First songs of upcoming Deep Purple tributealbum revealed

Sadly Jon Lord passed away earlier this year, as I've mentioned in a previous post. Big names in the Heavy Metal universe have decided to put together a tribute album entitled ‘Re-Machined: A Tribute to ‘Machine Head’ to honor the great band Deep Purple.

10 songs are set to be released on September 25th in America featuring coverversions from bands like Metallica, Chickenfoot, Iron Maiden, Glenn Hughes and many more. Ultimate Classic Rock has revealed six of the tracks of the album already and they think it might be a album worth buying. In addition they give us the chance to hear the six songs as stream. The following bands and songs can be heard:


Metallica ‘When a Blind Man Cries’
Chickenfoot ‘Highway Star’
Glenn Hughes, Steve Vai & Chad Smith ‘Highway Star’
Kings of Chaos ‘Never Before’
Black Label Society ‘Pictures of Home’
The Flaming Lips ‘Smoke on the Water’

Wanna  hear the songs? Go over here and enjoy it. :-)

In Memoriam Jon Lord

On 16th of July 2012 Jon Lord sadly passed away. R.I.P. Jon.

German TV station ARD has shortly changed it's TV schedule and will broadcast in the night from the 20th to the 21st July 2012 a recording of a legendary Deep Purple show recorded on 09.07.1985 in Paris, Palais Omnisports. 

More info on this can be viewed on the homepage of the TV station.

Update 24th July 2012: the concert will be shown again in the night of the 29th to the 30th July starting at 01.15 h (geman time) at the TV station WDR. That station also has a online-stream running, so depending upon the rights of the broadcast you might be able to watch it online if you don't live in germany.