This lackluster, live double-album unsurprisingly combines a number of
Deep Purple classics with choice cuts from the two '80s releases of the re-formed Mark II lineup. In fact, the record's only two eyebrow-raising moments occur during
Jon Lord's multi-faceted keyboard solo which introduces "Knocking at Your Back Door," and in the band's studio re-recording of Mark II's big 1968 hit, "Hush." Ironically, like the infinitely superior 1972
Made in Japan live set, this recording presaged the second collapse of this most notorious
Deep Purple lineup -- amazingly for exactly the same reasons as the first. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia