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Part 1: 1968 to 1976 | Part 2: 1984 to 1999 | Part 3: 2000-05

84 | 85 | 87 | 88 | 91 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99

Unique events:

23 March 1995 | 25/26 September 1999


  • 1984 - Mk 2b
    Toured: Australia (December)
    Live albums: New, Live & Rare - The Bootleg Collection 1984-2000 (12 CD Box Set)

    • Highway Star
    • Nobody's Home
    • Strange Kind of Woman
      ~Superstar
      ~Waltzing Matilda instrumental
    • A Gypsy's Kiss
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Under The Gun
    • Knocking At Your Back Door
    • Lazy
      ~Drum solo
    • Child In Time
    • Black Night
    • Speed King
      ~Jingle Bells instrumental
      ~Burn riff
    • Space Truckin'
    • Lucille Only in Sydney on 13 December with George Harrison
    • Smoke On The Water
      ~O Come All Ye Faithful instrumental


  • 1985 - Mk 2b
    Toured: USA, Japan, Europe
    Live albums: In The Absence Of Pink (Knebworth 85), Best On Stage 1970-1985, New, Live & Rare - The Bootleg Collection 1984-2000 (12 CD Box Set)

    • Bach's Toccata in Dm organ solo into...
    • Highway Star
    • Nobody's Home
    • Strange Kind Of Woman
      ~Superstar
      ~Still I'm Sad (The Yardbirds) instrumental
    • A Gypsy's Kiss
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Under The Gun
    • Knocking At Your Back Door
      ~Yankee Doodle Dandy instrumental
    • Lazy
      ~Rat Bat Blue riff
      ~Drum solo
    • Child In Time
    • Difficult To Cure based on Beethoven's 9th Symphony (Rainbow)
      ~Keyboard solo
      ~Teddy Bears Picnic instrumental
      ~Piano Boogie
      ~Parry's Jerusalem instrumental
      ~2001: A Space Odyssey
    • Space Truckin'
      ~Leonard Bernstein's America instrumental (The Nice)
      ~Teddy Bear's Picnic instrumental
      ~John Brown's Body instrumental
      ~Guitar improvisations
      ~General mayhem (similar to the ending of 'Hard Lovin' Man')
    • Woman From Tokyo
      ~Hey Joe instrumental
    • Speed King
      ~Wasted Sunsets instrumental
      ~Sailors' Hornpipe instrumental
      ~Burn instrumental
      ~Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly)
      ~English Country Garden instrumental
      ~Rat Bat Blue instrumental
      ~Rule Brittania
    • Black Night replaced Speed King for Japanese and European legs
      ~Spoonful instrumental (Howlin' Wolf, Cream)
      ~Teddy Bear's Picnic vocal
    • Smoke On The Water
      ~Grieg's In The Hall Of The Mountain King


  • 1987 - Mk 2b
    Toured: Europe, USA
    Live albums: Nobody's Perfect, Knocking At Your Back Door (compilation), Progression (compilation), Child In Time (compilation) and Essential Rock(South African compilation), New, Live & Rare - The Bootleg Collection 1984-2000 (12 CD Box Set), On The Road (4CD Box Set)

    • Highway Star
    • Strange Kind Of Woman
      ~Still I'm Sad instrumental
      ~Superstar
    • The Unwritten Law
      ~Drum solo
    • Blues Intro into...
    • Dead Or Alive
    • Call Of The Wild only on first few dates of tour in Hungary and Germany
    • Mad Dog only at Portland, Oregon, 16 April
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Child In Time
    • Hard Lovin' Woman
      ~Elgar's Land Of Hope And Glory instrumental
    • Teddy Bear's Picnic spoken intro...
    • Bad Attitude
    • Difficult To Cure
    • Lazy
    • Keyboard introduction
      ~Beethoven's Für Elise
    • Knocking At Your Back Door
    • Woman From Tokyo
      ~Everyday (Buddy Holly)
    • Space Truckin'
    • Speed King
    • Black Night
      ~Knees Up Mother Brown
      ~Running Bear (Johnny Preston)
      ~Blues
      ~Peter Gunn (Henry Mancini)
      ~La Bamba instrumental (Ritchie Valens)
    • Smoke On The Water
      ~In The Hall Of The Mountain King


