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Deep Purple with friends and family perform an extended version of Hush at the conclusion of Celebrating Jon Lord event at the Royal Albert Hall on April 4. Plus, another video of the ‘Glenn Hughes segment‘. (watch inside)

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Burn

Glenn Hughes, Bruce Dickinson, Ian Paice, Don Airey, Rick Wakeman, Murray Gould (guitar), and the orchestra perform Burn during Celebrating Jon Lord show at the Royal Albert Hall on April 4: Thanks to Clint Walker for the video.

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RAH setlist

Direct from Paul Mann, here’s complete setlist of the evening of April 4, 2014: Jimmy Smith playback as audience arrives Introductory remarks by Vicky Lord Introduction by Bob Harris Fantasia from Sarabande House Band/Orch. Durham Awakes from Durham Concerto Orchestra Jacqueline Martens (Violin) Matthew Barley (Cello) Kathryn Tickell (Northumbrian Pipes) Nigel Hopkins (Hammond Organ) All […]

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Pulling in a few favours

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 […]

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Dining with Paicey

A year ago Pearl Drums in cooperation with Ian Paice and his local drum store DrumWright produced a very limited edition signature drum kit. Grand total of 12 kits were available and each came with a promise of an invitation to a private dinner with Paicey himself. Music Radar reports that five lucky fans made […]

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Understanding each other’s feel

What makes a great rhythm section? MusicRadar has a preview of the Greatest Ever Rhythm section feature to appear in July issue of the Rhythm magazine. Roger Glover: A great drummer. When I first played with Paicey my first impression was that he was just fluid and effortless. Most drummers back then were metronomic, they […]

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Paicey in Paderborn

On May 17, Ian Paice and Pete York openend the Drums ‘n’ Percussion in Paderborn, Germany, the biggest festival of its kind in Europe. So far only one clip is available, short but stunning (watch Paicey’s luminous sticks): A brief report of the performance (in German) with photographs appears on the festival website. Thanks to […]

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Rock’n’roll at 1 o’clock in the afternoon

Anastasia Kuvaldina and Andrey Gusenkov sat down to talk with both Ians when the band was in Moscow earlier this month. The interview was done for the Russian radio station Rock FM, and now they have kindly offered us full transcript for publication. Deep Purple 2013 05 02 Interview Rushing into the interview with the […]

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Paicey on Linea Rock

A longish (and thus interesting) interview with Ian Paice was done by Italian Radio Lombardia’s show Linea Rock some time in April and is now available for viewing: Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info.

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Forever Deep

Italian tribute band Forever Deep has put out an album of original material with Ian Paice and Don Airey guesting on several tracks: The Star of my Secret Arts The Wish (feat. Paice & Airey) Never My Loneliness (feat. Airey) Without your Love (feat. Paice) Do I Belong Marosh (feat. Paice) Purple Fury The album […]

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