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There is still a bunch of hardcore Deep Purple fans who stand up against the spam and crap present on usenet these days. They hang out in the original forum for Deep Purple fans, the usenet group alt.music.deep-purple. An idea that came up in the group recently was to map out where on earth the DP fans are. Go to Frappr! and register your presence.
For about a month ago, I wrote a review about Rapture Of The Deep. Since then, I have listening a lot on the album and I still enjoy every minute of it. It’s hard to pick favourite songs, since every one is really good. If it was up to me, Deep Purple could play the whole album live, but as Ian Paice said in the interview I did with him, “they need to translate into live songs”.
Nick Simper has opened a personal website with all info about what he is up to at the moment. Mike the Webmaster says, “we are still building it, as Nick has to go through all the stuff in his attic, but we hope to have it fully functional pretty soon.”
The Rainbow Fanclan Legacy reports that the classic Rainbow show from Munich 20 October 1977, as broadcast on the equally classic German tv show “Rockpalast”, will be released on dvd in Japan. The 2 dvd set is scheduled for release on December 21. The first disc will contain the show in DTS 5.1 Ch Surround, Dolby Digital 5.1 Ch Surround and Dolby Digital 2.0ch Surround audio. It is not clear yet what the second disc will contain but there are rumours about interviews and clips. More info is available in Japanese at CD/DVD Journal and HMV Japan.
ROTD will be premiered on Swedish national radio on Saturday. Two full tracks will be played and commenting on the album is THS editor Svante Pettersson. Er, that would be me then. 🙂 Tune in to P4 and “Dist” at 18.06 local time on Saturday. The show will be available for one week on the show’s web site.
Our mail is up again. The mail outage also affected some moderation of comments in this blog but everything has been approved now and all should be back to normal operations.
We’re having mail problems again. If you want to reach any of us, mail me at svante.pettersson@gmail.com and I’ll forward the mail to the right people. You can also leave a message here in the blog. Thanks.
A member of the Russian group called “BaBaDoBas” posted a sound file of a Deep Purple medley in the Russian Deep Purple forums. It is done in Russian folk music style and it is pretty cool if you ask me. You can download the song here.
Edel gave us permission to link to three sound clips from ROTD today. We also got permission to publish the lyrics. Check out our updated ROTD special!
Yesterday evening, Ian Paice was in Stockholm, Sweden. He was doing a drum clinic at Bass’ n Drum 2005. The audience could see him druming, ask some questions and after the show they could get things sign. Earlier in the evening, I met Ian for an exclusive interview. We talked most about the upcoming album, Rapture Of The Deep. It will be included in our special feature as soon as possible.
There has been some comfusion about the correct track listing on the US release of “Rapture of the Deep”. This is mainly because of Amazon’s listing of the album, which has a track listing that seems to be partly based on alphabetical order… Amazon probably got that from Eagle Rock’s ROTD page which has the same track list. But a press release from the US label Eagle Rock today shows that the track listing is the same as for the European limited edition.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing