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Deep Purple / “Made in Europe” box

By Paul Sinclair

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Deep Purple have announced that their 1976 live album Made in Europe is being remixed and will be released as a deluxe box set in “early 2015”.

The following message was posted on their Facebook page a few hours ago:

“Deep Purple (Overseas) in conjunction with UMG is currently remixing the brilliant ‘Made In Europe’ which was taken from Saarbrucken in April 1975. Ritchie’s final shows…..Universal will be releasing a superb box set with the complete shows and a new documentary based on the period. IT ROCKS and it’s due early 2015!”

As noted, the album was recorded on the final dates in April 1975 just before Ritchie Blackmore left and the group had broken up by the time of the October 1976 release.

More news on this when we have it.

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  2. This is not really progressing a lot it seems.

    I dont understand the rerelease of MIE as a standalone with just 5 tracks in 2015. 2017?

    But not a total fullblown edition in which ALL Saarbrucken tracks , remixed et all?

    Eludes me Whats going on here? :)

  7. Hi folks,
    by now it’s nearly the end of 2015, and nothing happened – as usual in the DP-camp.
    Does anyone knew what happened to this project?

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  14. Note to Universal Music Group: That obscure Deep Purple song is called ‘Smoke On The Water’, not ‘Somoke On The Water’ (as printed on the back cover of all three LP sleeves in the recent Made In Japan vinyl box)…

    The big MIJ vinyl box does sound great to these ears though. I wouldn’t say the vinyl mastering is ‘brickwalled’ at all…

  17. The new Graz-cd has the same mix that’s on the old Mk. III – The Final Concerts 2cd, with the drum solo edited out from exactly the same place.
    Also the song You Fool No One on the Paris set sounds a bit suspicious. It was also edited on the old Final Concerts 2cd with the guitar solo left off. However the Paris cd’s released since seem to patch the guitar solo part straight from the old Made In Europe. And the Paris cd’s sure sound more patchy (funny sounding bass boost on the final band note before the solo and audience crossfade in the beginning of Blues) than M.I.E. So what’s from where? Beats me.

  18. …..Universal will be releasing a superb box set with the complete shows and a new documentary based on the period…..

    Hope the new documentary is just like “Live in Japan Tokyo 1972” many
    unseen footage from 74 to April 75 ….

  19. The Deep Purple setlist in early 1975 was as follows
    Burn
    Stormbringer
    The Gypsy
    Lady Double Dealer
    Mistreated
    Smoke on the Water
    You Fool No One
    Space Truckin’
    *encores (only known to be played Paris)
    Going Down (Don Nix)
    Highway Star

    Made in Europe contains only five songs of the Saarbrucken Show, with bits sliced in from Paris and Graz. You fool No One misses the ‘Mule’ bit and is only 16 minutes this should be approx. 20 minutes. Stormbringer is out of sequence (although sounds as a perfect setcloser)

    The ‘complete’ Graz-show was released recently. It is however NOT complete. Ritchie’s Blues bit en the entire drumsolo (which David promises at the start of You fool No One) miss here. There are no encores and it is unsure if they were played there. From the You fool no One edit it lookes like they used the same mixes as were on MK III: the final concerts.

    Live in Paris (La dernière séance) is thus the only really complete show released and includes the encores. These are with Space Truckin’ on the second disc. You Fool No One has Ritchie’s blues, the drumsolo and the Mule segment.

    So, what will we get extra with the complete shows:
    -The Saarbrucken versions of The Gypsy, Smoke on the Water and Space Truckin’
    -And we will learn the truth about the other tracks, esp. Mistreated and You full No One.
    -The complete You Fool No One from Graz.
    -Maybe the encores were played in Saarbrucken and even in Graz. We don’t know that. It is known that Ritchie wrecked a Guitaronly in Paris during Highway Star (and still manages to make it sound better than the ‘Last concert version’ with Tommy, but this wasn’t Tommy cup of tea).

    hope this gives a light in the black, dNK

    1. hi! Which bits from Paris and Germany? I have purchased the Graz cd and also have the Paris cds and do NOT recognize coincidences between MIE and Graz / Paris. Thanks a lot!

  20. Forgot to add… I had also read that the CD had edited versions of solos by Ritchie and Paice. Not sure if that’s accurate, but if so, a “complete” set would be nice. Time to start saving money again.

  23. All of three of these concerts(Graz, Saarbrucken & Paris) have already been released in their entirety elsewhere, and undoubtedly, in this new boxed set(as with Universal’s “Made in Japan” 4-CD + DVD box), these albums will be given compressed “Loudness Wars” remixes & mastering. No thanks.

  24. Opens with a blazing (ha) version of Burn and closes with an almost as good version of Stormbringer – my introduction to DP. I’ve not always loved everything I was supposed to but they were on fire (ha, I just can’t stop) on this record. About as good as any live stuff I have from them.

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