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Live in San Diego 1974

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I'm a huge fan of deep purple with coverdale and love this cd. Little did we know that this was a supergroup at the time, much like Rainbow with Dio. After watching the California Jam show this weekend and listening to this cd I love both. I couldn't stop watching/listening to either, watched/listened all the way throug. The sound on this is great. Unfortunetly the tape ran out before You Fool No One but it's definetly a keeper. Get this disk.

As someone who has the original vinyl bootleg Perks and Tits, I have always liked this album, though I admit a preferance for Mk II & Mk I. Most Mk III live performances are good but with only one or two albums to choose from the songs are the same with Smoke on Water or Highway Star added which David Coverdale doesn't sing either particularily well. I believe I have all Mk III live cd's beit Cal Jam, Last Show in Paris 75 and Live in London 74 but to me, this is the most exciting of the bunch. Now retitled Live in San Diego 1974, it is a bootleg and sounds like one. A good bootleg but a bootleg nontheless. But I love it. The cd is short with only five songs and a (short for) Jon Lord keyboard solo. The songs are: 1)Burn which is just so energized as Blackmore's tone is great and it's just a great opener. 2)Might Just Take Your Life is a song I've never liked but this version is great. Blackmore's rhythm guitar is solid and loud everyone putting in a good effort. 3)Lay Down Stay Down is another song I don't particularily like but I like this version. 4)Mistreated is fantastic. May be the best version ever. Back in 75 I put the entire boot on tape and used to listen to it at work all the time driving everyone at the gas station crazy. Mistreated was the one song on the album which I never tire of. 35 years later I still haven't gotten tired of it. 5) Smoke on the Water is great. It wasn't on the original boot as the Cal Jam version was on it for some reason. I love this version with the great Blackmore egyptian guitar solo. Coverdale and Hughes sing it pretty good. 6)Jon Lord organ solo is just that, a partial organ solo with snippets of several songs one being Whiter Shade of Pale. I love Jon but this is not complete. The rest of the show was either not taped or lost. I give the performance a 5 stars, quality of recording 4 stars. I also enjoyed reading the booklet which explains what happened to Blackmore's favored black strat that he used to record Made in Japan with and the history of the original bootleg which was interesting.