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Gillan’s vocal range
Here are seven excerpts of Gillan singing that illustrate his vocal range:
Read more »Blackmore’s Night on German TV
A mimed playback of St. Theresa done on a morning TV show on August 16. Blackmore barely pretends he’s actually playing guitar ;). Backing singers are from the support band Gothien, as the Sisters of the Moon have been given the Spanish Archer following the last show of the German tour.
Read more »Glenn Hughes — Don’t Let Me Bleed
Video footage of Glenn Hughes performing Don’t Let Me Bleed with Chad Smith at the Whisky A Go Go this past June was posted on YouTube:
Read more »Dream Theater – Made in Japan
What could be better than one of my favourite bands paying hommage to another one of my favourite bands? Dream Theater are known to occasionally perform classic albums by other bands live on stage in their entirety: Master of Puppets, Dark Side of the Moon and Number of the Beast among them. They also make […]
Read more »Total mayhem at Southbank
This from a Purple performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in May 1970 that was recorded for a British TV programme Southbank Summer. This surfaced only a couple of years ago.
Read more »Burn 2007
For all you Mk3 aficionados, here’s an audience shot of Glenn’s recent performance of Burn at the B.B.King’s in New York. The guitar work is positively different, so those of you who are sensitive to deviations from the classics, might want to abstain from this one:
Read more »Rainbow YouTube cabaret
Doogie White in all his glory: grand finale of their last tour of Japan. Tokyo, November 23, 1995: an almost a cappella encore of “Show Me The Way” and “Love Hurts”:
Read more »Old Grey Whistle Test 1987
This is an episode of the Old Grey Whistle Test from 1987. The show includes TV crew following UK fans of a trip to Paris, brief interviews with Roger and Ritchie and some overdubbed concert footage (with Ritchie tasting a bit of his own poison):
Read more »Speed King promo video
An excellent quality (given the time) promo video for the Speed King. It appears that it is lipsync’ed to the single edit of the track (minus keyboard intro):
Read more »“Doogie, you can pass the ball very well”
This is another excerpt from the 1995 Rainbow interview for Japanese TV. Messrs Blackmore and White have their act down to a T.
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