Deep Purple live at Snoqualmie Casino (Snoqualmie, USA 2014-08-10)

Our 40th Anniversary Deep Purple Show
August 10, 2014 – Deep Purple at Snoqualmie Casino, North Bend, Washington, USA.

On a perfect Summer Sunday evening with temperatures in the high 70’s, my wife Rita and I drove to North Bend, just 15 minutes east of Seattle. Deep Purple’s return to Seattle since 2004. We’ve seen them seven times since 2004 but all shows were out of state or out of the country! I call it our 40th Anniversary Show because 3 months after we were married, Rita and I drove to Kansas City, Missouri and saw Deep Purple Mark III in August 1974 during the Burn Tour. Now 40 years later, both Deep Purple, Rita and I are still together.
There was no warm up or back up band. Around 7:30 pm, Deep Purple hit the stage and played a non-stop 100 minute hard rock performance. I was wearing an Ian Paice shirt and after Smoke On The Water, Paicey threw his drumstick right at me. I also got a Steve Morse pick. What an anniversary gift!
Set-list:
Highway Star
Into The Fire
Hard Lovin’ Man
Strange Kind Of Woman
Vincent Price
Contact Loss
Uncommon Man
Well Dressed Guitar
The Mule
Lazy
Hell To Pay
Don Airey Solo
Perfect Strangers
Space Truckin’
Encore – Green Onions
Hush
Roger Glover Solo
Black Night

Harry Heathman III
Photos By; Harry and Rita Heathman

review by Harry Heathman III

Dan Shinder from Drum Talk TV did an in depth interview with Ian Paice while the band was in Las Vegas. The interview is just a hair short of a full one hour long, and quite understandably, a lot of dirt has been turned over in this time. There are nuggets in there for both the aspiring musicians and well seasoned fans.

Enjoy!

Also, check out their photo album from the Vegas show on August 15:

Thanks to Yvonne and Dan Shinder for the info.

Mascot Records has posted a promo video for Mask Machine — a track from the new Flying Colors album Second Nature.

Second Nature is due out on September 29 in Europe and 30th in the rest of the world.

Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson for the info.

The official Youtube channel has posted a couple of clips — Child in Time and Black Night — with narration from Jon Lord. I have a strong deja vu feeling about both of them, so they’re probably recycled from the recent DP(o) video releases.

Deep Purple live at Fremont Street Experience (Las Vegas, USA 2014-08-15)

My wife and I made the trek to Vegas for Purple and we were rewarded with a great show.We usually head to LV once a year so it worked out that we could catch the band there as well. We took off Thursday morning and headed north up the I15 Freeway and saw the first billboard promoting the show going through Apple Valley CA in the High Desert.Nice.About 3 and a half hours later we arrived at The Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino on Freemont Street to find even more billboards and banners for the gig and checked in for the weekend.We were 2 blocks away from where the show would take place.Spent most of Friday at the pool but got cleaned up and I decided to check out the stage and see what was going on when lo and behold Don is sound checking his keys when he sees me watching from the side and tells his tech to come get my Now What cd book for him to sign for me.How cool. About 7:30 they opened up the area for the concert but the front section was fenced off for special guests and radio people . Freemont was jammed by 8:30 and about 5 minutes before showtime a lady asks me and Lisa if we’d like to be in the VIP section up front.Hell yes we would! My Burn retro tour shirt might have caught her eye but it was more likely my beautiful wife who got us in there.We end up about 4-5 people deep from the stage where RG and IP will be.Lights go down and the guys come on and right away I’m nearly floored by Paicey’s first kick of the bass drum.It was LOUD and you felt it from head to toe . We were in for a good night.Highway Star gets things going and Gillan is sounding good.Steves guitar is piercing but just right and the whole sound is perfect.Into the Fire and Big Ian nails it! Crowd is eating it up and loving it.Set is the same as Costa Mesa but tonight we get the added bonus of The Mule about mid set . I’ve never seen them do this so it’s the highlight of the show for me.Paice put his all into the solo and is given a healthy applause from the crowd.I preferred Don and Steve’s solos at Costa Mesa but that’s a minor complaint.Lazy went down a storm! The majority of the crowd sang the verses and chorus with Gillan while the band was locked in and rocking this version.Wonderful stuff.Encore time and the guys come back out and go into a little Vegas lounge cabaret music.Too funny.Green Onions leads in to an extended Hush then Black Night finishes it off .Walking around Freemont Street afterwards and we keep hearing people who had never seen Purple talk about how awesome DP were and I was proud to be fan for the last 30 plus years.Thanks to Ian, Roger, Ian, Steve and Don and come back soon guys.
Steve Hunt

review by Steve Hunt

The Classic Rock magazine Roll of Honour award ceremony will be held this year on November 4 in Hollywood, California. The voting is now open for the public in 5 categories, with the rest to be decided in house. Made in Japan is on the shortlist for the Reissue of the Year, and California Breed’s debut album for Album of the Year.

