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Made in Japan 2014 unboxing pictures
The new edition of Made in Japan is just around the corner, and SuperDeluxeEdition.com already has a photo gallery of the 4CD+DVD box set.
Read more »Archive for May, 2014
Long Beach, 1974
Once in a while we get letters from our readers with a cool story like this: Just a little memory of mine: Pictured is a guitar pickup and ticket stub from Deep Purple concert at Long Beach Arena, California 11/20/1974. My parents let me ditch school to stand in line all day at the Long […]
Read more »On women’s clothing
In anticipation of the short 3 date Blackmore’s Night stint on US East coast, ProgSheet published an interview with m’lord and m’lady: PS: When you look for musicians to play in Blackmore’s Night, what are you looking for beyond a certain level of musical ability? RB: With most bands, with my history being with Purple […]
Read more »Purpendicular and Concerto to be reissued
The seminal Purple album of the past 20 years — Purpendicular — will be reissued on CD on June 16th in the UK on an independent label Cherry Red Records. We have not been able to obtain from the label any clarification regarding whether it will be remastered or not, but my money is on […]
Read more »Blackmore’s tech shares anecdotage
Clif ‘Cooky’ Crawford was Blackmore’s guitar tech between 1981 and 1988. A couple of months ago his reminiscences started being posted on Facebook and elsewhere. They are, for the most part, an amusing read. Quotes below are unedited for extra flavour 😉 Making of Bent Out of Shape: by the end of 1982 it was […]
Read more »Jon Lord remembers Jim Capaldi
Jon Lord being interviewed by Jools Holland about his friend, the late Jim Capaldi, drummer and co-founder of Traffic. (watch inside)
Read more »Smoke on the Water video
It took only 42 years, but finally Smoke on the Water now has an official video. (watch inside)
Read more »Big rock vs. proper rock
Glenn Hughes gave an interview to UK radio station Harborough FM, appearing on the Friday Night Rock Show. He spoke about California Breed, set the record straight about his experience in a trio environment, shared which drummer he played with never made a mistake, and explained the difference between big rock and proper rock. Thanks […]
Read more »Which one is the 60 year old guy?
In a new interview with One On One Glenn Hughes explains why after the BCC fiasco he and Jason Bonham didn’t want to continue with another big name guitar player.
Read more »Heaven on their minds
Heaven on Their Minds: The Creation of Jesus Christ Superstar is a documentary about the original London cast of the album (they call it the Brown Album), which has been in on-and-off production for a couple of years now. The last update (March 27) from the producer Megan Park says: Next, we are meeting Shannon […]
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