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Ross Halfin reminisces in his blog: Jerry Bloom the editor of www.moreblackthanpurple.co.uk and www.bloomsbagels.com (more Purple than Black Bagels) has written a very good letter making some valid points on Deep Purple and how the story could have been, well, better. It wasn’t that bad a story, it was just a bit matter of fact. […]
Read more »Blackmore’s Night setlist from February 3 in Milan: God save the keg Locked within the crystal ball Queen for a day Under a violet moon Streets of London/The times they are a changin’/Soldier of fortune Durch den wald zum Bachaus World of stone Home again Toast to tomorrow Diamonds and rust Renaissance faire I still […]
Read more »Blackmore’s Night song Olde Mill Inn is featured in the new Jim Carrey comedy Yes Man, with Blackmore and Night names mentioned in the closing credits. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but here’s the proof. Olde Mill Inn is a real place and has been the couple’s favourite hangout in Long Island ever since […]
Read more »As the Blackmore’s Night makes it’s way around Southern Europe, here are the details for the January 27 show in Zagreb, Croatia. Set list: Locked within the crystal ball Queen for a day Under a violet moon Peasant’s promise Streets of London / The Times They Are a Changin’ World of stone Durch den wald […]
Read more »Fender is reintroducing the Ritchie Blackmore Signature Stratocaster model. The 2009 reincarnation of the guitar features alder body, maple neck, scalloped rosewood fingerboard, big headstock, two Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder pickups (middle pickup is fake), vintage F-style tuners, and comes in one colour only. MSRP is $1,500 and online retailers have it at around $1,200. […]
Read more »Jürgen “J.R.” Blackmore talks about his career, his father and the Over The Rainbow project in a recent interview with Rockinform Magazine: Your father is Ritchie Blackmore. How do you feel about it, that he’s a legendary guitarist? Jürgen: – Oh well……it was a very hard childhood time for me because everyone is looking at […]
Read more »Rumours of a Mk3 reunion have been flying around for a while now, always turning to sum up to about exactly nothing. In the most recent resurrection of the idea, Peter Makowski of Classic Rock talks about it like of a definite possibility: In separate interviews David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes and Jon Lord have all […]
Read more »The wedding & Christmas special issue of the Blackmore online fanzine Cartouche is out. In this issue: news from the marriage of Ritchie and Candice retrospective reviews of Christmas Carols and Beyond The Sunset interviews with Candice, Carole, members and entourage of Blackmore’s Night review of the Blackmore’s Night Christmas performance in Long Island messages […]
Read more »Classic Rock Magazine has made good on their promise to (finally!) put Deep Purple on the cover — they appear on the February 2009 issue. Inside the issue there is a 20-page Purple feature with interviews from Gillan, Glover, Paicey and Coverdale, excerpts from an old Blackmore interview, and sidebars on Steve Morse and JLT. […]
Read more »Envision Radio Networks’ Chop Shop Guitar Show has announced The Chop Shop’s Top 100 Most Complete Guitar Players of All Time. Yes, yet another top list. You have every right to be sceptical, but this one at least makes an attempt of being quasi-objective. Each guitarist was ranked by a five member panel of “industry […]
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