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Elvis Gillan?
My favorite singer discusses his favorite singer. The last comment might be difficult to swallow for Frank Sinatra fans.
Gillan on Elvis click here. Thanks to Svante and Roadrunner.
Blackmore’s Night tour dates
Blackmore Productions has announced preliminary tour dates for June 2007:
Wednesday, June 6, Reykjavik, Iceland
Sunday, June 10, Glenrothes, (Fife) Scotland
Tuesday, June 12, York, England
Thursday, June 14, Reading, England
Sunday, June 17, Birmingham, England
Tuesday, June 19, Yeovil, England
Wednesday, June 20, Cardiff, Wales
Saturday, June 23, Brighton, EnglandAnd then, off to Mainland Europe
The actual venues are to be confirmed soon.
Thanks to Mike Garrett and Blackmore Productions for the info.
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Gillan’s Inn tour edition
Immergent Records will release the “tour edition” version of DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan’s “Gillan’s Inn” CD in early February.
Gillan last year completed a five-week North American run to promote “Gillan’s Inn”, which he released to celebrate 40 years in the music business. The CD, which came out in April 2006, spans the four decades of Gillan’s professional life and features some of his friends as guest performers, including his mates in DEEP PURPLE, the GOO GOO DOLLS, and singer-guitarist Jeff Healey, among many others.
“Gillan’s Inn” is a DualDisc, and the DVD side has a track-by-track commentary from Gillan, along with scenes from the recording sessions, rare live footage, and other extras.
“Gillan’s Inn” tour edition (CD + DVD):
CD:
01. Unchain Your Brain
02. Bluesy Blue Sea
03. Day Late And A Dollar Short
04. Hang Me Out To Dry
05. Men Of War
06. When A Blind Man Cries
07. Sugar Plum
08. Trashed
09. No Worries
10. Demon’s Eye
11. Smoke On The Water
12. No Laughing In Heaven
13. Speed King
14. Loving On Borrowed Time
15. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
Bonus Tracks:
16. Have Love, Will Travel (Live – House Of Blues, Anaheim, CA 9/14/06)
17. Wasted Sunsets (Live – House Of Blues, Anaheim, CA 9/14/06)
DVD include original DVD content plus:
* Expanded “Bootleg Basement” – Additional live songs (fan bootleg footage) from the “Gillan’s Inn” U.S. tour.
* No Laughing In Heaven (Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, Canada 8/17/06)
* Hang Me Out To Dry (Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, Canada 8/17/06)
* Into The Fire (The Concert Hall Of NYC 8/23/06)
* Moonshine (Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WI 8/30/06)
* Sugar Plum (Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WI 8/30/06)
* Men Of War (Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WI 8/30/06)
* “Backstage Pass” – Behind-the-scenes and backstage moments from the 2006 “Gillan’s Inn” Tour
* “Tales From The Tour Bus” – Want to see what life on a tour bus is like?
* “Witness Protection Program” – Now features a selection of never-before-seen photos from the 2006 “Gillan’s Inn” Tour
Thanks to Deep Purple Italia, Blabbermouth.net and Mike Garrett for the info.
Ian Gillan & Uli Jon Roth
Uli Jon Roth were gusting on Ian Gillan’s solo album Gillan’s Inn. It seems like Ian Gillan will guesting Uli Jon Roth next album. Here is what Uli said recently in a interview:
Recently one of my guys talked to Ian’s manager, Michael Lee Jackson, who said it would be nice if Ian would sing one song on my new album. So they offered to do this and I wrote a song for Ian, but we haven’t recorded it yet, I’m going to send it to them and hopefully he likes it and records it. It would be great to have him on the album.
Thanks to Deep Purple Italia and Metal-Rules.com for the information.
Ian Gillan & Michael Lee Jackson
Michael Lee Jackson who worked with Ian Gillan on his solo album, Gillan’s Inn, as well toured with Ian Gillan last year, has done a solo album. It’s called “In A Heartbeat” (2006). Ian sings back up on a few tracks, and lead on “Have Love, Will Travel”. You can find the album in our shop.
Thanks to Deep Purple Italia and Michael Lee Jackson for the information.
Smoke This!
Win a copy of Ian Gillan’s new book “Smoke This”. Check out our Gillan’s Inn Special.
TV Documentary
There is a TV documentary the 4th of January 2007 about the 70’s in Montreux with the backround of “Smoke on the Water”. It will be broadcast on the German TV channel 3Sat.
Thanks to Volker Sarnes for the information.
Fan Forum
Santa Claus has been visiting and he’s brought presents! First off, we now have a shiny new Fan Forum, all ready for you to play around in. There’s a couple of groundrules you need to read first, and then you are off and running. Go check it out.
Roger Glover Solo Album
Roger Glover will start to record his next solo album in February. Roger also took some time off and wrote a X-mas letter to his fans. Here is a cut:
We have traveled a year’s worth of gigs to get here (Bangalore, India – Ed.) and what a diverse and wonderful twelve months. It seems an age since we were rehearsing in Hanger Lane, or maybe Park Royal, for our only Londongig at the Astoria. Although we’d played songs from Rapture Of The Deep the previous year, notably at the Hard Rock in London and some dates in South America, the Astoria show felt like the real start of the Rapture tour.
Read the full letter here.
Thanks to The Aviator and Roger Glover for the information.
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