There have been quite a few venue changes since the California Breed European tour was first announced back in August.
Munich show has been moved to Theaterfabrik, Nuremberg show will now take place in Wiesbaden, Berlin — at the Postbahnhof, and Cologne — at the Gloria Theater. Another show has been added to the UK leg: Planet Rockstock festival on December 5.
Ian Gillan was featured on this week’s edition of a Brazilian podcast Wikimetal. His interview starts at around 11 minute mark into the show and lasts for about 10 minutes.
A complete press conference in Mexico City was posted on YouTube. With the questions varying from very interesting, to mundane, to borderline insulting, with much lost in translation, it is interesting to see the band summoning their collective wits to turn the proceedings into something entertaining.
Thanks to Chava Rock for sharing the video and to Nigel Young for bringing it to your attention.
Apparently publisher of British tabloids Trinity Mirror has nothing better to do than pretend doing scientific work. Their “data unit” conducted a study of lyrics to over 6,000 songs by British and Irish bands:
Sentiment analysis involves picking out emotive words or phrases in a given text and placing them in context with the words around them to form an overall impression of the mood of the passage.
Afterwards, various publications of the concern jumped on it declaring a local artist as most something or another. Deep Purple were given the dubious honour of ‘most miserable lyrics’ by the GetWestLondon:
…Deep Purple’s songs are 67.8 per cent negative making them more miserable than Leonard Cohen.
Only 6.5 per cent of their material was deemed to be positive while the remaining 25.6 per cent was found to be neutral in tone.
Blood From a Stone and Nasty Piece of Work were two of 16 songs written by Gillan, born in Chiswick, to achieve a negativity score of 90 per cent – the highest that can be achieved.
Ian Paice’s homage to Jon Lord became the subject of a cover feature for the French magazine Batteur. The feature appears in November 2014 issue (No. 285). If you have your subscription lapsed, the magazine can be ordered via journaux.fr (€5.90 + shipping).
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.
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:
Get Back My Crown
This Is Who I Am
Fire And Ice
I Don’t Cry No More
Lhasa
Devil In Disguise
You Are The Music
Peace Of Mind
Maybe Tonight
On The Way To Paradise
Our Love Is Not Over
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.
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.
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:
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing