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

2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005

Unique events:

3 May 2000 | 19 September 2002 | 2 July 2005


  • 2000 - Mk 7
    Toured: Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Finland, Russia, Greece, Switzerland
    Live albums: New, Live & Rare - The Bootleg Collection 1984-2000 (12 CD Box Set)

    • Woman From Tokyo
    • Pictures Of Home occasionally
    • Bludsucker occasionally
    • Fireball
    • Into The Fire
    • Vavoom: Ted The Mechanic occasionally
    • '69
      ~The Mule (instrumental)
      ~Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones)
    • Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
    • Long Time Gone new song, only played at Montreux, Switzerland on 22 July and possibly in Spain a few days later
    • Guitar Parade including at various times...
      ~Iron Man (Black Sabbath)
      ~Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
      ~You Really Got Me (The Kinks)
      ~Crossroads (Robert Johnson, Cream)
      ~Walk This Way (Aerosmith)
      ~Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)
      ~Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin)
    • Smoke On The Water
    • Fools
    • Black Night
    • Watching The Sky
    • Steve's Solo
      ~Cascades (guitar/keyboard duel)
    • Space Truckin'
    • Any Fule Kno That
    • Jon's Solo
      ~ Moscow Nights in Russia
    • Almost Human
    • Perfect Strangers
    • When A Blind Man Cries
      Encores:
    • Speed King
      ~Drum Solo
      ~Great Balls Of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis)
      ~ Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley)
      ~Fever (Little Willie John and many others)
    • Lazy
    • Hush occasionally
    • Highway Star


  • 3rd May 2000 - Mk 7 but without Jon Lord and Ian Paice
    Venue: Rockline Radio, Museum of Television and Radio, New York City
    Live albums: None

    • Woman From Tokyo
    • Smoke On The Water
    • Worried Man (brief excerpt) (Lonnie Donegan)
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • Knocking On Your Back Door
    • You're Gonna Ruin Me (Lazy Lester)

    Live on US radio "WROQ 101" and Internet - interviews and phone-in questions and some songs performed unplugged.


  • Orchestra Tour (September and October 2000) - Mk 7 with Orchestra and Ronnie James Dio
    Toured: South America, Europe
    Live albums: Live At The Rotterdam Ahoy

    • Concerto For Group And Orchestra (moved around in set list, from opener, to after intermission, to right near the end):
      • First Movement - Allegro moderato
      • Second Movement - Andante excluded from some European dates
      • Third Movement - Vivace presto
    • Pictured Within - Jon Lord featuring Miller Anderson
    • Sitting In A Dream - Roger Glover featuring Ronnie James Dio
    • Love Is All - Roger Glover featuring Ronnie James Dio
    • Fever Dreams - Ronnie James Dio
    • Rainbow In The Dark - Ronnie James Dio
    • Via Miami - Ian Gillan only in South America
    • That's Why God Is Singing The Blues - Ian Gillan only in South America
    • Wring That Neck - Ian Paice
    • Fools on European dates
    • When A Blind Man Cries on European dates
    • Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • Watching The Sky
    • Guitar String aka The Well-Tempered Guitar or The Well-Dressed Guitar new Steve Morse song added on European dates
    • Pictures Of Home
    • Perfect Strangers on European dates
    • Norwegian Folk Music with Annbjørg Lien on violin in Hell, Norway
    • Guitar Parade (including at various times...)
      ~Iron Man (Black Sabbath)
      ~Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin)
      ~Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
      ~Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
      ~Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
    • Smoke On The Water
    • Highway Star on some European dates
    • Black Night (extra encore in Brazil)


  • 2001 - Mk 7
    Toured: Australia, Asia, USA, Europe
    Live albums: The Soundboard Series (12 CD Box Set)
    Live video/DVD: Perihelion
    • Australasian Leg

    • Woman From Tokyo
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • Pictures Of Home
    • Mary Long
    • Lazy
    • No One Came
    • Smoke On The Water
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Hey Cisco
    • '69
    • Black Night
    • Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
    • Fools
    • When A Blind Man Cries
    • Speed King
    • Hush
    • Highway Star
    The order of a few of them (eg. Black Night, No One Came) varied a bit, and '69 was dropped fairly early on due to time constraints. During the 2001 tour of the USA, [the set list] had to be shortened somewhat to fit the 75 minute timeslot (see below).
    -- Wolf Schneider, February 2002
      USA Leg

    • Woman From Tokyo
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • No One Came
    • Fools
    • Lazy
    • Hey Cisco
    • When A Blind Man Cries
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Smoke On The Water
    • Hush
    • Highway Star

    The European leg of the tour (August & September) was with Don Airey on keyboards, due to Jon Lord having had a knee operation.

