Deep Purple - Live on the BBC

Audio Fidelity seems to have licensed the music on the second disc of "Deep Purple In Concert," had it remastered by Steve Hoffman and Lon Neumann, and added two also-previously-released tracks, `Hush` and `River Deep Mountain High` (also remastered from the already remastered--and readily available--early Deep Purple albums on Spitfire).

As "Deep Purple In Concert" was digitally remastered (by Joe Lambert) in 2001, the need for an SACD remaster is less than compelling to me (unlike the Dylan remasters). The additional tracks seem remarkably inappropriate to me because the main material is a live Paris Theatre (London) performance on March 9, 1972, of "Machine Head" material, the "new" album at the time, whereas the additional tracks were performed in the studio by a different, earlier lineup (Deep Purple MK I). Deep Purple released four albums in between, and the additional tracks don`t seem to have any particular relevance to the later songs and performances.

The purpose of the original and still available "Deep Purple In Concert" was to present two complete Deep Purple concerts by the same lineup featuring significantly different material. It succeeded, in my opinion. I`m not sure what the purpose of "Live on the BBC" was, but I am sure it doesn`t succeed for my purposes. To make matters even more awkward, "Deep Purple In Concert" costs about the same.

Oh yeah, the track listing on "Live on the BBC" is wrong: every track is off by one due to a live-concert-type introduction that is given a track listing (1) of its own. So, `Highway Star` is actually track 2, not 1, and so on.

The stated track listing to "Live on the BBC" is as follows:

1. Highway Star
2. Strange Kind of Woman
3. Maybe I`m a Leo
4. Never Before
5. Lazy
6. Space Truckin`
7. Smoke on the Water
8. Lucille (Special track for SACD only)
9. Hush
10. River Deep Mountain High