Deep Purple: Live On The BBC [2004 S.Hoffman Audio Fidelity Hybrid SACD] CD Track Listing
Deep Purple
Live On The BBC [2004 S.Hoffman Audio Fidelity Hybrid SACD] (1972)
2004 Audio Fidelity\n\nOriginally Released January 20, 2004\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Recorded by the BBC on March 9, 1972, this previously difficult to find live show captures the classic Mark ll version of Deep Purple in all their incendiary power. This performance -- basically the entirety of the then just released Machine Head minus "Pictures of Home" -- is easily as good, and at times better than, Made in Japan, recorded five months later. The band apparently felt the Japan tapes were of inferior quality, and initially did not want them released, which makes this arguably the most potent document of the group's live show from that year. Although this SACD hybrid adds studio versions of "Hush" and "River Deep Mountain High" from the Mark l edition to flesh out the playing time, one of the live tracks, their version of Little Richard's "Lucille," is only available on the SACD layer. That means that anyone without an SACD player won't be able to hear it, but will be able to play the two studio tracks, a perplexing decision that is unexplained in the liner notes. In any event, the live BBC tapes find Purple slamming through these songs like they had something to prove. Although "Child in Time" is MIA, it is replaced by "Maybe I'm a Leo" and "Never Before," two tracks that didn't make the Japan set list. Even without those additions, this is a find for all Deep Purple fans, and a great place for all classic rock fans to jump in. Since this release is from an audiophile label, great care was spent making sure the sound is as crisp as possible from tapes this old, and the work has paid off. Those with SACD equipment get to hear "Lucille" and also experience the band in a wider soundscape, making the performance even more lifelike. ~ Hal Horowitz, All Music Guide\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nReissue of Disc 2 of "Deep Purple in Concert" (1970-1972), April 29, 2004 \nReviewer: eurocrank (Ketchikan, Alaska)\n \nI tried to get a track listing for this disc from various internet merchants, but to no avail. So I ordered the disc and was disappointed to find that the material is not new. It is currently available in another, preferable context: "Deep Purple In Concert" ("two complete 1970 - 1972 recordings"), a 2 CD set released on Spitfire in 2001. "Live on the BBC" is a single CD "produced under license from Spitfire Records" in 2004.\n\nAudio Fidelity seems to have licensed the music on the second disc of "Deep Purple In Concert," had it remastered by Steve Hoffman and Lon Neumann, and added two also-previously-released tracks, 'Hush' and 'River Deep Mountain High' (also remastered from the already remastered--and readily available--early Deep Purple albums on Spitfire).\n\nAs "Deep Purple In Concert" was digitally remastered (by Joe Lambert) in 2001, the need for an SACD remaster is less than compelling to me (unlike the Dylan remasters). The additional tracks seem remarkably inappropriate to me because the main material is a live Paris Theatre (London) performance on March 9, 1972, of "Machine Head" material, the "new" album at the time, whereas the additional tracks were performed in the studio by a different, earlier lineup (Deep Purple MK I). Deep Purple released four albums in between, and the additional tracks don't seem to have any particular relevance to the later songs and performances.\n\nThe purpose of the original and still available "Deep Purple In Concert" was to present two complete Deep Purple concerts by the same lineup featuring significantly different material. It succeeded, in my opinion. I'm not sure what the purpose of "Live on the BBC" was, but I am sure it doesn't succeed for my purposes. To make matters even more awkward, "Deep Purple In Concert" costs about the same.\n\nOh yeah, the track listing on "Live on the BBC" is wrong: every track is off by one due to a live-concert-type introduction that is given a track listing (1) of its own. So, 'Highway Star' is actually track 2, not 1, and so on.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nThe Best Deep Purple live recording, February 24, 2004 \nReviewer: "the_geekapoo" (Somerville, MA USA)\n \nBeen waiting for this one to come out since the 70s, when I recorded the broadcast off the radio. The performance was made about 2 months prior to Machinehead's release. Easily the best live Deep Purple performance I've heard. The sound is CRISP and the whole band is on fire, tight as heck and groovin throughout. Blackmore in particular is brutal...especially on Highway Star and Space Truckin (both better versions than on Made in Japan). IMHO, this is the definitive Deep Purple recording. A special bonus is the treatment of some songs from Machinehead I'd not heard live before. If you like Deep Purple, buy this one...I can guarentee you that you will not be disapointed...it will be more like OMG!!!! OMG!!! OMG!!! This recording sums up the essence of the band as I will always know them and love them.. \n\nHalf.com Album Notes\nThis is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.\n
This rock cd contains 10 tracks and runs 77min 24sec.
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- Deep Purple - Introduction (00:13)
- Deep Purple - Highway Star (06:46)
- Deep Purple - Strange Kind Of Woman (08:39)
- Deep Purple - Maybe I'm A Leo (05:11)
- Deep Purple - Never Before (03:57)
- Deep Purple - Lazy (10:11)
- Deep Purple - Space Truckin' (21:04)
- Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (06:43)
- Deep Purple - Hush (04:25)
- Deep Purple - River Deep Mountain High (10:08)