      European Leg

    • Woman From Tokyo
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • Mary Long
    • Lazy
    • No One Came
    • Fools
    • The Well Dressed Guitar
    • Keyboard solo into...
    • Perfect Strangers
    • When A Blind Man Cries
    • Guitar Parade (including at various times...)
      ~Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
      ~Pictures Of Matchstick Men (Status Quo)
      ~Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles)
      ~Le Grange (ZZ Top)
      ~Won't Get Fooled Again (The Who)
      ~You Really Got Me (The Kinks)
      ~Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin)
      ~Daytripper (The Beatles)
    • Smoke On The Water
    • Speed King
      ~Bass solo
      ~Drum solo
      ~The Battle Of New Orleans (Johnny Horton, Lonnie Donegan) featuring Roger on vocals!
      ~Its Now Or Never (Elvis Presley)
      ~High School Hop (Jerry Lee Lewis)
    • Black Night
    • Hush
    • Highway Star


  • 2002 - Mk 7 (February) / Mk 8 (March - September)
    Toured: UK (Mk 7)/ Russia, Eastern Europe, Asia, USA, Europe (Mk 8)
    Live albums: None

    • Woman From Tokyo
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • Mary Long
    • Lazy
    • Child In Time
    • No One Came
    • The Aviator
    • The Well Dressed Guitar
    • Up The Wall not on Russian leg (early version of 'I've Got Your Number')
    • Fools
    • Perfect Strangers
    • When A Blind Man Cries
    • Guitar Parade (including at various times...)
      ~Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin)
      ~Voodoo Chile (Jimi Hendrix)
      ~Mr Tambourine Man (The Byrds)
      ~Won't Get Fooled Again (The Who)
      ~Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles)
      ~You Really Got Me (The Kinks)
    • Smoke On The Water
    • Speed King
      ~Drum solo
      ~High School Hop (Jerry Lee Lewis)
    • Hush not at all shows
    • Black Night not at all shows
    • Highway Star

    Most of the February UK tour was cancelled due to Ian Gillan being ill. Jon Lord announced his retirement in March 2002 and Don Airey was confirmed as his permanent replacement.

    East Europe and Asia Tour Spring 2002

    When the tour started, it was clear that Jon Lord had left Deep Purple and the new member and keyboard player was Don Airey.

    • Woman From Tokyo
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • Mary Long
    • Lazy
    • Child In Time
    • The Aviator
    • No One Came
    • The Well Dressed Guitar
    • Fools
    • Perfect Strangers
    • When A Blind Man Cries
    • Smoke On The Water
    • Speed King
    • Hush
    • Black Night
    • Highway Star
    • Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming

    US Tour summer 2002

    The tour kicked off in Las Vegas with a setlist like this...

    • Highway Star
    • Woman From Tokyo
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • Lazy
    • Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
    • Fools
    • Well Dressed Guitar
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Speed King
    • Hush
    • Smoke On The Water

    The setlist later changed to this...

    • Fireball
    • Woman From Tokayo
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • Lazy
    • The Well Dressed Guitar
    • Space Truckin'
    • Knockin At Your Back Door
    • Black Night
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Speed King
    • Smoke On The Water
    • Hush
    • Highway Star

    Europe late summer 2002

    The running order was changed during the tour. In the UK Jon Lord was guesting on a few songs.

    • Fireball
    • Woman From Toyko
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • Mary Long
    • When A Blind Man Cries
    • The Well-Dressed Guitar
    • Space Truckin'
    • Lazy
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Knocking At Your Back Door
    • Speed King
    • Smoke On The Water
    • Hush
    • Black Night
    • Highway Star

    A big "thank-you" to Benny Holmstrom's House Of Blue Light website for the 2002 setlists above.


  • 19th September 2002 - Mk 7 & 8 (Jon Lord's Farewell Gig)
    Venue: Regent Theatre, Ipswich, UK
    Live albums: None

    • Fireball
      ~ Into The Fire riff
    • Woman From Tokyo
    • Mary Long
    • Ted The Mechanic
    • Lazy
    • The Well Dressed Guitar
    • Space Truckin'
    • Don Airey's solo into...
    • Perfect Strangers (w/Lord)
    • Jon Lord's solo
      ~Pictured Within
      ~Concerto second movement
    • When A Blind Man Cries (w/Lord)
    • Speed King (w/Lord)
    • Smoke On The Water (w/Lord & Airey)

    • Hush (w/Lord)
    • Black Night
    • Highway Star (w/Lord & Airey)

    Read Rasmus Heide's moving review (with pictures) here...


