Somewhere on HS - and I can’t find it any more- there was a list of TV & Radio appearances where the band were professionally recorded. I’ve taken that list and expanded and updated it with links as appropriate. Because of text size it’s split randomly by era.
This is a compilation of Deep Purple’s (official) appearances on TV and/or radio, plus other professionally recorded concerts and tracks that have not been officially released on CD
Any appearances that haven’t surfaced are also omitted.
Opinions expressed are my own.
Mark 1
And The Address. 23rd Oct 1968 - New York City, Playboy Club, US TV, “Playboy After Dark” - New York, USA. Hush from the same program appeared on the Shades of Deep Purple remaster but And The Address (which is a band edited version) hasn’t appeared anywhere on CD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg95T_pGF4Q
Mark 2
Club Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland.
24th August 1969. Wring That Neck appeared on the New, Live and Rare Sonic Zoom release. Whilst it’s soundboard the nascent Speed King suffers badly from a poor mix. Ritchie is barely discernible for the first 4 minutes but then the mix sorts itself out and the band are really cooking. Child In Time is great and Paint it Black is mostly drum solo but the mix is great for Paicey’s drums. They didn’t lay down CIT for In Rock until 6 weeks after this gig!
Essen
11th October 1969. Live TV appearance with edited versions of Wring That Neck and Mandrake Root. Essential viewing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvq__lPZaNc
Doebidoe Dutch TV
15th Jan 1970. Not brilliant fidelity but great, if short (self-edited for TV?) versions and Into The Fire is better than the Scandinavian version. Is on the Miss Molly at The University bootleg which is also worth getting for a very rare audience recording of Good Golly Miss Molly. Speed King, Mandrake Root, Wring That Neck and Into The Fire
Berlin
30th March 1970. Child in Time. A 10 minute soundboard recording if a little low-fi but a cracking version. Broadcast on AFN (US Army Radio Station) in Berlin, Germany. Can be found on the Deep Purple Berlin 1970 bootleg. The festival was taped by Berlin radio according to the DPAS. Be fantastic if they still existed in their archive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ATqRAU5zI
South Bank, London.
A 12 minute colour video exists of “Mandrake Root”. It was recorded 28th July 1970 at South Bank Queen Elizabeth Hall UK. The video was on the Hit & Highlights DVD but the audio has never been released on CD. DPOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c1v7WhKJoA
POP DEUX French TV
8th Oct 1970. The edited versions of Wring That Neck and Mandrake Root were broadcast on French TV and subsequently were on the Hits DVD and as bonus tracks on the upgraded Stockholm CD (albeit with the wrong date of performance in the booklet notes – They are definitely the pop deux versions)
French Radio Europe 1
1st November 1970. A bootleg exists which includes the edited track Pop Deux tracks with other tracks. The other tracks on that bootleg, of slightly poorer quality come from a radio broadcast of the recording – there is some DJ chat on it- Includes full versions of Into The Fire and Paint It Black as well as edited versions of Child In Time (between the post verse keyboards and the guitar solo – which is a shame as Ritchie is really giving it some pongo) and Black Night (after verse guitar). Simon Robinson reported in Darker Than Blue 54, November 2001, that the radio station had the tracks in their archive. Hopefully they are still there.
Hamburg
Black Night A live filmed version from Hamburg 2nd December 1970, belting version to. DPOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAkqlx9Lki4
Speyer,
5th September 1971. Strange Kind Of Woman Soundboard recording (9:03) which appeared on a bootleg with tracks from Stuttgart from two gigs. Extraordinarily brilliant guitar on a lowish-fi recording but worth having. Part of what was billed as “British Rock Meeting” - a fragment of Speed King is on the official YouTube site. Other bands on the day professionally recorded can be found on youtube. DPOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPDmKeP9yF4
Bremen, Radio Bremen TV, Studio 3
Also known as Beat Club TV 21st September 1971. There is a rehearsal take for the Beat Club TV show of No No No. The broadcast version appears on the DVD Hits & Highlights, the Blackmore Profile vol 1 and the Listen Box set which means it’s very rare. The rehearsal meanders to an inconclusive end but can be considered a complete take. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GymEEU9nYP8&list=RDGymEEU9nYP8&start_radio=1
Unknown
3rd October 1971. When Simon Robinson was first given access to the DP(O) tape store he catalogued the contents. He placed this tape in the Fireball section and it listed Black Night (Live) and Lazy (bit of). The date could be when the tape was entered into the archive. Could it be Speyer which we know was recorded in part?
Who Do We Think We Are session out-takes
“It’s Only Make Believe” and “Smelly Botty” (Jon Lord on vocals) Remastered for ‘Who Do We Think We Are Remastered Edition’ CD in 2000, but left off at Jon Lord’s request.
Lyon.
16th March 1973. Has been around for years as a very AM quality boot. It appeared last year advertised as a FM version and including Space Truckin’ which was previously missing. Speculation on HS that this wasn’t soundboard but if it’s not, it’s the best sounding audience boot of the early 1970’s. I think the speculation comes from the crowd noise which is particularly evident on the Mule. But these crowd noises are evident on the original AM recording. Either way it’s awesome and definitely worth having.
Mark 3
Leeds Polytechnic Project
Burn is from Hammersmith 9th May 1974. An edited version of Space Truckin’ was on the Hits & Highlights DVD. All the other tracks on the film are incomplete. The rest of the set is bootlegged as Hammersmith and may come from the same source but it’s fairly lo-fi.
DPOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJN76wlC6mc&t=12s
Full set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZG4AxssRJw&list=RDpZG4AxssRJw&start_radio=1
Saarbrucken
5th April 1975. Most of the original Made In Europe (albeit edited) was from this gig. Any surplus tracks were left of the Final Concerts release due to contractual reasons. It’s oft been promised as a full release to compliment the complete Graz and Paris releases but has never appeared. The missing tracks would be; The Gypsy, Smoke, Space, Going Down and Highway Star
Mark 4
Jakarta
4th December 1975. 13 years ago, updated in 2019, the DPOY stated that “There is a multitude of new interviews and vision with 130 mins of concert material available.” Relating to the Jakarta debacle and it was suggested elsewhere that it was professionally recorded. It’s never appeared.
Maryland - Landover Capital Centre
15th January 1976. Drew Thompson said in 2022, “We have the full show in the vaults. You never know but one day it might surface!” Let’s hope so even if the sound on the video clips is very distorted.
Springfield.
26th January 1976. Smoke & Highway star appeared on the official release in 1995 and at the time Simon Robinson said the tape he heard of Springfield has recording issues. The complete set appeared a while ago but the mix is all over the place particularly at the start. It does however feature a full version of The Drifter and so is a must have.
Wembley
13th March 1976. Rumoured to exist and may have been taped by the same source as Liverpool. Discussed on the Deep Purple Classic and Glenn Hughes facebook pages.
Liverpool
15th March 1976. When Simon Robinson set up Sonic Zoom the first release was supposed to be Mk 4’s 1976 Liverpool gig. In response to a question as to why it hadn’t appeared the reply was “Yes, this was all mastered off a first-generation audience tape and ready to go but then we heard of a source in America who seemed to have some soundboards including Liverpool, so we went after that. Sadly, the guy decided his tapes were worth huge amounts of money, so we couldn’t proceed. I’m reluctant to issue the audience tape when I know there is a better one, even though we can’t get at it.”
