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Bewitches all you gaze upon
It’s a slow news week as most people are enjoying the holidays, so here’s something for you to entertain yourselves completely ignore. A cover of Fireball by Canadian indie musician Rick White
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Just to keep things interesting
To prove his thesis that “Life in Deep Purple has never been dull”, Geoff Barton lists 25 of the maddest moments from the band’s history. And California Jam is not one of them. If you’ve been around here for a while, you probably already heard about most all of it. Nevertheless, here we go: 1. […]
Read more »Passion, energy, fire, and just enough flamboyance
Harp playing Amy had a very purple weekend with listening to Highway Star and Smoke on the Water
Read more »All the bogus you can eat
Everything you wanted to know about the infamous bogus Deep Purple 1980 tour and then some can be found on a website dedicated to the debacle. Lots of quotes, pictures, reports from the press and duped fans who were actually there, etc, etc. Nice of them to acknowledge our own coverage of the events from […]
Read more »For the sake of completeness
Over the years, we’ve announced a multitude of side projects and guest appearances for the various members of the Purple family. Quite inevitably, we’ve missed a few. Here they are, at least some of them. The last number in parentheses refers to the number of tracks the corresponding musician appears on, whenever known. Don Airey: […]
Read more »Become a DJ down under
Mark O’Neill from Australia writes to us: I do a national rock show on community radio and also 3 nights of programming on 94.7 The Pulse. I’m looking for someone to do a weekly Purple pre-recorded show. The only prerequisite (besides the Purple knowledge) is fluent English. Interested parties are advised to contact Mark directly […]
Read more »In jazz we trust
Back in 2006 Don Airey and Ian Paice performed at the ProLight+Sound trade show in Frankfurt, Germany. Turns out that a recording was up on Youtube all this time, without us being aware. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.
Read more »Back to Budokan
The Asahi Shimbun reports that the famed Japanese music magazine Burrn! is celebrating its 40th anniversary. It was named after “Burn,” a hard-rocking song by British band Deep Purple, under the belief that beginning a magazine’s title with the letter B promised strong sales. The letter R is duplicated in the name to rhyme with […]
Read more »In rock around the clock
Marcelo Velazquez writes to us: Hi, I made this video in honor of my all-time favorite band and I wanted to share it with you. I hope you enjoy it. And the video is Deep Purple In Rock, if it was recorded in the 50s: The immortal words of Arthur C. Clarke are very pertinent […]
Read more »Hammond organs don’t bend
Well put together documentary on Jon Lord before Deep Purple. It covers in fair detail the evolution of the Art Wood Combo / The Artwoods / St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
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