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Archive for March, 2022



Day Out in Nowhere

Graham Bonnet Band has a new album. It is called Day Out in Nowhere, and is due to be released on May 13, 2022, via Frontiers Records. The album features a number of performance and co-writing guest appearances, including our own Don Airey. Similar to the first two [Graham Bonnet Band] albums, it will reflect […]

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The Daisies are back in the studio

The Dead The are back in the studio, working on a new album tentatively due out by the end of 2022. Brian Tichy is back doing the drum duties. Brian & Doug hit the LA studios… Set up drums today and gettin' sounds tomorrow before the recording process starts!! 🥁🚀👍🏻Let the ROCK begin! ⚡️⚡️#TheDeadDaisies #InTheStudio […]

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Soaring like an eagle

Ian Paice and Steve Morse were guests on the recent Hangin’ & Bangin’ podcast, and that’s with Carmine and Vinny Appice in attendance. Behold the rock’n’roll royalty convention, where Steve tells about learning to fly from the birds, and Paicey explains peculiarities of the Cockney rhyming slang.

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Deep Purple is apolitical, but…

The band has just released the following statement: As a rule, Deep Purple is apolitical, but on this occasion… Words of Roger Glover: ‘Like many performers, we have occasionally performed private concerts for fans in various countries. We are an apolitical band and in no way, was our intention ever political. It was music. These […]

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Alarm bells ringing clear

Almost 20 years ago to this day, in March 2002, Deep Purple played a show at the Meteor Hall in Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnipro), Ukraine. These were the vegetarian times by todays standards…

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We have a plaque

[Updated March 2] Remember the petition to install a plaque honouring Ritchie Blackmore? Well, it succeeded:

Hi Everybody, Yesterday, I viewed a plaque dedicated to Ritchie at his place of birth in Weston super Mare. I inspired the writing and the owners kindly sponsored a large metal plaque and placed it on the outside of the building for all to see. We will have a full unveiling on Ritchie’s birthday in April. Thanks again for your support

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A riff for eternity

German edition of the Rolling Stone magazine is celebrating 50th anniversary of Smoke on the Water with a cover story in their March 2022 issue.

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