On September 7 Ian Paice hosted a tribute to his brother in law and in arms, the late great Jon Lord. The concert took place in Palermo, Italy, where he performed with the student orchestra of Conservatorio Vincenzo Bellini conducted by Alberto Maniaci.
This could very well be the first time he have performed Jon’s Bourée:
Speaking if Paicey, last week he was on the Classic Rock Radio discussing the upcoming Sunflower jam and the new Deep Purple album. The interview is now available for online replay (MP3, 42MB).
Thanks to Federica1401 for the video and Yvonne Osthausen for the info.
A very interesting interview with Nick Simper from Canadian blog Music Legends published back in August, which unfortunately have received very little attention. Nick talks about the current live music scene in Britain, the story of Hush and why it turned out so different from the Billy Joe Royal’s version, the importance of Vanilla Fudge influence to the development of Deep Purple style, and many other things. Continue Reading »
Glenn Hughes will appear on the BBC Breakfast show in the morning of Wednesday, September 19. He will be talking about his appearance at the Marshall Amplification 50 Years Of Loud LIVE event, Black Country Communion, and more.
The show runs between 6am and 9am on BBC One and from within the UK can also be viewed live online.
Sheffield online newspaper The Star has an illuminating piece on DPAS founder Simon Robinson and how on Earth he came to possession of the Deep Purple archives:
“Things were a bit more lax back then,” shrugs Simon Robinson, who has since stored the tapes at the renovated Aizlewood Business Centre in Nursery Street.
“Before I was given responsibility they were being kept in this leaking warehouse where the door was left unlocked all day. I couldn’t believe it. You wouldn’t leave The Beatles master tapes like that – and Deep Purple are just as important to rock fans.
“I said ‘Let me look after them properly’, and the management company agreed. Simple as that really.
European tribute band Demon’s Eye has teamed up with Doogie White and performed a tribute to Jon Lord in Balver Höhle, Germany. This is how Concerto for Group and Orchestra sounds like …without the orchestra:
Keyboardist Florian Prtisch and guitar player Mark Zyk were definitely inspired that night.
Thanks to Karl-Heinz Baier and Yvonne Osthausen for the info.
Glenn Hughes is doing promotions for the upcoming BCC album Afterglow. On September 7 he gave an interview to Pete Feenstra for Get Ready To Rock: Continue Reading »
Glenn “I don’t wanna live in the past” Hughes raised the issue of Mk.3 reunion once again in an interview to the Cleveland CBS affiliate radio WCNX. And he is pointing finger at Blackmore’s camp for it not happening:
Jon, David and I were trying to get it together. […] We couldn’t get ahold of [Ritchie]. We sent carrier pigeons, and the Pony Express. But nobody at ‘Castle Blackmore’ answered the door. It wasn’t meant to be.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we did something, David and I. Something might pop its head in the next two years.
Is there a specific project in mind?
No! (But) David and I have talked about this weekly since Jon died. How we can do something to keep the flame burning. But we don’t want to hinder the heritage of the band, some bands get back together and sound bloody awful. It’s the 40th anniversary of Burn next year. I’m not giving you a hint to something that’s gonna happen, but you just never know.
A rather interesting interview with Jon Lord (which needs some proofreading, badly). This one was conducted in 2009 and published now after Jon’s death:
Hush was the first single wasn’t it?
Yeah. And just an instant hit. Well again Nick Simper had said when we started rehearsing and said what should we do? You know to do it slowly (Yeah) that was my idea I just thought it was a great song. But Hush I think was Nick Simper’s idea. He had heard it around the clubs, I think it was a Joe South song and a guy called Billy Joel Royal had recorded it . It had this slight ‘Bo Diddlyish’ samba sort of beat thing going (yeah) which we translated into a more rocky thing and off we went. We did it just because it seemed like fun but the American record company leapt on it and said It’s a hit and indeed it was.
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