As has been already strongly hinted by DP(o), a complete show from the Perfect Strangers tour will be released on DVD. Release is due on October 14 via Edel’s imprint Eagle Vision. The show was recorded in Sydney, Australia, on December 12, 1984.

Track list

1. Highway Star
2. Nobody’s Home
3. Strange Kind Of Woman
4. A Gypsy’s Kiss
5. Perfect Strangers
6. Under The Gun
7. Knocking At Your Back Door
8. Lazy (including Ian Paice drum solo)
9. Child In Time
10. Difficult To Cure
11. Jon Lord Keyboard Solo
12. Space Truckin’ (with Ritchie Blackmore guitar solo)
13. Black Night
14. Speed King
15. Smoke On The Water

Bonus feature: Tour documentary

Running time: 141 minutes

Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.

Deep Purple live at Montreux Jazz Festival (Montreux, Switzerland 2013-07-19)

Getting blasted by SOTW in Montreux, always a special experience.

For the rest, a typical, high-energy concert, with only three new tracks (Vincent Price, Above and Beyond, Body Line)

(Editors note: All the Time in the World was also played, so four new songs!)

and some new twists in the solos, which was more than welcome. The old stuff was belted out in the usual professional manner and kept the crowd energized. Like many others, I was there with my kids, and they just loved it. For me, I think the highlight came from an odd place: The Mule was – dare I say it? Better than on Made in Japan.

My only regret: not enough new stuff. I’ve always held DP in my “top spot*, hardly a day goes by (since 1973) without me listening to their music. So for me, a concert is many things, but hearing new stuff should always be part of the experience.

Finally, a note on a long-running topic: IG’s voice. It was perfect. He managed old and new material without a strain and I wondered why there are so many words written about this in the comments!

review by Another Martin

Front Row: Ian Paice and Ian Wright (DrumWright owner). Back row left to right: Chris Wright, Ryan Dobson, Julian Parkes, Ronny Grinstein, Mark and Christine Norman, Vance Withers.

A year ago Pearl Drums in cooperation with Ian Paice and his local drum store DrumWright produced a very limited edition signature drum kit. Grand total of 12 kits were available and each came with a promise of an invitation to a private dinner with Paicey himself. Music Radar reports that five lucky fans made it to Oxfordshire for the dinner, with another one been invited to a meet’n’greet when Deep Purple played in Sydney, Australia.

Ronny Grindstein travelled to the dinner from Norway. “For me, this is a 35 year dream come true”, he said.

Julian Parkes travelled to the dinner from Chester. “It was an incredibly enjoyable evening. I am sure I am not the only attendee who will cherish the memory for ever.”

Thanks to Music Radar for the info.

More Black Than Purple has announced that

[…] a RAINBOW box set provisionally entitled A LIGHT IN THE DARK is being released. It contains many previously unreleased tracks, and spans the band’s years from 1975 – 1984. More news soon, but it could be out before the end of the year.

Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.

Blackmore’s Night have appeared today, July 16 in Bayerischer Fernsehen programme Abendschau.

Warning: these are high resolution videos, you can select lower resolution by viewing directly from BR.de here and here.

Interview with Ritchie and Candice (complete with a facepalm moment of showing footage of Tommy Bolin while introducing the “legendary songwriter and guitar player”):
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Miming to Dancer and the Moon in the studio:
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Thanks to Kevin Dixon for the info.

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.