Oil Well Bootlegs - RSC CD: Deep Purple - Georgia On My Mind - Oil Well

Deep Purple - Georgia On My Mind
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1. Burn 6:44
2. Smoke On The Water 5:44
3. Georgia On My Mind 2:47
4. Highway Star I 3:38
5. Not Fade Away 2:15
6. Highway Star II 1:13
7. Stormbringer 4:30
8. Discover Your Way 5:20
9. Organ Improvisation 2:15
10. You Fool No One I 4:45
11. Blackmore Solo 2:25
12. Blues Forever 2:40
13. You Fool No One II 1:14
14. The Mule

Note
All songs by Deep Purple unless noted.
~~Live in Atlanta, April 24, 1973~~

Tracks 1 to 8 recorded live at Long Beach Arena, California, 27/02/1976
Tracks 9 to 14 recorded live at Kilburn State Gaumont, London, 22/05/1974

1976 Lineup
Jon Lord – keyboards, backing vocals
Ian Paice – drums
Glenn Hughes – bass, vocals
David Coverdale – vocals, rhythm guitar
Tommy Bolin – lead guitar, vocals

1974 Lineup
Jon Lord – keyboards, backing vocals
Ian Paice – drums
Glenn Hughes – bass, vocals
David Coverdale – vocals, rhythm guitar
Ritchie Blackmore – lead guitar

This album is a digital clone of "Star Storm" - Save The Earth / STE 045.
Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only.
This album is a compilation of songs performed during two different concerts from 1974 and 1976 with different line up. Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended.
On the front cover Ian Gillan is present even though he is not present in any recording contained here.
The bootleg is interesting because it allows you to listen to Deep Purple with the excellent Tommy Bolin on guitar and with Ritchie Blackmore.
Read below for more informations!

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© Official released material:
Tracks 1-8: have been released officially on: Live At Long Beach 1976
Tracks 9-14 have been released officially on :Live in London
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Live at Long Beach 1976
Live at Long Beach 1976 is a Deep Purple album released in 2009.
This concert was recorded on February 27, 1976 at the Long Beach Arena in the United States. Broadcast on the King Biscuit Flower Hour radio show, this concert was released in 1995 under the title King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents: Deep Purple in Concert, or On the Wings of a Russian Foxbat in the UK. In 2000, BMG publishes a simple album entitled Extended Versions, which takes up only part of the concert. Purple Records reissues the full album in 2009, first in limited edition in digipak format, then in CD format after the exhaustion of this limited edition.

"Live in Long Beach 1976" is one of the rare recording in the MK IV line-up. Bolin, Coverdale, Hughes, Lord and Paice, these guys have played together under the banner of Deep Purple, doing a show in Long Beach that contains a lot of classics with he addition of some songs from the "Come Taste the Band" album - the only studio album recorded in this line-up.
This might be already one of the main benefits of "Live in Long Beach 1976". Another one is the fact that the songs have been played quite heavy which leads to rougher versions of Deep Purple classics.

But there are also clear signs that this phase wasn't the strongest one in the bands history. Tommy Bolin couldn't close the gap Ritchie Blackmore left with his departure and also David Coverdale's vocals, supported by Glenn Hughes, aren't the best on this release. Coverdale can do far better, something he showed the world with all the Whitesnake records.
You can hear on this live album that the band's chemistry wasn't the way it should be. There was a lot of friction in the band, something that can be heard on this live album - for the good and the bad.

The only real highlights are Jon Lord with his unforgettable keyboard/hammond sound and Ian Paice's beat that reflects Deep Purple so much.
All in all I must say that this album might not be the best live release of Deep Purple, but it reflects one era of this iconic band. However, the sound is good which is a crucial factor of a live album, esp. if the recording dates back to 1976.
http://www.markusheavymusicblog.com/2016/06/cd-review-deep-purple-live-in-long-beach-1976.html

Live in London, 22 May 1974
Live in London is a live album from Deep Purple. It was recorded on 22 May 1974 at Gaumont State in Kilburn by the BBC for radio broadcast, but was unreleased on vinyl until 1982. It features the Mk 3 lineup of Blackmore/Coverdale/Hughes/Lord/Paice during the tour for their album Burn. At one point during the album, keyboardist Jon Lord jokingly refers to himself as "Rick Emerson" while introducing the band. This is a combination of the first and last name of the keyboardists for progressive rock bands Yes and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, which are Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson, respectively. Deep Purple were perhaps one of the biggest bands in the Rock Universe in the early seventies, if not one of its very heaviest. Their early incarnation and classic line-up of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Roger Glover and Ian Gillan had built up a formidable reputation with albums Machine Head and In Rock, featuring such air-guitar staples as "Smoke On The Water", "Hush" and "Black Night".

However, by 1974 the third line-up of the band seen Gillan and Glover quit due to bad feeling and general rock’n’roll exhaustion the year before, and replaced by David Coverdale (later of Whitesnake) and bassist Glenn Hughes. This live album recorded at the Gaumont State in Kilburn (now a Grade 2-listed bingo hall!) – Recorded for radio - is the only document of that line-up, and now finally makes its way onto CD.

Of course, live albums always strange affairs and very rarely appeal past hardened fans, who themselves would be hard pushed to say they’d play them more than a handful of times, but as an archive release and a revealing fragment of the madness of the Purps, Live In London is top notch. Coverdale may’ve been bricking it, stepping into Gillan’s shoes, but certainly doesn’t show any sign of it as he makes a good fist of making "Smoke On The Water" his own, alongside more familiar terrain of Burn.
Depending on where you stand, Disc Two’s 21 minute version of "You Fool No One" and – good grief – 31 minutes of "Space Truckin’" could seriously test your tolerance levels, but this set is a perfect snapshot of the band at an interesting transitory peak. Blackmore was to leave himself after the following year’s album, 1975’s Stormbringer, and despite numerous reformations and comebacks, things were never really quite the same again.