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Ok... What will our bootleg experts say about this question? emoticon

Write three great shows from each era:

Mk I concerts

Mk II concerts in In Rock years

Mk II Fireball times emoticon

Mk II Machine Head

Mk II Who Do We Think We Are (last shows of Mk II)

Mk III - Burn

Mk III - Stormbringer

Mk IV - CTTB (I´m really very interested in these times)

We have another topic about Perfect Strangers Tour

HOBL Tour

S&M Tour

TBRO Tour

_|_ Tour

/-\ Tour

))) Tour
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Re: Best show from each tour?


Sure to spark a debate,

Well, I'll do the /-\ tour since I have been listening to some today, from the early part of the tour You Need One! from Berlin is great, and you actually get to hear some /-\ tracks on it, Evil Louis is great. Move on a year and Gelsenkirchen June 99 is very good, that German tour around June of 1999 was really good and this is a good boot. Lastly the soundbaord from Athens April 2000. Great sound, great show and about the last time they anything approaching a balanced set list.

From _|_ I would say Feel Like Screaming from Reading, not a bad recording but the set list is fantastic and it is a good show, apart from Gillan's wheelbarrow joke. Purple Rose Of Hanau is another great show and really good recording. From the end of tour Rosas Cantina from the House of Blues. One of the first performances of Seventh Heaven and, apart from a couple of skips in my recording, a very good sounding boot, may be a soundboard can't remember now.

From the S&M tour, anthing without the vocals is just about bearable emoticon

Can't comment on MKII or IV since I don't really care for them, but will have to think more about the remainder, it's get a bit tricky........

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You have to be the first Purple fan I know who don't care about MkII!

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Re: Best show from each tour?


quote:

Gurra wrote:

You have to be the first Purple fan I know who don't care about MkII!



Nah, there are some die hard Morse fans that only tolerate DP, because of S.M.
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NO No NO!!!!!!!!! that was a sad typing error, I meant MK III and MK IV!!!!!. MK II is far and away my fav era, and my comment was supposed to be taken that I can't pick three fav's from then as there are too many contenders, but with the Morse era it is a bit easier.

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Allright, that explains it

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Hey, another person that doesn't care too much for MKIII and IV. We are a minority, RFBach, but probably not a small as some may think.

How are we to interpret this question? Are these to be shows that we have seen? Not too many of us were able to attend a MKI or II concert and probably not many more got to see MKIII or IV. I was old enough to see MKII-IV, but never got the chance.

Since there isn't too much video available from the pre-reunion, live albums show that MKII were the best, hands down. Gillan was at the top of his game. They were fresh, powerful and exciting.

As for MKIII, the core of Blackmore, Lord and Paice were great, but I cringe every time that Coverdale and Hughes open their yaps. Their mangling of the MKII classics is horrible. Plus, their albums themselves only had a couple of good tunes on them apiece, so there wasn't a lot of great stuff to call on, although they did a good job of playing them live.

As for MKIV, what can I say? They didn't have a much new stuff to play. On top of that, who knew which Bolin would show up? Probably the lowest point of DP, pre-reunion.

As for MKI, how much live stuff do we have to judge them? I can't do it.

As far as the reunion stuff, we are blessed with a large amount of video to review.

I haven't seen them live since the S&M tour, but I enjoyed all of the shows that I attended. I just missed them in Atlantic City in 2004 because I didn't know that they were there. I was right down the street when they were on stage at the Trump Marina. Poop.

Either way, I like what I have seen on video.

It wasn't until the MKMorse era that Gillan figured out that he couldn't do vocally what he used to be able to do in MKII, so I think vocally he is better in the later stuff than the early reunion, other than some of the PS shows in the beginning. Much better than the HOBL and TBRO vocals. I am not so enamored by his stuff on 'Perihelion', though.

'Bombay Calling' is my favorite video of the MKMorse era. It is fun to watch. Gillan is pretty good for the most part, except for 'CIT'. Morse hadn't had a chance to put his stamp on the classics yet, so it is better than much of the later wanking.

They have a lot of excellent new material to choose from, yet they seem to fall back on the MKII stuff, as their 'Machine Head' tour seems to indicate. This shows how good the MKII stuff really is. Plus, they either have little confidence in the new stuff or they know that the audience won't recognize much of it.

Go figure.

  
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quote:

As for MKIV, what can I say? They didn't have a much new stuff to play. On top of that, who knew which Bolin would show up? Probably the lowest point of DP, pre-reunion.


They had 9 songs plus two of Bolin's they played at some point during the tour,that's a pretty good place to start.It had its low points,to be sure,but it hardly disqualifies they nights they were on either.I prefer the bad nights to the bland garbage that passes for Purple live or on record now.That's just my own opinion.At least MKIV,good or bad,had dynamics.
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Well, JSA, I agree with your summing up of MK III. I actually prefer MK IV in someways as has been stated they had their moments and most of the album was played at one point or another. But generally don't get too exceited about the Coverdale/Hughes era.

Bringing this back on topic I feel there are enough MK III & MK IV offical live releases available for me so I never bothered aquiring any boots from these times, so can't comment on them.

The recent Morse era has been dissapointing live for all the reasons mentioned, but going back there are great performances, varied set lists and the boots I mentioned give a pretty good account of this, I am sure there are more. Picking boots from 69-73 is not as easy.

RF
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