Here is a summary of the recent developments on the touring fronts of Purple family.
Deep Purple‘s appearance at a Russian festival on June 12 has now been confirmed. They have also a new Italian open air tour pencilled in for July, which is still being shaped up and for now remains unconfirmed by the management.
Blackmore’s Night has lined up a string of dates in Germany and Czech Republic for September. They all come from both the official website and the promoter, although Prague venue is still TBA. There are phone numbers for German tickets and fans willing to dress up are advised to contact Susanne of the German fan club for preferential seating.
Jon Lord will perform in Norway on May 23 and in Ukraine on the 31st. He will also appear at the Classic Rock Night in Luxembourg on June 23.
Glenn Hughes‘ management has announced a UK tour for September with the last couple of dates still being finalized. Tickets for the confirmed dates went on sale last week.
Joe Lynn Turner will tour Brazil this May. This is a solo tour, his band will consist of local musicians. Of note is the venue one of the gigs — the (in)famous Blackmore Rock Bar in São Paulo. Joe’s PR people have also put together a new website to promote him in the region: JLT in Latin America.
According to their official website, Blackmore’s Night are “diligently working in the studio and going into final mix stage on the new CD”. No word on the release date yet.
WL: Is there any question that you’ve always wished someone would ask you in an interview, but no one ever has? If so, what would be the answer?
RB: Why do I not have a lower back tattoo. The answer is that it is called a tramp stamp, not that I have anything against tramps. We are all tramps at heart.
On April 9 EMI will release a 2 CD set called ‘Singles & E.P. Anthology ’68-’80’.
The package features 35 single A’s and B’s, alternate takes and live versions, spanning from the “Hush” single back in June 1968, the last regular UK single “You Keep On Moving” in March 1976 to the “Smoke On The Water” archive release back in October 1980.
Besides a bunch of well known and widely available tunes, the disc set also includes some tracks not everyone might have in his / her CD collection:
“Painted Horse”, an outtake from the “Who Do We Think We Are” sessions available on the 5″ “Smoke On The Water” CD-Single and the Japanese “New, Live & Rare” CD.
“The Bird Has Flown”, a session performance done by MK II for the BBC and finally
“Grabsplatter”, an outtake from the “In Rock” album, both available on the “Listen, Learn, Read On” 6CD set.
‘Singles & E.P. Anthology ’68-’80’ is released as a 2CD jewel case with an 8 page colour booklet featuring liner notes by Simon Robinson and some rare sleeve illustrations.
Sadly, the Burn cover went up in smoke to the Youtube heavens (my personal wish to Warner Music and their lawyers is to go bust ASAP), but here is another one that you might enjoy. Continue Reading »
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:
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.
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. 😉
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”.
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.
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.
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Deep Purple‘s appearance at a Russian festival on June 12 has now been confirmed. They have also a new Italian open air tour pencilled in for July, which is still being shaped up and for now remains unconfirmed by the management.
Blackmore’s Night has lined up a string of dates in Germany and Czech Republic for September. They all come from both the official website and the promoter, although Prague venue is still TBA. There are phone numbers for German tickets and fans willing to dress up are advised to contact Susanne of the German fan club for preferential seating.
Jon Lord will perform in Norway on May 23 and in Ukraine on the 31st. He will also appear at the Classic Rock Night in Luxembourg on June 23.
Glenn Hughes‘ management has announced a UK tour for September with the last couple of dates still being finalized. Tickets for the confirmed dates went on sale last week.
Joe Lynn Turner will tour Brazil this May. This is a solo tour, his band will consist of local musicians. Of note is the venue one of the gigs — the (in)famous Blackmore Rock Bar in São Paulo. Joe’s PR people have also put together a new website to promote him in the region: JLT in Latin America.
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