Deep Purple MK III The Final Concerts Tracks: Disc one 1. Burn 2. Stormbringer 3. The Gypsy 4. Mistreated 5. Lady Double Dealer 6. Smoke on the Water 7. You Fool No One Disc two 8. Space Truckin' 9. Going Down / Highway Star Bonus tracks: 10. Mistreated 11. You Fool No One Line up: Ritchie Blackmore – Guitar David Coverdale – Vocals Jon Lord – Organ, Keyboards Glenn Hughes – Bass, Vocals Ian Paice – Drums Record Label / Year of Release: Connoisseur Collection 1996 Notes: MK III: The Final Concerts, alternatively entitled Archive Alive, is a live album released by Deep Purple, recorded during the band's 1975 European tour in support of Stormbringer. It was released in 1996. This double CD release is culled from the very last performances from Deep Purple MK III featuring Ritchie Blackmore before he left to launch his new band Rainbow with singer Ronnie James Dio. The album features for the most part material from the last concert of the tour held at the Palais des Sports in Paris on April 7, 1975, with a few tracks taken from two shows in Graz, Austria, April 3 and 4. At the time of the taping of the shows, the rest of the band was unaware of Blackmore's decision to leave the band by tour's end. Managers decided to tape the last 4 shows (Paris, Graz and Saarbrücken) in order to have some product available for release in the event of the band splitting up. In 1976, after the definitive breakup of the band, the single disc Made in Europe live album was released, using material from the Saarbrücken show, but apparently none of the material included on this release. Blackmore's lack of enthusiasm, as well as band tension onstage, are fairly evident on some of the tracks: Blackmore unexpectedly loses his way on the intro for "Mistreated" and he seems totally surprised by Lord's solo on "Lady Double Dealer" (the studio version of this song lacks a keyboard solo). The alternate takes of "Mistreated" and "You Fool No One" on disc two are from the Graz shows, and although the liner notes mention "technical problems" on the Paris tapes as the justification for their inclusion, it is more likely that their inclusion has more to do with mistakes by the band. Strangely, the alternate take of "You Fool No One" lacks Ian Paice's trademark drum solo, even after being announced by David Coverdale. During the intro jam for "You Fool No One" Blackmore played riffs which he would later use on the songs "Still I'm Sad" and "Man On The Silver Mountain" from Rainbow's first LP Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, which was already recorded only weeks before these shows. Tracks 1, 2, 8, 10 and 11 are from Graz show, all others from Paris show. The intro to Track 6 includes an excerpt from "Lazy". Track 7 includes an Ian Paice drum solo and "The Mule". Track 11 includes "The Mule"; the drum solo has been edited out.