  • 1988 - Mk 2b
    Toured: USA, Europe
    Live albums: None

    • Highway Star
    • Strange Kind Of Woman
      ~Superstar
      ~The Happy Wanderer instrumental
    • Dead Or Alive
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Child In Time
    • Hard Lovin' Woman
    • Difficult To Cure
    • Lazy
      ~Drum solo
    • Knocking At Your Back Door
    • Space Truckin'
    • Woman From Tokyo
      ~Hungarian Folk Dance
    • Speed King
    • Black Night
    • Hush
      ~Rat Bat Blue riff
    • Smoke On The Water


  • 1991 - Mk 5
    Toured: Europe, USA, Japan, Brazil, Poland, Israel
    Live albums: None

    • Burn
    • Black Night
      ~Child In Time
      ~Long Live Rock 'n' Roll (Rainbow)
    • Truth Hurts
      ~Stone Cold (Rainbow) only occasionally
      ~Fortune Teller
    • Hey Joe
    • The Cut Runs Deep
      ~Hush
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Fire In The Basement
      ~Bass solo
    • King Of Dreams
    • Stand By Me (Ben E King) only occasionally
    • Love Conquers All
    • Ritchie's Blues instrumental
    • Difficult To Cure
      ~Keyboard Solo
    • Knocking At Your Back Door
      ~Teddy Bear's Picnic instrumental
    • Tutti Frutti (Little Richard)only occasionally
    • A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Procol Harum)only occasionally
    • Yesterday (The Beatles)only occasionally
    • That'll Be The Day (Buddy Holly)only occasionally
    • Lazy
      ~Space Truckin' only in Tel Aviv 28 September
    • Wicked Ways
    • Highway Star
      ~Bourree from Sarabande (Jon Lord)
    • Smoke On The Water
      ~Drum Solo
      ~In The Hall Of The Mountain King
      ~Woman From Tokyo


  • 1993 - Mk 2c (Oct-Nov) / Mk 6 (December)
    Toured: Europe (Mk 2c), Japan (Mk 6)
    Live albums: Come Hell Or High Water, Purplexed (compilation), On The Road (4CD Box Set)
    Video: Come Hell Or High Water

  • Mk 2c:
    • Highway Star
    • Black Night
      ~Superstar
      ~Long Live Rock n' Roll (Rainbow)
    • Strange Kind Of Woman
    • Talk About Love
    • A Twist In The Tale
    • Perfect Strangers
    • The Mule
    • Beethoven
      ~Rat Bat Blue riff
      ~Beethoven's Song Of Joy (aka Difficult To Cure)
      ~Keyboard solo
      ~Holst's The Planets: Jupiter
      ~Beethoven's Für Elise
      ~Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
    • Knocking At Your Back Door
      ~Knees Up Mother Brown instrumental
    • Anyone's Daughter
      ~Over The Rainbow instrumental
    • Child In Time
    • Anya
      ~Teddy Bears Picnic instrumental
      ~Gates Of Babylon (Rainbow) instrumental
      ~Catch The Rainbow (Rainbow) instrumental
    • The Battle Rages On
    • Lazy
      ~Drum solo
    • Medley:
      1. Space Truckin'
        ~In The Hall Of The Mountain King (part of intro)
      2. Woman From Tokyo
      3. Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones)
    • Speed King
      ~Hadyn's String Quartet in C (German National Anthem)
      ~Rule Brittania instrumental
      ~Teddy Bear's Picnic instrumental
      ~Burn instrumental
      ~The Happy Wanderer instrumental
    • Hush
    • Smoke On The Water
      ~In The Hall Of The Mountain King
    Mk 6 (Japan, December 1993):
    • Highway Star
    • Ramshackle Man
    • Black Night
    • Maybe I'm A Leo
    • A Twist In The Tale
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Pictures Of Home
    • Keyboard solo
    • Knocking At Your Back Door
    • Anyone's Daughter
    • Child In Time
    • Anya
    • The Battle Rages On
    • When A Blind Man Cries
    • Lazy
      ~Drum solo
    • Space Truckin'
    • Hush
    • Speed King
    • Smoke On The Water


