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Deep Purple – Live At Montreux 1996 / Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Steve Morse, Ian Raice / Includes Speed King, Black Night, Woman From Tokyo & Smoke On The Water plus mayn more / Eagle Records Audio CD 2006 / EAGCD323
UPC 5034504132320
Product Details:
Part of Eagle Records' Eagle Classics series, which bundles a pair of Eagle-issued releases into a budget-priced set, this two-fer from hard rock legends Deep Purple includes a couple of late period live outings. Live at Montreux 1996 features Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Steve Morse, and Ian Paice tearing through a set of hard-hitting DP classics like "Fireball," "Woman from Tokyo," and a lengthy "Smoke on the Water," while Live at Montreux 2006, the band's first live recording without Jon Lord, includes three tracks (The Wrong Man," "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye," and "Rapture of Deep") from the band's 18th studio album, 2006's Rapture of the Deep, as well as live staples like "Space Truckin'" and a nearly nine-minute rendition of "Highway Star."
Editorial Reviews:
Deep Purple Need No Introduction as One of the All-time Great British Rock Bands. Their Association with Montreux Goes Back to the Early Seventies When their Attempt to Record their Album "Machine Head" at the Montreux Casino was Thwarted When it Promptly Burnt Down Forcing them to Make the Album in the Rooms and Corridors of the Grand Hotel Instead. The Story was of Course Immortalised in their Classic Song "Smoke on the Water" which is the Climax of this 1996 Concert from the Montreux Festival. Line-up Features: Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Steve Morse and Ian Paice.
Tracklist:
| 1 | Fireball | 3:50 |
| 2 | Ted The Mechanic | 4:27 |
| 3 | Pictures Of Home | 5:41 |
| 4 | Black Night | 6:43 |
| 5 | Woman From Tokyo | 5:21 |
| 6 | No One Came | 5:06 |
| 7 | When A Blind Man Cries | 7:29 |
| 8 | Hey Cisco | 5:47 |
| 9 | Speed King | 5:10 |
| 10 |
Smoke On The Water | 8:15 |
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Bonus: |
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| 11 | Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming |
6:46 |
| 12 | Fools | 9:41 |
About the Band:
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. The band is considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock although their musical approach changed over the years. Originally formed as a psychedelic rock and progressive rock band, they shifted to a heavier sound with their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock. Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies". They were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as "the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre and have sold over 100 million copies of their albums worldwide.
Deep Purple have had several line-up changes and an eight-year hiatus (1976–1984). The 1968–1976 line-ups are commonly labelled Mark I, II, III and IV. Their second and most commercially successful line-up consisted of Ian Gillan (vocals), Jon Lord (keyboards), Roger Glover (bass), Ian Paice (drums), and Ritchie Blackmore (guitar). This line-up was active from 1969 to 1973 and was revived from 1984 to 1989 and again from 1992 to 1993. The band achieved more modest success in the intervening periods between 1968 and 1969 with the line-up including Rod Evans (lead vocals) and Nick Simper (bass, backing vocals), between 1974 and 1976 with the line-up including David Coverdale (lead vocals) and Glenn Hughes (bass, vocals) (and Tommy Bolin replacing Blackmore in 1975), and between 1989 and 1992 with the line-up including Joe Lynn Turner (vocals). The band's line-up (currently including Ian Gillan, and guitarist Steve Morse from 1994) has been much more stable in recent years, although keyboardist Jon Lord's retirement from the band in 2002 (being succeeded by Don Airey) left Ian Paice as the only original Deep Purple member still in the band.
Deep Purple were ranked number 22 on VH1's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock programme, and a poll on radio station Planet Rock ranked them 5th among the "most influential bands ever". The band received the Legend Award at the 2008 World Music Awards. Deep Purple (specifically Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Gillan, Glover, Coverdale, Evans, and Hughes) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.
More Details:
- Bass – Roger Glover
- Drums – Ian Paice
- Guitar – Steve Morse
- Keyboards – Jon Lord
- Mastered By – Ray Staff
- Mixed By – David Richards
- Vocals – Ian Gillan
- Written-By – Gillan (tracks: 1 to 12), Paice (tracks: 1 to 12), Lord (tracks: 1 to 12), Blackmore (tracks: 1, 3 to 7, 9 to 10, 12), Glover (tracks: 1 to 12), Morse (tracks: 2, 8, 11)
