Mk III: The Final Concerts

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Mk III: The Final Concerts
or
Archive Alive
Mk III: The Final ConcertsorArchive Alive cover
Live album by Deep Purple
Released 1996
Recorded 1975
Genre Hard rock
Label Connoisseur Collection (Mk III: The Final Concerts) or Navarre (Archive Alive)
Producer Deep Purple
Professional reviews
Deep Purple chronology
California Jamming
(1996)		 Mk III: The Final Concerts
(1996)		 Live at the Olympia '96
(1997)

MK III: The Final Concerts, alternatively entitled Archive Alive, is a live album released by Deep Purple, recorded during the band's 1975 European tour in support of Stormbringer. This double CD release is culled from the very last performances from Deep Purple MK III featuring Ritchie Blackmore before he left to launch his new band Rainbow with singer Ronnie James Dio. The album features for the most part material from the last concert of the tour held at the Palais des Sports in Paris on April 7 1975, with a few tracks taken from two shows in Graz, Austria, April 3 and 4. It was released in 1996.

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[edit] Trivia

  • At the time of the taping of the shows, the rest of the band was unaware of Blackmore's decision to leave the band by tour's end. Managers decided to tape the last 4 shows (Paris, Graz and Saarbrucken) in order to have some product available for release in the event of the band splitting up.
  • The Paris show (from which most of these songs were taken from) had been available for some time, albeit in different formats, before this release: some other names for that release include "La Derniere Sceance" and "Live in Paris 1975".
  • After the end of the tour, and facing the prospect of the end of the band, Jon Lord mentioned to the press the upcoming release of a double live set consisting of performances from the last European tour. However, as the band decided to carry on, the plans for the release were scrapped.
  • In 1976, after the definitive breakup of the band, the single disc "Made in Europe" live album was released, using some of the material previously mentioned by Lord (from the Saarbrucken show), but apparently none of the material included on this release. "Made in Europe" was met with mixed reactions, as some argued that it failed to capture the energy that the band displayed live. Additionally, some resented what they felt was a healthy amount of studio editing.
  • Blackmore's lack of enthusiasm, as well as band tension onstage, are fairly evident on some of the tracks: Blackmore unexpectedly loses his way on the intro for "Mistreated" and he seems totally surprised by Lord's solo on "Lady Double Dealer" (the studio version of this song lacks a keyboard solo).
  • The alternate takes of "Mistreated" and "You Fool No One" on disc 2 are from the Graz shows, and although the liner notes mention "technical problems" on the Paris tapes as the justification for their inclusion, it is more likely that their inclusion has more to do with mistakes by the band.
  • Strangely, the alternate take of "You Fool No One" lacks Ian Paice's trademark drum solo, even after being announced by David Coverdale.
  • During the intro jam for "You Fool No One" Blackmore played riffs which he would later use on the songs "Still I'm Sad" and "Man On The Silver Mountain" from Rainbow's first LP Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow.
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[edit] Track listing

All songs written by David Coverdale and Ritchie Blackmore except where noted. All songs are from the last show in Paris, except where noted.

[edit] Disc 1

  1. "Burn" (Coverdale, Blackmore, Jon Lord, Ian Paice)
    • From the Graz shows
  2. "Stormbringer"
    • From the Graz shows
  3. "The Gypsy" (Coverdale, Blackmore, Glenn Hughes, Lord, Paice)
  4. "Lady Double Dealer"
  5. "Mistreated"
  6. "Smoke on the Water" (Ian Gillan, Blackmore, Roger Glover, Lord, Paice)
  7. "You Fool No One" (Coverdale, Blackmore, Lord, Paice)

[edit] Disc 2

  1. "Space Truckin'" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice)
  2. "Going Down/Highway Star" (Don Nix)/(Gillan, Glover, Blackmore, Lord, Paice)
  3. "Mistreated"
    • From the Graz shows
  4. "You Fool No One" (Coverdale, Blackmore, Lord, Paice)
    • From the Graz shows

[edit] Personnel

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Deep Purple
Ian Gillan · Steve Morse · Roger Glover · Ian Paice · Don Airey
Jon Lord · Ritchie Blackmore · David Coverdale · Glenn Hughes · Rod Evans · Nick Simper · Tommy Bolin · Joe Lynn Turner · Joe Satriani
Studio albums
Shades of Deep Purple (1968) · The Book of Taliesyn (1968) · Deep Purple (1969) Deep Purple in Rock (1970) · Fireball (1971) · Machine Head (1972) · Who Do We Think We Are (1973) · Burn (1974) · Stormbringer (1974) · Come Taste the Band (1975) · Perfect Strangers (1984) · The House of Blue Light (1987) · Slaves & Masters (1990) · The Battle Rages On (1993) · Purpendicular (1996) · Abandon (1998) · Bananas (2003) · Rapture of the Deep (2005)
Live albums
Concerto for Group and Orchestra · Made in Japan  · Made in Europe · Last Concert in Japan · Deep Purple in Concert · Live in London · Scandinavian Nights · Nobody's Perfect · In the Absence of Pink: Knebworth '85 · Live in Japan · Come Hell or High Water · King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents: Deep Purple in Concert · California Jamming · Mk III: The Final Concerts · Live at the Olympia '96 · Gemini Suite Live · Total Abandon: Australia '99 · Deep Purple: Extended Versions · Live at the Royal Albert Hall · Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy · This Time Around: Live in Tokyo · The Soundboard Series · Live in Paris 1975 · Inglewood - Live in California · Space Vol 1 & 2 · Perks and Tit / Live in San Diego 1974 · Live in Stockholm · Live in Europe 1993 · Live at Montreux 1996 · Live in Montreux 69 · Live in Denmark 1972 · They All Came Down to Montreux
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