DEEP PURPLE : OSLO 2011

 

Disc One (56:49)

  1. Overture
  2. Highway Star
  3. Hard Lovin' Man
  4. Maybe I'm A Leo
  5. Strange Kind Of Woman
  6. Rapture of the Deep
  7. Woman From Tokyo
  8. Contact Lost (Steve Morse Solo)
  9. When a Blind Man Cries
  10. The Well Dressed Guitar
  11. The Mule (Ian Paice Solo)

Disc Two (57:18)

  1. Lazy
  2. No One Came
  3. Don Airey Solo
  4. Perfect Strangers
  5. Space Truckin'
  6. Smoke On The Water
  7. Time Is Tight
  8. Hush
  9. Roger Glover Solo
  10. Black Night

Label : no label

Venue : Spektrum, Oslo, Norway

Recording Date : December 13, 2011

Quality : Soundboard Recording (A+)

Concert Review (Deep-Purple.net) : "First time seeing Deep Purple at an overseas venue and it didn't disappoint. The venue was the Spektrum Oslo and tickets were waiting at the book office for us. Amazing when you consider they were purchased by phone months ago from the other side of the planet (Sydney, Australia). You see this overseas trip is to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary and Oslo just "happened" to fit in the Itinerary between the museums of Berlin and Blue Lagoon in Iceland. The Spektrum is a nice venue, large stage area, comfortable seating with sufficient room for other patrons to pass relatively easily along the row (more on that later). Security patting down the patrons as they entered the venue!! The set-list was pretty much as I expected - Orchestra intro, Highway Star, Hard Lovin' Man, Maybe I'm a Leo, Strange Kind of Woman, Rapture of the Deep, Woman from Tokyo, Contact Lost, When a Blind Man Cries, Well-Dresses Guitar, The Mule, Airey solo into Lazy, No One Came, Airey solo into Perfect Strangers, Space Trucking, Smoke on the Water, Hush and Black Night. There were TV cameras projecting to screens left and right of the stage, a large backdrop with columns and a Deep Purple in the Mark 3 font/style. A number of fixed cameras were located on stage - one for Ian Paice, two for Don Airey, a couple of others plus a cameraman at the front (Roger's side of stage). The footage looked pretty good but was in slight delay. You see we get none of this fancy technology when the band tours downunder. Highlights was the overall sound - sounded really good. Hard Lovin' Man - this is one of the songs that made Deep Purple as hearing this song really made me realise the importance of Jon Lord's keyboard was to the "sound" of Deep Purple. First time that I have heard Hard Lovin' Man live. Contact Lost was excellent, probably the best that I have heard, complete with a couple of excerpts from christmas carols. No One Came was great - this song is great live, never thought much of the song in the Fireball days, okay apart from the lines "Well I could write a million songs about the things I've done But I could never sing them so they'd never get sung". The Mule was great to hear live for the very first time - complete with drum solo including Ian's famous one handed drum solo and big Ian saying "Ian Paice on the drums". In fact, Ian's drum kit in silver pearl (Pearl) looked fantastic with the light show. Don Airey's solo into Perfect Strangers included the orchestra as well and was also very good. The downsides were a rather subdued audience, no standing until the encore. I tried to venture down the front for Space Trucking but was ushered away by security. And I'm sure Oslo must be aboriginal/Norwegian /Viking for "disturb others by going to the bar, toilet, food vendors during the concert". People this is Deep Purple. Oh, and why do we always sit in front of people who want to talk during the concert and especially when Steve was playing Contact Lost, written to commemorate the Columbia astronauts, have you people got no respect. Overall 9/10. If this is the last Deep Purple concert I get to see I will remain happy."