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Uncommon Man
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.
Celebrating Jon Lord hits #1
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.
New Show at Luna Park
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
Canadian covers
Two Candian bands, Public Animal and Mokomokai, has released a split 7″ with one Deep Purple each.
The songs can be streamed online and bought as downloads but there is also an actual vinyl single released by Squirtgun Records, in purple vinyl of course! If I understand things correctly, the vinyl only seems to be available through the Toronto record store Rotate This.
Thanks to Nigel Young.
Celebrating Jon Lord release party
On Monday night in London there was a release party for the DVD and CD from the Royal Albert Hall Jon Lord tribute show. Many of the people who was part of the show was at the event. What Brian Johnson did there is still a mystery. More details are avaialble at metaltalk.net.
Thanks to Mark Taylor.
A sound approach
Those of you interested in the (audio) technical side of a Deep Purple tour should check out an article from the US tour in the online mag Pro Sound News.
The band’s both sound engineers are interviewed and the article is mainly focusing on the engineers’ approach to the sound and the equipment they use. Depending on your interests, the article might be totally confusing. For the sound engineers among us, it is very interesting.
Thanks to Nigel Young.
European Tour late 2015 expanding
According to some online ticket agencies it now looks like it’s the turn of Italy to spend this year for enjoyment next year.
Tour dates posted on therockblog.net show the following dates:
30/10/2015, Palafabris di Padova
31/10/2015, Mediolanum Forum di Assago (Milano)
05/11/2015, Mandela Forum di Firenze
06/11/2015, Palalottomatica di Roma
these dates, along with the other shows in Germany and France remain unconfirmed, however may be on sale through local agencies.
thanks to Lutz Reinert for the info
DeepPurpleCommunity interviews Don Airey
The Deep Purple Community on Facebook conducted an interview with Don Airey in August 2014….
“The success of NOW What?! was overwhelming, the album is still in the TOP50 of Amazon Germany’s music charts, sitting at #2 in the Hard Rock charts right today. [the questions to the Don were sent in August 2014]. Did it came as a big surprise for you? Are you expecting the same, or, probably even better reception for a follow up next year? Fans are joking that Deep Purple returned in mainstream fashion for the third time with NW?!
The success of Now What was a real big surprise in every way, and one of the nicest too! When you make a record you don’t actually expect anything. Just hope you can get it finished, mixed, mastered, and delivered somewhere near the deadline. So at the moment we are entertaining no hopes of the ambitious kind for the next record, if and when we get it finished, but obviously our fingers are crossed. ”
You can read the full interview here
thanks to Georgi Kikonishvilli
Ian Paice remembers Jon Lord, previews “Burn” from Celebrating Jon Lord
AllMusic recently conducted an interview with Ian Paice in which he recalls his first meeting with Jon and talks about the Celebrating Jon Lord event which has just been released on many formats.
AllMusic: Can you remember meeting Jon Lord for the first time?
Ian Paice: The first time I actually met Jon, I remembered it but there’s no way he would have. The band I was in at the time, we opened for Jon’s band, which was called the Artwoods, at the Marquee Club in London. Although they never really made it big internationally, in Europe and Britain they were quite well known, and so we knew all of them as a band. The first time I saw Jon, I remember this incredibly slim, tall, rock and roll guy in front of you, he just looked right, he was very impressive, and when he played, it was obvious that he was very, very good at what he did.
I enjoyed the night and thought no more about it other than you get to see really good people play as you get around the country, and then when the Deep Purple formation started and I walked into the room and saw Jon was on keyboards, it all came flooding back to me, remembering how good he was and what a possibility it was with musicians of that caliber, that whatever came out of this audition session could only be good for me. He was always very supportive, always very kind. I was pretty nervous going into this, and he took a few minutes to say, “Look, none of us know what’s going on, relax, have fun, and when you hear something, react to it, do something.” So the next half hour, which was my audition, basically, it just flew by, and we had a good time. I always remembered it, obviously.
you can read the entire interview here
Ian Paice Drum Clinic in Angera, Italy
Ian Paice gave a drum clinic and concert on September 13th in Angera/Lago Maggiore, and you can see some footage from the event below.
thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info
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