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Live Archive 1974
Another batch of vintage Deep Purple bootlegs has been released on streaming platforms. These are the Live Archive 1974 Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. The sets include:
- Manchester-Belle Vue, King’s Hall, May 15, 1974
- New York City, Madison Square Garden, March 13, 1974
- Sheffield, City Hall, Oval Hall, May 6, 1974
- Uniondale, Long Island, New York, Nassau Coliseum, March 17, 1974
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, MECCA / Milwaukee Arena, December 11, 1974
- Edinburgh, Odeon Theatre, April 19, 1974
- London 1974, which should be one of the following:
- Bremen, Stadthalle, September 18, 1974
The sets are available on Amazon Music, Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube. Unfortunately, this release (as well as previous instalments) appear to no longer be available on YouTube or any other platform where you can listen without registration, albeit Spotify allows for previews.
Thanks to Gary Carr for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Are they better than the circulating bootlegs? If not most of them should be still available on Youtube
January 27th, 2025 at 20:10They are on YouTube, search for deep purple live archive 1974 and different tracks are there on the deep purple official channel
January 28th, 2025 at 03:25They sound roughly the same as the cds I have tbh- e.g- the numerous cuts in the Milwaukee show- the guitar sounds ever so slightly ‘lower’ as though the tape is running slightly slow. However, the Stormbringer songs sound powerful though.
The London show is dire sounding.
All the others are quite listenable, imho the best of the bunch being Bremen (superb YFNO), and NYC 1974.
Hope this helps.
January 28th, 2025 at 09:24I appreciate these being released. Thanks Much!!
January 28th, 2025 at 11:48How come none of these live archive releases are available in a hard copy form? Cd’s or vinyl. I am sure they would sell. Remember the soundboard series and the collection series box sets from years ago. I’m glad I bought them when I did because if you can even find them now they cost a fortune.
January 28th, 2025 at 13:38Yeap, @5, I have the Bootleg series 1984-2000, which is unfindable today, and the Soundboard series (Australasian tour 2001), that you can find in pieces, remastered, but never the six concerts together. (Every now and then I think about buying them all again, to compare the remastered sound with the original ones, but it’s a lot of money)
January 29th, 2025 at 00:48I whish they release this Live Archive 74 in cd or vinyl someday (as I whish they released the tone of live material that was post here some time ago to listen to on streaming -which, imho, sucks-)
@5 but how many copies? All of them are widely bootlegged and Bremen (thanks for the heads up Allen) is available as a free download if you know where to look. So maybe a couple of thousand each? Don’t think the economics stack up.
January 29th, 2025 at 13:59These releases’ only purpose is to protect copyrights from expiring.
January 29th, 2025 at 18:21Hence, all happened roughly 50 years after the concerts took place
@7 If you clean up the 72, 73 and 74 archive collections as best as they can they could limited them to say 3,000 copies. Once they’re gone there gone, I know they would sell out. Face it we all probably have some bootlegs throughout the years, some are pretty good and some are awful. Release the best quality recordings they have and let it go at that. I just wish they would have officially released something live from last years touring. The shows were amazing.
January 29th, 2025 at 19:20Who says there won’t be a live release, George? I’m certainly expecting it. I bet they recorded stuff galore.
January 29th, 2025 at 21:09