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Postcards From The Edge . . . OF CONNECTICUT!

• Greetings from Ireland for St. Patrick’s Day
• Parade Magazine from March 13, 2022 featuring 1972 and the storeis behind the year’s most unforgettable songs!

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Lead up to the Album:

• 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:

1. Burn
2. Lady Luck
3. Gettin’ Tighter
4. Love Child
5. Smoke on the Water/Georgia On My Mind
6. Lazy/Homeward Strut
   1. Many version incorrectly label this as “The Grind”
   2. Features Organ and Drum Solos

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1. This Time Around
   1. It ends with “Owed to G” but never seems to be listed as such
2. Tommy Bolin (Guitar Solo)
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3. Stormbringer
4. Highway Star/ Not Fade Away

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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.”

For Further Information:

• https://www.thehighwaystar.com/rosas/jouni/discos/live13.html
• https://www.discogs.com/release/1307821-Deep-Purple-On-The-Wings-Of-A-Russian-Foxbat-Live-In-California-Long-Beach-Arena-1976
• https://www.discogs.com/release/10328452-Deep-Purple-King-Biscuit-Flower-Hour-Presents-Deep-Purple-In-Concert
• King Biscuit Flower Hour liner notes by Bruce Pilato
• https://www.discogs.com/release/1307821-Deep-Purple-On-The-Wings-Of-A-Russian-Foxbat-Live-In-California-Long-Beach-Arena-1976
• https://www.discogs.com/release/2209349-Deep-Purple-Live-At-Long-Beach-76
• http://www.deep-purple.net/discography/foxbat/foxbat.htm
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  • Something I look forward to in my week
  • As an avid Purple fan and connoisseur of their extended family, this podcast is a treat for looking in depth about things I know about and introducing me to new wild bands and meeting of minds that I never would’ve even thought about. (Thought I could wait as long as it takes for the Hughes Turner Project episode to come around because I have no clue how that band was even conceived to be a good idea) But ramblings aside, the hosts are perfect in encapsulating that feeling of listening to a record you heard about for a while but could never find in your stores or just buying a new record and listening to it for the first time and I love that. On top of that THEY’RE HILARIOUS!!! My highlights are Nate’s story about the dog that had muffins fall on it and the James Gang song about being Norwegian. Keep up the god’s work you two are putting in, it’s so dearly appreciated.

Social Media Update:

• Sent by Marcelo Soares via Twitter:
  • The guys from @DeepPurplePod hardly know @GalCosta , but I love her singing since I was a teen and heard this. For me, there was an immediate reference.
  • Gal Costa – Meu nome é Gal
  • Perhaps inspired by a certain guitar/vocal duo around the 1:40 mark.

Original Tracks:

1. “7 and 7 Is” (Love)
   • From the 1966 album “Da Capo.”
   • Prominent Ramones cover as well.
2. “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” (Huey “Piano” Smith)
   • From the 1959 Huey Smith & The Rhythm Aces album “Having a Good Time.”
3. “Oh Well” (Fleetwood Mac)
   • Single from 1969.
   • Fleetwood Mac single, included on later releases of “Then Play On.”
4. “Jenny Take A Ride!” (Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels)
   • From the 1967 self-titled album by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels.
5. “Watching the River Flow” (Bob Dylan)
   • Bob Dylan single included on “Greatest Hits: Vol. II.”
6. “Let the Good Times Roll” (Ray Charles & Quincy Jones)
   • From the 1959 album “The Genius of Ray Charles.”
7. “Dixie Chicken” (Little Feat)
   • From the 1973 album “Dixie Chicken” by Little Feat.
8. “Shapes of Things” (Yardbirds)
   • Single by The Yardbirds from 1966.

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1. “The Battle of New Orleans” (Lonnie Donegan/Johnny Horton)
   • From the 1962 album by Lonnie Donegan, “A Golden Age of Donegan.”
2.  “Lucifer” (Bob Seger System)
   • From the 1970 album “Mongrel” by Bob Seger System.
3.  “White Room” (Cream)
   • From the 1968 Cream album “Wheels of Fire.”
4. “Going Down” (Moloch)
   • From 1969 album “Moloch” by the band Moloch.
   • Also covered by Freddie King in 1971 and likely popularized by Jeff Beck in 1972
   • Mark 4 used to cover this live.
5. “Green Onions” (Booker T. & The MG’s)
   • From the 1962 album “Green Onions” by Booker T. & The MG’s.
6. “Hot ‘Lanta” (The Allman Brothers)
   • From the 1971 live album “Live at Fillmore East” by The Allman Brothers.
7. “Dazed and Confused” (Led Zeppelin)
   • From Led Zeppelin’s self-titled debut album in 1969.
8. “Gimme Some Lovin’ (Spencer Davis Group)
   • A single from 1966 by Spencer Davis Group.

