues (originally by Gary Moore)

Just to give you an idea what to expect, here’s Don Airey Band performing Victim of Pain, song from the new album, at the Bounty Rock Cafe in Olomouc, Czech Republic, on March 12:

Thanks to earMusic for the info, to Martin Dybala for the video, and to Yvonne for the heads up on all this.

There are 8 dates in Germany announced towards the ends of this year for an outfit called Pete York’s Rock and Blues Circus doing a Ticklin´da´Groove tour. Said circus consists of Pete York himself, our own Roger Glover, plus Miller Anderson, Zoot Money, and Albie Donnelly.
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Rock Candy magazine has a 4-page spread on Deep Purple Mark 4 in their February-March 2018 issue.

DEEP PURPLE’S MK IV LINE-UP CRASHED AND BURNED IN SPECTACULAR FASHION IN 1976 AND MANY FANS THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT TIME. BUT WHY DID THE BAND FALL APART SO PUBLICLY? WHAT PART DID IT PLAY IN THE DEATH OF GUITARIST TOMMY BOLIN? AND IS IT TIME THE BAND’S WORK DURING THIS PERIOD WAS RE-EVALUATED? ROCK CANDY INVESTIGATES THE DEMISE OF THIS VERSION OF PURPLE, BRINGS YOU AN EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF THEIR ILL-FATED LAST TOUR OF THE UK AND TAKES ANOTHER LOOK AT THE BAND’S OFTEN MALIGNED ALBUM, ‘COME TASTE THE BAND’…

The full article is available online as a PDF file or you can purchase the issue in question.

Thanks to Benny Holmström for the info.

Somebody stole my guitar….(Literally)

At some point during the reunited Dixie Dregs set up for the show at the Lincoln Theatre, Washington D.C. a one off acoustic/electric guitar was stolen.
Having owned the guitar for over 30 years Steve is obviously eager to get it back, and so is offering a reward for its safe return.

It goes without saying that if anyone has any information on this matter please pass it on, and lets get Steve reunited with his guitar.

The same people responsible for the restoration and re-release of the Butterfly Ball video last year are now working on the remaster of the original album. The 3CD box set is due to be release on April 27 via Cherry Red Records and can be preordered via their website.

DISC ONE
Roger Glover And Friends The Butterfly Ball And The Grasshopper’s Feast

1. Dawn
2. Get Ready (featuring Glenn Hughes)
3. Saffron Dormouse And Lizzy Bee (featuring Helen Chappelle & Barry St. John)
4. Harlequin Hare (featuring Neil Lancaster)
5. Old Blind Mole (featuring John Goodison)
6. Magician Moth
7. No Solution (featuring Mickey Lee Soule)
8. Behind The Smile (featuring David Coverdale)
9. Fly Away (featuring Liza Strike)
10. Aranea (featuring Judi Kuhl)
11. Sitting In A Dream (featuring Ronnie James Dio)
12. Waiting (featuring Jimmy Helms)
13. Sir Maximus Mouse (featuring Eddie Hardin)
14. Dreams Of Sir Bedivere
15. Together Again (featuring Tony Ashton)
16. Watch Out For The Bat (featuring John Gustafson)
17. Little Chalk Blue (featuring John Lawton)
18. The Feast
19. Love Is All (featuring Ronnie James Dio)
20. Homeward (featuring Ronnie James Dio)

All songs written by Roger Glover, except Little Chalk Blue, Love Is All & Homeward written by Roger Glover and Eddie Hardin; Harlequin Hare & Together Again written by Roger Glover, Ronnie James Dio and Mickey Lee Soule.

DISC TWO
Bonus Tracks

1. Love Is All [Demo Version]
2. Dawn [Alternative Mix]
3. Magician Moth [Alternative Mix]
4. Harlequin Hare [Alternative Mix]
5. Magician Moth [Alternative Mix]
6. No Solution [Alternative Mix]
7. Waiting [Alternative Mix]
8. Fly Away [Alternative Mix]
9. Aranea [Alternative Mix]

The Roger Glover Butterfly Ball Radio Special [1974]

10. Band 1
11. Music: Old Blind Mole
12. Magic Moth
13. Band 2
14. Music: Aranea
15. Band 3
16. Music: Sitting In A Dream
17. Band 1
18. Music: Watch Out For The Bat
19. Band 2
20. Music: Love Is All

DISC THREE
Roger Glover And Guests: Love Is All EP [PUR 125 – Released: 8th Nov 1974]

1. Love Is All (featuring Ronnie James Dio)
2. Old Blind Mole (featuring John Goodison)
3. Magician Moth (featuring Roger Glover)

Thanks to Benny Holmström for the info.

