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She was a weird one in the setting sun

Vincent Price the other day seemingly opened a floodgate, and a generous helping of live clips from 2013 got posted today. We are talking, of course, about From The Setting Sun (Live In Wacken), which was a sibling release for To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo).

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What’s not to like?!

Simon McBride talks about touring with Deep Purple with his guitar company PRS. Sounds like a thinly veiled commercial, don’t say you haven’t been warned.

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Vincent Price is back again

For no apparent reason, the record company has posted a live clip of Vincent Price from To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo), released almost 10 years ago.

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Honeysuckle’s bloomin’ on the honeysuckle vine

We were wrong, and the classic Gillan video bonanza continues unabashedly. In this instalment: frenetic miming to New Orleans at the Top of the Pops, dated March 26th, 1981.

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Sometimes difficult to cure

In this video, dated December 1979, Ritchie Blackmore makes some noises for a few minutes, eventually settling upon Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Supported by Messrs. Glover, Airey, and Powell.

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No words necessary

Speaking of newly restored classic videos, here’s Wring That Neck from the French TV show Chorus on November 14th, 1970.

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That’s frenetic!

A probably final (at least, for a while) instalment in the restored classic Gillan video series. Behold the infamously frenetic version of the rock’n’roll classic Lucille

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Moon Rising

Another single from the upcoming Don Airey’s solo album Pushed To The Edge has been released. Moon Rising

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Play a little something

In this instalment of Tales from the Tavern, Ritchie Blackmore plays a tune that he heard in ’64 or ’65. That’d be 1564-65, presumably.

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When the trees stop growing

The penultimate instalment of the freshly restored classic Gillan videos. This week, it is Long Gone

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