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Kansas violin

Steve Morse was a special guest at the 35th anniversary gala for Kansas that took place on February 7 in Topeka, KS. Classic Rock Revisited has a full account of the evening: Former Kansas guitarist, and current Deep Purple axe-slinger, Steve Morse, joined his former group onstage performing the blazing “Musicatto” from 1986’s Power album. […]

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Stargazing in Odessa

Over The Rainbow have finished their trek across the Eastern Europe and I must admit that although the band still has a long way to go in terms of mutual understanding on stage, the progress from the first shows is nothing short of staggering.

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Paicey on Russian TV

Back in early February, Ian Paice flew to Moscow to do a drum clinic. A TV crew was present at the event and the footage have appeared on Russian national TV. Recording of this was recently uploaded to YouTube.

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Street of Dreams in St.Petersburg

Nevsky Express TV has published a live video of Street of Dreams from the recent Over The Rainbow gig in St.Petersburg, Russia. The video is rather high quality and appears to be shot with two professional cameras. You can watch it on their web site. Further instructions same as the last time. Thanks to Tatiana […]

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Río de la Purpuro

My prediction: sooner rather than later, the band will be playing South America more often than Germany (not speaking of US or UK). Why? See for yourself. Rapture of the Deep (a little heavy on the bass, but prime position for the cameraman): Keyboard solo ~ Perfect Strangers: Nice job is that you have up […]

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Mistreated in Glasgow

In case you’ve been wondering what Doogie White is up to these days, he got back with his old friends from the Scottish band La Paz. A couple of weeks ago they did a Rainbow/Purple tribute show in Glasgow. Here’s a clip of Mistreated performed that night:

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2009 tour has started

Deep Purple have started their World Tour 2009 by playing yesterday at the opening of the Nordic Skiing World Championship in Liberec, Czech Republic. Here is a truly bombastic version of Highway Star for your viewing pleasure.

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More of Gillan on FaceCulture

Martin from FaceCulture emailed us that there’s more of the Gillan’s interview posted on their website. A lot more, actually. FaceCulture spoke to Ian Gillan about his solo album One Eye To Morocco, travelling, first memories, Edwin Abott Abott, Flatland, God, It Would Be Nice, Deep Purple, forty years, the next album, Fire Ball, joining […]

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OTR in St.Petersburg

Russian Internet TV company Nevsky Express filmed interview with all five members of the band and bits of the live show from the February 16th Over The Rainbow gig in St.Petersburg. You can watch the video on their web site. Click on ‘высокое качество’ to switch to higher quality stream (you need a rather fast […]

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The right frame of mind

Dutch site FaceCulture has an interview with Ian Gillan (probably done during his media tour around Europe a couple of weeks ago). In conclusion, the subject of a new Purple album pops up: FaceCulture: Are you thinking about the new album? IG: […] We’ve got to be in the right frame of mind — where […]

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