Mk III: The Final Concerts

Live album by Deep Purple

Released

1996

Recorded

in Graz, Austria & Paris in April 1975

Genre

Hard rock

Label

Connoisseur Collection (Mk III: The Final Concerts) or Navarre (Archive Alive)

Producer

Deep Purple

Deep Purple live albums chronology

California Jamming
(1996)

Mk III: The Final Concerts
(1996)

Live at the Olympia '96
(1997)

Professional ratings
Review scores
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MK III: The Final Concerts, alternatively entitled Archive Alive, is a live album by Deep Purple, recorded during the band's 1975 European tour in support of the Stormbringer album. It was released in 1996.

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, Paris 7 April 1975, ^[2] with a few tracks taken from two shows in Graz, Austria, 3 and 4 April.

History

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 3 shows (Paris, Graz and Saarbrücken) in order to have some product available for release in the event of the band splitting up.

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 Saarbrücken 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 two 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 from the songs "Still I'm Sad" and "Man On The Silver Mountain" from Rainbow's first LP Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, which had already been recorded only weeks before these shows.

Track listing

Disc One

"Burn" (Ritchie Blackmore, David Coverdale, Jon Lord, Ian Paice) – 7:33
"Stormbringer" (Blackmore, Coverdale) – 4:38
"Gypsy" (Blackmore, Coverdale, Glenn Hughes, Lord, Paice) - 5:40
"Lady Double Dealer" (Blackmore, Coverdale) – 3:53
"Mistreated" (Blackmore, Coverdale) - 12:38
"Smoke on the Water" (Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Lord, Paice) - 10:17
"You Fool No One" (Blackmore, Coverdale, Lord, Paice) – 13:24

Disc Two

"Space Truckin'" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 19:54
"Going Down" / "Highway Star" (Don Nix / Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 15:13

Bonus tracks: Graz show:

"Mistreated" (Blackmore, Coverdale) – 14:13
"You Fool No One" (Blackmore, Coverdale, Lord, Paice) – 12:43

Tracks 1, 2, 8, 10 and 11 are from Graz show, all others from Paris show.

The intro to "Smoke on the Water" includes an excerpt from "Lazy".

Track 7 includes an Ian Paice drum solo and "The Mule".

Track 11 includes "The Mule"; the drum solo has been edited out.

Personnel

Deep Purple

References

Deep Purple

Ian Paice Roger Glover Ian Gillan Steve Morse Don Airey Jon Lord Ritchie Blackmore Rod Evans Nick Simper Glenn Hughes David Coverdale Tommy Bolin Joe Lynn Turner Joe Satriani

Studio albums	Shades of Deep Purple The Book of Taliesyn Deep Purple Deep Purple in Rock Fireball Machine Head Who Do We Think We Are Burn Stormbringer Come Taste the Band Perfect Strangers The House of Blue Light Slaves and Masters The Battle Rages On... Purpendicular Abandon Bananas Rapture of the Deep Now What?! Infinite

Live albums	Concerto for Group and Orchestra Made in Japan Made in Europe Last Concert in Japan Deep Purple in Concert Live in London Nobody's Perfect Scandinavian Nights In the Absence of Pink: Knebworth '85 Gemini Suite Live 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 Total Abandon: Australia '99 In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy This Time Around: Live in Tokyo Live in Paris 1975 Inglewood: Live in California Space Vol 1 & 2 Perks and Tit Live in Europe 1993 Live at Montreux 1996 Live in Montreux 69 Live in Denmark 1972 Live at Montreux 2006: They All Came Down to Montreux Live at Montreux 2011 Phoenix Rising Live in Verona

Compilation albums	Purple Passages Mark I & II 24 Carat Purple Powerhouse The Deep Purple Singles A's and B's When We Rock, We Rock, and When We Roll, We Roll The Mark II Purple Singles Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple The Anthology Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's Smoke on the Water: The Best Of 30: Very Best of Deep Purple Smoke on the Water Shades 1968–1998 The Very Best of Deep Purple Days May Come and Days May Go Smoke on the Water & Other Hits The Soundboard Series Listen, Learn, Read On Winning Combinations: Deep Purple and Rainbow The Early Years The Platinum Collection BBC Sessions 1968–1970

Singles	"Hush" "Kentucky Woman" "River Deep – Mountain High" "Black Night" "Strange Kind of Woman" "Fireball" "Never Before" "Smoke on the Water" "Burn" "Perfect Strangers" "Knocking at Your Back Door" "Call of the Wild" "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" "Any Fule Kno That" "Vincent Price"

Other songs	"Child in Time" "Highway Star" "Lazy" "Mandrake Root" "Maybe I'm a Leo" "Mistreated" "Soldier of Fortune" "Space Truckin'" "Speed King" "The Mule" "Vavoom: Ted the Mechanic" "When a Blind Man Cries"

Video albums	Concerto for Group and Orchestra Live in Concert 72/73 Live in California 74 Deep Purple Rises Over Japan Come Hell or High Water Bombay Calling Live at Montreux 1996 Total Abandon: Australia '99 In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra Classic Albums: Deep Purple – The Making of Machine Head Live at Montreux 2006 Around the World Live History, Hits & Highlights '68–'76 Phoenix Rising Live at Montreux 2011 Live in Verona

Concert tours	Shades of Deep Purple Tour The Book of Taliesyn Tour Deep Purple European Tour In Rock World Tour Deep Purple Secret Mexican Tour Deep Purple Secret USA Tour Rapture of the Deep tour The Songs That Built Rock Tour Now What? World Tour Deep Purple World Tour 2016 The Long Goodbye Tour

Related bands	The Artwoods The Outlaws The Flower Pot Men Episode Six Trapeze Zephyr James Gang Dixie Dregs Captain Beyond Warhorse Ian Gillan Band Gillan Rainbow Blackmore's Night Whitesnake Coverdale•Page Paice Ashton Lord Black Sabbath Gary Moore Yngwie Malmsteen Hughes Turner Project Living Loud WhoCares

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