Classic Rock magazine reports that there is a new live compilation in the works by Purple Records. It will be released in November and will mark the 10th anniversary of the label. The double CD compilation will be called Space Truckin’ Round the World Live 68-76.

Track list:

CD 1
1 Hush (Inglewood 1968)
2 River Deep Mountain High (Inglewood 1968)
3 Hey Joe (Inglewood 1968)
4 Wring That Neck (Aachen 1970)
5 Into The Fire (Stockholm 1970)
6 Mandrake Root (Montreux 1969)
CD 2
1 Child In Time (Granada TV 1970)
2 Lazy (Denmark 1972)
3 Strange Kind Of Woman (Denmark 1972)
4 Burn (San Diego 1974)
5 Mistreated (San Diego 1974)
6 The Gypsy (Paris 1975)
7 Lady Double Dealer (Paris 1975)
8 Wild Dogs (Tokyo 1975)
9 Love Child (Tokyo 1975)

Liner notes are promised to include history of the band with photos and details of all the gigs concerned.

Thanks to TheRockRadio.com for the info.

Scottish music students interviewed about rehearsing the Concerto for Group and Orchestra with Jon Lord on keyboards. This Monday October 5 they will perform the Concerto at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall.

Talking about their very first rehearsal with Jon Lord:

– The first time he came into the room we were having a little groove going, and he just sat at the keys and played along. It was like, ‘wow! We are jamming with Jon Lord.’ It was a bizarre experience in a great way, remembers guitarist Thomas Temple, 19 years old (photo left).

– He gets right in there and plays along. Afterwards he gives us tips on little things – ‘the dynamics should be quieter’ – or louder, or ‘that should be a Bb there’ – suggestions here and there for different parts and how they should be played.

– But the freedom he gives us is really cool. He is very free with things such as solo sections, who plays where and making our own sound fit the piece, says Thomas Temple.

Grant Kilpatrick, also 19, (photo right) will be the other guitarist at the concert. He is particularly thrilled with Jon Lord’s approach to rehearsals.

– He works at a very relaxed pace. It’s a pleasant atmosphere to work in.

– This was a surprise at first because you have this perception that Jon Lord, being a very seasoned musician, is going be much more intense than the tutors you get at college. But he was the opposite. Completely laid back and very, very inspiring. Even just sitting and talking to him you feel he has a lot of wisdom.

Read the full interview on Jon Lord’s official website, JonLord.org.

As we have reported previously, Armenia is honouring the 20th anniversary of the Rock Aid Armenia project. On October 1 Ian Gillan together with Tony Iommi, Geff Downes and the project organizer Jon Dee have arrived to Yerevan to take part in the Armenia Grateful 2 Rock celebrations. On October 2 they were received by the Prime Minister of the country who awarded them with the republic’s Orders of Honour. In addition to Gillan, Iommi, Downes and Dee, Dave Gilmour and Brian May were also decorated with the Order of Honour.

Ritchie Blackmore who also took part in the Rock Aid Armenia was awarded `Honorary Medal of the Prime Minister of Armenia’, along with other participants — Brian Eno, Bryan Adams, Bruce Dickinson, Roger Taylor, Roger Daltrey, Alex Lifeson, Paul Rodgers, Keith Emerson, Chris Squire, tennisist John McEnroe and Brian Eno’s wife/producer/manager Anthea Norman-Taylor.

Thanks to Ara Tadevosyan for the info.

Connecticut based graphic artist Ioannis has been working with Deep Purple (among other bands) for more than 10 years now. This time they have partnered to produce 25 copies of the 2004 North American “Machine Head” tour commemorative artwork. Each copy is numbered and signed by Ioannis and all 5 of the band members. All proceeds from the sales are donated to the T.J. Martell Foundation for fighting cancer.

The artwork can be purchased at the Dangerous Age.

Thanks to BraveWords for the heads up, and to Dangerous Age for permission to reproduce the artwork.

BBC has announced that Don Airey will appear on the Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show on October 9. The show broadcasts between 21:00 and midnight on BBC Radio 6 and online, and will be available for online listening for 7 days after that.

Update [Oct 6]: The interview with Don was recorded last night and, according to the show producer “Don has a lot of great stories”. Tune in this Friday to BBC Radio 6.

Thanks to BraveWords for the heads up and to Ian Callaghan for the additional info.

British newpaper Birmingham Post has published an interview they did with Steve Morse:

Any news of a new Deep Purple album?
We’re always trying to get started, but these tours keep popping up. Recording is very nearly a volunteer endeavour, and touring pays most of the bills. Despite that, as a group we are committed to doing a new record soon.

When is the Steve Morse Band coming to the UK?
One problem keeps coming up. Compared to US clubs, European or UK promoters ask for more notice up front. Deep Purple is always holding me every month for tours and ideas that are in the works, therefore, when there is a hole in the schedule, it’s usually with not enough notice to book a tour outside of the US. So, the answer is when DP decides to schedule some time off!

Read more about the hay bales, touring Antarctica, and Christmas shopping at the Birmingham Post website.

