Deep Purple will appear on the German TV station RTL at 20.15 (GMT+1) tonight. The show is called "Die
ultimative Chart Show, Die erfolgreichsten Rockstars aller Zeiten"
Thanks to Joerg Reichert for the information.

Norwegian radio, Kanal 24, will broadcast the classic rock show, "Grasonen", on friday, which will feature an interview with Ian Gillan.
Thanks to Atle for the information.

Ian Gillan will guesting the US radio station, Rockline, the 5 of April. You can listen live over the internet at KGON or at WKLR. The broadcast is between 8.30 – 10.00 pm pacific time.
Thanks to Rockline for the information.

Roger Glover has written a few toughts about the new release of the movie, “The Butterfly Ball”, which he was involved in, back in 1974. Here is a few bits.

When it was released in 1974 it was, to my relief, very well received in various
countries around Europe. However, it failed to ignite a broad interest in the UK
and so the idea for staging a concert at the Albert Hall came about as a means
of getting some attention for it in my home country.

The Butterfly Ball album is something that I am very proud of, and the concert
was undoubtedly one of the best nights of my life, but the movie does it no
justice.

Read Roger Glover’s full letter here.
You can order the DVD in our shop.
Thanks to Roger Glover for the information.

The upcoming solo album from Ian Gillan, “Gillan’s Inn” will feature these songs and artists on double sided disc (CD one side and DVD the other).
The CD side.
1. Unchain Your Brain (with Joe Satriani)
2. Bluesy Blue Sea (with Janick Gers)
3. Day Late And A Dollar Short (with Uli Jon Roth and Ronnie James Dio)
4. Hang Me Out To Dry (with Joe Satriani)
5. Men Of War (with Steve Morse & Johnny Rzeznik)
6. When A Blind Man Cries (with Jeff Healey)
7. Sugar Plum (with Roger Glover & Ian Paice)
8. Trashed (with Tony Iommi, Roger Glover and Ian Paice)
9. No Worries (New track)
10. Demon’s Eye (with Jeff Healey, Jon Lord and Michael Lee)
11. Smoke On The Water (with Steve Morse, Johnny Rzeznik, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Robby Takac and The Mississauga Singers)
12. No Laughing In Heaven (with Roger Glover and Ian Paice)
13. Speed King (with Joe Satriani)
14. Loving On Borrowed Time (with Steve Morris, Steve Morse, and Uli Jon Roth)
15. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (with Joe Elliott)

The DVD side.

The upcoming DVD from Ian Gillan, “Gillan’s Inn” will feature…

• Complete album in 5.1 surround sound.
• Smoke on the Water choose your own mix with your choice of Joe Satriani, Steve Morse, Jeff Healey and more.
• Making of Gillan’s Inn featuring in the studio footage of Ian Gillan, Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Joe Satriani, Ronnie James Dio, Michael Lee, and Jeff Healey.
• Bootleg basement-amateur, audience shot footage lifted from unauthorised bootleg DVDs. Tracks include “Speed King” and “When A Blind Man Cries” by Deep Purple (with Joe Satriani on guitar) from Flanders Expo, Gent, Belgium on June 18, 1994.
• Discography
• Hand written song lyrics by Ian Gillan.
• Track commentary by Ian Gillan.
• Liner notes written by Jeff Miers, Music Critic for The Buffalo News.
• Witness Protection Program – a selection of never before seen photos featuring the bonus track “Can I Get A Witness”.
• Bonus Track – “Demon’s Eye” featuring Jeff Healey, Jon Lord & Michael Lee
• Special DVD Launcher ROM features that enable fans to access another version of “Smoke On The Water” featuring Steve Morris.
• Pre-ripped AAC and WMA files for the unrestricted uploading of personal surround mixes to portable devices from computer ROM drives.

You can order the CD/DVD in our shop.
Thanks to Ian Gillan for the information.

There will be a new version of the Didi Zill’s Deep Purple book. Didi says that the Deep Purple book was the first and some mistakes were made. The new version will have the texts in German and English and a new chapter will be added. Didi met Deep Purple recently and the new chapter will include new pics from the current line-up.
Thanks to Daniele Purrone for the information.

A new interview with Don Airey is done by the magazine “Egypt Today“. Check out the interview here. There is also a story here.
Thanks to Egypt Today for the information.

We’ve gotten a report from Reinder Dijkhuis regarding the European tour edition of Rapture Of The Deep — according to the package labelling, it apparently won’t play in PCs:

Consumer warning to continental European Deep Purple fans: Do not buy the Tour Edition of Rapture of the Deep!

Even though I already own a copy on vinyl, I’d been eagerly awaiting the Tour Edition of Deep Purple’s Rapture of the Deep, because there’s a whole CD full of bonus material including several live tracks. (BTW, I’ve warmed a lot to the record since my initial review.) Today, I finally saw it in the shops, but as I was waiting in line at the checkout, I noticed a “Copy
Protected – Not Playable On PC” on the back, with a logo that I hadn’t seen before, so I put it back.

80% of all my music listening is done on either the iBook or the home PC, which means that the “Copy Protection” (assuming it works at all) reduces the value of that bonus CD from € 19.90 (the price at which I was willing to buy it before noticing the logo) to € 4. And that assumes that the “Copy Protection” doesn’t affect playback on my DVD player or Diskman (which “Copy Protection” CDs invariably does in my experience), and that it isn’t some sort of rootkit-based crap that would try to compromise my computers (they’re likely to be immune but who knows), which would give the disc a negative value. So back into the bins it goes, and I’m warning
Deep Purple fans in continental Europe to be very cautious with this disk, and when in doubt, not to buy it. Does anyone know if the UK edition is clean?

You can read his complete article (and any further updates) at his blog: http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/archives/001493.html

Jon Lord and Pete York are playing together at the Boogie Woogie Blues Festival in Kitzbühel on Saturday Jul 15, 2006. Tickets go on sale Mar 6, and apparently can be ordered via an email to christoph.steinbach@chello.at

Thanks go to Gerhard Jahnel for this information.

Pictures Of Home / Things I Never Said / Wrong Man / Ted The Mechanic / Living Wreck / Rapture Of The Deep / Before Time Began / Mary Long / Contact Lost / Well Dressed Guitar / Perfect Strangers / Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye / Space Truckin´ / Highway Star / Smoke On The Water / Hush / Black Night

A decent and proper only, surely not their best concert of Rapture Tour.

Set list same as in whole February. But they cut out Junkyard Blues, put some guitar tunes instead and show they play and get a pay for almost two hours (a week or two earlier they played both Junkyard and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye as a pair).

Good opening and powerful playing, but the band seemed to be tired of this leg of the tour. Maybe there was some lack of excitment. Most of the songs were not played with much enthusiasm (or maybe I overdosed Astoria and other shows tapes?).

Very nice guitar part somewhere in the middle of Living Wreck (again reminds us how DP would play in the early seventies).

So-so Before Time Began, even Mary Long did not surprise, I guess. Nice Space Truckin’, excellent Highway Star again with the intro in style of the seventies, Smoke on the Water (with Steve singing support/backing vocals !). The encore still the same.

Absolutely the best of musicians was Don Airey – 200% of himself, did his best, no doubt. His sound, reaching the best Hammond tradition, exceeds any expectations now.

However, I must say the audience was pleased with the performance. No madness here, but real joy.

Dominik Bednarski