Total Abandon: Australia '99 Explained

Total Abandon: Australia '99
Type:live
Artist:Deep Purple
Cover:Total Abandon.jpeg
Released:September 1999
Recorded:20 April 1999
Venue:Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia
Genre:Hard rock, heavy metal
Length:116:07
Label:
  • EMI/Thames Talent (Australia/Europe)
  • Eagle (US)
Producer:Deep Purple
Chronology:Deep Purple live albums
Prev Title:Live at The Olympia '96
Prev Year:1997
Next Title:In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra
Next Year:2000
Total Abandon: Australia '99
Type:video
Artist:Deep Purple
Cover:Total_Abandon_DVD.jpg
Released:1999
Recorded:20 April 1999
Venue:Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia
Genre:Hard rock, heavy metal
Length:3 hours, 20 minutes
Label:Eagle Rock Entertainment
Director:Henk Eykman
Producer:Darren Schneider, Drew Thompson
Prev Title:Live at Montreux 1996
Prev Year:1996
Next Title:In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra
Next Year:2000

Total Abandon: Australia '99 is a double live album and DVD by English hard rock band Deep Purple, recorded at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia on 20 April 1999. When the album was released in September 1999, it was only available in Australia. From 12 October 1999, it was made available as mail-order merchandise in Europe. Later, it was also sold in music stores. In the USA, the album was not released until 2012; this edition was cut to only one disc.[1]

The album was accompanied in Australia by two collector edition singles: "Smoke on the Water" with a disc cut into the shape of the Australian continent, and "Black Night", which disc was manufactured in the shape of the DP logo.

The VHS/DVD was originally available only in Australia and as mail-order merchandise. It was released in the US on 16 May 2000.[2] It was re-released in Europe in 2003 with an additional documentary, A Band Down Under, which previously had been released only on VHS.[3] The 1999 DVD edition of the album went platinum in Australia becoming Deep Purple's commercially most successful DVD/video release in that country.

Track listings

1999 edition

All songs written by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice except where noted.

CD one

  1. "Ted the Mechanic" (Gillan, Steve Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) – 4:50
  2. "Strange Kind of Woman" – 6:23
  3. "Bloodsucker" – 4:56
  4. "Pictures of Home" – 8:19
  5. "Almost Human" (Gillan, Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) – 6:16
  6. "Woman from Tokyo" – 6:47
  7. "Watching the Sky" (Gillan, Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) – 5:46
  8. "Fireball" – 4:44
  9. "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" (Gillan, Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) – 7:11
  10. "Steve Morse Guitar Solo" (Morse) – 8:42
  11. "Smoke on the Water" – 9:01 – includes riffs from following songs in the beginning (unlisted):
    1. "Heartbreaker" (John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant)
    2. "Whole Lotta Love" (Bonham, Willie Dixon, Jones, Page, Plant)
    3. "Fire" (Jimi Hendrix)
    4. "Crossroads" (Robert Johnson)
    5. "Day Tripper" (Lennon–McCartney)
    6. "You Really Got Me" (Ray Davies)

CD two

  2. "Lazy" – 8:49
  3. "Perfect Strangers" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover) – 6:18
  4. "Speed King" – 14:28
  5. "Black Night" – 6:21
  6. "Highway Star" – 7:16

2012 edition

  1. "Ted the Mechanic" – 4:50
  2. "Strange Kind of Woman" – 6:23
  3. "Bloodsucker" – 4:56
  4. "Pictures of Home" – 8:19
  5. "Almost Human" – 6:16
  6. "Woman from Tokyo" – 6:47
  7. "Watching the Sky" – 5:46
  8. "Fireball" – 4:44
  9. "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" – 7:11
  10. "Smoke on the Water" – 9:01
  11. "Black Night" – 6:21
  12. "Highway Star" – 7:16

DVD track listing

  1. "Intro"
  2. "Ted the Mechanic" – 4:34
  3. "Strange Kind of Woman" – 6:21
  4. "Bloodsucker" – 4:57
  5. "Pictures of Home" – 8:18
  6. "Almost Human" – 6:32
  7. "Woman from Tokyo" – 6:25
  8. "Watching the Sky" – 5:42
  9. "Fireball" – 4:45
  10. "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" – 7:05
  11. "Steve Morse Guitar Solo" – 11:37
  12. "Smoke on the Water" – 5:57
  13. "Lazy" – 8:50
  14. "Perfect Strangers" – 6:19
  15. "Speed King" – 15:14
  16. "Black Night" – 6:17
  17. "Highway Star" – 8:05

Limited edition singles

Personnel

Deep Purple

Production

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Deep Purple – Total Abandon: Australia '99 Live CD Coming in April . Bravewords.com . . 8 March 2012 . 2017-02-16 .
  2. Web site: Deep Purple: Total Abandon – Australia '99 (2000) . . 2017-02-16 .
  3. Web site: Australia 99: A Band Downunder (1999) . . 2017-02-16 .

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