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Highway Star in TV Commercial
At the moment, there is a TV commercial in the USA for the american car “Lincoln Navigator“. The song in the background is Deep Purple’s “Highway Star”.
Thanks to Tracy Heyder and Caspianrex for the information.
Ian Gillan Interview
Ian Gillan is on the cover of the current issue (Issue 55) of Whisky Magazine, with the headline “Scotch on the rocks – Deep Purple and Uriah Heep talk malt.” The magazine has 1 page interview with Ian Gillan.
Gillan’s Inn – Promovideo
Watch the promovideo for Ian Gillan’s new solo album (Gillan’s Inn) here (wmv, 12,7 MB). You can read our special feature here. You can buy the album in THS shop.
Thanks to Nathan Lassiter and Immergent for the information.
Nick Simper concert in Austria
Nick Simper and his band The Good Old Boys make their first(?) trip outside the UK in September when they go to Austria to play the Planet Music Club in Vienna on September 9. Don’t go there expecting any Deep Purple Mk. I songs though. This band is about even older rock classics. A track list from a show in the UK in August last year looked like this:
Hound Dog
Fool For Your Stockings
Rock’n’Roll
Lucille
Everything I Learned ’bout The Blues
25 Rock
Back To Louisiana
Be Bop A Lu La
Dead End Station
I’m Ready
She’s Crazy As Me
Blues
Hideaway
Outro
Ian Gillan Interview
The current issue of the German magazine “Heavy” (Number 91), has a one page interview with Ian Gillan about “Gillan’s Inn”.
Ian Gillan DVD – Update
The upcoming DVD with Ian Gillan is a two-and-a-half hour documentary, full of music, lost archive footage, tales from Ian Gillan and interviews from members of Deep Purple (both past and present). It features Tony Iommi, Joe Satriani, Joe Elliot, Ronnie James Dio, Luciano Pavarotti, Jon Lord, Colin Towns, Sir Tim Rice, the late, George Best and many others. It’s filmed in Russia, England, Ireland, Wales and Italy. The “Smoke On The Water” story is filmed in Montreux, Switzerland.
On top of that, there’s another documentary made by Ian himself. He spent three years travelling around the globe with Deep Purple with his own camera. Then there’s the music extras, filmed during the Bananas tour. Enhanced by more archive footage of the Gillan band in action (never released on Video or DVD) and Ian on stage with Pavarotti. The music extras run to around an hour.
And there’s more. Even with the main documentary running at two-and-a-half hours, some of the best anecdotes and stories were still falling to the cutting room floor. So the best of the rest got compiled into mini-docs, some of which relate to chapters in the main film, others of which form their own sections.
There is also another complete documentary: “Ian Gillan on Tour with Deep Purple”. It’s an up-close and personal film of Ian Gillan touring with Deep Purple. It’s filmed both on-stage and off, during Deep Purple’s tour in Russia and the UK. It’s filmed at the parties, on the tour bus, in the dressing rooms and on stage with Ian and the rest of the band. That tour documentary currently runs at around two hours.
The plan is to release a triple-disc edition only over the internet, a double-disc edition available at concerts and a single-disc available in shops.
Thanks to Craig Hooper and CoolHead Productions for the info.
Steve Morse and Joe Satriani
Former Deep Purple guitarist (1993 – 94) Joe Satriani did a concert in Orlando, FL, USA last friday. During the encore (around 30 min), Eric Johnson and Steve Morse came up on stage and did “Red House” and “Going Down”.
Thanks to Joe Satriani for the information
Win Gillan’s Inn
If you haven’t notice it already, you can win a copy of Ian Gillan’s new solo album, “Gillan’s Inn“. Just visit our special feature for more details. You can also visit Jukebox, which run a competition (closing date is April 28, 23.59 GMT).
Thanks to Jukebox and Andy Lye for the information.
Ian Gillan DVD
Regarding Ian Gillan’s 40th anniversary (40 years as a professional musician), Coolheadproductions are currently finishing a 3 DVD set to be sold through Ian Gillan’s web site (although, plans may change). The DVD will include a very lengthy interview and tour documentary, clips, stills and much more. There will also be a shorter 2 DVD edition sold at concerts. It may be sold in stores later on.
Thanks to DPAS for the information.
Live At Montreux 1996
Deep Purple’s concert from Montreux, Switzerland 1996 will be released on CD and DVD next month. Here you can read reviews from those who saw the show, Makoto Ikeda, Nigel Young and GillansInn. You can buy the CD here and the DVD here.
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