Glenn Hughes has been confirmed as one of the guest artists on this summer’s Rhapsody in Rock tour of Sweden. The tour will do seven shows in Sweden this summer. Other guest artist at the shows will be Albert Lee and LaGaylia Frazier. “Now this really lives up to the name Rhapsody in rock. This […]
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Posted in News by Svante Axbacke on 2009-05-05
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Two months after Deep Purple concert in São Paulo, we had the great pleasure to see another gig of Purple family in our city. Jon Lord played the the Concerto for Group and Orchestra as the opening act of Virada Cultural, a 24-hour annual event sponsored by the municipality with hundreds of cultural events around […]
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Posted in DP related reviews by user on 2009-05-04
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Live at the Mars’ Fields, Wroclaw, May 1st, 2009. I must admit that although I do not support Mk VIII in their approach to the live shows, I certainly enjoyed going to their gig in my hometown. I went with no expectations to be surprised or thrilled at all, which is in a way typical […]
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Posted in 2009 Tours by user on 2009-05-02
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There was a time before Ritchie went from being evil to mediæval. The time was 1988 and the place was Frankenstein Castle in Germany where Deep Purple were having Nobody’s Perfect release party. Read the contemporary report with more (bordering on hilarious) pictures at the Stars and Stripes archive. P.S. I think it was at […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2009-05-01
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Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited has done an interview with Gillan: Jeb: Are you comfortable that your music makes up some of those deep roots? Ian: I have constantly said, with the greatest respect to everyone, that you only have a very short time where you have any contemporary value. The rest of it […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-05-01
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