  • 1994 - Mk 6
    Toured: Europe
    Live albums: None (probably never, unfortunately)

    • Highway Star
    • Ramshackle Man
    • Black Night
    • Maybe I'm A Leo
    • Fireball
      ~Into The Fireinstrumental
    • A Twist In The Tale
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Pictures Of Home
    • Keyboard solo
    • Knocking At Your Back Door
    • Anyone's Daughter
    • Child In Time
    • Anya
    • The Battle Rages On
    • When A Blind Man Cries
    • Lazy
      ~Drum solo
    • Satch Boogie (Joe Satriani)
    • Space Truckin'
      ~Woman From Tokyo
      ~Paint It Black
    • Hush
    • Speed King
    • Smoke On The Water


  • 1995 - Mk 7
    Toured: USA, Korea, South Africa, India (The No Good Reason and Masters Of Rock tours)
    Live albums: New, Live & Rare - The Bootleg Collection 1984-2000 (12 CD Box Set)
    Live Video: Bombay Calling, Around The World 1995-1999
    • Highway Star
    • Maybe I'm A Leo only at some shows
    • Black Night
    • The Battle Rages On
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • Woman From Tokyo
    • The Purpendicular Waltz
    • When A Blind Man Cries
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Pictures Of Home
    • Anyone's Daughter
    • Child In Time
    • Anya
    • Keyboard solo
    • Knocking At Your Back Door
    • Soon Forgotten
    • Lazy
      ~Drum Solo
    • Space Truckin' (only at some shows) into...
    • Speed King
    • Fireball set-opener at some of the shows
    • Smoke On The Water

    See setlists forSouth African Tour.


  • 23rd March 1995 - Mk 7 but without Ian Gillan and Ian Paice
    Venue: 5fm Radio, Johannesburg, South Africa
    Live albums: None

    • Black Night/Child In Time
    • The Highland working title for The Aviator
    • When A Blind Man Cries
    • Woman From Tokyo

    An "unplugged" session and interview at the studios of South African radio station 5FM. All tracks were performed as instrumentals. This show was broadcast live, read a review here.


  • 1996 - Mk 7
    Toured: Europe, Russia, Japan
    Live album: Live At The Olympia 1996
    Live video: Around The World 1995-1999
    • Fireball
      ~Into The Fire instrumental
    • Maybe I'm A Leo
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • Woman From Tokyo
    • Pictures Of Home
    • Black Night
    • Rat Bat Blue
    • Cascades: I'm Not Your Lover
    • Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
    • Mary Long
    • Bloodsucker now known as Bludsucker
    • The Purpendicular Waltz
    • The Aviator
    • No One Came
    • Rosa's Cantina
    • Smoke On The Water
    • When A Blind Man Cries
      ~Barber's Adagio For Strings
    • Somebody Stole My Guitar
    • Speed King
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Hey Cisco
    • Highway Star


  • 1997 - Mk 7
    Toured: South America, Europe, Lebanon, USA
    Live albums: None
    Live video: Around The World 1995-1999
    • Hush show-opener on US dates
    • Fireball show-opener on European dates
    • Vavoom: Ted The Mechanic
    • Pictures Of Home
    • Black Night
    • Cascades: I'm Not Your Lover
    • Woman From Tokyo
    • Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
    • No One Came
    • Rosa's Cantina
    • Smoke On The Water
    • When A Blind Man Cries
    • Speed King
      ~Drum solo
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Highway Star


