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At the upcoming ProLight+Sound show in Frankfurt, Germany, Ian Paice and Don Airey will be playing live in the ProLounge on March 31, and April 1, at both 11:30 am and 4:00 pm together with Thomas Blug. Every day of the show at 3.00 pm, there will be a “meet-and-greet” event with Don and Ian at the HK Audio Portable Sound booth D 31 in Hall 4.1.
Thanks to Christian Stumpp and HK Audio for the information.
There will be a prerelease party for Ian Gillan’s new album, "Gillan’s Inn" in Helsinki, Finland on April 8, from 20.00 to 22.00. It will take place at the club Hevimesta.
Thanks to PSOF for the information.
Deep Purple will appear on the German TV station RTL at 20.15 (GMT+1) tonight. The show is called "Die
ultimative Chart Show, Die erfolgreichsten Rockstars aller Zeiten"
Thanks to Joerg Reichert for the information.
Ian Gillan will guesting the US radio station, Rockline, the 5 of April. You can listen live over the internet at KGON or at WKLR. The broadcast is between 8.30 – 10.00 pm pacific time.
Thanks to Rockline for the information.
Roger Glover has written a few toughts about the new release of the movie, “The Butterfly Ball”, which he was involved in, back in 1974. Here is a few bits.
When it was released in 1974 it was, to my relief, very well received in various
countries around Europe. However, it failed to ignite a broad interest in the UK
and so the idea for staging a concert at the Albert Hall came about as a means
of getting some attention for it in my home country.The Butterfly Ball album is something that I am very proud of, and the concert
was undoubtedly one of the best nights of my life, but the movie does it no
justice.
Read Roger Glover’s full letter here.
You can order the DVD in our shop.
Thanks to Roger Glover for the information.
The upcoming solo album from Ian Gillan, “Gillan’s Inn” will feature these songs and artists on double sided disc (CD one side and DVD the other).
The CD side.
1. Unchain Your Brain (with Joe Satriani)
2. Bluesy Blue Sea (with Janick Gers)
3. Day Late And A Dollar Short (with Uli Jon Roth and Ronnie James Dio)
4. Hang Me Out To Dry (with Joe Satriani)
5. Men Of War (with Steve Morse & Johnny Rzeznik)
6. When A Blind Man Cries (with Jeff Healey)
7. Sugar Plum (with Roger Glover & Ian Paice)
8. Trashed (with Tony Iommi, Roger Glover and Ian Paice)
9. No Worries (New track)
10. Demon’s Eye (with Jeff Healey, Jon Lord and Michael Lee)
11. Smoke On The Water (with Steve Morse, Johnny Rzeznik, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Robby Takac and The Mississauga Singers)
12. No Laughing In Heaven (with Roger Glover and Ian Paice)
13. Speed King (with Joe Satriani)
14. Loving On Borrowed Time (with Steve Morris, Steve Morse, and Uli Jon Roth)
15. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (with Joe Elliott)
The DVD side.
The upcoming DVD from Ian Gillan, “Gillan’s Inn” will feature…
You can order the CD/DVD in our shop.
Thanks to Ian Gillan for the information.
There will be a new version of the Didi Zill’s Deep Purple book. Didi says that the Deep Purple book was the first and some mistakes were made. The new version will have the texts in German and English and a new chapter will be added. Didi met Deep Purple recently and the new chapter will include new pics from the current line-up.
Thanks to Daniele Purrone for the information.
A new interview with Don Airey is done by the magazine “Egypt Today“. Check out the interview here. There is also a story here.
Thanks to Egypt Today for the information.
We’ve gotten a report from Reinder Dijkhuis regarding the European tour edition of Rapture Of The Deep — according to the package labelling, it apparently won’t play in PCs:
Consumer warning to continental European Deep Purple fans: Do not buy the Tour Edition of Rapture of the Deep!
Even though I already own a copy on vinyl, I’d been eagerly awaiting the Tour Edition of Deep Purple’s Rapture of the Deep, because there’s a whole CD full of bonus material including several live tracks. (BTW, I’ve warmed a lot to the record since my initial review.) Today, I finally saw it in the shops, but as I was waiting in line at the checkout, I noticed a “Copy
Protected – Not Playable On PC” on the back, with a logo that I hadn’t seen before, so I put it back.80% of all my music listening is done on either the iBook or the home PC, which means that the “Copy Protection” (assuming it works at all) reduces the value of that bonus CD from € 19.90 (the price at which I was willing to buy it before noticing the logo) to € 4. And that assumes that the “Copy Protection” doesn’t affect playback on my DVD player or Diskman (which “Copy Protection” CDs invariably does in my experience), and that it isn’t some sort of rootkit-based crap that would try to compromise my computers (they’re likely to be immune but who knows), which would give the disc a negative value. So back into the bins it goes, and I’m warning
Deep Purple fans in continental Europe to be very cautious with this disk, and when in doubt, not to buy it. Does anyone know if the UK edition is clean?
You can read his complete article (and any further updates) at his blog: http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/archives/001493.html
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing