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THE TAZ TAYLOR BAND Featuring GRAHAM BONNET: New Album Due This Summer

THE TAZ TAYLOR BAND have inked a deal with Escape Music for the release of their new album, "Welcome to America". The CD, which features legendary hard rock vocalist Graham Bonnet (RAINBOW, MSG, ALCATRAZZ) on eight songs, is tentatively due this summer. Originally, Graham was set to appear as a gues...

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BLACKMORE'S NIGHT: 2005 U.K. Tour Roadie's Diary Published

Last year, Mike Garrett of BLACKMORE'S NIGHT Lincolnshire fan club was lucky to work with BLACKMORE'S NIGHT and the GEYERS as part of the BLACKMORE'S NIGHT U.K. tour. Mike kept an extensive diary and photographic record while working on that tour and it is now published as part of the Blackmore's Ni...

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WHITESNAKE To Tour Japan In May

WHITESNAKE will be undertaking a headlining tour of Japan in early May prior to their slew of festival appearances and headlining shows in Europe this summer. Exact cities and dates will be announced soon. In other news, WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale recently commented on the rumors of a possi...

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BLACKMORE'S NIGHT: RITCHIE And CANDICE To Guest On NY Public Television

An exclusive premiere of BLACKMORE'S NIGHT's "Castles & Dreams" is scheduled for Monday, January 30 at 8:00 p.m. on WLIW21 New York Public Television. Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (ex-DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW) and vocalist/fiancée Candice Night will appear live in the studio to speak about their new...

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BLACKMORE'S NIGHT Enter Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart At No. 38

According to a posting on BLACKMORE'S NIGHT's official web site, the group have just entered the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart at position No. 38 with their newest single, "Christmas Eve". The track comes off BLACKMORE'S NIGHT's "Beyond the Sunset - The Romantic Collection", which came out in S...

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DRAGONFORCE: Buenos Aires Press Meeting And Guitar Clinic Announced

DRAGONFORCE will be holding a press meeting and a guitar clinic with Herman Li for Ibanez guitars on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 at Mannys's Music Store in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The details are as follows: 17:00 - Press Meeting 18:00 - Guitar clinic with Herman Li and keyboardist Vadim Pruzhanov...

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New BLACKMORE'S NIGHT CD To Feature JOE LYNN TURNER

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT, the band featuring former DEEP PURPLE/RAINBOW guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and his fiancée Candice Night, will release their new album, "Village Lanterne", on January 25 in Japan. The Japanese version will have a bonus track called "Once In a Garden". The European release is schedu...

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DEEP PURPLE: Two Complete Shows From BLACKMORE's Final Tour To Be Released On CD

According to Deep-Purple.net, BMG will be releasing two full shows from guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's last tour with DEEP PURPLE — recorded in Stuttgart and Birmingham in October/November 1993 on "The Battle Rages On" trek — as a four-CD box set. Both shows will be completely unedited and will make...

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GLENN HUGHES Says DEEP PURPLE MKIII Reunion Is A Possibility

Rockdetector.com recently conducted an interview with legendary vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes (DEEP PURPLE, BLACK SABBATH). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Rockdetector.com: Before "Soul Mover" I think it's fair to say a lot of your fans were frustrated by the sheer amount of sessions you...

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Keeper of the Seven Keys – The Legacy

You'd need balls the size of Düsseldorf to tack a sequel onto two of the most beloved power metal albums of all time, arguably the blueprints for an entire mini-industry that's sprung up in their wake. But hubris has never been in short supply where HELLOWEEN mastermind Michael Weikath is concerned...

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DEEP PURPLE Frontman: 'RITCHIE BLACKMORE Is Wasting His Time'

Sweden's Metalshrine recently conducted an interview with DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan. A coulple of excerpts from the chat follow: Metalshrine: Have you heard any of the BLACKMORE'S NIGHT stuff? Ian Gillan: "I have! I had to do an anomynous review. I heard his records and I listened to it very c...

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RAINBOW: Classic 1977 Concert To Receive DVD Release

According to a posting on Deep-Purple.net, RAINBOW's 1977 concert in Munich, Germany is finally being prepared for official DVD release. This is the only known concert by the Blackmore / Powell / Dio incarnation of the band to be filmed in full. It will appear first in Japan, probably as a two singl...

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Guitar Signed By TONY IOMMI, JIMMY PAGE, RITCHIE BLACKMORE Auctioned For $1.6 Million!

Tony Iommi (BLACK SABBATH),Jimmy Page (LED ZEPPELIN),Angus and Malcolm Young of AC/DC, Brian May (QUEEN),Ritchie Blackmore (RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE),and DEF LEPPARD are among the artists that signed a guitar which was auctioned off this week for 1.6 million dollars, according to The Rock Radio. Aft...

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RITCHIE BLACKMORE's Son To Re-Release 'Still Holding On' CD

Jürgen Blackmore, son of DEEP PURPLE/RAINBOW guitar legend Ritchie Blackmore, will re-release his 1990 CD, entitled "Still Holding On", on December 2 via Twilight-Vertrieb. For the re-release of "Still Holding On" — which is being described in a press relase as "hard rock in classic style like BON J...

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RITCHIE BLACKMORE Says One-Off DEEP PURPLE Reunion Would Be 'Fun'

Mick Burgess of Metal Express Radio recently conducted an interview with Ritchie Blackmore (ex-RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE) and Candice Night of BLACKMORE'S NIGHT. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Metal Express Radio: I think when the BLACKMORE'S NIGHT project started, the general consensus was t...