Smoke On The Water

Deep Purple - 031193 - Ahoy Sportpalais Rotterdam Holland

101 - Highway Star
102 - Black Night
103 - Talk About Love
104 - Twist In The Tale
105 - Perfect Strangers
106 - Difficult To Cure
107 - Knockin At Your Backdoor
108 - Anyone's Daughter
201 - Child In Time
202 - Anya
203 - The Battle Rages On
204 - Lazy
205 - Space Truckin'
206 - Hush
207 - Speed King
208 - Smoke On The Water

Deep Purple MK IIc
The Battle Rages On tour
Rotterdam, Sportpaleis Ahoy
november 3rd 1993
attendance: app. 10.000


The supporting-act took their time, they played for almost an hour. After they had finished, the waiting began. The audience had to wait more than an hour! before the laserhow began. Ian Paice opened the concert as alway with his well known Highway Star drum-intro. But there were only four members on stage. Their master-guitarist Ritchie Blackmore was playing the guitar off stage. He appeared only júst before the Highway Star solo. He took his position at right-wing defence. The first couple of songs, Blackmore made no contact with the rest of the band. He also waisted no energy playing the guitar. RB was clearly not in a good mood, but still playing fierce, sometimes cruell and always flawless.

Tensions even got higher when Blackmore deliberately pitched in too high: therefore the singer Ian Gillan could not follow him on his return-part. Leaving Gillan exposed (he lost part of his voice-range when he replaced Ozzie: this is a big issue to guitarist Blackmore), Gillan returned the favour with a glas of ...water/wodka?? So Blackmore on his turn send a complete microphone-set flying trough the air towards his foe.

Despite all this, the band showed that the MK II line-up is the only true line-up. They could still top any other line-up or any other band in the world. In his prime, Ian Gillan (falsetto B5-D6) had a vocal range of D2-G#5, that is 2 or 3 notes higher than Robert Plant...
MKII also featured 3 phenomenal talented instrumentalists:
A Top 3 rock-drummer.
The premier Hammond organist.
and of course: The premier guitarist.

So when the band got to play the showpieces like Perfect Strangers, Difficult to cure, Anya and Knocking at your backdoor, they were at full speed and showed why they are the most significant rock band in the history of music.
(Thanx to Boxingjos for the write up)

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[carrollckjcm]

the guiltar solo is beautiful. Deep Purple well done. make me fresh in this morning

carrollckjcm

[fawssia]

WOU, Congratulations...I love Deep Purple...

Fawsia

[AZEIDJSKSQMM]

@Purplesnake41 Nice joke bro ^^''

[purpelaar]

Would like to download all of this gig.

I can find only SOTW?

Am I mistaken or could be you so kind to upload it again?

I know I did hear all of it some time ago.

Would be nice because this was my final MK 3 gig, in my own city.

Thanx, Mark

[Purplesnake41]

Deep Purple is the best hard-rock band ever!

[Conneyfogle]

always.

francesca

@Conneyfogle

[StratApple]

i guess he just did what he wanted

[RBlackmore5]

lool very cool but I think it is mixed

[lovroasperger]

I WANTCHA BURNING DOWN!!!!!

[lovroasperger]

Wass that solo?! Blackmoore fucking the rest of them up or they planned it?