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Episode #181 – Deep Purple Bonus Material (1984-1990)

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Bonus Tracks:

  1. Not Responsible (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover)
    • Bonus track available on Cassette version of “Perfect Strangers”
  2. Son of Alerik (Blackmore)
    • Bonus track available on 1999 CD release of “Perfect Strangers”
    • https://www.thehighwaystar.com/FAQ/trivia.html
      • Who is Alerik?
      • We haven’t found out. Roger said it was Blackmore’s song name, so that he didn’t know; he seemed to remember a king Alerik from English history, but was uncertain. Another possible source is the Michael Moorcook-books, as I seem to have read a suggestion about Elric (the one with the sword named Stormbringer, y’know)’s father being called Alerik, i.e. the Son of Alerik is Elric himself. But this is highly unverified.
      • From an email from Paul Mann
  3. Cosmic Jazz
  1. Lucille live with George Harrison
    • Sydney, Australia, December 13, 1984
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dmaI2sfw7k
This show was recorded in Portland, Maine, not Portland, Oregon.
  1. Mad Dog (live at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine — NOT OREGON!)
    • The only known time the band played the song live. April 16, 1987.

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  1. Hush
    • Single released in 1988 in advance of “Nobody’s Perfect” live album.
  2. Slow Down Sister
    • Bonus track from 2013 CD release of “Slaves and Masters”
  1. Fire, Ice & Dynamite (Blackmore, Glover, Turner)
    • From the soundtrack to the movie of the same name:
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      • ‘Fire Ice and Dynamite was a movie project that was offered to us. Jon and Ian Paice were not in the States at the time and weren’t interested. Ritchie wanted to do it so we used a riff idea of his that the band didn’t want, Joe wrote some words and I constructed it in the studio, playing keyboards and drum machine. It was at a bad time in the band’s history and we were probably at our most dysfunctional. I haven’t heard it in decades but I don’t think it is any good.'”
      • Jon Lord was on tour in Europe with “Rock’n’Blues Olympic Circus” with Chris Farlowe, Roger Chapman, Tony Ashton, Pete York.
      • Roger allegedly programmed the drums, maybe using drum samples of Ian Paice playing.
  2. Whiter Shade of Pale
    • Live in London, March 16, 1990
  1. King of Dreams (Unplugged)
    • Live on Rockline in 1990
  2. Yesterday
    • Edinburgh – March 11, 1991
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cbkWpKfLZU

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