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Live archive 1973
Two more bootleg archives were dumped on YouTube by the band’s official channel. Both with the 1973 Mark 2 performances.
The first one includes
- Münster, Halle Münsterland, January 23, 1973;
a.k.a. Münster Master and Live in Germany - Boston Music Hall, May 24, 1973;
a.k.a. Boston ’73 and Play Für Elise - Nagoya, Shi Kokaido Hall, June 24, 1973;
a.k.a. Definitive Nagoya 1973, Last Purple Dream, and The Story Of A Loser (It Could Be You) - Osaka Kosei Nenkin Kaikan, June 27, 1973;
a.k.a. A Night Of The Machine, Final Black, and Osaka 1973 First Night
The second instalment includes
- Hamburg, Ernst-Merck-Halle, January 17, 1973;
a.k.a. Mary Lose Gear In Fire and Hamburg 1.17.73 - Brussels Forest national, March 20, 1973;
a.k.a. Brussels 1973 and Bruxelles 3.20.73 - Long Beach Arena, April 15, 1973;
a.k.a. Long Beach 4.15.73, Fire In The Sky, Long Beach Arena 1973, and Made in Metropolitan - New York — now, this one is a bit more difficult to identify as they’ve played 4 gigs in town on the ’73 tour: May 26th, 27th, and 30th in Felt Forum, and May 29th at the Hofstra University, all with nearly identical set lists;
Thant’s a lot to dig in!
Thanks to Tobias Janaschke for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Last years there was talk of the Lyon 1973 tapes sounding great. Release that for once!
March 15th, 2024 at 21:04Jon Lord’s solo on ‘Highway Star’ is terrific. Even if the sound quality isn’t great on bootlegs, the chance to hear the different ways the same song were played – the improvisation – is a treat.
March 15th, 2024 at 22:53What a pity. In 1973 I lived just 30 kilometers away from Münster. But I was only 16 years old and wasn’t allowed to visit concerts at that time. I could only listen to Machine Head at home. Today I live in Münster and as coincidence wills,exactly one week ago I witnessed a concert of a purple tribute band (Purple Rising) a few hundred meters away from the “Halle Münsterland”. Still most of the songs Purple played in 1973 there were played. And the band was really good. A small consolation …
March 16th, 2024 at 14:29My goodness! I’ve never heard the Boston stuff before…Lazy and Space Truckin are up there with Made in Japan! Awesome!!
March 17th, 2024 at 12:02So cool. I’m living in Münster for the last month, and just this morning I walked to Münster Halle, where Purple played four gigs in the 70s. The show just uploaded was the third.
March 17th, 2024 at 14:40Remember the soundboard series that was released in 2001. I wish they would release these as box sets. Clean them up as best as you can and release them. I’d bet they would sell a ton of them.
March 17th, 2024 at 14:51Whoever loaded this up, a great big thank you!! To me, the MKII line up is the greatest rock band of all time!! Sorry Beatles, Stones and Zep fans. Sometimes I don’t think they realized just how good they were!!
March 17th, 2024 at 18:33@6 said…
qt.” I wish they would release these as box sets. Clean them up as best as you can and release them. I’d bet they would sell a ton of them “…
Agreed !!! But don’t hold-your breath…And though the” DP ( overseas ) live series” has been stalled at 7/10 promised releases, what was released is still available, with at least 3 x Mk-II recordings available that sound pretty-good. The “Live in Longbeach 1971” is likely the recording that people in Europe & the rest-of-the-world are unfamiliar with, as it was a US-of-A bootleg from a radio broadcast. The sound is in full-stereo too, but it takes a little while for the mix to settle in, & likely sounds far better than what is offered above.
Ear-music, please bring out the last 3 x releases that you originally planned doing within 12-months over 10-years ago…
Peace !
March 17th, 2024 at 23:15You can buy both volumes on iTunes in the uk for £9.99 each and stream on Apple Music. Enjoy.