Vote now.

Thanks to Cameron Hons for the info.

English graphic artist Becky ‘Cozy’ Welton has produced a pair of very Purple sneakers for herself.

The sneakers are now on their way to New York for an audition for a Converse ad campaign. Yay!

Be sure to check out her other artwork, lots of it is Purple related, including the utterly hilarious Ritchie’s Quest comic strip.

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

Deep Purple live at Mountain Winery (Saratoga, USA 2014-08-13)

So glad I made this one .Took some money and time but I thought the guys put on as close to a perfect show as could be . I’ve lost accurate count of how many times I’ve seen the band .Saw 4 shows at The HOB in Hollywood when they first toured with Steve Morse (Perpindicular) . At least 5 shows after that . 2 at Concord , 2 at the Warfield in SF , once at Konocti ,CA. Before that , Perfect Strangers , and House of Blue Light tours . Saw them at Winterland in SF in the 70’s when they did not headline . So, at least 16 times counting this one in Saratoga , CA. Here’s as close as I can come on the list . : Highway Star, Into The Fire, Hard Loving Man, Strange Kind of Woman , Vincent Price , Lazy, Contact Lost , Above and Beyond , Well Dressed Guitar, Hell to Pay , Perfect Strangers ,Space Truckin , Smoke on the Water, Encores : (surprise) My Woman From Tokyo , Hush, Medley of guitar , including Led Zep and ZZ Top , just a couple minutes of Black Night . Got to be something wrong with my exact order , but pretty close . The sound was perfect .Vocals may have been a bit low , not sure , at the beginning but after two songs things were dead on . Any doubts about the pipes on Ian Gillan are out the window .Having a couple days off may have helped , but he sang beautifully . There is a part where Space Truckin could have had a squeal near the end that he avoided , but he was fronting the band in grand fashion ,I must say . Don Airey is an absolute virtuoso .I was fortunate to have a seat to the side which afforded me a great view of his nimble hands . Roger Glover never disappoints and Ian Paice was a drumming Dynamo . Of coarse people will say the usual poop about no Richie , but Steve Morse , to me , can play with far more detail and accuracy to the songs than , dare I say , Mr. Blackmore probably could .We’ll never really know . Sound was loud and powerful but no way excessive and very clear .You could even hear Ian play the tambourine ! Not sure how they did that , short of having a mic attached . The new songs were spread into the set at good spots to not stray too far from the more familiar numbers .And they nail them .Hell to Pay is a winner . Bang up job on Lazy . Steve’s solo on SOTW was different from the original but they still play it so strong you instantly recognize it . Lots of songs I miss , Pictures , Speed King , No One Came , Bludsucker , Maybe I’m a Leo , Ted ,Silver Tongue , Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming . They can’t do them all ,and what they have now is smooth and polished and moves through the set for an hour forty five with great precision . Lets do it again sometime .

review by Mr P

Bernie Marsden gave an interview to the French website RockNLive Social Media. He spoke about his new solo album Shine, that includes guest appearances by his friends, old and new.

Shine is due out on August 18 in CD and 2LP formats via Provogue/Mascot Records.

Thanks to Yvonne for the info.

Steve Morse has contributed a track to the tribute album dedicated to the veterans of American wars. The album, called Guitars For Wounded Warriors, was produced, engineered and composed by Emmy Award winner Brian Tarquin, with contributions from SM, Billy Sheehan, Gary Hoey, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, Reb Beach, Hal Lindes (Dire Straits), Chris Poland (Megadeth), and Chuck Loeb.

Steve says:

It is an honor to be a part of this cause. I was just turning drafting age at the end of the Vietnam War, and I still remember that the returning military weren’t always treated with the greatest respect. For our modern, volunteer military, we hopefully have learned to show our respect and gratitude. They don’t set the policy, but they set the standards.

His contribution appears on the final track of the album called Freedom.

Guitars For Wounded Warriors will be released on August 19 via Cleopatra Records.

Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.