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Lead up to the Album:

• All titles recorded at:-
• Graz in Austria on the 4th April 1975
• Saarbrucken in Germany on 5th April 1975
• Paris in France on the 7th April 1975
• 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.

Personnel:

• Bass Guitar, Vocals – Glenn Hughes
• Drums – Ian Paice
• Engineer – Martin Birch
• Engineer – Mick McKenna
  • Worked with Faith No More, The Rolling Stones, Steve Winwood
• Engineer – Tapani*
  • Tapani Tapanainen, changed his name to Talo in 1988
  • Finnish-American audio engineer.
  • Extensive work with The Rolling Stones
  • Also worked on Burn
• Featuring – David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore
• Lead Guitar – Ritchie Blackmore
• Organ [Hammond], Keyboards – Jon Lord
• Vocals – David Coverdale

Technical:

• Producer – Deep Purple, Martin Birch
• Mixed By – Ian Paice, Martin Birch
• Lacquer Cut By – HTM*
  • Mastering engineer with Abbey Road.

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Design [Cover] – Cream (7)
  • Design company from Amsterdam known as The Cream Group
  • Worked with Snafu, Gentle Giant, Bay City Rollers, and we discussed them most recently working on Bobby Harrison’s album Funkist
  • Aldo designed cover for Sabotage
• Design [Cover] – Phil Duffy (2)
  • Worked mostly with classical albums
• Photography By – Fin Costello
• Sleeve Notes – Geoff Barton
  • Founder of Kerrang! Magazine and had previously been an editor at Sounds
  • Did notes for many Deep Purple, Whitesnake releases as well as Meatloaf and Hughes/Thrall
  • We have read many of his reviews on the show
• Sleeve Notes – Pete Makowski
  • https://www.facebook.com/PeterMakowskiWordsmith/
  • Worked for Kerrang (as Toots Daley) as well as many other publications
  • We have also read many of his reviews on the show
• The picture on the labels incorrectly displays Tommy Bolin instead of Ritchie Blackmore, who plays on this LP.

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Album Tracks:

Side One

1. Burn
2. Mistreated
3. Lady Double Dealer

Side Two:

1. You Food No One
2. Stormbringer

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For Further Information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Europe
• https://www.discogs.com/Deep-Purple-Made-In-Europe/release/1149615
• Deep Purple and Rainbow 1968-79: Every album, every song (On Track) by Steve Pilkington

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Lead up to the Album:

• Live In The Heart Of The City (June 23-24, 1980)
• Live At Hammersmith (November 23, 1978)
• All songs recorded at The Hammersmith Odeon, London.
• Sides 1 and 2 were done with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio at the Hammersmith Odeon. 
• Sides 3 and 4 are the previously-issued, Japan only, “Live At Hammersmith” which was not released in the UK.

Personnel:

• Bass – Neil Murray
• Drums – Ian Paice
• Guitar – Bernie Marsden
• Guitar – Micky Moody
• Keyboards – Jon Lord
• Vocals – David Coverdale

Technical:

• Engineer, Producer, Recorded By – Martin (Q. & A.) Birch*

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Art Direction – John Pasche
  • http://www.johnpasche.com/
  • Designer of the Rolling Stones “Lips” logo, founder of Gull Graphics
  • Worked with Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones, 
• Artwork By [Cover Painting] – Jeff Cummins
• Design – Shoot That Tiger!
  • Over 1,000 entries on Discogs
  • London based design company
  • Covers for Status Quo, Black Sabbath (Live at Last), Alkatrazz, Motorhead and many more
• Photography [Back Cover] – Hiro Ohno
  • Work for early Whitesnake, Iron Maiden (Maiden Japan)
• Photography [Insert] – George Bodnar
  • http://www.gbimages.com/
  • Worked with UFO, Motorhead, Y&T, Gary Moore, Deep Purple (Perfect Strangers)

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Album Tracks:

Side One:

1. Come On
2. Sweet Talker
3. Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues
4. Love Hunter

Side Two:

1. Fool For Your Loving
2. Ain’t Conna Cry No More
3. Ready An’ Willing
4. Take Me With You

Side Three:

1. Come On
2. Might Just Take Your Life
3. Lie Down
4. Ain’t No Love In The HEart Of The City

Side Four:

1. Trouble
2. 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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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live…_in_the_Heart_of_the_City
• https://www.discogs.com/Whitesnake-Live-In-The-Heart-Of-The-City/release/1457764
• Help from the archives of Jörg Planer
• Help from the archives of Jeff Breis

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Lead up to the Album:

