Geffen will be releasing a yet another deluxe remastered edition of the 1987 Whitesnake album later this month in North America. The CD+DVD package will include the original American album tracks and bonus tracks from Live… In The Shadow Of The Blues on the CD and four original promo video plus four live tracks taken from Live… In The Still Of The Night on the DVD.

Disc One:

Still Of The Night
Give Me All Your Love
Bad Boys
Is This Love
Here I Go Again ‘87
Straight For The Heart
Looking For Love
Children Of Night
You’re Gonna Break
My Heart Again
Crying In The Rain
Don’t Turn Away

Bonus Tracks –- Live… In The Shadow Of The Blues:

Give Me All Your Love
Is This Love
Here I Go Again
Still Of The Night
Here I Go Again ‘87
Straight For The Heart
Looking For Love
Children Of The Night
You’re Gonna Break
My Heart Again
Crying In The Rain
Don’t Turn Away

Disc Two:

The Videos Trilogy:

Still Of The Night
Here I Go Again 87
Is This Love
Give Me All Your Love

Live… In The Still Of The Night:

Give Me All Your Love
Is This Love
Here I Go Again
Still Of The Night

The package is due out on April 20th in the US and April 27th in Canada. Those of you who can’t get enough of that scrumptious Tawny Kitaen, get your wallets ready:

Thanks to BraveWords for the info.

As we reported earlier, on March 28 Ian Gillan appeared on the Hay Superstar show which was broadcast on Shant Tv in Armenia. He sat in as a honorary judge for the competition where aspiring musicians performed Deep Purple songs. The song selection was rather peculiar, certainly shunning away from the greatest hits formula, and the set list included Fingers To The Bone, Wasted Sunsets, Anya, Haunted, Maybe I’m A Leo, Don’t Make Me Happy, Black Night, When A Blind Man Cries, Demon’s Eye, Walk On, and the grand finale of obligatory Smoke On The Water, with Big Ian getting up on stage and singing a couple of choruses.

Video of the whole 2 hour show is available at ArmStudio.fr and Megavideo:

For those who prefer just the highlights, there are several clips on Youtube.
Fingers to the Bone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-6WVtw1TE
Wasted Sunsets:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzfuWSTdK2c
Maybe I’m a Leo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrMZPfQZgGI
Demon’s Eye:

Smoke on the Water:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLk6XXzkGc8

Thanks to Nigel Young for the info.

The year was 1984, the spring was in the air, the video machines were all the rage, and Deep Purple were celebrating their reunion with a red carpet press conference in New York City. The banjo player stayed in his dungeon though. Or something 😉 Continue Reading »

A California company is marketing a 2007 Lodi Zinfandel with a Mk1-ish label design (and, we assume, appropriate colour), and a name of a band which recorded one of the first albums the winemaker had bought. The Gray Market Report has the story:

Turns out McDonald has trademarked Deep Purple as a wine, and that under US law, there’s no possible confusion between products. Despite the recent album cover, one is an aging rock band, and the other is a fresh young wine.

But it turns out that the band shops at Target, because shortly after the wine’s release, McDonald got a call from the band’s manager, who was very excited about the wine, in a good way. He wanted to know if there were opportunities for joint promotions (no, not THAT kind of joint. Well, maybe not.)

McDonald shipped a band member a bottle of wine, though he hasn’t yet heard whether or not it inspired the group to burn down a recording studio. So we might yet see “This Deep Purple concert sponsored by Deep Purple!” Now if McDonald can just use his smooth PR skills to tell them there have to better ways to announce your availability to groupies than that album cover.

Never mind the “recent” album cover (you know, the one with a glass of wine; yeah, it was a comeback album of sorts, but it was in 1976), Gray Market Report it’s a wine and food blog after all. Music history is not their specialty.

And their verdict was

Deep Purple is the way Zinfandel used to be back when Deep Purple had its pick of underripe groupies — spicy, medium-bodied and savory, with red fruit flavors and an earthy, tarry note.

So apparently it’s good news for the lovers of fermented grape juice. Me, I like my juice fermented from malted barley (maybe with a touch of honey), and seasoned with noble hops. 😉

Cheers!

At a press conference in Yerevan yesterday, March 27, Ian Gillan said that his performances with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra will be released on DVD which will be available internationally. He praised orchestra’s professionalism and added that he considers Armenia his “spiritual motherland”.

The proceeds from both shows as well as from the sales of the DVD will go to the reconstruction of Gyumri music school.

On March 27th Big Ian and Rock Aid Armenia project initiator Jon Dee met with the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan who expressed gratitude for all their assistance to the country since 1988.

Thanks to News.am and BraveWords for the info.

The official Deep Purple online store is running a promotion to celebrate it’s recent opening. If you spend over £20 they’ll give you a £5 discount (enter voucher code DP-WTX1-BLMT-GTW3 at the checkout) and you will be automatically entered into a prize draw. Two winners will receive a set of DVDs plus an autographed photo of the band. The DVD set will include:

• Glenn Hughes: Live In Australia
• Deep Purple: Bombay Calling
• Gillan’s Inn (Deluxe Tour Edition)
• Hoochie Coochie Men: Live At The Basement
• The Steve Morse Band: Live in Baden-Baden Germany
• Ian Gillan: Live In Anaheim
• Jon Lord: With Pictures
• Deep Purple: Total Abandon
• Living Loud: Loud & Live
• Ian Paice: On The Drums
• Steve Morse: Live in New York & Cruise Control

This promotion runs until May 31st.

Click on the logo will take you directly to the store.

During his visit to Armenia Ian Gillan will appear on local TV on March 28. He was invited to take part in the Hay Superstar show (which is a local equivalent of Pop Idol) and he “gladly accepted”. Three of the show participants will perform Deep Purple songs and then perform two more songs together with Big Ian himself. The show will be broadcast on Shant TV.

He will also perform the planned solo shows on March 26 and 27 at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan with the State Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Friedemann Riehle.

Thanks to Armenians.net and Kevid Dixon for the info.

The band formerly known as Black Country got together at a Joe Bonamassa show in Riverside, CA, March 17, to make their first live appearance.

Glenn Hughes has promsied an announcement of the new band name “soon”.

Russian promoters have announced that Deep Purple will headline this year the biggest rock festival in Russia Rock nad Volgoi, which will be held on June 12 in an open field in the outskirts of Samara. The inaugural festival in 2009 featured Ken Hensley, Apocalyptica and a variety of local bands. It attracted 167,000 visitors and was so successful that the organisers decided to turn it into an annual event.

Thanks to deep-purple.ru for the info.

The brand new official Deep Purple video channel has opened:

Encompassing the band’s ongoing 42 year career, and backed by multi label collaboration, Deep Purple is proud to release DPTV as part of the growing MUZU phenomena:

http://www.muzu.tv/deeppurple

MUZU.TV is a video streaming site dedicated to music. MUZU.TV serves high quality video and provides a constant stream of Deep Purple videos as part of the viewers’ play list. In the coming weeks more video content will be uploaded, and we can confirm that the stunning 2010 remix of Rock Aid Armenia’s “Smoke On The Water” will be launched through the site.

The channel aslo has an RSS feed to keep you updated of all the official video developments.