The Book of Taliesyn Tour
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| The Book of Taliesyn Tour | ||
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| Rod Evans, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Nick Simper and Ian Paice | ||
| Tour by Deep Purple | ||
| Start date | April 1968 | |
| End date | May 1968 | |
| Legs | 1 | |
| Shows | 22 | |
| Deep Purple tour chronology | ||
| Shades of Deep Purple Tour | The Book of Taliesyn Tour | Deep Purple UK Tour 1969 |
The Book of Taliesyn Tour is the first North American tour of British hard rock band Deep Purple. Tour promoted band's second (in the 4 month) studio album The Book of Taliesyn.[1]
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[edit] History
In October 1968 Deep Purple realased The Book of Taliesyn. The band remained popular only in USA, so they confirmed Nort American dates. On some dates Deep Purple were supporting act for Cream. The tour kicked off with 2 sold out gigs in Los Angeles Inglewood Forum, followed by more than 4 shows sold out in the same venue, day after day. This tour proved to be band's first really successfull and commercial efort. Almost every concert was repeated in the the second night, in the same venue.[2]
[edit] Tour Dates
Day/Month/Year/Venue/City/Country
- 18/10/1968- Inglewood Forum, Los Angeles, USA
- 19/10/1968- Inglewood Forum, Los Angeles, USA
- 27/10/1968- International Pop Festival, San Francisco, USA
- ?/11/1968- Venue unknown, Oregon, USA
- ?/11/1968- Venue unknown, Vancouver, Canada
- 8/11/1968- Eagles Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, USA
- 9/11/1968- Eagles Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, USA
- 13/11/1968- SSC Men's Gym, Sacramento, California, USA
- 28/11/1968- Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA
- 29/11/1968- Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA
- 30/11/1968- Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA
- 1/12/1968- Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA
- 6/12/1968- Electric Theatre, Chicago, USA
- 7/12/1968- Electric Theatre, Chicago, USA
- 11/12/1968- ABC Shopping Center, Evansville, Indiana, USA
- 13/12/1968- Ballroom, Detroit Michigan, USA
- 14/12/1968- Ballroom, Detroit Michigan, USA
- 18/12/1968- Lee Hall, New York, USA
- 20/12/1968- Fillmore, New York, USA
- 21/12/1968- Fillmore, New York, USA
- 22/12/1968- Rock Pile, Toronto, Canada
- 24/12/1968- Electric Circus, New York, USA
[edit] Live Albums
In Los Angeles Inglewood Forum Deep Purple recorded their first live album, called Live in Inglewood[3]
