Masters of Rock Tour at Grand West Casino

Deep Purple Uriah Heep & Wishbone Ash Concert in Cape Town this June

Deep Purple is considered as one of the pioneers of heavy metal and hard rock, they are listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s loudest band and ranked as number 22 on VH1s Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.

Deep Purple incorporates many sounds into their rock music including classical, blues and pop. They are still of the hardest touring bands in the world and have continued to tour around the world. There most famous claim to fame is the hit Smoke On The Water.

The technically brilliant heavy rock band ‘Uriah Heep’ (taken from the character featured in the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield) have sold over 30 million records and have had 5 US Top 40 albums.

Their debut in 1970 was a simplistic bass driven sound from electric folk to a direct harder appeal. Uriah Heep was at the forefront of a richly embossed, fastidious style of music later to be dubbed as progressive rock.

Andy Powell, Muddy Manninen, Bob Skeat, Joseph Crabtree make up Wishbone Ash, a British rock band who were hugely successful in the mid 70s. Their popular records include Wishbone Ash, Argus, There’s The Rub and New England.

Wishbone Ash is considered one of the major innovators of the harmony twin lead guitar format. Their contributions helped Powell and Turner to be included in the Top 20 Guitarists of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine.

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