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Deep Purple - New, Live and Rare

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Some of what is on this DVD already existed via the "Video Singles" and "Heavy Metal Pioneers" VHS videos released many years back. However, a LOT of what is on *New, Live & Rare* I've never seen before. Deep Purple fans will rejoice in seeing some of the very first reunion concert footage from '84 & '85 (black night, gypsy's kiss) where the band is clearly enjoying being back together. One interesting note is the absence of the 'spoken tracks' in the music video for "Call of The Wild"...one reason I will hold onto the "Videosingles" VHS a bit longer. I wonder why this was not included in the DVD release? Even the *Slaves and Masters* period (1990) is included here with two videos from that album and some "making of" studio footage. *N,L & R* also provides an interesting contrast of the guitar playing styles of Ritchie Blackmore & Steve Morse...you be the judge! Overall, *New, Live and Rare* does a good job of capturing the evolution of Deep Purple right up until the Montreux Jazz festival last year. Ian Gillan said it best many years ago..."Deep Purple Forever!" DE

This DVD release is a GODSEND!!! Like every Purple DVD release
is (maybe with the exception of Come Hell & High Water), the
video and sound quality are absolutely superb. Brushing with all their videos from the 80's including the cheesy Knocking at Your Back Door and Bad Attitude to smokin' live footage of Black Night (84) and Space truckin (85). While the DVD is mainly split evenly between the Blackmore years and Morse years, both are equally outstanding. the Blackmore era includes many videos, even 2 with Joe Lynn Turner on vocals (King of Dreams , Love Conquers All) The Morse era pretty much is all live footage of Purple running through many old numbers along with some excellent newer stuff. Morse is suitable and an excellent choice to fill Blackmore's whiny shoes, Richie's playing is fantastic when he enjoys playing with Purple, and you get to see that on quite a few tracks. Overall, another excellent DVD from Purple.

No Purple fan can afford to be without this DVD, especially if you're into the present Morse era. It contains stuff you might've seen before, like the, by now, well-known promo clips from the '80s, but also lots of rare live stuff. For some reason it has nothing from the "Battle Rages On" album at all; no clips, no live stuff. All the live footage is in excellent condition, making one hungry for the rest of these gigs. -Since these selected songs are here and available, I guess it's fair to assume that the whole of each of these shows were filmed. -Wouldn't it be great if they were released as well ?. In particular I would like to see the concert "Black Night" is taken from in its entirety. I already have the '85 Paris gig ("Gypsy's Kiss") from when it was televised originally, but it's actually the least interesting of them all because Gillan was in a terrible, almost non-existing, voice that night. There are some nice bonus features, like the rather disappointing collage of images from the recording of (the also disappointing) "Slaves & Masters" album in '90, and a truly rare video clip of "Under The Gun" from the '84 recording sessions. Legend has it somebody was making a documentary about Purple's reunion and the "Perfect Strangers" album, but I've never seen this finished documentary so I believe it didn't materialize at all. Instead we're all familiar with the title track promo clip, and now the fascinating "Under The Gun". -I wonder what took so long to dig that one out. Can't help but think what other celluloid-captured goodies must be laying around somewhere from those glorious days. All in all, an excellent collection of Deep Purple rarities and highly recommended.

I bought this mostly for the Perfect Strangers video which has always been one of my all time favorite videos. There are a lot of good videos and live videos from the Perfect Strangers tour but not enough. I would have rather have seen more of the pre-Steve Morse Purple. Nothing against Steve, it is just I enjoy watching Ritchie Blackmore in action. He is so theatrical and over the top. His attitude is over flowing with over confidence and it makes for some exciting moments.

This is a great DVD. There is so much stuff on it from different periods of the band. I was impressed with high qulity of the picture, better than any other DVD from Deep Purple. If you are a fan of the band regardles from which period, this is the best DVD showcasing the band.

160 Minutes of the best of Deep Purple!

A bootleg collectors dream. Lot's of rare concert clips and some cool MTV style stuff.

Heavy stuff. Only got about half way through the disk lastnight. OVERLOADED with too much great stuff to process at one time.

If you like DP - get this one for sure.

Excellent ! What else can i say? Is a good chance to see -in superb quality- images lost in my mind.. the '84 reunion videos and concerts,the "Turner" era and the "new" D.P. with Morse.

Is good to see how Blackmore enjoyed that years with DP and why he and Jon Lord are really a masters.

Is amazing the excellent good quality of this production, but two tracks have a really "tremendous" good sound : "Bad attitude" and "Call of the wild" . Is superb! you can feel the difference from the previous tracks inmediatly.

Here you also have the chance to see how Gillan has been losing his voice and how right Blackmore was when he though they needed to replace the vocalist. Is really "sad" when after magnificent performances by Blackmore,Glover,Lord & Paice, Gillan starts to cry with his weak voice. It is really sad.

In few words : VERY GOOD AND ENJOYABLE . Please do not miss the chance to enjoy Deep Puple on DVD.

They claim the dvd is remastered the why do some songs have so much tape hiss and some songs the mix is so bad, it sounds like half the band is playing and can't hear the rest, after exchanging it for another copy, still lousy sound on some songs, it's a sound engineer disaster, do they even listen to this stuff before they release it, it would of been great if they would of just turned up everything louder than everything else and left it there.

THIS DVD IS A MUST for any Purple's serious collector. Most of Purple's fans hate or at least ignore the Joe Lynn Turner line up era. Well, with this line up there were 2 excellent songs that remained almost unknown for a long time, the b-side "Slow Down Sister" wich is now available on the "Shades 1968-1998 BOX SET" and the movie soundtrack "Fire, Ice and Dynamite" from the same name's movie wich was unreleased until this DVD. Now you can hear that song on this DVD's end (on the clip wich the band and friends play soccer). After bought this DVD I could say: "Now I suppose to have ALL the Purple's official released songs !!"

Note that "Fire, Ice and Dynamite" doesn't appear on any other Purple's album or video. If you are a completist, BUY IT AS FAST AS YOU CAN !!!

The DVD captures aturbulent period in Purple's history, and it's great to see it all collected onto one video at last. But is it all? I have no idea! All the essential stuff from the first two Mark II reunion albums are there, and it is fantastic that they did put in the Turner videos (main reason why I got it- there is just so little documentation of the JLT line up, and it probably wasn't as bad as some thought, in retrospect). Lots of Morse footage and loved "Blind Man..." and the Smoke on the Water thing in Australia. But is there anything from The Battle Rages On that should have been on this disc? Adequate sound, picture quality dodgy at times, and Gillan is starting to show the strain. Essential for the fans only.