I got the box set for my 60th birthday, so know the one hand of what I am talking about when I write about the hard rock band of my youth. On the other hand, I have been working for almost 3 months all the material not yet, because one has to do something else. In particular, I am still missing the impression of the DVD, but the vinyl records I have already several times up and down part. The whole thing is very nicely finished, with two 180g vinyl records, 2 CDs with (almost) the same content and a DVD of a concert in Australia in the weeks before Christmas 1984. There, the reunited band was hot before it in the spring / summer 1985 the big arenas in Europe went where I then heard the band in open air at the Mannheim Maimarktgelände itself, but from the outside and not the whole set; I got the part especially with Beethoven's Ninth and Jon Lord's keyboard solo - rediscovered in the material here. Now, the slide it in Whitesnake (1984) had hardly faded, Ritchie had yet occurred in the spring with its Rainbow in the Budokan in Japan and Gillan had his Black Sabbath adventure also still quite fresh behind him, and it shows. Purple itself had a little forgotten as they sounded earlier, perhaps wanted to no longer sound like in the 70s. Jon Lord had not yet really recovered its former role and acts a bit in the background, as with Whitesnake, Ritchie again bursting with self-awareness, has unpacked his big guitar sound of the 80s and transported be Difficult to Cure / Beethoven's Ninth by Rainbow in the Live -Set of Deep Purple, Ian Gillan where again here and there has its problems, to place text and melody correctly. This was later on the tour much better so far this puts us in a recording of course the sample concerts, where the band, with all joy, yet struggled to act in their usual professionalism. But if I compare this performance with the concert in the SAP Arena in November, then it is of course the very best cream. What playfulness and aggressiveness since come off, on the other hand, the last fall was of course the old boys occupation, and 1984 was the band fully in the juice. Apparently the past had been overcome and the way for a major reboot. That it was not quite so, the events of the following years have shown us. But it also shows that it always arrives on the angle from which a (concert) Considering event. The then was: a cult band of the 70 had recovered and should provide no more and no less. So what else could as to deliver. Now still a few details. The vinyl records sound very warm and full, and clearly have the better sound / sound, the CDs seem a little cold and hollow, however. At one point, however, one has to resort to the CD: Child in Time is not completely on the 2nd disk, as it has with the Solis Ritchie and Jon, and the vast Space Truckin simply the place was not enough. The song material descends from 3 albums, which is a special feature, because that has not made DP later, namely from the In Rock, the Machine Head and the then new Perfect Strangers, by at least 5 pieces are given for the best. Rounding out the whole thing with the two major hit singles Blacknight and Strange Kind of Woman. The song-compilation you can gain something something. As already indicated, Gillan is not always right (but Child in Time he could then still singing) and Ritchie nudelt with his fatness sometimes too much, and too much focus around. But you should not forget that he has drained some strange solo in the studio recording the album Perfect Strangers; he has by the way the mobile studio recorded sitting by moonlight ago in a small town in Vermont. What da strange sounds, is a certain atonality and tonality ignorance in his solos, which one is otherwise not used by him. He did later leave again and kept this short trips. For DVD I can not say anything, because not seen. Under certain circumstances it would have been later on the tour better Concerts for a recording, but probably that was then not thought about publishing, but as learning material for the band, and the whole recording equipment, which was still quite extensive, it has not the entire tour along. If I now also see the current show (I know, because 30 years have in between), and the latter still find good, then I must not jerk the the 1984 concert. It's just a one hand, on the other hand. Actually I tend to 3 stars, but because it's a period piece and also well presented as total product (and thus worth the money), I forgive 4 stars. It is very clear NO beginner material but rather something for the ambitious collector DP, in this context, then but ok
