Contractual Obligation #2: Live in Warsaw by Ian Gillan, Don Airey and the Don Airey Band is an album I am enjoying a lot more than I’d have expected to. Gillan/Airey and band play some Deep Purple classics, some deep cuts and some Gillan solo tracks with the Beethoven Academy Orchestra. The orchestral arrangements are […]
Category Archives: All that is Deep and Purple
Albums bought May – August 2015
Holy crap I bought a lot these past four months! Some of these were on my “Just buy this already” list, because I had been playing them on Spotify or Tidal a lot. Others were provoked by my rediscovery of a band I enjoyed a lot when I was in my late teens; it is […]
Notes/first impressions: Ian Gillan – Access All Areas
* Live recording from the Naked Thunder tour, 1990(ish) * Probably not from a single concert, and at only 11 tracks, not a full concert set, I think. Fade-ins and fade-outs between songs * Songs from Gillan’s career from Deep Purple through original version of Gillan, plus Naked Thunder and Gillan/Glover tracks * Ian Gillan […]
CDs that are going, part one
I’m just going to go ahead and get started on posting the list of CDs I want to get rid of. As usual, they are free to anyone local to Groningen, and can be had for the cost of postage outside my immediate bicycling range. First come, first served, except for large batches sent overseas. […]
No heroics, please
This week, I had a cold. I stayed in bed for two days and am beginning to think that when I got back to work on Thursday, it was really too early as I don’t think I was mentally up to scratch. It’s been my opinion for a long time that people who are sick […]
Stormbringer, remastered
The music industry’s slowest remastering program lurched forwards one more step towards completion this week. Starting in 1995 with the 25th anniversary edition of Deep Purple in Rock, it has now finally managed to get around to the release of the 35th anniversary edition of the album Stormbringer that was originally released just 5 years […]