Track Listing

1. Speed King
2. Wring That Neck
3. Child In Time
4. Mandrake Root
5. Highway Star
6. Strange Kind Of Woman
7. Lazy
8. Never Before
9. Space Truckin'
10. Lucille
11. Smoke On The Water

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74476 in Music
• Released on: 1992-04-13
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Live

Customer Reviews

I was There
I was actually at the concert with Mike Harding as compere. I used to go to a lot of BBC concerts in those days. This one goes down as the best concert I ever attended. I was not a big Deep Purple fan and I only reluctantly decided to go at the last minute, BBC concert tickets were free, but I am so glad I made the effort. When the band kicked off with Highway Star I was just amazed at the power and the energy that they put accross. The whole audience were out of their seats and dancing in the aisles. Ritchie Blackmore's guitar work was brilliant, he was playing it behind his head and with his teeth. It was almost Hendrix like. As the show went on they just got better and better, the drum work by Ian Paice being particularly outstanding. The tour de force of the concert in my opinion was the 20 odd minute performance of Space Trucking, but the whole experience is something that has stayed with me for the last 33 years. Highly recommended, better than Made in Japan and that's saying something!

Maybe I'm a Leo, but I ain't lyin'
I must have different ears to the rest of the reviewers 'cause to me this is almost better than "Made in Japan".

First you have to buy the remastered version of that album and then when you find out your life is not complete you can buy this too for the tracks that aren't on MiJ.

If you consider the 1970 disk to be a bonus and just listen to the 1972 disk you will LOVE this. Try to ignore Mike Harding's commentary if you can and just enjoy the performance.

Good collectors item - not for newcomers
The 1970 disc is, to these ears, the inferior. Gillan doesn't have a lot of singing to do in this one, but when he does sing, he sounds under-the-weather and (well I never!) lacking in confidence, `Child In Time' being particularly problematic. More importantly, the stars of the show, Blackmore and Lord, aren't on great form either, short bursts of inspiration alternating with stretches of `wibbling' and rambling through the effects boxes.
The 1972 disc is much better - a rare opportunity to hear `Maybe I'm A Leo', terrific versions of `Strange Kind...' and `Lazy' that are on a par with MADE IN JAPAN (`Space Trucking' is less powerful), the then-brand-new `Smoke On The Water' ("break a leg, Frank!"), and, last but not least, a wild "Lucille" complete with thinly-disguised-tuning-up prelude and multiple false endings.
Comperes Mike Harding and John Peel (both not normally hard rock fans) provide some amusement with their banal attempts at hyping - and interviewing - the band. The rowdy, possibly "speeded-up" biker audience on the '72 date are also amusing, particularly when someone in the band disrobes after "Lazy".