As the band is preparing to start their Latin American tour, bookings are already being finalized 13 months into the future. It has been announced that London O₂ show on December 3, 2015, will be going on sale this Friday, October 31, 2014. Read what you want from the promoter’s blurb, but so far we have no info on any other British dates:

The O2 is delighted to announce that Deep Purple have today confirmed a one-off London show here on Thursday 3 December 2015.

Proceed at your own risk as this date has not been confirmed by the band’s management either.

Bernie Marsden provides track by track comments for his solo album Shine, released in August this year:

Trouble (featuring David Coverdale):

The record company obviously sees that Joe Lynn Turner’s new project Rated X is worth promoting, and produced an electronic press kit and a couple of promo videos in anticipation of their self titled debut album.

EPK:

This is Who I Am:

Stranger In Us All (where did we hear that title before?):

Album track list:

1. Get Back My Crown
2. This Is Who I Am
3. Fire And Ice
4. I Don’t Cry No More
5. Lhasa
6. Devil In Disguise
7. You Are The Music
8. Peace Of Mind
9. Maybe Tonight
10. On The Way To Paradise
11. Our Love Is Not Over
12. Stranger In Us All

Rated X are:

• Joe Lynn Turner — vocals
• Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, Ozyy Osbourne, Rod Stewart, Blue Murder, King Kobra) — drums
• Tony Franklin (The Firm, David Gilmour, Kate Bush, Blue Murder) — bass
• Karl Cochran — guitar

Alessandro del Vecchio — producer & additional keyboards

Mixed by Pat Reagan

Rated X is due out on November 11 via Frontiers Records.

Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.

Music Radar has tips to budding guitarists from Steve Morse. Some of which are very much applicable to life in general.

Nothing irritates me more than a lack of professionalism. For example, when somebody says, ‘I’ll be there at 2 pm.’ Does that mean 2:30? Does that person think they can just roll in whenever and expect everybody to be in a good mood, knowing that they’ve sat there for 30 minutes? I don’t think so.

A lot of the times you can tell how somebody is going to act as a musician by how they budget their time. If they can’t show up when they’re supposed to, can they be expected to be prepared musically? From my experience, the answer tends to be no.

If you’re in a band, you’ve got to pull your weight – everybody equally. Let’s say you’re going to play a cover tune, and all the other guys have learned the song. They’ve listened to it, played it, and they’ve got it down. But one guy shows up for rehearsal, and he’s not prepared; he thought he could just follow along and fake his way through it. So what’s he doing? He’s wasting everybody’s time, because invariably somebody is going to say, ‘Hey, that part is wrong; it’s supposed to go like this…’ And then you spend part of the rehearsal showing the guy what he should have known walking in the door.

Whatever it is, whether it’s learning material or just being where you’re supposed to be, do what you say you’re going to do.

Read more in Music Radar.

Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov (deep-purple.ru) for the info.

To celebrate the release of Live in Verona, the record company posted video of Lazy, which performance we have previously seen in an audience recording:

Ian Gillan gave an interview to Chilean Radio Futuro that apparently went down the newswire and created a small stir worldwide. Despite the fact that he has not said there what he had not said before.

Whatever I say about that is gonna sound wrong. But who the hell wants to be in an institution? The Hall Of Fame thing, it’s an American thing. We don’t have that in England or Germany or Australia or Russia or anywhere in the world apart from America. And it’s an institution. What’s that got to do with rock and roll? Also, it’s run by these old guys who thought that The Monkees were America’s answer to The Beatles. And they called Deep Purple [Laughs]… I don’t think they quite understand what we are… They called us one-hit wonders. So I don’t know what they were talking about… whether it was ‘Hush’ or ‘Black Night’ or ‘Strange Kind Of Woman’, ‘Smoke On The Water’, ‘Child In Time’, ‘Knocking At Your Back Door’ or one of those one-hit wonders that we were… ‘Highway Star’… I just don’t know. And I guess the fans don’t really understand it except in America. It’s no big deal.

After being on the shortlist for the last two years only to be passed over come the actual induction, Deep Purple was skipped from the 2015 list alltogether.

Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.

Jeb Wright from Classic Rock Revisited recently spoke to Ian Paice about Jon Lord, the celebration concert this April, and the recording of it that came out last month.

Jeb: I have always separated classical Jon from rock Jon, but I have to ask did he bring that influence into Deep Purple? Not so much the music, but rather the knowledge of how music works?

Ian: Exactly, that is it. Most of the guys who play rock and roll and popular music, from jazz to pop music, from my generation, from my country, were self-taught. The knowledge for what we need is limited. For those who play piano, it is different. The nature of the instrument means they have to learn it properly and they have to learn the unorthodox classical fashion. Their knowledge about the infrastructure of music and the way it works is far superior.

What Jon would quite often do, back in the early days, when Ritchie [Blackmore] and Roger [Glover] would be jamming riffs, would be to say, “I think if we changed the inversion of that chord then I think it would work much better.” He would then demonstrate what he meant and, nine times out of ten, he was right. He would take something that was sort of obvious and make it into something that was not quite so obvious.

The difference between us and chimpanzees is two percent. It is just a little tiny bit, but that two percent is really important. Jon didn’t do that all the time, as sometimes things were perfect as they were. Sometimes there was something missing. You could see his brain kick into gear and he would go into his database of knowledge and come up with something to try and that was sometimes very important to us.

Jeb: You have done a wonderful job with different packages of his concert. There are many levels fans can purchase.

Ian: Some people are in love with Jon’s classical side, and if that is all they want, they just can buy that CD… and if they want just the rock portion, then they can buy that CD. If they want the whole kit and caboodle then they can buy the box set and experience the whole wonderful night. Whoever buys whatever, let them be assured that the deal that Jacky struck with the record company is very generous towards the charity. Every dollar, every pound, every Swiss franc, every Yen we get goes straight into Jacky’s fund and this time it is going to try to help beat the cancer that took Jon from us.

We don’t have a big organization here. It is Jacky, a secretary, my kids and occasionally one other helper and we run it from a room in my house. There is no big overhead and nobody is driving a car, staying in hotels or flying first class… it is our homegrown thing. Every dollar that people want to put in our coffers we thank them greatly.

Read more in Classic Rock Revisited.

Thanks to BraveWords for the info.

The record company has posted Uncommon Man from Celebrating Jon Lord, which sold so well, that it hit #1 in a number of European countries.

Thanks to Classic Rock for the info.

The newly released dvd of the Celebrating Jon Lord concert at the Albert Hall, London from April 2014 has hit the #1 slot on the dvd music charts in its first week of release in the UK, Germany, Sweden and Austria.

Recorded on 4th April the dvd and blu-ray feature the two halves of the concert and a documentary of the event and the lead up to the day.

A new show at Luna Park goes on sale tonight (Thursday 2nd October) for a show on 18th November.
Again not confirmed by management, but on sale here

Thanks to Juan for the info