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This recording is approximately two weeks before the final show the band would play which lead to the breakup. For 8 years there would be no (official, anyway) Deep Purple.
Coverdale met with management after Blackmore’s departure and suggested they change their name. His ideas: Good Company, Purple, The Deeps.
The show we are about to hear was originally broadcast on the King Biscuit Flower Hour, the American radio show. It appeared in numerous forms over the years and explains why the audio quality is so good.
The King Biscuit Flower Hour was a weekly show which had also featured pefromahnces by Black Sabbath, Genesis, Jhon Lenon, The Who, The Stones, Elton John, etc.
Fans of the show called it “The Biscuit.” It had debuted in February of 1973 and was named after a radio show from the 1920s which was sponsored by the King Buiscuit Flour Co.
The runners of the show recorded things a little differently. A lot of other live radio shows would just take the mix off the sound board. The King Biscuit Flower Hour multitrakced the cecordeing and let the artists take the tapes to mix any way they’d like.
They even used to have Quadrophonic recordings as they were sponsored by Pioneer who was trying to make that the standard int he industry.
The bootleg surfaced in America in 1977. The bootleg became highly sought after due to its audio quality and the fine performance turned in by the band. It soon became a legendary release.
In 1994 Deep Purple’s management acquired the tapes and put them out the following year as an official release.
Many people familiar with the many bootlegs feel this was one of the best shows on the US tour. This is quite possibly Mark 4 in their finest form.
Album Art & Booklet Review
First version – bootleg in the 70s
“On The Wings of a Russian Foxbat” – Great Britain – 1995 Double CD
“King Biscuit Flower Hour” – US – 1995 2CD
“King Biscuit Flower Hour” – US – 1995 version 2 “In Concert” 2CD
“Live in California, Long Beach Arena, 1976” – Japan – 2003 release
“Live at Long Beach” – Remastered Great Britain – 2009
“Live at Long Beach” – Great Britain – 2009 Remastered limited edition digi-pak with bootleg art
“Long Beach 1976” – International – 2016 release
Photography used by Fin Costello in most releases.
And what about the name? “On the Wings of a Russian Foxbat.” Simon Robinson writes:
So go on then uncle simon [sic], why ‘On The Wings Of A Russian Foxbat’? Well, when that bootleg first came out, the Cold War was still raging. The U.S. military had just got wind of a new Rooskie MIG jet fighter which was said to knock the socks off anything they currently flew at the time. One day a Russian pilot defected, flying into a Japanese airport in one of the planes – codenamed “Foxbat.” ‘Of course you can have it back” came the cry, just as soon as we measure every damn nut and bolt on it! Well, that’s roughly the story. It was nearly twenty years ago, so don’t quote me.
Setlist:
Burn
Lady Luck
Gettin’ Tighter
Love Child
Smoke on the Water/Georgia On My Mind
Lazy/Homeward Strut
Many version incorrectly label this as “The Grind”
Features Organ and Drum Solos
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This Time Around
It ends with “Owed to G” but never seems to be listed as such
Tommy Bolin (Guitar Solo)
My copy says “Tomy Bolin”
Stormbringer
Highway Star/ Not Fade Away
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Private Eyes
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Sugar Tits
Scott Price
Reception and Charts:
They would only play four more shows on their US tour (San Bernadino, CA, Tempe, AZ [listed as ‘Tempe, CA’ in the liner notes’], Salt Lake City, UT, and Denver, CO) before a brief UK tour of five shows ending with the show in Liverpool which would be their last.
The original plan was to leave them time off to work on various solo projects after the US tour but that didn’t happen.
Official releases featured additional tracks from a partially recorded show in Springfield, Massachusetts a month earlier on January 26, 1976.
Coverdale: “
Lord:” What you had here was an astonishingly good bass player, even stoned; one of the world’s great rock drummers; and a Hammon next to the name of Mr. Hammond. I know what I was doing, I was feeling very strong with my abilities at that time. Just those three – it couldn’t have been bad. But then you get Coverdale, who was really finding himself by this time. And Tommy, playing smashing stuff. It’s not surprising that it sounds good. The only thing that held it back was that it was called Deep Purple. If it had been a new band . . . my God, it would’ve set the world on fire.”
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April 7 was Ritchie’s last show with the band until they reformed in 1984.
Ritchie’s last show with Mark 3 was on
The Graz and Paris concerts have both been released in full since but the drum solo from the Graz concert is missing.
It’s said that there was a lot of editing and overdubbing of crowd noise for this album. There’s a noticeable tape loop of applause which you can notice based on the whistling of a fan.
The album was not released until after the band broke up in October of 1976.
Much like Made in Japan the shows were recorded to be able to be released post breakup so they’d have something to be able to sell afterward in case there were no more studio albums.
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Worked with UFO, Motorhead, Y&T, Gary Moore, Deep Purple (Perfect Strangers)
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Album Tracks:
Side One:
Come On
Sweet Talker
Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues
Love Hunter
Side Two:
Fool For Your Loving
Ain’t Conna Cry No More
Ready An’ Willing
Take Me With You
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Come On
Might Just Take Your Life
Lie Down
Ain’t No Love In The HEart Of The City
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Trouble
Mistreated
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Reception and Review
Charted at number 5 on the UK charts and number 146 on the Billboard 200.
From Jorg: “There is a clipping that says “release on Oct 20”. I’m not sure if that happened, I think it was postponed to November 3.”
Jorg: “Japanese release was Dec 5th, I don’t have a date for the US.”
Jorg: “The release caused some negative reactions from people who bought the Japanese “Live At Hammersmith” as import some monthes earlier and now they had to buy that 1978 part again. The Japanese release only had the 1980 part as single album, I think the North American releases were the same.”
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We will be doing an experimental test of doing live album livestream episodes this week! You will be invited to join us as we record these episodes live!
And what better to celebrate this occasion with than with three classic Deep Purple family live albums.
