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Live Archive 1975
Another batch of historic Deep Purple bootlegs have been digitally released through official channels. This one includes two Mark 3 performances from Copenhagen (March 20) and Gothenburg (March 21), and three from Mark 4: Auckland (November 13), Melbourne (November 25), and Nagoya (December 8). That’s 77 tracks in total. They are available on streaming platforms and for purchase as digital download on Amazon Music, Apple Music, Qobuz, etc.
Here is the YouTube playlist for your perusal:
Our contributor David Black offers his review:
Recently released on official Deep Purple YouTube channel and various streaming platforms like such as Amazon Music and Spotify is the Live Archive 1975 comprising 77 songs totally nearly 9 hours of music.
The releases are two MK3 audience recordings from Copenhagen, Gothenburg, and three MK4 sets from Auckland, Melbourne, and Nagoya.
The MK3 sets are the usual for 1975; Burn, Stormbringer, The Gypsy, Lady Double Dealer, Mistreated, Smoke, You Fool No One, Space Truckin’ with Going Down & Highway Star as the encores. Both have been around as bootlegs for years.
Copenhagen is a pretty decent sound for 1975 (and considering how loud they were back then) but it’s not without its flaws. There is an edit in Stormbringer so it starts at the first chorus. Gypsy was often a mixed bag from Ritchie and that’s certainly the case here as his solo is less than inspired. Mistreated clocks in at 13+ minutes and is powerful even if Glenn goes off-piste in the stacked vocals at the end. Smoke is ok, but it’s got the usual Glenn vocal indulgence — here it lasts for the thick end of four minutes and though the track list says there’s a nearly four minute version of With a Little Help From My Friends it’s actually only about thirty seconds in the middles of Glenn’s spot. You Fool No One with Jon’s Keys solo intro, Little Ian’s drum solo and ending with the Mule clocks in at over 20 minutes albeit spread over three tracks. No solo from Ritchie in Space Truckin’ which is listed as only ten minutes long, but Going Down (which is listed as being over fourteen minutes) is actually the last part of Space and the sixteen plus Highway Star is actually that plus Going Down.
Gothenburg is exactly the same set, but to my ears worse sounding yet still listenable. The sound deteriorates for the encores (I expect they turned the volume up) and god knows what torture Ritchie is putting his guitar through, but it sounds dreadful.
The set for the MK4 gigs is Burn, Lady Luck, Love Child, Getting Tighter, Smoke, Wild Dogs (not Nagoya), I Need Love, Lazy, This Time Around, Owed To G, Drifter, You Keep on Moving, Stormbringer and Highway Star as the encore.
Auckland (MK4’s second gig) is ok quality if a little thin and favours the guitar. Decent if not exceptional performance. Once again the splitting of the tracks isn’t that accurate, what at first glance looks like an eleven minute Wild Dogs starts with Glenn’s vocal self-indulgence at the end of Smoke and is a decent version even if the solo isn’t the most together. The guitar showcase after Owed To G is some seven minutes long but doesn’t amount to much then straight into Drifter which barrels along in fine fashion. Coverdale’s in between chat rarely rise above the banal, and he sounds a little inebriated come You Keep On Moving which is a decent version, and it’s a shame that Jon’s keys lose out to Glenn’s bass in the mix because he’s really going for it. The encores follow the usual MK4 pattern in that they are somewhat shambolic, but the sound stands up.
The Melbourne set has been around for ages as Taste It Down Under. Fuller sounding than Auckland it’s the pick of the three though the vocals are a little back in the mix. Some of the rough edges from the Auckland performance have been knocked off. Burn guitar solo has an edit in it. Wild Dogs is a highlight with a much better solo. Very nice funky intro to Lazy so it’s a shame that DC’s vocals get lost as it sounded promising.
Nagoya is of course the first of the Japan tour gigs and immediately after the Jakarta debacle. Again reasonable sound, but you wonder why they didn’t use Springfield instead. It’s a tough listen but then again so was Last Concert and Bolin is not quite as useless as I’d imagined he might be.
So, all in all something of a mixed bag. I don’t think there has been much thought put into any of these bootleg archives for any of the years, which is a shame. And it’s not very visible on the YouTube site — Love Child from Nagoya only has 155 views since going live on December 17th.
I’ve not much MK3 & 4 boots, so I don’t know if there are better sounding or better played gigs out there (Springfield notwithstanding) but I’m sure a properly curated compilation of the best MK3 & 4 performances would have been more interesting.
Many thanks to David Black for his insight. Additional thanks to Gary Carr for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Apparently many a good thing has happened in Denmark….
Thank you so much for posting this 😊
March 4th, 2026 at 09:22Of course in my little universe here, Ian is missing big time, but it is a nice sound and DC sure could sing! – despite the poor microphone quality!
I was at that concert in Brøndbyhallen in ’75. Not the best place for an rock concert. The sound bounces around from the concrete walls.
I saw Rainbow in ’81, same problem.
March 4th, 2026 at 10:00I wonder if Ritchie when he heard DC and GH just going through the motions when they sang the two most iconic Purple songs “Smoke” and “Highway star” thought to himself deep inside.. “uhh I wish Ian Gillan was back”… LOL
March 4th, 2026 at 14:14@2
Jan KB wasn’t that good either 😊
March 4th, 2026 at 19:33@ 3 – more along these lines, ‘I need to get the eff out of here’. Cheers.
March 4th, 2026 at 20:31Thanks for the very thoughtful analysis, David!
Wiktor, I’m not sure whether Ritchie still cared much for either HS or SOTW once Mk III was up and running, especially on HS he seemed to be going thru the motions too. Still, David’s and Glenn’s treatment of the song was lackadaisical.
I’m pretty sure that Ritchie would have preferred to discard all Mk II material after Burn and that keeping three Machine Head tracks was only done to appease audiences.
March 4th, 2026 at 20:53It’s that old Coverdale still had his Yorkshire accent before he went posh !!! Lol
March 4th, 2026 at 22:50Talking Deep Purple bootlegs and from the ’74 tour and Perks and Tit was one album my older brother returned from Sydney with in 1975. Also Black Sabbath’s Gr’ndlepol (75) and Led Zeppelin Earls Court (75) bootlegs. Rough as guts as the saying goes, all of them and at least it taught me to stay clear of that sort of thing. I have only ever heard Cal Jam MK II abominations and Smoke from the P&T bootleg. Thankfully my ears are pristine in regard to HS being butchered. ‘Appy days, well sort of. Cheers.
March 4th, 2026 at 22:51The review above just confirmed my opinion. Glenn Hughes’ backing vocal is the weakest link of Deep Purple Mark 3
Can you imagine how good Mk3′ Smoke on the Water and Highway Star version if only David’s voice on it? Yeah, and how dare Glenn muddled Mistreated with his vocals, on a song which was basically a majestic David Coverdale track? Soldier of Fortune wouldn’t be as memorable if there were even 2 bars of Glenn’s voice on it.
That said, Glenn sounded really fine on the songs where he was the lead vocals. Fantastic duet with Coverdale in Love Don’t Mean a Thing, The Gypsy, You Can’t Do It Right, and the epic You Keep on Moving. Holy Man was beautiful, and Gettin’ Tighter couldn’t be more fun.
I also love his rendition of Stormbringer in his solo shows. As for Mistreated, well..Dio was better
#6
Listening to Highway Star guitar solo in Live in Paris 1975. I wasn’t there but I could feel the anxiety of his bandmates when he was like kept doodling his guitar wildly for 5 minutes like going nowhere. And that was in the place of the keyboard solo, he basically stole the spotlight from the 1st minute. You can hear Jon Lord obviously tried his best to follow the guitar.
I won’t say it was a bad thing. The audience might love that rock’n roll show, but certainly in the terms of song’s structure, this could have made confusion to his bandmates.
March 5th, 2026 at 03:14@4
Karin, no same problem (just like Valby Hallen).
March 5th, 2026 at 06:34The new “K.B-Hallen v2.0” is a little better though (saw Jethro Tull there in ’22).
The MK3 and MK4 lineups each had their strengths. However, their handling of MK2 songs certainly wasn’t one of them. In my opinion, the three Machine Head songs were a compromise to continue using the Deep Purple name and its power.
I always found the combination of DC and GH’s voices very interesting in their songs, and I liked the harmony. Their voices complemented each other very well, and it didn’t sound as one-dimensional to me as it did with Ian. I could have done without Glenn’s little extravaganzas/solo spots, though. Even today, I listen to CTTB, Stormbringer, Burn, Made in Europe, Live in London, or Last Concert in Japan much more often than other periods. Made in Europe has the best version of Burn (Jon played divinely on it) and of You Fool No One.
March 5th, 2026 at 07:52@ 5 and 6 Maybe so….
March 5th, 2026 at 16:06I like MK3’s take on Smoke on the Water and Space Truckin’.
Small thing, but playing the SotW intro a 5th down was a stroke of genius. It really amps up the excitement once the keys and drums join in, lifting it to the customary key. In the Burn tour concerts I don’t even mind the infamous Glenn’s vocal solo spot; it was only later on that it really became insufferable.
In ST, they fuNked that up brilliantly. Always a great display of musicality by Lord, Paice, and Hughes (2001 intro, wah wah bass, Mandrake Root callback), and DC sang that one pretty well!
Highway Star was typically bad, but I love the abandon with which RB played (and trashed) his guitar on that Paris show.
March 5th, 2026 at 18:37This news definitely brightened my day, as 1975 is my favorite year for DP.
March 5th, 2026 at 19:45Por Dios callen a Glenn Hughes arrruina todos los temas tratando de figurar! insoporable!!!!!!como la Mark II nunca habrá…
March 5th, 2026 at 23:30Already listened to.
March 6th, 2026 at 10:17A little bit of a parallel world from my corner. I regret that the official live album “Made in Europe” is not a double album. Added another 30 minutes of good music. Let’s say recordings from Paris 1975 of the songs” Gipys “(great vocals and Ritchie) and “Going Down/Highway Star” (Ritchie’s “Gunfight at the O. K-Paris”. And the addition to the album is the studio version of the song (which was not on” Stormbringer “album, which Ritchie loves so much and which he insisted on probably because of the title? hahaha “”Black Sheep Of The Family” (he also recorded with Dio and Romero) I think “unprecedented”) that the best rock vocal duo 1973-1976 would do-sing it best. So…. Made in Europe + Gipsy, Going Down/Highway Star, Black Sheep Of The Family..
@10
Jan I look so much forward to Parken 😊
Fresh air, a little beer, Purple….. yes ☺️
March 6th, 2026 at 10:33@17
I do too, Karin. I’ll be there with my daugther🎸
March 6th, 2026 at 18:26@16 Ivica, I’m sorry but I didn’t quite get what you mean – are you referring to a studio version of “Black Sheep…” by Deep Purple? Surely such a thing does not exist?
March 6th, 2026 at 20:29@19
Ritchie wanted Deep Purple to record it, but the others didn’t want to.
March 6th, 2026 at 22:39No, but Ritchie wanted to cover it for Stormbringer, yet the band turned his wish down. And I understand why, it’s very much a late 60s composition (penned by Steve Hammond, guitarist of Fat Mattress) and already sounded dated by the mid 70s.
https://youtu.be/wcJBAzhLMIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z-iua9Sbyc
https://youtu.be/MjvytSmXhMY
Most people trace that song back to the Quatermass version,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwQerYETBXM
but that was just one of many cover versions released. (I think Chris Farlowe’s version was actually best.)
Speaking of Quatermass, I stumbled across this live snippet here:
https://youtu.be/j__kVALutQw
Parallels to early ELP are of course manifold, but to my ears Quatermass sound earthier and groovier, not as angular as ELP. Ironically, Quatermass had their first and only album already released before ELP arrived on the scene, but history is written by the victors.
March 6th, 2026 at 23:08Now that is exciting. I remember they uploaded a buncb of bootlegs a few years ago from 1972/73 but took them down without explanation. I enjoy Deep Purple bootlegs. It gives us Deep Purple media to enjoy when they don’t release live albums from the classic era anymore. And while we’re at it think we can have another go at getting them to release the Made In Europe boxset ? Saarbrücken 1975 was going to be released but it’s still sitting in the can.
March 7th, 2026 at 02:46@ 21- you should be saying the band The Nice. Well before all those other Hammond driven bands, three piece bands I am talking about. Atomic Rooster were already in there by 1969. All very good musicians in Quartermass, however………………….Get a better lead vocalist and also a quality songwriter for starters and they may, just may have possibly gone somewhere…………Although the Hammond organ even by the early 70’s was starting to out stay it’s welcome, hence Wakeman and Emerson quickly venturing into Moogs and Mellotron etc etc. I prefer the Fat Mattress version of Black Sheep, much more musical and melodic. From what I have just read, after the ‘success’ of Rainbow covering Black Sheep, that sort of revived any interest that there may have ever been in that Quartermass one off album. Cheers.
March 7th, 2026 at 06:38Looking forward to checking these out. As others have opined, I prefer when each line-up tackles its own material and am generally less interested in hearing ANY line-up play stuff from a different line-up.
March 7th, 2026 at 21:34And the great thing about Made in Europe at that time was there were no abominations of MKII material at all. Hooray and it was a joy to purchase that album for that very reason. You can sort of (depending on the situation etc) get away with it at certain times with another instrument with lineup changes in a band, but NOT the vocals. It was a pity they were still playing anything from MKII then as they could have stacked the set with all MKIII material. Cheers.
March 8th, 2026 at 05:08@17
Karin, wait. Parken? You mean Royal Arena? No fresh air there…
March 8th, 2026 at 12:07@26
Ohhh so we’re doomed to suffocate in presence of Purple royalty!?
What a way to go! 😃
I was under the impression that it was open air, well never mind. I was just so happy I got the tickets 💜
March 8th, 2026 at 17:40I wish they‘d do a limited CD box version of those gigs – most Purple fans (or at least a commercially relevant minority of them) like a physical product.
March 8th, 2026 at 18:49@25 I see your point…still I think a full blown show would have been a betterchoice (and don’t forget The Gypsy and Goin’ Down)….
March 8th, 2026 at 20:14Karin, speaking strictly from a climate and temperature zones viewpoint, open air concerts in late October tend to be somewhat rare in Northern Europe, especially in precipitation-friendly and windchill-prone Denmark. 🤣
Of course, it’s different for girls (Joe Jackson), there are really only two kinds of weather for them: vastly too hot and vastly too cold – and nothing in between. 🤗
March 9th, 2026 at 02:25@27 & @30. There’s no such thing as bad weather only wrong clothing choices.
March 9th, 2026 at 11:53With my wife packing suitcases there is a general mathematical formula which I would like to share: No matter how many suitcases she packs for a vacation, the amount of garments missing to be sensibly equipped for the challenges of the travel destination’s climate remains unchanged. This formula applies to shoes as well. I should get a Nobel Prize for discovering it.
March 9th, 2026 at 21:57@30
Uwe, I was confused, bewildered and excited when I got my ticket…
I couldn’t care less where the concert would take place 😊
And I let David’s (@31) comment be my sentiment:
March 9th, 2026 at 22:12In a country like ours, we know how to dress appropriately ☺️😉
@32
Uwe, Edith is a wonderful wife and also a mathematical genius! Please remember to spoil her rotten 😍
However I pack my little suitcase completely differently:
March 10th, 2026 at 10:05I remember my toothbrush, and the rest I buy when I arrive 😃 (literally!)
Because when I go home, I need some room for all the albums I always buy so no need to fill it up with non-necessities as clothes….
She’s actually currently up in Jylland again where winter has not yet relinquished its iron grip I hear …
https://www.webintravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/winterF-1066×440.jpg
Gonna meet her Danish online teacher there too. Thanks to her, Edith is approaching fluency in that Viking dialect and now charms the Jylland indigenous population with her Danish. 😎 (Due to the prevalence of German tourists, they generally all speak German there.)
March 10th, 2026 at 18:01What’s the big deal with open-air concerts in late October? They don’t seem to be a problem here in Southern California…
March 11th, 2026 at 04:14@35
Uwe the winter is over in Denmark! As I predicted earlier on spring started this week!
I have let go of woolly stockings, winter socks, warm boots, thick-as-a-bear overcoats, tons of scarves and ridiculously looking knitted hats 😃 think I ought to live in a warmer climate…. (Maybe houses are cheaper in the middle of somewhere?)
Ohh I would love to meet her 🤩
I guess she impresses everyone here 😃
On the other hand, when I’m grocery shopping in your fine country, I tell you some of the German people I meet do not understand the German I was taught by Kirsten, my German teacher, who by the way taught us everything about Käsekuchen, and was talking about this delicacy so often I always feel hungry whenever I hear German spoken!
So I give up and talk English ☺️
Do you know if Ian ever sung anything in German? (That would definitely put an end to my ongoing diet 😁)
Let me link this to you:
https://youtu.be/YZdStfpcDK0?is=kmLYMllbNwcJY_a4
March 11th, 2026 at 08:57It’s an ear worm for me!
Frater, that is only because you guys have no real seasons to speak of! 🤣
https://youtu.be/Gmq4WIjQxp0
Now that was proper music!
