Fan-filmed super8 footage has come to light from Deep Purple’s 1975 show in Copenhagen. Filmed at Brøndby Hallen on March 20, 1975 by Lars Kroman, the silent and fragmented film lasts nearly 10 minutes.
At first it shows the band filmed from the audience in front of the stage. Later and more interestingly, the camera has moved to an excellent vantage point behind the stage showing exciting views of Jon Lord and Ian Paice with the crowd in the background.
Now, we just need someone to sync it up to the bootleg from the show…
Joe Lynn Turner’ s new album Belly of the Beast is coming out on October 28, 2022, via Mascot.
The promo pictures for the release feature JLT au naturel, finally owning up to how he is:
This chapter saw him make a crucial personal decision too. Diagnosed with alopecia at three-years-old, he began to wear a wig at 14-years-old, dealing with “emotional and psychological damage from cruel bullying in school.” So, he wore the hairpiece throughout his career until finally deciding to go without it. “In a way, it’s a blessing and a curse,” he admits. “I have nothing to prove, and I can wear a wig — or not. I am free to do what I want. I’m a grown man, and I’m getting to be an older man. Many men in this business eventually come to the decision to continue to ‘wear hair’ or shave their head which is very fashionable today. Either way, it takes a lot of personal courage. Assholes in high school trying to kick me around made me stronger and gave me the necessary motivation and strength to rise above the rest. Anger and pain are a great tool. If applied correctly, it could develop you to become the best version of yourself. Instead of running away, I was ‘hiding in plain sight.'”
A lyric video for the title track has been posted to promote the album:
Thanks to Uwe Hornung and Blabbermouth for the info.
Goldmine prints a brief collection of quotes from Ian Gillan’s interviews to the magazine.
On Steve Morse’s guitar playing
“There’s a solo on a song called “Dancing in My Sleep” (on the Deep Purple album Whoosh!) where he plays a baritone guitar, an old Danelectro, and it’s one of the greatest guitar solos I’ve ever heard in my life. He also plays a brilliant solo on a song called “We’re All the Same in the Dark.” But in general, I guess you wouldn’t have recognized it as Steve’s style 10 years or 20 years ago. It’s more, I don’t know, laid back. Steve’s a kind of frenetic guy. He’s pretty intense with his personality, but he has a lovely, lovely nature. But this sort of slightly more laid-back style seems to suit him.”
Glenn Hughes and Doug Aldrich spoke to US radio 101 WRIF broadcasting out of Detroit. They spoke about bouts of COVID that went through The Daisies’ ranks, their upcoming album, the terrible Ted, Glenn playing in Detroit at the age of 5 (allegedly), and many other things. Continue Reading »
Elizabeth the opera singer (a.k.a. the lady who forgot about singing more than all of will ever know) analyses Gillan’s take on Gethsemane.
I’m very familiar with this song and have seen it performed many times, but have never seen nor heard the original with none other than Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan! This is going to be a treat for my ears!
Darker than Blue reminds us that Made in Japan is turning 50 these days. Albeit the album was released later in the year, but the three historic performances that were recorded were held on August 15th, 16th. and 17th, 1972.
Edel has posted a video of the band performing Demon’s Eye at an open air gig in DĂĽsseldorf, Germany, on September 3, 2005. That was one of the couple of warm up gigs before the release of Rapture of the Deep a month later, with Wrong Man being premiered live at the same show. Continue Reading »
Online incarnation of the Classic Rock magazine has a writeup on that desperate time in Thin Lizzy history when they had to resort to recording covers anonymously to make the ends meet. An album called Funky Junction play a tribute to Deep Purple was the result.
The band were desperate to do something that might finally bring in some income, so they accepted ÂŁ1,000 to record an album of Deep Purple covers for Stereo Gold Award, an imprint set up by budget label entrepreneur David L. Miller, whose cheaply recorded 101 Strings compilations still clutter charity shops 60 years on.
Miller had developed a business model that was as ruthless as it was efficient, hiring up-and-coming musicians to re-record popular songs and releasing them as albums an unwary shopper might think was original material. Typical was an album of Jimi Hendrix songs credited to “The Purple Fox.” As Miller himself once proclaimed, “We are not in the recording business, we are in the plastics business.”
Ultimate Guitar has an editorial titled 8 Reasons Why Steve Morse Was the Perfect Deep Purple Guitarist. Of course, all of us (okay, okay, most of us) have known these reasons for decades.
An era has ended this July, when Steve Morse announced his permanent departure from Deep Purple so that he could be by his wife Janine’s side through her battles with cancer.
Over the past 28 years, the Morse has done what probably no other player could – he has successfully filled in Ritchie Blackmore’s shoes while serving as an ever-giving well of creativity that saw Deep Purple through seven studio albums and countless live shows.
And yet, his contribution to the legendary hard rock has largely been understated for the better part of those 28 years, even if Morse himself was a well-respected member of the global guitar-playing community. As a means of going at least a little way in righting that wrong and honoring Morse’s legacy, below are only some of the things which made Steve Morse a perfect guitarist for Deep Purple.
He was Deep Purple’s longest-serving guitarist
For many people out there, Ritchie Blackmore will always be the definitive Purple axman – which is largely understandable given his instrumental role in the band’s rise to greatness – but it was Steve Morse who had stuck with the band for the longest time.
Morse joined the band one year after Blackmore’s dramatic departure in the middle of 1993’s “The Battle Rages On…” tour, and would spend the next 28 years with the legendary hard rock band. Although Morse wasn’t Purple’s first pick (that would be Joe Satriani, who filled in for Blackmore for the remainder of the aforementioned tour but had to turn down the offer to join the band for good due to personal obligations), he’d certainly prove to be the right one.
With Morse, the band found one hell of a guitarist perfectly equipped for the demanding role, but without any of the tensions that marked practically every Blackmore era. Morse would go on to record seven studio albums with the band, slowly weaving his guitar magic into Purple’s DNA – but more importantly, the enhanced sense of camaraderie and easygoing Morse helped re-establish (and maintain) could be felt in recorded material and live shows alike.
Take a look at any live footage from the Morse era, and you can clearly see a band having fun playing together – and what would sadly turn out to be Steve’s last gig with Purple is no exception. You can check it out below.
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