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Battle Cries |
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2 CD |
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1993, Europe |
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Highway Star / Black Night / Talk About Love / A Twist In The
Tail / Perfect Strangers / Jon Lord Medley / Knocking At Your Backdoor /
Anyone's Daughter / Child In Time / Anya / The Battle Rages On / Lazy / Woman
From Tokyo / Paint It Black / Hush / Speed King / Smoke On The Water |
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It should be from October, 19th or 20th,
from the Zenith in Paris, France (I suppose). The sound is decent, nothing
spectacular though, a little "fluttery" sometimes. What they call "Jon Lord
Medley" starts with some nice and unique riffing from Ritchie before he turns
into Beethoven's Ninth, followed by some rather "wildish" Bach interpretation
of Jon's, interpolating some boogie woogie and classical tunes as well. Some
connection noises during "Child", Gillan rather weak on that one (also: end
cut off). Actually "Lazy" includes the theme of "Hall Of The Mountain King"
and "Space Truckin'", which is not mentioned on the cover. The overall
performance is superb, both Jon and Ritchie in a great mood with lots of
extra improvisation. |
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Berlin
1971 |
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CD |
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May 22, 1971, Berlin, Germany |
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Child In Time / Mandrake Root / Strange Kind Of Woman /
Into The Fire / Paint It Black / Black Night / Lucille |
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Ritchie's
Blues |
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CD |
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August 24, 1969, Paradiso, Amsterdam,
Netherlands |
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Italy |
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Kneel And Pray / Child In Time / Mandrake Root / Wring That
Neck / Ritchie's Blues / Paint It Black |
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Fireballs Over Chicago
1996 |
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With Steve Morse |
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2 CD |
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Nov. 29, 1996, Rosemont Horizon,
Chicago, IL |
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Hush / Fireball / Ted The Mechanic / Pictures Of Home / Black
Night / Cascades (I'm Not Your Lover) / Sometimes I feel Like Screaming /
Woman From Tokyo / The Aviator / Rosa's Cantina / No One Came / Smoke On
The Water / When A Blind Man Cries / Speed King / Drum Solo / Perfect Strangers
/ Hey Cisco / Highway Star |
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The sound is a bit hollow. Outstanding
about this one is "The Aviator", which wasn't performed live too often (Roger
and Steve both playing acoustic guitars during the beginning). Perfect
performance overall. |
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9.5 |
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Children In Time |
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CD |
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Jon Stew / Bloodsucker / Wring That Neck / Child In Time /
Into The Fire / No, No, No / Hey Joe / Emmaretta #1 / Lalena / Painter /
Kneel And Pray #1 / Emmaretta #2 / Kneel And Pray #2 / Speed King |
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see also |
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Cold Spring
Essen |
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2 CD |
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February 12, 1972, Essen, Germany |
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Highway Star / Strange Kind Of Woman / No, No, No / Child In
Time / The Mule / Space Truckin' / Fireball |
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The Colour Purple
( Coloured Purple ) |
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CD |
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1987 (I
suppose: Feb. 4, Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany) |
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Highway Star / Strange Kind Of Woman / The Unwritten Law /
Dead Or Alive / Perfect Strangers / Hard Lovin' Woman / Keyboard Improvisation
/ Knockin' At Your Back Door / Speed King / Black Night / Smoke On The Water |
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Taste It Downunder |
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With Tommy Bolin |
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2 CD |
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November 25, 1975, Festival Hall, Melbourne,
Australia |
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Plus interview |
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1000 copies |
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Burn / Lady Luck / Love Child / Getting Tighter / Smoke On
The Water / Georgia / Wild Dogs / I Need Love - Lazy / This Time Around /
You Keep On Movin' / Stormbringer / Highway Star / Interview |
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Purple Rose Of Hanau |
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With Steve Morse |
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2 CD |
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Hanau, Germany, March 30, 1996 |
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Fireball / Maybe I'm A Leo / Ted The Mechanic / Pictures Of
Home / Black Night / Cascades: I'm Not Your Lover Now / Sometimes I Feel
Like Screaming / Woman From Tokyo / Bloodsucker / Purpendicular Waltz / No
One Came / Rosa's Cantina / Smoke On The Water / When A Blind Man Cries /
Somebody Stole My Guitar / Speed King / Perfect Strangers / Hey Cisco / Highway
Star bonus: Georgia On My Mind / Stormbringer / I Thank You / Coming Your
Way / You Fool No One |
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Great bootleg ! Great performance, great
sound, lots of bass, nice balance. Actually too good to be an audience
recording.... Just I don't know why they put these weird extra tracks on
it... the cover information says they were from Long Beach Arena, CA. April
15, 1973, which I doubt big time. |
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9.8 |
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In Perfect
Harmony |
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CD |
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Aug. 24, 1969, Amsterdam & Jan.
