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This is Purple Family news in more ways than one.
Roger Glover and Don Airey have been involved with production of Roger’s daughter Gillian solo album. The album is called Red Handed and is planned for release in April. Roger was involved in mixing and commissioned string arrangements, in which Don Airey also took part.
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In the early 1960s Ritchie Blackmore started out as a session player for Joe Meek’s music productions and performed in several bands. He was member of instrumental combo The Outlaws and backed Heinz (playing on his top ten hit JUST LIKE EDDIE), Screaming Lord Sutch, Glenda Collins and BOZ among others.
It is almost 40 years since Joe Meek died (3rd Feb 1967). A special commemoration night at the National Film Theatre in London will occur on Friday 9th February 6.20PM NFT2.
THE FLIPSIDE is a new initiative at the National Film Theatre. Our mission: to seek out film and TV that is weird, wonderful, offbeat, unseen, outrageous and downright unlikely; from the trashy to the terrific; combining main features with way out extras in search of strange new worlds of cinematic experience. Groovy pop musical with David Hemmings and Steve Marriott. Fab sounds from Heinz, The Outlaws, Jennifer Moss, Gene Vincent and many more. Plus Joe Meek speaks, and live footage of the Honeycombs! Plus rare colour film of Screaming Lord Sutch in his blood-drenched heyday, and The Tornados dressed as robots! Afterwards, in the NFT Café Bar (free admission): DJ Big Beat Kris spins far out Meekian waxings until midnight!
Tickets:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film/7175
http://www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film/7176
OTHER LINKS:
Thanks to Mike Garrett for the info.
The Bulgarian city of Kavarna is apparently a stronghold for fans of good old 70’s hardrock. Glenn Hughes will be announced honorary citizen of the town when he is doing a concert there in May. In the same ceremony, a big painting of Hughes on a building downtown will be opened. The city center of Kavarna already has big paintings of Ian Gillan and Ronnie James Dio.
Thanks to Borås Tidning.
Craig Hooper from Coolhead productions has an update on the “Ian Gillan – 40 Years in Rock” DVD. Here are the most interesting bits.
on the release dates:
The DVD should be out in either March or April (prob. March in Europe and April in the UK, due to promo commitments). TV sales are being handled by an agent and it seems we have SKY 1 interested in the UK and 9 other broadcasters around the world.
on the content of the double DVD set:
As for content… you have the main doc which runs at 2h28m (as a filmmaker I would have usually said this is too long but we tested it out on non-DP fans who said it held their interest throughout), and you have the bits we couldn’t fit into the main doc. On disc 2 there’s the Tour documentary, filmed in Russia and the UK, featuring concert footage (12 tracks I think – I can’t remember now) and backstage antics; At Home with the Gillan’s (a very short piece on the Gillan family); a piece called Drinkin’, Smokin’ and Messin’ Around with Wimmin’, which is made up of a few tales of alcohol-driven carousing; and GillanCam, a very funny 29m film distilled from many many hours of recordings from IG’s own camera.
Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson and Coolhead Productions for the info.
Update: according to Amazon UK, release date will be April 2 and the title of the DVD is “Ian Gillan – Journey in Rock”. You can preorder through our Amazon Shop.
In 2005 Ian Paice did a drum clinic at the Bass’n Drum festival in Stockholm, Sweden. You can watch video clips of the clinic online (unfortunately in Win Media format only) at http://www.nilamedia.com/Ian_Paice.asp.
Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson for the info.
Glenn Hughes will take part in a signing session at the Manne Guitars booth during the NAMM show (National Association of Music Merchants) which takes place January 18 to 21 in Anaheim, CA. The MEET AND GREET will take place this Friday, January 19 at booth number 1630 in Hall E at 3:00 p.m.
Thanks to Mike Garrett and Blabbermouth.net for the info.
Glenn Hughes will be the featured guest on the nationally syndicated US radio show “Rockline” airing Wednesday, February 7. The live show begins at 8:30 p.m. PT / 11:30 p.m. ET, and fans are encouraged to call in with questions during the program at (800) 344-ROCK (7625). To find a station near you, check out www.rocklineradio.com.
Thanks to Rob for the info.
I know, I know, we have promised to restore The Highway Star in different languages, but various difficulties got in the way. In the meanwhile, we have boards for fan discussions in different languages in our forum:
We can add more languages, just ask.
The German board already has a lively discussion, while the rest are yet to find it’s audience. It came to that two Germans (perhaps out of boredom) even started a conversation in French! 🙂
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Deep Purple recorded 2 songs (Smoke On The Water and Rapture Of The Deep) in November for a french TV music show called Taratata. The show was broadcasted last Friday on channel France 4. It will be broadcasted again on Friday the 26th of January on channel France 2, at 11.30 PM (local time).
By the way, it’s also possible to watch the show right now, here (Thanks to Fra’s comment).
Thanks to MoMo and François Bernard for the information.
According to the webshop CDON, Deep Purple will release a DVD and a CD from last year show in Montreux. The release date is June 4, 2007.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing