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Come Hell or High Water

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Released
  
November 1994

Length
  
77:19

Producer
  
Pat Regan

Genre
  
Hard rock, heavy metal

Label
  
RCA/BMG

Recorded
  
Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, Stuttgart, Germany, 16 October and Birmingham NEC, Birmingham, England, 9 November 1993

Come Hell or High Water is a CD and DVD by the hard rock group Deep Purple. It was recorded on 16 October 1993 in "Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle" in Stuttgart, Germany and in Birmingham on 9 November.

Contents

The album is one of the last to feature Ritchie Blackmore, as he quit after the concert on 17 November 1993 in Helsinki, Finland. He was replaced by Joe Satriani for the rest of the tour and later by Steve Morse.

Blackmore's issues with the presence of a cameraman on his side of the stage at the start of the Birmingham concert prompted the guitarist to return to his dressing room until the cameraman was removed. This leads to a longer than usual 'guitar-free' intro into 'Highway Star' and several truncated guitar solo spots through the show. The rest of the band's dissatisfaction with the behaviour of their soon-to-be-departed guitarist is evident in their interviews on the DVD.

The CD features songs from the Stuttgart show, with the exception of "Anyone's Daughter", taken from Birmingham.

The full concert versions of the Stuttgart and Birmingham shows were released in 2006 as a four CD box-set Live in Europe 1993 by Sony/BMG, each concert having its own gatefold sleeve and paper CD-liners. In 2007 each show had a separate release, in a jewel-case, but the Birmingham show was soon deleted, due to Ian Gillan's protest about it being re-released.

CD track listing

All songs written by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice except where indicated.

  1. "Highway Star" – 6:40
  2. "Black Night" – 5:40
  3. "A Twist in the Tale" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) – 4:27
  4. "Perfect Strangers" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) – 6:52
  5. "Anyone's Daughter" – 3:57
  6. "Child in Time" – 10:48
  7. "Anya" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord) – 12:13
  8. "Speed King" – 7:29
  9. "Smoke on the Water" – 10:26

US/Japanese track listing

  1. "Highway Star" – 6:40
  2. "Black Night" – 5:40
  3. "A Twist in the Tale" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) – 4:27
  4. "Perfect Strangers" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) – 6:52
  5. "Anyone's Daughter" – 3:57
  6. "Child in Time" – 10:48
  7. "Anya" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord) – 12:13
  8. a) "Lazy" – 4:18
    b) "Space Truckin'" – 2:39
    c) "Woman from Tokyo" – 1:53
  9. "Speed King" – 7:29
  10. "Smoke on the Water" – 10:26

DVD track listing

  1. "Highway Star"
  2. "Black Night"
  3. "Talk About Love"
  4. "A Twist in the Tale"
  5. "Perfect Strangers"
  6. "Beethoven's Ninth"
  7. "Knocking at Your Back Door"
  8. "Anyone's Daughter"
  9. "Child in Time"
  10. "Anya"
  11. "The Battle Rages On"
  12. "Lazy"
  13. "Space Truckin'"
  14. "Woman From Tokyo"
  15. "Paint It Black"
  16. "Smoke on the Water"
  • Besides the actual concert, there are interpolated interviews of all the band members, except Ritchie Blackmore.
  • Personnel

    Deep Purple
  • Ian Gillan - vocals
  • Ritchie Blackmore - guitar
  • Jon Lord - organ, keyboards
  • Roger Glover - bass
  • Ian Paice - drums
  • Production
  • Pat Regan - producer, engineer, mixing at New Century Media Studios, Los Angeles
  • George Marino - mastering at Sterling Sound, New York
  • References

    Come Hell or High Water Wikipedia