This post has been updated March 13 with corrected track listing.

Joe Bonamassa, Kevin Shirley, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham, and Derek Sherinian do a Q&A session during the Keeping the Blues Alive cruise earlier this year.
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Glenn Hughes will countinue his “Glenn Hughes Performs Classic Deep Purple Live Tour 2018/19” in October 2018 in Germany.

The dates we have so far are:

17.10.18 Berlin – Admiralspalast
18.10.18 Hamburg – Fabrik
20.10.18 Worpswede – Music Hall
21.10.18 Leipzig – Gewandhaus
24.10.18 Bochum – Zeche
25.10.18 Bensheim – Rex
27.10.18 Winterbach – Lehenbachhalle

Deep Purple have picked up a couple of Planet Rock The Rocks awards on the strength of their 2017 performance — Best British Band and Best British Album for the inFinite. Unlike some other industry awards that we know, these are decided by the fan vote “as a welcome antidote to the pop music back-slapping”.

Other winners include:

BEST INTERNATIONAL BAND – Foo Fighters
BEST INTERNATIONAL ALBUM – Foo Fighters Concrete & Gold
BEST WORLDWIDE SOLO ARTIST – Alice Cooper
BEST BRITISH SINGLE – Inglorious I Don’t Need Your Loving
BEST LIVE BAND – Metallica
BEST NEW BAND – Wayward Sons

Shooter Promotions, who brought Rainbow to the Loreley in 2016 annouced a new festival called “The Crossroads Festival – Guitar Fest Of The Year”

The festival will take place on June 16, 2018 and feature Steve Hill, the Henrik Freischlader Band, Bernie Marsden and Joe Bonamassa.

Rainbow will release a second installment of Memories in Rock on April 6 via the in-house label Minstrel Hall Music. This will be compiled from the 2017 UK shows, plus a bonus disc of backstage clips and interviews, a new lineup studio recording of I Surrender, and a brand new track called Waiting For a Sign. The latter will also be released as a single on March 16.

Memories in Rock II will be available as 2CD+DVD as well as 3LP in blue, red, green, or black vinyl. Apparently the vinyl edition will not include Carry On Jon nor Temple Of The King.

Disc 1:

1. Over The Rainbow
2. Spotlight Kid
3. I Surrender
4. Mistreated
5. Since You’ve Been Gone
6. Man On The Silver Mountain / Woman From Tokyo
7. 16th Century Greensleeves
8. Soldier Of Fortune
9. Perfect Strangers
10. Difficult To Cure
11. All Night Long
12. Child In Time

Disc 2:

1. Stargazer
2. Long Live Rock’N’Roll / Lazy
3. Catch The Rainbow
4. Black Night
5. Carry On Jon
6. Temple Of The King
7. Smoke On The Water
8. Waiting For A Sign

Disc 3:

1. Ritchie Blackmore Interview
2. Ronnie Romero Interview
3. Jens Johansson Interview
4. Bob Nouveau Interview
5. David Keith Interview
6. Candice Night Interview
7. Lady Lynn Interview
8. Dave David Interview
9. Andreas Bock (tour manager) Interview
10. Michael Bockmühl (guitar tech) Interview
11. Bonus Backstage Clip
12. I Surrender 2017 Backstage Clip

Japanese release will come out 2 days earlier, on April 4. From what we can ascertain at the moment, there will be the following editions:

• 3CD with the listed above 2CD material, plus a special CD for Japan that includes Land of Hope and Glory, I Surrender and Waiting for a Sign; (Land of Hope and Glory and the Ronnie Romero’s version of I Surrender were released in May 2017 as downloads but not on a CD);
• deluxe edition that includes all of the above and will add the DVD;
• super deluxe that will come with a T-shirt.

All Japanese editions can be preordered from Amazon Japan.

Thanks to BraveWords and Akemi Ono for the info.