Deep Purple: Space Truckin’ Round The World – Live 1968-76

Classic Rock magazine reports that there is a new live compilation in the works by Purple Records, to be released in November 2009.

The Highway Star

Tracks

Disc 1

1 Hush (Inglewood 1968)
2 River Deep Mountain High (Inglewood 1968)
3 Hey Joe (Inglewood 1968)
4 Wring That Neck (Aachen, July 1970)
5 Into The Fire (Stockholm 1970)
6 Mandrake Root (Montreux 1969)

Disc 2

1 Child In Time (Granada TV 1970) see video below
2 Lazy (Denmark 1972)
3 Strange Kind Of Woman (Denmark 1972)
4 Burn (San Diego 1974)
5 Mistreated (San Diego 1974)
6 The Gypsy (Paris 1975)
7 Lady Double Dealer (Paris 1975)
8 Wild Dogs (Tokyo 1975)
9 Love Child (Tokyo 1975)

Child In Time

Release information

2CD: 4 December 2009, Purple Records, PUR 315D

Review

An eclectic compilation to say the least, it has ‘Space Truckin’ in the title, but this song is not included. Seems to be compiled mainly from albums released as part of the Sonic Zoom series.

‘Wring That Neck’ (all 20 plus minutes of it!) includes extracts and snippets from Lazy, Three Blind Mice, In The Hall Of The Mountain King, Rhapsody in Blue, White Christmas and Jingle Bells, in among the general noise and mayhem that I love so much from Deep Purple. The inclusion of the Christmas snippets is even funnier when you realize this show was recorded in July!