Deep Purple
Come Hell or High Water


Tracks:

1. Highway Star
2. Black Night
3. A Twist in the Tale
4. Perfect Strangers
5. Anyone's Daughter
6. Child in Time
7. Anya
8. Speed King
9. Smoke on the Water

Line up:

Ritchie Blackmore – Guitar
Ian Gillan – Vocals
Jon Lord – Organ, Keyboards
Roger Glover – Bass
Ian Paice – Drums

Record Label / Year of Release:

BMG 1994

Notes:

Come Hell or High Water is a CD and DVD by Deep Purple. It was recorded on October 16, 1993 in "Hans-Martin-Schleyer-Halle" in Stuttgart, Germany and in the Birmingham NEC on November 9.

The album is one of the last to feature Ritchie Blackmore, as he quit after the concert on November 17, 1993 in Helsinki, Finland. He was replaced by Joe Satriani for the rest of the tour and later by Steve Morse.

Blackmore's issues with the presence of a cameraman on his side of the stage at the start of the Birmingham concert prompted the guitarist to return to his dressing room until the cameraman was removed. This leads to a longer than usual 'guitar-free' intro into 'Highway Star' and several truncated guitar solo spots through the show. The rest of the band's dissatisfaction with the behavior of their soon to be departed guitarist is evident in their interviews on the DVD.

The live CD featured edited versions of songs from the Stuttgart show, with the exception of "Anyone's Daughter", taken from Birmingham.

The full concert versions of the Stuttgart and Birmingham shows were released in 2006 as a four CD box-set by Sony/BMG, each concert having its own gatefold sleeve and paper CD-liners. In 2007 each show had a separate release, in a jewel-case, but the Birmingham show was soon deleted, due to Ian Gillan's protest about it being re-released.