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Gillan video channel
Ian Gillan’s official video channel has opened up on YouTube. The channel will post videos spanning his solo career as well as those with Deep Purple.
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Jon Lord speaks on his Blues Project
The Jon Lord Blues Project played on April 7 at the Rother Bluestage festival in Germany. The band also includes Miller Anderson on guitar and vocals, Maggie Bell on vocals, Colin Hodgkinson on bass, and Pete York on drums.
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UK tour goes on sale
Tickets for the short Deep Purple tour of UK are going on sale this week.
Presale for Glasgow starts April 14, register at TicketSoup.com. Presale for the other three shows starts April 13, but we do not have any information on how to get into the presale. Post it in the comments and, hopefully, Svante will be able to approve them in time.
Update: the presale will be available through Planet Rock VIP Club (thanks to Mike McBain).
Forevermore chart positions
Whitesnake’s Forevermore came out in March and made into Top 50 charts in several countries. The first-week chart positions were as follows:
- Sweden: #6
- Finland: #11
- Czech Republic: #15
- Germany: #16
- Switzerland: #17
- Austria: #27
- Italy: #41
- Netherlands #42
- Poland: #42
- USA: #49
The album sold around 12,000 copies in the US in the first week of it’s release. Which is not an awful lot given the size of that country…
Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.
Born Again again
Born Again will be re-released in the UK via Universal/Sanctuary as a 2CD Deluxe Edition on May 30.
Track listing:
Disc 1:
- Trashed
- Stonehenge
- Disturbing the Priest
- The Dark
- Zero the Hero
- Digital Bitch
- Born Again
- Hot Line
- Keep it Warm
Disc 2:
- The Fallen (previously unreleased album session outtake)
- Stonehenge (extended version)
- Hot Line
- War Pigs
- Black Sabbath
- The Dark
- Zero the Hero
- Digital Bitch
- Iron Man
- Smoke on the Water
- Paranoid
Disc 1 is a straight copy of the original album, most likely remastered, but not remixed. On the second disc, The Fallen is a studio outtake from the album sessions, Stonehenge is a 5 minute long version, and tracks 3 to 11 are from the BBC Friday Rock Show broadcast of the Reading Festival, Saturday, August 27, 1983.
Black-sabbath.com covers the release in great detail, including what, why and how.
Take advantage from the low Pound and preorder it from Amazon UK.
American dates confirmed
Almost all dates on the North American tour in June have been confirmed by Deep Purple’s management. Only June 7 in Boston and the three Canadian dates still remain unconfirmed at the time of this writing, despite tickets being on sale for quite a while. Stay tuned for further developments.
The tour is being billed as Songs That Built Rock and the band will be accompanied by a 30-piece orchestra.
Full details in our Purple calendar.
Update: As of April 8 all North American dates are confirmed.
Paice talks about new Deep Purple album
We have yet to see something official on this but according to reports in our own comments and on the DP Hub, Deep Purple has been recording new material at Ian Paice’s studio in Spain.
Apparently 9 complete songs were recorded in March with Ian Paice overseeing the project. The band have 7-8 other unfinished ideas that they want to finish in a future session and later they will choose the best 10 songs to include on the album. At this time, it looks like the record is produced by Ian Paice and Roger Glover.
Paice said that the musical direction on the songs is definitely harder than the last album Rapture of the Deep. “The kids want to hear hard rock from us”, Paice said.
Thanks to Roberto, fdr@DPHub and Hristo Yankov.
WhoCares release details
Gillan and Iommi’s charity project WhoCares will release it’s debut single on May 6 via Edel/eARmusic. The single will contain two brand new songs Out Of My Mind and Holy Water. Jon Lord, Nicko McBrain, Jason Newsted and Linde Lindström (HIM) also contributed to the project.
The single will be available in following formats:
- CD with bonus video clip of Out Of My Mind and a 40-minute documentary that shows Gillan’s and Iommi’s involvement with the Armenia cause over the years
- digital download for all of the above
- 7" vinyl limited to 1000 units worldwide
Ian Gillan said:
The idea came as Tony and I flew back from Yerevan together after being inspired by the enthusiasm of everyone there to get this thing done. It was brilliant working with Tony again after all these years; he makes life easy for a singer. The other guys need no introduction do they!?
Tony Iommi added
Some twenty years ago when the call came, I thought, well at least I’ve helped, but it was going to Armenia and seeing the actual devastation caused by the earthquake that really made me realise that funds were still needed. Despite all the money that was raised last time, here was a music school doing their best, forgotten, in basic tin sheds. After the warmth and honour bestowed upon us during our visit, we just had to help make a difference and get the school re-built. And what better way than to
hook up with some of rock’s greatest players and my old mate Ian, both an honour and a pleasure.
All proceeds from this release will go towards rebuilding a musical school in the town of Gyumri that was devastated in the 1988 earthquake.
Coverdale on That Metal Show
David Coverdale will be co-hosting That Metal Show (episode 703) on a US cable/satellite channel VH1. The episode will air this Saturday, April 2, at 11 PM EDT/PDT and will be repeated in the following days. Check your local listings. VH1 also makes available past episodes online, but as it’s being run by an Evil Company™, it tells me that they ‘are unable to offer this video to users in my region’.
Thanks to BraveWords for the info.
Deep Purple new CD artwork revealed — April Fools
Deep Purple On a Roll set for release soon, the natural successor to Deep Purple In Rock.
Says Roger Glover of the new CD:
We felt that not only was this a natural progression for the band, it continues our theme of food which has become evident in our recent releases. We really are on a roll with this one.
Lead singer Ian Gillan goes on to say:
Bananas, Rapture of the Deep (which was guitarist Steve Morse’s ode to the Chicago style pizza that he is so fond of), and now ‘on a roll’ not only describes how we feel at the moment as a band, but encompasses our great love affair with the sandwich.
In recent years the trend for many rock artists has been to release their CD in conjunction with supermarkets to counter the loss of many local record shops. To mark this epic release, however, we are proud to announce that this new CD will be available in all 35,000 branches of Subway (Eat Fresh!) worldwide.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing