| Deep Purple's Official Fan Community Website!Steve Morse, an opportunity to chat with other Deep Purple fans in the Forums, the Official Deep Purple store, and much more.This site belongs to you, the fans.Completed Fan Scrap Book!The Rapture of Deep Purple12.Deep Purple Fan Scrap Book!!!Deep Purple Road Report11.This is the official Deep Purple site for all press and promoters and anything business related such as truly confirmed tourdates.All fans should head over to www.When you have received it you can log in.Rapture Of The Deep was released end of 2005 and the band has been touring extensively since.Make sure you buy your copy of Rapture Of The Deep from a chart accredited merchant.Ian Paice in Italy and Switzerland.Give the ultimate holiday gift to Deep Purple.Roger Glover to perform Concerto For Group and Orchestra!Remember me
Lost Password?The Rapture Of The Deep Tour
The fall European leg of the tour has completed, and with it the 2007
touring season comes to a close.South America was over a year ago now, and other
than for some Japanese dates, Asia hasn't had a proper RotD tour yet.As soon as we hear about any dates, we'll be sure to update our tourdate
listings so check them every so often to see when Deep Purple are coming near you.And as
always, please send in your reviews and photos to be
published in our tour reviews section.After a prolonged leave of absence, our Tour Reviews section is back
with a vengeance: 'All in all, they were fantastic.Watching such a band, isn't that a gift?They're part of my life
again.Deep Purple's Fall European tour.South American tour
Rumours were circulating for a while that a South American Deep Purple tour is in the works.So far they are very unconfirmed.Metal at 40
This morning, January 3, BBC Radio 4 broadcasted a programme celebrating 40 years of Heavy Metal, focusing on founding fathers: Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.The end of the music business as we know it
This is not really directly related to anything Purple, but we never said that this blog would be.Deep Purple a long time ago and they are still as excellent as they were at the time.It was the final show of the French Tour.The show began half an hour before the previous time, and the set list was a little shorter than for the other French dates.CSS should go into a separate file.Get the latest Flash player.This video has been added to your favorites.The video has been added to your playlist.This video will appear on your blog shortly.There may be significant legal penalties for false notices.Please refer to our Help Center for more information and the complete instructions.Thank you for sharing your concerns.In order to process a privacy complaint we need more information from you.Thank you for sharing this video!Deep Purples "Child in Time" is to me personally like LZ "Stairway 2 Heaven" !!Two of the BEST rock bands of our time.Before i heard this song i didn't like Deep Purple but this song is simply beautiful...Would you like to comment?The code changes based on your selection.Thank you for sharing your concerns.Thank you for sharing your concerns.In order to process a privacy complaint we need more information from you.Ian got a few words right......The code changes based on your selection.Searchers drummer Chris Curtis.Curtis and a bunch of session guys.Namely, that he and Lord should form the nucleus of a band, along with a dazzling new guitarist named Ritchie Blackmore, whom Curtis had recently unearthed.Lord readily agreed to Curtis' proposal to form a more experimental group.Blackmore (guitar), brothers Chris and Dave Curtis (vocals), Lord (keyboards), Nick Simper (bass), and Bobby Woodman (drums).Woodman was a veteran skinsman who, under the name Bobby Clarke, had played in '50s rocker Vince Taylor's backing band.By 1967, Blackmore was living in Hamburg, Germany.Evans and Paice had met and played together in The MI5, which later changed its name to The Maze and released a couple of (flop) singles in 1967.In fact, when Evans auditioned for Simper, Lord, and Blackmore in March 1968, Paice tagged along, unaware that the band also needed a new drummer.Invited to sit in while Evans auditioned, Paice was surprised but delighted when the band then offered them both jobs.Evans' contribution to the early Purple sound has been unfairly overlooked.They had also asked Mike Harrison of Spooky Tooth to take the mic, but, as Blackmore recalls, "he didn't want to know."Deep Purple it stayed.The group's first release as Deep Purple, was the single "Hush."So I mentioned it to the band, and we did it."Purple's first album, "Shades Of Deep Purple."Much to the band's astonishment, however, the song became a Top 5 smash in the United States and won them a deal with the Tetragrammaton label.Their next album, simply titled "Deep Purple" and released in the States in June of '69, was their first to actually warrant the term "heavy".They were not just a pop group anymore, and one night, when Deep Purple opened for Cream on their farewell U.With his penchant for holding the guitar close to the amp, creating what he calls "chance music" out of the screaming distortion that ensued, Blackmore quickly became the star of the show.Gillan says he was elated at joining the band.At last the singer could write lyrics that meant something to him, while the band improvised around him."We don't plan things," Gillan told Melody Maker in September 1971.He initially turned it down, but, thankfully, changed