March 11th, 2026 at 10:26Is this good enough for your purposes, liebe Karin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0DdEJlNVlM
Sounds German enough for me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tgecoKt4MY
I really should work for the Goethe Institut, spreading German charm and goodwill all over ze wörld, jawohl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvTQfZqHQ3Q
Beloved Udo Dirkschneider, ze little münchkin! 😎 Lots of Dio Rainbow to hear in early Accept too incidentally, albeit at Autobahn “no speed limit” velocity.
March 12th, 2026 at 00:23Sometimes I wonder if AI was a good thing to invent – one day people will believe Rainbow in 1976 actually looked like this! 😱😂🤣
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lc3Xa-As2EY
This makes the Burn candles appear in hindsight like naturalistic portraits.
Now where do we go?
March 12th, 2026 at 01:42@32 Uwe – you would get the prize but only if you were the sole discoverer of this phenomenon (which I can assure you that you are not!)
March 12th, 2026 at 09:47@39
Oooohhhh no! Not yodelling again! You have linked this to me before..
And happy to inform: my diet is indeed intact 😁
I couldn’t even listen to the links all through, well except for the last one 🤣
Well, as I might have revealed before, I am not a big fan of Dio… on the contrary actually. So I think I’m good 😃
March 12th, 2026 at 17:46@36
Frater, October in Denmark can be pretty cold, almost winter-ish, however October can also be warm and comforting 😃
I wouldn’t brag if I were you about the beautiful weather you guys seem to have all year round 😄 it’s making us northerners envious and miserable 😃
March 13th, 2026 at 09:12@37
March 13th, 2026 at 11:22Well yes, Ian did sing something in German… Even if it’s not that much, I guess it should count.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNLkaMj39ZY
@44
How could I ever forget this magnificent tune!
Thanks Tilly 🙏🏼
It is very little German, but that’ll do, goodbye diet forever 😁
And if I may add: Ian’s voice in this! Woah 🤩 I have something with voices, and only one other voice I know is better than Ian’s, but sadly he doesn’t sing, in public.
And here Ian as a matured gentleman, and still with all his strength and sweetness intact give the songs that extra something!
Not that his voice as a young man wasn’t adorable, because it was! But all different ages add to the overall experience and expression 😊
And as an older gentleman he still has it, listen to this:
https://youtu.be/OptLnRRFqek?is=RreVgBqO8-IQibVh
So charming, right?
March 13th, 2026 at 15:44I mean how many guys at 80 can perform like this?
He is indeed my favourite rock singer!
“I mean how many guys at 80 can perform like this?’ Many Karin, we have been here before with this one. Ian isn’t the only singer still treading the boards. Cheers.
March 15th, 2026 at 21:42@46
So sorry MacGregor, I completely forgot to add: in my humble and personal opinion! 😄
March 16th, 2026 at 07:25But I somehow thought it was obvious: I can only speak for myself.
OTOH: I listen carefully and with great interest to all you fine people in here ☺️🙏🏼
“And another thing I won’t discuss with Karin is
rrreligionIan GillanIt always causes a fight
Vavoom – there she goes again …”
Lyrics of timeless perception! Karin’s beliefs are of strictly monotheistic nature, Herr MacGregor! 🤣
March 16th, 2026 at 15:33@48
Uwe Hornung! I have impeccable taste! And I have never been afraid to admit that Ian Gillan had (well, still has – imho MacGregor ☺️😉) the most unbelievable beautiful voice, with so much capacity and soul!
And only someone (yeah Uwe, I’m thinking of you here 😁) who desperately needs to pick a fight with a lonely girlie from Denmark (oh ok, an older matured woman, I got the notion…) wanna say otherwise 😃
And if you don’t disagree with me, why then consistently trying to paint me like a nit witted brain dead fan of some singer? 😄
I cannot explain what it is his voice does, but could you take a look inside my head, you’d know 😃
But I also like a lot of other singers… I’ve mentioned them several times, and my taste has been broadened thanks to you dear people in here.
Please remember in the beginning I could not listen to David Coverdale because all I could hear was how destroyed his voice was. But then someone linked to a younger David, and then I could hear his beautiful voice come through.
And I appreciate Gary Cherone, Eric Martin, even Nuno Bettencourt – even though he is even better as a guitarist. And in the more non-hard rocking group I really like Liam and Noel, Tom Petty, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, well, even Jeff Lynne comes across as a very good singer, Bryan Adams…. Right now I cannot remember anymore, but I do like so many singers, HOWEVER Ian really is something specific, isn’t he?
YES HE IS (nodding while I say this to affect you unconsciously😁)
March 16th, 2026 at 18:49