Updated with message from RG. Deep Purple were headlining the Classic Rocknacht in Bonn, Germany this Sunday, July 14, and found themselves without a bass player. Roger Glover had to sit this one out due to shoulder pain (express.de report in German). Nick Fyffe was hastily recruited to do the duties. Nick has already deputized on bass when Roger had to miss a few shows couple of years back for family reasons, so he already knew the classics. But Now what?! material was a new territory for him. According to the promoter, the band rehearsed with the new bass player tirelessly throughout Friday to nail down the set.

Gov’t Mule were also on the bill in Bonn and Warren Hayes came on stage to jam with the boys. Here’s a video (with piss poor sound, unfortunately):

As for Roger, don’t worry — we have reports that he was back on stage the next day in Zürich.

Update (Jul 17): from the horse’s mouth:

THANK YOU, NICK

I have apologized to my band mates and I apologize to all that were at the Bonn concert, I am sorry I wasn’t there. I’m deeply indebted to Nick Fyffe for taking over at incredibly short notice.

I have a shoulder injury. Unfortunately, an attempt to relieve the discomfort unexpectedly had the opposite effect for a few days and I couldn’t use my arm. Fortunately, I eventually found relief and played the Zürich concert the following night – and I will finish the tour.

Great man, Nick Fyffe.

RG

Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info.

On the first anniversary of Jon Lord’s passing BBC has aired a documentary Jon Lord: It’s All Music narrated by Rick Wakeman. Those in the UK can watch it on BBC iPlayer. For the rest of us, the usual suspects to the rescue:

Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the link.

Rufus Stone, publisher of the Deep Purple at the California Jam, has announced plans to produce a photo book commemorating Jon Lord:

At Rufus Stone limited Editions we always wanted to produce a large format, mostly photographic book of Jon Lords incredible and respected career in the music industry.

Jon’s illness put this plan on hold but though he is no longer with us to contribute in person, it has been decided by Vicky Lord to produce a book, with the family, friends and musicians who worked with him through out his life, all contributing personal material and memories. The book is designed to be a massive photographic celebration of Jon’s life and work, and will contain much rare and personal material from his early days (before he became a professional musician), through the Artwoods, and of course Deep Purple and beyond. His time in PAL and Whitesnake are also covered, and naturally his many orchestral projects. Recently discovered images taken by Jon himself during his touring days in Deep Purple will also be included.

As well as the book, previously unreleased music from Jon is also being included, and one track in particular called All Those Years Ago has inspired the title of the project. More never before released music visuals and artifacts will be added to make this a true celebration of Jon Lord’s life.

Although some of the material sourced for the book will be from professional photographers, it is appreciated that fans may wish to contribute memorabilia or images taken over the years at concerts and we will be happy to look at any material. To do this, we have set up a special page on the website with details and conditions. People interested in the book and the project can keep up to date with email newsletters by subscribing here, and receive pre-publication information.

Details of the final format for the book will be announced before long. It is currently hoped to launch the title at the end of this year. Plans to have a blue heritage plaque unveiled on Jon’s family home in Leicester are well advanced.

Thnks to Gareth Thomas for the photo.

The Tommy Bolin Archives are releasing a 2CD set of previously unreleased material called Whirlwind. The set includes demos and outtakes from his solo album Teaser, his jazz-rock band Energy and material he was working on for his next album before his death in 1976.

Track list

Disc 1

1. Cucumber Jam
2. Heartlight
3. Hoka-Hay!
4. Don’t Worry ’Bout Cash (Acoustic Version)
5. San Francisco River
6. Rock-A-Bye
7. Dungeon
8. Alexis
9. Gotta Dance (Take 2)
10. Spanish Lover (Instrumental Version)
11. Sooner or Later

Disc 2

1. Red Skies (Instrumental Version)
2. Way It s Always Been
3. Sleepwalker (Instrumental Version)
4. Leave Other People Alone
5. Marching Bag (26 Minute Original Version)
6. Wild Dogs (Acoustic Version)
7. From Another Time

The set will be release on August 13 as 2CD digipak, double vinyl album, and deluxe box edition, limited to 1,000 copies. The deluxe edition will include the 2CD digipak plus 3 postcards, Tommy Bolin signature guitar pick, collectible patch and a souvenir pin.

Thanks to Jim Sheridan for the info.

Edel/earMUSIC has announced that the third single from Now what?! will be Above and Beyond. They are holding a competition for the graphic design of the new single:

earMUSIC and Deep Purple will pick one of your works, as an inspiration for the final cover for the new single, or possibly as “the” cover. Details about formats and B-sides are not known to this date.

We will also extract a lucky winner from everyone who has submitted a design and the German made Fame guitar signed by all members of Deep Purple in the picture will be yours.

