Artist: DEEP PURPLE
Album: COME HELL OR HIGH WATER (CD)

Release date: 1994
EAN/UPS: 0743212341621
Media type: CD

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

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.

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

TRACKLIST CD:

01 "Highway Star" – 6:40
02 "Black Night" – 5:40
03 "A Twist in the Tale" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover) – 4:27
04 "Perfect Strangers" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover) – 6:52
05 "Anyone's Daughter" – 3:57
06 "Child in Time" – 10:48
07 "Anya" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord) – 12:13
08 "Speed King (Burn)" – 7:29
09 "Smoke on the Water" – 10:26

LINE-UP:

Ian Gillan - vocals
Ritchie Blackmore - guitar
Roger Glover - bass
Jon Lord - organ, keyboards
Ian Paice - drums