Back in 2004 a Polish label Metalmind made a deal with Purple’s management to release a 1996 performance in Katovice with limited distribution in Eastern Europe. The album, titled Live Encounters (read our review) saw the light of the day on DVD, CD and vinyl, all of which eventually found their way to Amazon and was available worldwide.

Metalmind is re-releasing a remastered version of the album on CD on October 19. Once again, it is claimed it will be available in Eastern Europe and Greece only. The digipak version will include complete show, while regular jewel case version will skip (for some reason) No One Came.

Vital info:

Label: Metal Mind Records

Cat. No.: MASS CD 0999DD
Barcode: 5907785035591

Cat. No.: MASS CD 1000DGD (CD Digipak)
Barcode: 5907785035607 (CD Digipak)

Format: CD / CD DG
Genre: classic/hard rock
Release date: 19.10.2009 Eastern Europe + Greece

Tracklist

CD1
1. Fireball
2. Maybe I’m a Leo
3. Vavoom: Ted the Mechanic
4. Pictures of Home
5. Black Night
6. Cascades: I’m Not Your Lover / Steve Morse’s solo
7. Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
8. Woman from Tokyo
9. No One Came (digipak only)

CD2
1. Rosa’s Cantina
2. Smoke on the Water / Jon Lord’s solo
3. When a Blind Man Cries
4. Speed King
5. Perfect Strangers
6. Hey Cisco
7. Highway Star

Thanks to Metalmind for the info.

Over the Rainbow is currently on tour and will hit Sweden for their first shows since Sweden Rock Festival this summer. If you can get to their Malmö show on October 13 you might be interested to know that the official Blackmore’s Night Scandinavian Fan Club is running a competition where you can win tickets to the show at Kulturbolaget.

To have a chance to win, simply answer the questions below along with your name and city in an email to: otrmalmo@blackmoresnight.nu no later than 2 October. Please put “OTR Malmo” in the subject line.

1. What was the title of the first Rainbow album with Joe Lynn Turner?
2. Bobby Rondinelli has played at KB before as a support act to Glenn Hughes. What was the name of that band?

Winners will be selected at random from all those who have answered the questions correctly, and will be informed by email. Only one entry per person.

Clue: All answers are available at the Blackmore’s Night Scandinavian Fan Club site. Good luck!

There are 2 tickets and backstage passes up for auction on ebay for the forthcoming uk tour.
100% of the money raised will go to the Teenage Cancer Trust.
The tickets and passes have been kindly supplied by Roger Glover.
For more info and to place a bid go here

thanks to Lee Worrall.

More than 40 years after Deep Purple first started touring and making records, their multifacetted musical heritage not only lives on, it is continually evolving through projects featuring other musicians, and some of them are very young.

In 2009 audiences across the world are still experiencing Deep Purple. New fans come to the flock all the time. Often they are offspring of more experienced Deep Purple fans, who have now grown old enough to understand and enjoy Deep Purple onstage.

But 40 years in the business also means some of Deep Purple’s older fans have become ambitious musicians themselves wishing to keep the Purple flame alive. Throughout Europe, Deep Purple tribute bands are creating specially themed events where they are joined by one of the original Deep Purple members.

Ian Paice was one of the first to partake in these evenings of ‘something different’ from the Purple Family. He has appeared at numerous evenings of first a drum clinic, then a Deep Purple tribute show with local musicians. Nick Simper has been doing entire Mark 1 themed concerts in Austria, Glenn Hughes has done Mark 3&4 shows in Scandinavia, and Ian Gillan has taken up singing with orchestras.

Now appears another dimension. Playing the music of your childhood hero with your childhood hero is one thing. It’s another experience to be a very young musician, struggling to master your instrument and get to do it with the help and backing of someone of Deep Purple’s calibre. Nevertheless, this is what is going on in Scotland at the moment.

Music students from music schools and colleges in Edinburgh are gathered together in a special project aiming to perform Jon Lord’s Concerto for Group and Orchestra with Jon Lord in their city on October 5. An entire philharmonic orchestra of 100 young people, these are not Deep Purple fans with massive record collections. Rather, they are keen and energetic kids revelling in the opportunity to learn from one of the masters.

– I couldn’t believe my eyes when Jon Lord walked into the college, says guitarist Grant Kilpatrick when Jon Lord first came to Edinburgh in February to rehearse the rock band.

– It is a great privilege to perform with him especially in this piece. We all know Smoke on The Water but this is something else!

So while the current formation of Deep Purple is preparing to sow more musicals seeds on a November-December trek across the UK and the European continent, Jon Lord is gearing up a gang of Scottish kids to do the Concerto on a very special evening in Edinburgh.

Thus, the music of the Deep Purple family lives on and continues to evolve through projects featuring other musicians. Give yourself a treat, go see a different kind of show.

Jon Lord with the Stevenson College Orchestra at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall on October 5. Book your tickets.

Deep Purple on tour – UK, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, France, Italy.

Read also: Scottish premier for the Concerto.