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Martin Popoff has a follow up to his Purple family book. The new book is called The Deep Purple Royal Family: Chain Of Events ’80-’11. This picks up where that book left off, offering a few modest milestones within its pages, namely: the most comprehensive information on the Gillan band ever stuffed in a book […]
Read more »Martin Popoff has a new book out, titled The Deep Purple Royal Family: Chain Of Events Through ’79. Instead of trying to write something about the thing we have not seen, here is the complete press release straight from the author: The Text: 280 stuffed pages offering an exhaustive and detailed timeline of Purple milestones, […]
Read more »Here is a summary of the recent developments on the touring fronts of Purple family. Deep Purple‘s appearance at a Russian festival on June 12 has now been confirmed. They have also a new Italian open air tour pencilled in for July, which is still being shaped up and for now remains unconfirmed by the […]
Read more »Geffen will be releasing a yet another deluxe remastered edition of the 1987 Whitesnake album later this month in North America. The CD+DVD package will include the original American album tracks and bonus tracks from Live… In The Shadow Of The Blues on the CD and four original promo video plus four live tracks taken […]
Read more »Back in 2008 Metal-Temple.com published an interview with Neil Carter of UFO/Gary Moore/Wild Horses fame, who is now teaching music at Brighton College. Here are the juicier bits: A special quote should be given for Glenn Hughes: your impression, working with him? He was a great influence on me, I loved TRAPEZE and DEEP PURPLE […]
Read more »Tony Carey is back from his cancer woes and have started a new project with J.R. Blackmore. They have teamed up with a metal frau Ela and recorded a song called Silver Arrows (Racing On). The project is billed as EBC Racing Team and the song is dedicated to the 2010 re-entrance of the Mercedes-Benz […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes did an interview about his new band, Black Country, with the blog Rock Guitar Daily. We’re as bombastic as The Who, and as bluesy as Free, but we are doing some different kinds of things in terms of structure, and tempo: 7/8, 6/8, even 5/8 time, so it’s not just a few chords […]
Read more »Very interesting interviews with Roger Glover, Ronnie Dio, Eddie Hardin, Ray Fenwick, and Alan Aldridge (author of the book). This was filmed circa 1999 (a poster of a 1999 DP gig in Hamburg can be seen at one point).
Read more »Ronnie James Dio, who is undergoing treatment for his cancer at a Houston hospital, sends his thanks for all the words of your support and encouragement: I’d like to take the time to thank everyone for the most wonderful gift I have ever received — your good wishes, your prayers, your support, your tears and […]
Read more »Several days ago it was announced that all Dio’s European tour dates are cancelled and refunds are being issued, with Ronnie himself being in a hospital for unspecified reasons. Today his wife and manager Wendy has released more details: Ronnie has been diagnosed with the early stages of stomach cancer. We are starting treatment immediately […]
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