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An interview with Nick Simper was posted a couple of weeks ago (although it is not clear when it was recorded). Nick talks about his work with The Good Old Boys, Nasty Habits, the days long gone with Jonny Kidd & the Pirates, and of course Deep Purple. Listen to the interview on Mixcloud (warning: […]
Read more »Berlin’s Rock City Radio Show will be airing an interview with Don Airey on Sunday, Nov 10. The interview is from October 26 when Don played with Deep Purple in Berlin. The part with Don & Purple is about 30 minutes long (including music). The show also features an interview with Nick Fyffe & Phil […]
Read more »Gibson.com has an interview with Bernie Marsden, in which he reveals that he’s finishing a solo album and how quite a star studded it is turning to be: Who else is on the album? David Coverdale has graciously sung a song for me, which is, of course, fantastic. We’ve re-recorded “Trouble” from our Whitesnake days […]
Read more »Many of you who attended the recent shows have been wondering why Big Ian keeps disappearing behind the curtains during the unusually lengthy instrumental breaks, what he’s been up to, and generally if he’s in good health. Caramba TV offers us a unique behind the scenes look at his (potentially NSFW) emergency treatment:
Read more »[Updated with tracklist and artwork] The Now What?! tour gold edition that will be released on November 29 in continental Europe and December 2 in the UK will come in following flavours: Double CD, with the first disc containing the original studio album, plus bonus tracks It’ll Be Me and First Sign Of Madness. Second […]
Read more »Deep Purple live at SAP Arena (Mannheim, Germany 2013-11-02) Powerful from start to finish with sweet humour from all the lads, Mr G. cracking puns and rabbiting funny stuff. FRIENDS: they are NOT old, but older – ie even more experienced They were ALL outstanding virtuosos … as were the crowd ( – and I […]
Read more »Deep Purple live at SAP Arena (Mannheim, Germany 2013-11-02) We (six of us) went to see the boys in Mannheim. Peter Frampton was good and is still a master of the voice box and his several guitars. He played for an hour and on the setlist were eight songs. At half past nine Deep Purple […]
Read more »Deep Purple live at Westfalenhalle (Dortmund, Germany 2013-11-01) First of all let me make it clear that I was on the very skeptical side when I read the reviews of the Regensburg gig. Although I’ve always been a big admirer of Mr Gillan, I always hated it when he was struggling and I´ve witnessed that […]
Read more »Deep Purple (complete with the tree generation of the Airey clan) were featured on the local news in Düsseldorf, Germany, where they played on October 29. You can watch the news report on WDR.de (in German). The relevant segment starts at 12:44 into the programme and continues for 5 minutes. Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for […]
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