- Sep.1969, London (BBC) |
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Italy |
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Mandrake Root / Child In Time / Kneel And Pray / Hey Joe /
Lalena / The Painter / Emmaretta |
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Machine Head
1971 |
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CD |
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Outtakes, Dec. 6 - 21, Montreux,
Switzerland |
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Highway Star / Maybe I'm A Leo / I'm Alone / Never Before /
Smoke On The Water / Lazy / Space Truckin' (instr.) / Highway Star / Maybe
I'm A Leo (instr.) / I'm Alone / Never Before (instr. with backing vocals)
/ Smoke On The Water (instr. with backing vocals) / Lazy (instr.) |
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Highway
Star |
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CD |
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1972, London |
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Italy |
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Highway Star / Strange Kind Of Woman / Smoke On The Water /
Never Before / Maybe I'm A Leo / Lazy / Lucille |
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In Flame |
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2 CD |
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Mar. 13, 1974, Madison Square Garden
N.Y.C. |
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Burn / Lay Down, Stay Down / Mistreated / Smoke On The Water
/ You Fool No One - The Mule / Space Truckin' / Sep.
4, 1974, San Diego: Smoke On The Water |
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Live In Japan
1993 |
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Kings Of
Speed |
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CD |
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May 25, 1971, Pala Eur, Rome, Italy |
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Strange Kind Of Woman / Into The Fire / Child In Time / Mandrake
Root |
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Last Live 1973 |
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MK II (+MK IV) |
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2 CD |
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June 29, Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan |
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Highway Star / Smoke On The Water / Strange Kind Of Woman /
Child In Time / Lazy / The Mule / Space Truckin' / Highway Star / Burn /
Stormbringer Last three songs bonus with Tommy
Bolin |
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Last gig with Gillan and Glover. The
sound quality is really weak, getting even worse with Lazy, plus there's
a drop-out in this song. Also a drop-out during Space Truckin'.
(Tape change?) This piece is only interesting for historical reasons because
it holds Ian Gillan's farewell speech. The sound quality of the Bolin
bonus is way better (HS is cut from a radio broadcast, Burn is taken from
vinyl - presumably the bonus 45 which came with some Japanese LP releases),
but I have no idea what that's doing here. I just don't like that kind of
stuff, especially when they're from totally different eras.
See also |
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5.0 |
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The Legend Lives
On |
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CD |
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1993, Europe |
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Italy |
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Highway Star / Black Night / Anyone's Daughter / Child In Time
/ Lazy / Space Truckin' / Woman From Tokyo / Paint It Black / Smoke On The
Water |
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A Light From Deep
Darkness |
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With Satriani |
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2 CD |
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June 17, 1994, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany |
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Bonus:
Jon Lord solo and interview |
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500 copies |
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Highway Star / Ramshackle Man / Maybe I'm A Leo / Fireball
/ Into The Fire / Perfect Strangers / Pictures Of Home / Knocking At Your
Back Door / Anyone's Daughter / Anya / The Battle Rages On / When A Blind
Man Cries / Lazy / Satch Boogie / Space Truckin' / Woman From Tokyo / Paint
It Black / Space Truckin' / Speed King / Smoke On The Water /
Jon Lord: Say It's All Right
/ Interview Stuttgart, July 8, 1995 |
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It's not much of a secret that I'm not
an admirer of Satch's style, but I hope it doesn't influence my rating too
much. I only wish he'd do less showing-off sometimes. All these squeaks and
on-the-edge distortion and feed-back things aren't necessary for Purple's
music, IMHO. They match better to early Van Halen... Also: we *know* that
he can play fast, he doesn't have to prove it every 20 seconds with extra
licks, especially not in songs like PS, where it *really* doesn't belong.
Anyway, I don't want to slag on him constantly, so, back to the review: The
sound of this one is mediocre, pretty hollow. Gillan's voice has seen better
nights than this particular one, on top of that, this recording isn't to
his advantage, he sounds distorted sometimes. Jon, Rog and Paicey, perfect
as always though. What raises my rating for this piece is the extremely rare
Jon Lord solo track. I think this is from an almost "secret" concert under
the name "Gemini Band", feat. Pete York, but I might be wrong here. |
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7.8 |
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The Story Of A Loser
(it could be you) |
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2 CD |
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Not mentioned on cover
My guess: June 24, 1973,
Nagoya |
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Highway Star / Smoke On The Water / Strange Kind Of Woman /
Child In Time / Lazy / The Mule / Space Truckin' / Black Night |
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Another one from the last MK II tour.
