Graz 1975

Description

All tracks previously unreleased. Over 70 minutes! Booklets include rare pictures and 2014 liner notes. Number 4 of the live re-issue series. On April 3, 1975 the Mk III line-up of Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, frontman David Coverdale, bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes, keyboard player Jon Lord and drummer Ian Paice played a concert at the Liebenauer ice rink, located on the outskirts of mountaincradled Graz, Austrias second largest city after Vienna. Enthused by Purples arrival in town, the local press dubbed the concert das Rockereignis des Jahres [the rock event of the year]. And it was in more ways than one. After Graz, Purple would play just two more shows in Saarbrücken, Germany and Paris, France before a disenchanted and disgruntled Blackmore left to form his new band, Rainbow. Very first time this has ever been on vinyl!