• It’s a double live album recorded in late 1976 in Germany and Japan during the world tour for “Rising.”
• The tracks are spliced together from multiple shows.
• The order of the songs is not the normal order of the setlist because they had to try to fit the longer performances onto the four sides of vinyl.
• Set list from Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan for December 16, 1976:
  • Jingle Bells (James Lord Pierpont song)
  • Over the Rainbow (Harold Arlen song)
  • Kill the King
  • Mistreated (Deep Purple cover)
  • Sixteenth Century Greensleeves (Preceded by “Greensleeves” intro)
  • Catch the Rainbow (Preceded by “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” intro)
  • Man on the Silver Mountain (with “Lazy” and “White Christmas” intro, “Blues”, and vocal improvisation)
  • Starstruck (Followed by “Man on the Silver Mountain” reprise)
  • Stargazer (Preceded by keyboard solo)
  • Still I’m Sad (The Yardbirds cover) (With drum solo+”1812 Overture”)
  • Do You Close Your Eyes (Preceded by guitar solo)
• A note from Norman Weischlebaum:
  • Hi Nate,
  • maybe this might be interesting to listeners:
  •  In Rainbow/Dio-Days you always see a Tape Recorder next to RB´s Marshalls.
  • Background:
  • RB was not satisfied with Echo-effectboards that were available at that time.
  • So he brought on his home-based AIWA TP-1011 tape recorder, that had one specific feature:
  • This machine had a socalled „Sound-on-Sound“ button, providing echo effect by pushing just one button that adjusted the tape speed.
  • 19 cm/sec or 9.5 cm/sec = 1/3 sec delay or 2/3 sec delay.
  •  That´s who these guys fixed problems back in those days…
  • Best
  • Norman

Personnel:

• Bass – Jimmy Bain
• Drums – Cozy Powell
• Guitar – Ritchie Blackmore
• Keyboards – Tony Carey
• Vocals – Ronnie James Dio

Technical:

• Producer – Martin Birch
• Management – Bruce Payne

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Art Direction – Fin Costello
  • The everpresent Deep Purple and rock photographer.
• Design – Ken Anderson (4)
  • Did album covers for Bill Withers, Sly & The Family STone, and Bing Crosby.
• Photography By – Dieter Zill*
  • The legendary German photographer.
• Photography By – Fin Costello
• Photography By – Watal Asanuma
  • Photography credits for Queen, Elton John, Eric Clapton, The Police
• Photography By – Watanabe
  • Only credit on Discogs

Thanks to Our Core Level Patrons:

• The $7.77 KeepItWarmRat Tier
  • Michael Vader
• The $7.00 “No One Named” Tier
  • Richard Fusey
• The Episode $6.66 Tier
  • Steve Coldwell
  • Arthur Smith
  • Anton Glaving
• The $6.65 “Almost Evil” Tier
  • Kenny Wymore
• $5.99 The “Nice Price” Tier
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• $5 “Money Lender” Tier
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  • Will Porter
  • Zwopper The Electric Alchemist
• Tim “Southern Cross” Johnson

Album Tracks:

Side One:

1. Intro: Over the Rainbow
   • Nuremberg 28 September 1976 (first 1:03)
   • Munich 29 September 1976 (remainder of the song)
2. Kill The King
   • Nuremberg 28 September 1976 (first 1:03)
   • Munich 29 September 1976 (remainder of the song)
   • This was the first release of the song “Kill the King.”  It was later released in 1978 on “Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll.”
3. Man on the Silver Mountain
   • Tokyo 16 December 1976 (Afternoon Show)
4. Blues
   • Tokyo 16 December 1976 (Evening Show)
5. Starstruck
   • Tokyo 16 December 1976 (Evening Show)
   • Man on the Silver Mountain reprise?
   • Tokyo 16 December 1976 (Afternoon Show)

Side Two:

1. Catch The Rainbow
   • Osaka 9 December 1976

Side Three:

1. Mistreated
   • Cologne 25 September 1976

Side Four:

1. Sixteenth Century Greensleeves
   • Tokyo 16 December 1976 (Evening Show)
2. Still I’m Sad
   • Nuernberg 28 September 1976

Thanks To Our Foundation Level Patrons:

• $3 “Nobody’s Perfect” Tier
  • Peter Gardow
  • Ian Desrosiers
  • Mark Roback
  • Andrew Meyer
  • Duncan Leask
  • Stuart McCord
• $1 Made Up Name Tier
  • Ells Murders
  • Spacey Noodles
  • The “Drippy Longstockings of Gravesites” Leaky Mausoleum
  • Stephen Sommerville The Concerto 1999 Fanatic
  • Raphael Choury (Raff Kaff)
  • Spike, The Rock Cat
  • JJ Stannard
  • Hank the Tank
  • Flight of the Rat Bat Blue Light

For Further Information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Stage_(Rainbow_album)
• https://www.discogs.com/Rainbow-On-Stage/release/2038736
• http://rainbowfanclan.com
• Deep Purple and Rainbow 1968-79: Every album, every song (On Track) by Steve Pilkington

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