  • 2003 - Mk 8
    Toured: Europe
    Live albums: None, yet!

  • Early 2003

    • Highway Star
    • Mary Long
    • I'm Alone
    • Pictures Of Home
    • Haunted (new song)
    • Speed King
    • Lazy
    • I've Got Your Number (new song, previously performed as 'Up The Wall')
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Smoke On The Water
    • Space Truckin'
    • Hush
    • Black Night

    October/ November 2003 - 'Bananas' album released late August

    • Highway Star
    • Woman From Tokyo dropped after a few gigs
    • Silver Tongue
    • Strange Kind of Woman
    • Knockin At Your Back Door
    • House of Pain
    • Lazy
    • Bananas
    • Contact Lost
    • Haunted not at all shows
    • Doing It Tonight not at all shows
      ~Pictures Of Innocence
    • Space Truckin'
    • Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming not at all shows
    • I've Got Your Number
    • The Well Dressed Guitar
    • Don Airey's solo into...
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Steve Morse's solo (not a guitar parade)
    • Smoke On The Water
      Encores:
    • Hush
    • Black Night


  • 2004 - Mk 8
    Toured: Canada, USA, Japan, China, Asia Pacific, Australia, Europe, Russia
    Live albums: None, yet!

  • USA & Canada (February)

    • Silver Tongue
    • Woman From Tokyo
    • I've Got Your Number
    • Strange Kind Of Woman
    • Bananas
    • Knocking At Your Back Door
    • Contact Lost
    • The Well Dressed Guitar
    • House Of Pain
    • Don Airey solo
      ~Rhapsody In Blue
      ~Oh Canada
      ~The Entertainer
    • Perfect Strangers
      Machine Head live (in original order):
    • Highway Star
    • Maybe I'm A Leo
    • Pictures Of Home
    • Never Before
    • Smoke On The Water
    • Lazy
    • When A Blind Man Cries
    • Space Truckin'
      Encores:
    • Speed King only at some shows
      including at various times:
      ~Lucille (Little Richard)
      ~Dream Baby (Roy Orbison)
      ~High School Hop (Jerry Lee Lewis)
      ~It's Now Or Never (Elvis Presley)
    • Hush
    • Black Night

    Japan & Australia (March, April)

    • Silver Tongue
    • Woman From Tokyo
    • I've Got Your Number
    • Strange Kind Of Woman
    • Bananas
    • Knocking At Your Back Door
    • Contact Lost
    • Steve Morse Guitar Solo
    • The Well-Dressed Guitar
    • Don Airey Solo into...
    • Highway Star
    • Doing It Tonight
    • Pictures Of Home
    • Don Airey Solo into...
    • Lazy
    • When A Blind Man Cries
    • Space Truckin'
    • Smoke On The Water
      Encores:
    • Speed King sometimes
      ~Bass solo
    • Hush
    • Black Night sometimes
      ~Ian Gillan sing-a-long

    Europe, USA, Ukraine, Russia, UK (June-November)

    • Silver Tongue
    • Woman From Tokyo
    • I've Got Your Number
    • Strange Kind Of Woman
    • Bananas
    • Knocking At Your Back Door sometimes
    • Demon's Eye only at some shows
    • Contact Lost
    • Steve Morse Guitar Solo
    • The Well-Dressed Guitar not at all shows
    • Don Airey Solo
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Highway Star
    • Space Truckin'
    • Jazz intro at Montreux only, into...
    • Smoke On The Water
      Encores:
    • Speed King sometimes
    • Lazy sometimes
    • Hush not at all shows
    • Black Night sometimes


  • 2005 - Mk 8
    Gigged: Switzerland, Scandanavia, Canada

    • Silver Tongue
    • Strange Kind Of Woman
    • I Got Your Number
    • Demon's Eye
    • Bananas
    • Contact Lost
    • Well Dressed Guitar
    • Don Airey's solo
    • Perfect Strangers
    • Highway Star
    • Space Truckin'
    • Smoke On The Water


    • Speed King
    • Hush
    • Black Night


  • 2 July 2005 - Mk 8 (Live 8)
    Venue: Barrie, Ontario, Cananda

    • Highway Star
    • Smoke On The Water
    • Hush


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

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