March 17th, 2024 at 23:32@ 8: Word! About time …
March 18th, 2024 at 08:39Gregster, my hunch is that there is a lingering issue with the rights to the recordings that should have comprised the partially aborted ‘Deep Purple (Overseas) Live Series’. Ear Music would have continued or even reissued/repackaged that series long ago, were they in control of the material.
Aber was nicht ist, kann ja noch werden.
March 18th, 2024 at 15:22sorry guys just our of curiosity: who runs this website,admnistrator ?
March 18th, 2024 at 21:03@11…
Quite possible Uwe !!! But there are a few points worth noting that both support & rectify your claim…
1. The “original” intended concerts weren’t released…Likely to dodge these legal bullets.
2. What has been released, was already previously available, (with perhaps the exception of “Longbeach 1971”) via DPAS & Simon Robinson.
3. After having messaged engineer Martin Pullan a number of times at Eden Sound in Melbourne Australia, he confirmed that the series was completed, & ready for release, & that there were other concerts that he tidied-up too. At that time, we discussed what was the next expected release, & he suggested the “Cal Jam”, which did appear as a DVD release only, with even better sound, though there was little that could be enhanced.
On the basis that production has stalled due to legal matters, I would simply access other recordings featuring say the Mk-II line-up from the 1980’s & 90’s, to complete the 10-CD set.
These discs are selling quite well, & are also available on LP in most instances too, so it’s a missed opportunity imo.
And the costs of 2nd-hand DPAS Simon Robinson releases are crazy, & though listed, are often not available for sale, at least on Discogs…
Peace !
March 18th, 2024 at 21:28@12: https://www.thehighwaystar.com/about-us/ths-editorial-team/
Nick does most of the work these days.
March 18th, 2024 at 21:58It will all come to us. One day – if we all live long enough – there will be a pricey boxed set of all of DP’s studio output through all eras and record companies. And it will sell well and be followed by a voluminous live box no doubt.
The question will be where to put the Concerto? Yes, it was a live performance, but to all intents and purposes it fulfilled what a studio album is supposed to do, namely introduce new music to the listener. That it was performed live and not in the studio had likely more to do with cost issues and the insight that if you have to rent an orchestra you might as well combine it with a live performance for the added publicity (and the ability to sell tickets, a progenitor for crowd funding!), especially with a novelty project like the Concerto was at the time.
In my collection, the Concerto is filed with the studio albums. So is the Purple version of the Gemini Suite (Jon Lord’s later solo version of course with his solo albums).
March 18th, 2024 at 22:21These releases are intended to block gray market releases as these are more than 50 years old.
@1 I hope Lyon will get a good treatment. Available bootlegs sound like they were recorded from across the street of an AM radio receiver
March 19th, 2024 at 00:44@15 said…
qt.”The question will be where to put the Concerto? Yes, it was a live performance, but to all intents and purposes it fulfilled what a studio album is supposed to do, namely introduce new music to the listener. That it was performed live and not in the studio had likely more to do with cost issues and the insight that if you have to rent an orchestra you might as well combine it with a live performance for the added publicity (and the ability to sell tickets, a progenitor for crowd funding!), especially with a novelty project like the Concerto was at the time”.
LOL !!! The Concerto is the understated, master-stroke, live performance, that had the band ( in the UK at least ) up-on-billboards, on the sides & backs of buses, & entering the General public’s awareness on a permanent basis…
It was also filmed, & is very-much a live performance, as the applause from the audience dictates, including an apparent 15-minute standing ovation once finished…And the applause alone would fill one-more full side of an LP !!!
Don’t hide-it-away, celebrate it with the other LIVE recordings where it belongs.
Peace !
March 19th, 2024 at 23:34Re the Concerto: I don’t think it was really intended to be “just” live by Jon, it was rather back then with the constraints of hiring a full orchestra more convenient to present the new material via a live presentation. That is why Jon in his final days was so intent on having the studio version (after two live versions having been released already) finished. He didn’t just want tokens of remembrance of the respective live events, but desired a refined and definite studio version for the preserved posterity of his composition. Had he had the financial option, I think that is what would have already happened in 1969.
March 20th, 2024 at 13:28