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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
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Deep
Purple
Jakarta
On My Mind [no label, 1CD]
Live at the
Senyan Sports Stadium, Jakarta, Indonesia, December 4, 1975.
By the time Deep
Purple released Burn and Stormbringer (both 1974), Ian Gillan and Roger
Glover had already left the band but some fans still considered Burn to
be a worthy successor to the earlier albums. But in April 1975, Richie
Blackmore too decided to move, leaving Jon Lord (organ, piano) and Ian
Paice (drums) from the classic line up. If Blackmore wanted out, vocalist
David Coverdale managed to get guitarist Tommy Bolin into the group and
Come Taste The Band was released in November 1975.
Deep Purple played two dates in Jakarta in December 1975 promoting Come
Taste The Band. For the Mat Rockers there, it probably did not matter
who was in the line up, it's Deep Purple all the same.
But the Indonesian trip was marred by tragedy, as reported in the article,
Indonesian
Nightmare Strikes Deep Purple, by Peter Crescenti for Rolling Stone
magazine (January 29, 1976), Crescenti wrote: "Tragedy and mayhem struck
the Deep Purple tour December 4 in Jakarta, Indonesia, when one of the
group’s road crew, Patsy Collins, a well-loved celebrity of the British
rock scene and guitariest Tommy Bolin’s bodyguard, was killed in
a six-story fall down a service elevator shaft at the band’s hotel.
Then at a Deep Purple concert the following night, Indonesian police armed
with machine guns, truncheons and a pack of Doberman pinschers waded into
the audience, seriously injuring over 200 people.
"Deep Purple played to an estimated 150,000 Indonesians in two shows at
the outdoor Senyan Sports Staduim as part of their first tour since adding
Bolin to the band. The first concert, which saw about 20,000 people break
down fences to join 35,000 ticket holders, was relatively free of police
reaction. 'They let everybody be,' keyboard player Jon Lord said. 'There
were machine-gun guards all over the place and they were pushing kids
around, but there seemed to be no organized police thing.'
"Back at the group’s hotel after the opening concert, Collins got
into an argument with two other member of the road crew and left their
room to go upstairs to his own. The elevators in the hotel were operating
slowly, so the impatient Collins decided to walk up the fire escape stairs
to the next floor, only to find the door on the next landing locked. Then,
inside the stairwell on the sixth floor he found an unmarked, unlocked
door. He opened it and hastily stepped in, plunging three-floors down
the service elevator shaft, crashing through some hot water pipes…
Hospitalized, he died early the next morning from internal injuries and
burns.
"Surprisingly, the Jakarta police arrested the two crew members Collins
had argued with and, later, the band’s manager, Rob Cooksey. The
three were held on suspicion of murder and isolated from the jail’s
other prisoners for two days, said Cooksey, 'with a kind of threat hangin'
over us. All the time we were under suspicion of murder, they were making
us sign autographs and things. You just wouldn’t believe the mentality.'
"The night following the accident, with three of their entourage in jail,
Deep Purple played their second show. About 6,000 armed and helmeted policemen,
backed by dogs, circulated throughout the stadium. Before the concert
began, an announcement warned any Europeans in the audience to congregate
near the side of the auditorium.
"No sooner did the
music begin, getting the rock-starved Indonesians to their feet dancing,
then police waded into the crowd, savagely butting, clubbing, punching
and kicking the boogieing audience. Then the Dobermans were let loose,
joining the attack. Deep Purple keyboardist Jon Lord later said, 'Every
time an effort to get up and boogie was made by any section, it was immediately
pounded on.' He also recalled seeing one mammoth dog dragging a kid across
the floor by his arm, its teeth sinking into the boy’s flesh.
"The band played
only half a set and left the stage frightened and sickened. 'They went
crazy,' said Cooksey of the Indonesian police. 'It was like maneuvers
for them. Just a nightmare'."
To be honest, this
mono audience recording from the first night is rather raw. Some might
even call it muddy and it sounds as if the taper is standing somewhere
towards the back. While the vocals, guitars and organ are fairly prominent,
the drums are buried in the back and, overall, it's closer to a wall of
sound with no distinctive soundstage. The band cannot be said to be at
its best (there is a workmanlike feel to the performance until the end
when the members let loose a little) though the band did try to be friendly
by sprinkling in a couple of "Apa khabar?" (How are you?) and "Terima
kasih" (thank you). Only Jon Lord, with his extended solos, seemed to
be having fun. The set is built around the key songs from Come Taste The
Band and if an old chestnut such as Georgia On My Mind is a throwback
to the band's blues roots, fans would have preferred the more recognisable
hits. Guess Smoke On The Water must have been hard (for this line up)
to live up to and Soldier Of Fortune, Lazy and Burn are poor consolations,
to say the least.
But given the events that would happen later that night and the next day,
this recording becomes a historical document to an unhappy and tragic
tour that not many younger fans of the band know about.
Click
on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality,
stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain,
these tracks have never been officially released.
These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at
singbigo@singnet.com.sg if
you want to download these tracks at a later time.
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| Track
01 |
Tune-Up |
| Track
02 |
Burn
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| Track
03 |
Lady
Luck ***
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| Track
04 |
Love
Child
***
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| Track
05 |
Gettin'
Tighter
***
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| Track
06 |
Georgia
On My Mind
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| Track
07 |
I
Need Love
***
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| Track
08 |
Soldier
Of Fortune **
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| Track
09 |
Keyboard
Solo
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| Track
10 |
Lazy
*
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| Track
11 |
Drum
Solo
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| Track
12 |
Lazy
(Reprise) |
* Studio versions
found on Machine Head
** Studio versions found on Stormbringer
*** Studio versions found on Come Taste The Band
Line up
David Coverdale -
vocals
Tommy Bolin - guitar, vocals
Jon Lord - organ, piano
Glenn Hughes - bass, vocals
Ian Paice - drums
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