  • 1998 - Mk 7
    Toured: USA (The House Of Blues Roadshow), Mexico, Costa Rico, Europe, USA, Canada, Russia
    Live albums: None
    Live video: Around The World 1995-1999
    • Hush
    • Fireball
    • Into The Fire
    • Ted The Mechanic show-opener on European leg
    • Strange Kind Of Woman
      ~Dr Who theme
    • Pictures Of Home
      ~Bass solo
      ~Cascades: I'm Not Your Lover instrumental
    • Black Night encore on European leg of Abandon tour
    • Bludsucker new name for Bloodsucker
    • Any Fule Kno That
    • Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
    • Fingers To The Bone
    • Almost Human
      ~Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd) instrumental
    • Woman From Tokyo
      ~Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix) instrumental
    • Watching The Sky
    • Seventh Heaven first encore on European leg
    • Rosa's Cantina
    • No One Came
    • Guitar solo
      ~La Bamba (Ritchie Valens) instrumental into...
    • Smoke On The Water
      ~Peaches en Regalia (Frank Zappa)
    • Evil Louie
      ~Keyboard solo
    • Lazy
    • When A Blind Man Cries
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Lithuanian Polka only played at Manchester on 18 October
    • Speed King
      ~Burn instrumental
      ~Drum solo
      ~Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly)
      ~Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley)
    • Highway Star


  • 1999 - Mk 7
    Toured: Brazil, Australia, Europe, Korea
    Live album: Total Abandon - Australia 99
    Live video: Total Abandon - Australia 99, Around The World 1995-1999
    • The Boys Are Back In Town (Thin Lizzy) excerpt, into...
    • Pictures Of Home
      ~extended jam
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • Strange Kind Of Woman
    • Bludsucker
    • Almost Human
    • Rosa's Cantina only occasionally
    • '69
      ~The Mule (instrumental)
      ~Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones)
    • Woman From Tokyo
    • Watching The Sky
    • Fireball
    • Into The Fire
    • No One Came only occasionally
    • Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
    • Space Truckin' introduced on European leg
    • Any Fule Kno That
    • Guitar Parade (including at various times...)
      ~All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan,Jimi Hendrix)
      ~Back In Black (AC/DC)
      ~Black Dog (Led Zeppelin)
      ~Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin)
      ~Crossroads (Robert Johnson,Cream)
      ~Daytripper (The Beatles)
      ~Fire (Jimi Hendrix)
      ~Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin)
      ~House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)
      ~Iron Man (Black Sabbath)
      ~Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry)
      ~Le Grange (ZZ Top)
      ~Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix)
      ~Manic Depression (Jimi Hendrix)
      ~Mississippi Queen (Mountain)
      ~Moby Dick (Led Zeppelin)
      ~Panama (Van Halen) main riff
      ~Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
      ~Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
      ~Start Me Up (Rolling Stones)
      ~Sunshine Of Your Love (Cream)
      ~Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
      ~Turn, Turn, Turn (The Byrds)
      ~Up Around The Bend (CCR)
      ~Voodoo Chile (Jimi Hendrix)
      ~Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)
      ~You Really Got Me (The Kinks)
      into...
    • Smoke On The Water
    • Keyboard solo
      ~Soldier Of Fortune instrumental
    • Lazy
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Speed King
      ~Bass solo
      ~Drum solo
      ~High School Hop (Jerry Lee Lewis)
      ~Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley)
    • Black Night
    • Seventh Heaven
    • Highway Star


  • 25th & 26th September 1999 - Mk 7 with The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Mann
    Venue: Royal Albert Hall, London
    Live album, video and DVD: In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra

    30th Anniversary performance of the Concerto For Group And Orchestra
    First half performed by the members of Deep Purple, with their friends and the LSO. Second half performed by Deep Purple with the LSO. Encore included everybody.
    • Four Scottish Dances (Malcolm Arnold compositions) - LSO
    • Pictured Within - Jon Lord featuring Miller Anderson
    • Wait A While - Jon Lord featuring Sam Brown
    • Sitting In A Dream - Roger Glover featuring Ronnie James Dio
    • Love Is All - Roger Glover featuring Ronnie James Dio
    • Via Miami - Ian Gillan
    • That's Why God Is Singing The Blues - Ian Gillan
    • Night Meets Light - The Steve Morse Band
    • Take It Off The Top - The Steve Morse Band
    • Wring That Neck - Ian Paice with the Kick Horns
      intermission
    • Concerto For Group And Orchestra:
      • First Movement - Allegro moderato
      • Second Movement - Andante
      • Third Movement - Vivace presto
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
    • Watching The Sky
    • Pictures Of Home
    • Smoke On The Water - everyone!


    Part 1: 1968 to 1976 | Part 2: 1984 to 1999 | Part 3: 2000-05

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