Really good quality, if you bear in mind the year of the recording. The
peformance is also acceptable, especially considering it was just a couple
of days berfore their split. Of course it's lacking the usual fire, but at
least everybody is doing a decent job, especialy Paicey with a really nice
solo. If you're looking for documentation of this final tour, I'd prefer
this one to Last Live 1973, |
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8.0 |
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Mark III |
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2 CD |
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April 7, 1975, Olympia, Paris, France |
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Burn / Stormbringer / The Gypsy / Lady Double Dealer / Mistreated
/ Smoke On The Water / You Fool No One - The Mule / Space Truckin' / Going
Down / Highway Star / Highway Star |
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Last MK III concert with Ritchie Blackmore.
Later this gig was officially released on CD as "The Final Concerts".
Some sound checking at the beginning, but after a little
intro of Ritchie's they kick off with "Burn". The sound, especially the vocals,
is pretty distorted. Heavy bass though, the drums sound rather naked. Not
a *must have* because most of the stuff exists in better quality elsewhere.
Where the second "Highway Star" is from ? I have NO clue...... |
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7.0 |
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More Tastes ! |
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With Tommy Bolin |
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2 CD |
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December 15, 1975 + bonus tracks |
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Burn / Lady Luck / Love Child / Getting Tighter / Smoke On
The Water / Georgia / Wild Dogs / I Need Love / Soldier Of Fortune / Owed
To G / Drifter / You Keep On Movin' / Stormbringer / Highway Star / Fireball
(1971) / You Fool No One
(1974) / Hush
(1969) |
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The show (according to the cover information)
must be from the Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan, which would mean it is the same
show that we hear on the "Last Concert In Japan" album. Well, I can hardly
believe that, and if it is true, the official album must be *very, very*
edited.... To me it sounds like the first part (up to "Wild Dogs" - which
is definitely identical to the LCIJ album) is from a different gig. Anyway,
even if it's the same show, this CD gives us what was left off...
Too bad that the sound of this CD is rather weak, because
the performance has some very interesting moments. To mention just a few:
"Getting Tighter" lasts about 16:08 , "I Need Love", is there, which is not
on the official album. "Owed To G" seems to be from a different source, barely
noticable as the original song, but very interesting. "Drifter", which, to
be honest, I've never known to be performed live, is another interesting
part of this CD, although the sound here is very weak and there's a tape
slip, but it's nice to have it. Coming to "You Keep On Movin'", which is
definitely from the gig we hear on LCIJ, I start believing that the quality
differences are only a matter of the position of the bootlegger, it doesn't
necessarily mean they are from different gigs. Hmm.... I'm not sure. Anyway,
"Stormbringer" is another one we didn't get on the official album.
I don't understand what these stupid "bonus" songs
are doing here.... I hate that, especially when they are from a totally different
time period. Plus, in that case, the quality is really weak. I don't know
what that is all about.... (other than this might be the longest Fireball
version ever, with 7:59).
This one is really hard to rate.... the sound isn't
that great but it has some "historically important" moments, so I give it
a ---> |
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8.0 |
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Blackless Morsemania |
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With Steve Morse |
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2 CD |
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March 4, 1995, Musical Theatre,
Sunrise, FL. |
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Fireball / Black Night / The Battle Rages On / Ted The Mechanic
/ Woman From Tokyo / Purpendicular Waltz / When A Blind Man Cries / Perfect
Strangers / Anyone's Daughter / Child In Time / Anya / Soon Forgotten / Lazy
/ Speed King / Highway Star / Smoke On The Water |
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This one holds only parts of the gig.
The complete show you'll find on
Purple Sunrise |
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Nürumberg
1973 |
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CD |
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Jan. 19, 1973, Messehalle Nürnburg,
Germany |
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Highway Star / Smoke On The Water / Strange Kind Of Woman /
Mary Long / Lazy / Space Truckin' |
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Out |
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CD |
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Jon Stew / Bloodsucker / Wring That Neck / Child In Time /
Into The Fire / No, No, No / Hey Joe / Emmaretta / Lalena / Painter / Ricochet
/ Emmaretta / Speed King |
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Same as Children
In Time. Slightly variation, namely: Kneel And Pray is called "Ricochet"
and one version of it is dropped off. |
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Parlez Vous
Purple |
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2 CD |
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July 8, 1985, Palais Omnisports, Paris,
France |
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Highway Star / Nobody's Home / Strange
Kind Of Woman (interpolating Jesus Christ Superstar
- not mentioned on cover) / Blues - A Gypsys Kiss / Perfect Strangers
/ Under The Gun / Knocking At Your Back Door / Difficult To Cure / Jon Solo
/ Space Truckin' / Woman From Tokyo / Black Night / Smoke On The Water /
Child In Time / Speed King |
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Cover says it is taken from a FM broadcast.
Well, we wanna believe them.... since the sound is really good (in the
beginning). Gillan's voice though is in a pitiful shape that night.
CD 2 is way lower in output. Plus: the last four songs
are from different sources, which I can't name, but they are really, really
weak. Another piece that no one needs. |
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