his mind the very next day.Deep Purple commenced with an album that barely hinted at what they were capable of: "Concerto For Group And Orchestra".Credited to "Deep Purple and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra", 'Concerto' was recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall on September 24, 1969, and released in the U.The quintessential Purple sound as we fondly remember it today, however, was first heard on "Deep Purple In Rock".September 1970, "Deep Purple In Rock" contains many of the classic cuts we now associate with the name Deep Purple.The album was a monster success on both sides of the Atlantic, staying in the U.July of '71, and was another commercial success.But the biggest album Deep Purple ever recorded is "Machine Head".Top 5 hit, "Smoke On The Water."The genesis of "Smoke On The Water" lay in the band's decision to record Machine Head "live", at the Casino in Montreux, Switzerland.Halfway through the Mothers' set, fire broke out.Purple settled on the Grand Hotel.As it turned out, the Grand Hotel had its own hazards.Not two hours into their first recording session, the group received a dubious welcome by local police.It seems several neighbours had called the cops, complaining about the noise.But the band was cooking on a track for which Blackmore had already come up with the riff, and for which Gillan was hurriedly writing new, lyrics.Hence the opening line: "We all went down to Montreux .Reluctant to interrupt the flow of their session, Purple left the Swiss police to bang on the locked studio doors while they frantically tried to finish the track."We didn't want to open up until we knew we had gotten the right take."December 1972, "Who Do We Think We Are" would be the last studio album for nearly 12 years, thus bringing to an end the golden age of Deep Purple.Its restless tone, a reflection of the band's deepening inner turmoil.The band fortunately taped some of those final shows in Japan.Ian Gillian and Roger Glover both announced their retirement from Deep Purple at the same time.Glover merely wished to step out of the limelight for a while and concentrate on the production work he was being offered.In June 1973, the three remaining members of Deep Purple decided to find replacements and soldier on.Coverdale began his musical journey playing the guitar, but switched to singing after receiving encouragement from friends.Purple had placed in Melody Maker.Glenn Hughes' major claim to fame before joining Purple was his work in "Trapeze", which had released a clutch of fine albums in the early '70s, most notably their 1972 classic, "You Are The Music .June of '73, Hughes was offered the job of replacing Roger Glover in Deep Purple, he leaped at it.The first album from this version of Deep Purple, titled simply "Burn", was released in February of '74.When the smoke cleared, "Burn" was recognized as the band's finest hour since "Machine Head".It was Coverdale who had suggested auditioning Bolin."He walked in, thin as a rake, his hair colored green, yellow, and blue with feathers in it.He had also jammed with such luminaries as Dr.John, Albert King, and Alphonse Mouzon and was busy working on his first solo album, "Teaser", when he accepted an invitation to make history as a member of the new Deep Purple.The end came on tour in Britain in March 1976, before Blackmore's immense following, when the pressure to show what he could do proved too much for the increasingly addled guitarist."It was a tragedy," Coverdale says."Tommy was a brilliant guitarist, but he just couldn't .Undeterred, Bolin had just finished recording his second solo album, "Private Eyes", when, on December 4, 1976, the real tragedy struck.That night Ritchie Blackmore, touring Japan with Rainbow, dedicated a song to his memory.Iron Maiden, the name Deep Purple had been consigned to history.Blackmore, Gillan, Lord, Paice, and Glover were back together again, the news was greeted with surprise.None of the members of Purple had been idle in their years apart.Nevertheless, encouraged by the renewed boom in heavy metal, the reincarnated Deep Purple came back stronger than ever with "Perfect Strangers", the album which launched Deep Purple back onto the U.Greenwich, Connecticut, overlooking the harbour.Lord, who was "nervous as a kitten," hadn't seen Ritchie in ten years."And when he walked into that room, and suddenly these five people were together for the first time in ten years, everyone just started smiling.Certainly the energy always crackled when these five were in the same room.And by the time they released the live "Nobody's Perfect" album in the summer of '88, Gillan had announced that he was leaving ...Purple covers band called Ezra.Before replacing Graham Bonnet in Rainbow, he had recorded three albums with New York rockers Fandango.Being invited to replace Gillan in Deep Purple was, he said, "a lifelong dream come true."Their most recent album, 1998's "Abandon", is a decent enough offering, if lacking a certain crucial element.In 2001, Don Airey replaced Jon Lord on keyboards to form what devoted fans referred to as Deep Purple Mk VIII.Time and time again Deep Purple are cited as the band that crafted heavy rock to a fine art.Deep Purple Appreciation Society.Stormbringer has gone back to Spring 2008.Deep Purple Live In London Vinyl Edition.The Singles + The Promo Videos.Deep Purple magazine covers gallery.Darker Than Blue 52, online edition.Deep Purple (Overseas) Ltd. |
