Hard Rock legend Deep Purple announced new bunch of summer 2007 US/Canada tour dates, as they continue to support 2005′ release Rapture of the Deep. The trek starts July 12 with concert in Atlanta’s Chastain Park Amphitheatre, comprises 26 dates with final show on August 25 in Dallas (TX). Deep Purple will play concerts in Montreal (QB), Boston (MA), Atlantic City (NJ), New York (NY), San Francisco (CA), Las Vegas (NV), Denver (CO), and in many other cities. Listed below tour itinerary includes also some festival perfomances. Current band’s lineup is Ian Gillan, Steve Morse, Roger Glover, Don Airey, and Ian Paice. Deep Purple Tickets Deep Purple 2007 US/Canada Tour Dates 7/12/2007 - Atlanta, GA - Chastain Park Amphitheatre 7/13/2007 - Lake Buena Vista, FL - House of Blues 7/14/2007 - Pompano Beach, FL - Pompano Beach Amphitheatre 7/15/2007 - Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall 7/18/2007 - South Bend, IN - Morris Civic Performing Arts Center 7/19/2007 - Cadott, WI - Rock Fest 2007 7/21/2007 - Farwell, MI - Rock Fest 2007 7/24/2007 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant 7/26/2007 - London, Ontario - Rock the Park IV 7/27/2007 - Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre 7/28/2007 - Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre 7/31/2007 - Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion 8/2/2007 - Wallingford, CT - Chevrolet Theatre 8/4/2007 - Atlantic City, NJ - House of Blues 8/7/2007 - New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall 8/8/2007 - Hampton Beach, NH - Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom 8/12/2007 - Costa Mesa, CA - Pacific Amphitheatre 8/13/2007 - San Bernardino, CA - Hudson Theatre 8/15/2007 - San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre 8/16/2007 - San Diego, CA - 4th & B Concert Theatre 8/17/2007 - Sun City West, AZ - Maricopa County Events Center 8/18/2007 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint @ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 8/21/2007 - Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium 8/23/2007 - San Antonio, TX - Majestic Theatre 8/24/2007 - Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theatre 8/25/2007 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
Legendary hard rock band Deep Purple will return to the scene of the crime, as it were, this summer. The group is being honored by the Montreux Jazz Festival, which is curently celebrating it's 40th anniversary in 2006. Details are still being worked out, but Deep Purple will be celebrated at a number of events, and there will be a purple theme throughout the festival, which runs from June 30th to July 15th 2006. The band last played the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2004.Deep Purple are very familiar with the town of Montreux, Switzerland - they set up shop at The Casino there in December 1971 to record their Machine Head album. The night before the sessions were to begin, Frank Zappa & the Mothers Of Invention played at the Casino, and during the show, an audience member fired a flare gun into the roof, setting the building on fire and burning it to the ground. This is how the anthem "Smoke On The Water was born."As strange as it might seem, Deep Purple really didn't see the potential in "Smoke On The Water." Purple bassist Roger Glover recalls: "Our focus on Machine Head was another song entirely, a song called 'Never Before.' 'Smoke On The Water' was really a sort of, just another track on the album - there was nothing special about it. And 'Never Before' came out and got all the promotional stuff - the industry, you know, went into overdrive to sell that - and nothing happened to it. And it took the public, or possibly the radio stations and the public, to pick 'Smoke On The Water' and say, 'That's the song you should be pushing.'"