Contest rules:

• The contest closes on July 28, 2013
• Send your artwork via e-Mail to win_earmusic@edel.com
• Minimum resolution: 2000x2000px
• 300dpi
• Do not include a Deep Purple logo or “Above and Beyond” writing
• Read the legalese on earMusic.com before submitting anything.

Thanks to BraveWords for the info.

Gustavo Solinas of the Joe Lynn Turner fan club is running a contest with 4 CDs as prizes:

1. The Jan Holberg Project At your service (autographed by Jan Holberg)
2. Avantasia The mystery of time (special edition with two bonus tracks)
3. Pushking The world as we love it — featuring JLT, Glenn Hughes, Graham Bonnet, Paul Stanley, Alice Cooper, Jeff Scott Soto, Jorn Lande, and others.
4. Sunstorm Emotional Fire

To enter the contest, you must answer one question, and you must post your answer either to Amigos de Joe Lynn Turner on Facebook or JLT Yahoo group.

And the question is:

JLT solo album “Second Hand Life” contains a song co-written by Joe Lynn Turner, Ritchie Blackmore¸ Jim Peterik and Roger Glover. What is the name of the song?

The contest closes on July 31, 2013.

Thanks to Gustavo Solinas for the info.

Blackmore’s Night have released a second promo video for the recent album’s Dancer and the Moon title track:

Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.

“Copenhagen 1972” is the second release of the earMUSIC “The official Deep Purple (overseas) live series”.

While “Paris 1975” features Deep Purple MKIII in their final days, “Copenhangen 1972” captures the legendard Deep Purple MKII at the peak of their career. Same as the Paris show, Copenhangen isn’t a new release.

The recording is basically the soundtrack to the “Live in Concert 1972/73” video (better known as “Scandinavian Nights (Live in Denmark 1972)” in Europe) and reintroduces three MKII bonus tracks of the video which were left out on the Sonic Zoom CD release. In addition to these tracks (recorded on May 29, 1973 in New York at Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long Island) a track called “1971 Australian Interview” has been included as additional bonus.

The main show, recorded at the KB Hallen in Copenhagen, Denmark dates to March 01, 1972 and shows Deep Purple right before the release of the “Machine Head” studio album, Ian Gillan introducing the opening number “Highway Star” as “What we got is a new song. It’s one of the next album we got coming up. …”. While a couple of Machine Head songs made the first of their now everlasting appearances, the show also included a rare live version of “Fireball” which had been replaced in the setlist by “Smoke On The Water” about a week later.

Originally recorded as a TV feature, the recording – although remastered – still shows some weaknesses soundwise, especially when compared to more prominent recordings like “Made In Japan”: during the first tracks, guitar and organ are low in the mix while while drums and vocals dominate the scene, but this gets better during the following numbers. Contrary to the sound the band performance shows no compromises.

The bonus tracks, sound better than the Copenhagen show but sadly offer just a small part of Deep Purple 1973. The interview is ok for a one time listen, offering standard topics like the audiences being “really fantastic”.

The discs are packaged into a slim digipak with one disc sitting right above the other which means disc juggling and some unavoidable scratches are going to happen every now and then.

The new Blackmore’s Night album Dancer and the Moon has entered the charts in several countries:

• Germany: #13
• Sweden: #22
• Norway: #24
• Czech Republic: #29
• Hungary: #30
• Finland: #31
• Austria: #39
• Switzerland: #40
• UK: #89 Top 100 / #16 Top 50 Indie chart
• Netherlands: #102
• US: #189 on Billboard 200 / #40 Indie chart / #3 on Billboard New Age chart

Note: links are provided whenever we could verify particular chart entry independently. The rest of the claims are due to the BraveWords post.

The much bootlegged Rainbow show from Philipshalle Düsseldorf on October 9, 1995, is now going to be released officially through Edel in Europe on August 23 and Eagle Rock in North America on August 27, on CD, DVD and digital download. That was the only performance of the last incarnation of Rainbow to be recorded on video professionally, for the German TV show Rockpalast.

Track listing:

1. Introduction
2. Spotlight Kid
3. Too Late For Tears
4. Long Live Rock’n’Roll / Black Night
5. Hunting Humans
6. Wolf To The Moon / Difficult To Cure
7. Keyboard Solo
8. Still I’m Sad
9. Man On The Silver Mountain
10. Temple Of The King
11. Black Masquerade
12. Ariel
13. Since You’ve Been Gone
14. Perfect Strangers
15. Sixteenth Century Greensleeves
16. Hall Of The Mountain King
17. Burn
18. Smoke On The Water

Ariel:

Black Masquerade:

Thanks to Rainbow Fanclan Legacy and Vladimir Drybushchak for the info.