If this track listing is correct, this could be reallly sweet! There's some useless crap, but this is a pretty promising comp of the classic era.



Disc 1
Help (5:21 - Danish TV)
Hush (3:30 - Playboy After Dark)
Wring That Neck (3:20 - Canadian TV)
Hallelujah (3:42 - Beat Club)
Mandrake Root (12:08 - Southbank)
Speed King (4:13 - WDR Vicky Leandros)
Black Night (3:10 - Top Of The Pops)
Child In Time (9:36 - Doing Their Thing)
Lazy (11:06 - Copenhagen 1972)
Strange Kind Of Woman (3:55 - Top Of The Pops)
Fireball writing session (silent) (3:58 - ABC TV Australia)
Fireball (3:26 - Disco ZDF)
Demon's Eye (10:09 - RBB Germany)
No No No (7:15 - Beat Club)
Into The Fire (3:57 - RBB Germany)
Never Before (3:29 - promo)
Highway Star (6:04 - Beat Club)
Smoke On The Water (4:47 - Hofstra)
Burn (6:35 - London 74 / Polytechnic Project)
Mistreated (10:24 - California Jam)
Love Child (4:20 - Tokyo 75)
You Keep On Moving (5:42 - Tokyo 75)

Disc 2
And The Address (2:55 - Playboy After Dark)
Wring That Neck (24:19 - Bilzen Jazz Festival 1969)
Wring That Neck (11:19 - Pop Deux' Paris 1970)
Mandrake Root (15:01 - Pop Deux' Paris 1970)
Black Night . (3:15 - Promo clip)
No No No (rehearsals) (15:00 - Beat Club)
Jt Nuit' French TV 1974 (3:08 - INA France)
Burn (6:35 - Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974)
Interview (Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974)
Space Truckin' (10:00 - Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974)
New Zealand TV Doc Nov 1975 (23:06 - New Zealand TV 1975)
Smoke On The Water (3:00 - New Zealand TV 1975)
Tony Edwards (DP manager) interview (2:11 - French TV 1976)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0025X4P4M/?tag=imwan-20

Looks amazing

I have quite a few archive Deep Purple DVDs and this is a worthy purchase

I agree-don't know if I need more than half hour of "Wring That Neck" back to back, but what are ya gonna do? It really looks cool. Hope they do one for 1984-present as well.

Looks very cool. My problem, is I rarely seem to watch music dvd's. I think I have 3 DP's amongst the 200-300 i haven't watched............

Nonetheless, this does look cool.

OK, here's the scoop on this DVD...

On 1 June 2009, Eagle Rock Entertainment release the Deep Purple two-disc set “History, Hits & Highlights 1968-76” [Cat No EREDV726]. This release features the classics: “Smoke On The Water”, “Hush”, “Speed King”, “Black Night”, “Child In Time”, “Strange Kind Of Woman”, “Burn”, “Mistreated” and many more and includes fantastic full length performances from all four line-ups of the original Deep Purple. Clocking in with nearly five hours of entertainment this is simply essential for all Purple fans [See over for the full tracklisting].



“History, Hits & Highlights 1968-76” is packaged as a double amaray case inside a slipcase with lavishly illustrated booklet of memorabilia making it the ultimate collectors’ package for early Deep Purple.

Deep Purple are one of the most successful and revered British rock bands of all time. This new two disc set covers the initial phase of the band’s existence through four different line-ups from 1968 to 1976. This era produced the classic Deep Purple albums such as “In Rock”, “Fireball”, “Burn” and “Machine Head” that created their legend and still provide the backbone of their live sets today despite the ongoing commercial success of the band post their 1984 reunion.

Combining full performances and a small number of archive interviews featuring much rare and previously unreleased live, studio and TV footage this superb set is the definitive collection of the early years of Deep Purple.

TRACKLISTING – HISTORY, HITS & HIGHLIGHTS 1968-76

Disc One – 2hrs 24mins

HISTORY – 20 minute history of Deep Purple from 1968 to 1976.

HITS – full performances

Mark One Line-Up (Mar 1968 to Jul 1969): Ritchie Blackmore (guitar), Rod Evans (vocals), Jon Lord (keyboards), Ian Paice (drums), Nick Simper (bass)
1. Help 2. Hush 3. Wring That Neck

Mark Two Line-Up (Jul 1969 to Jun 1973): Ritchie Blackmore (guitar), Ian Gillan (vocals), Roger Glover (bass), Jon Lord (keyboards), Ian Paice (drums)
4. Hallelujah 5. Mandrake Root 6. Speed King 7. Black Night 8. Child In Time 9. Lazy 10. Strange Kind Of Woman 11. Fireball Writing Session 12. Fireball 13. Demon’s Eye 14. No No No 15. Into The Fire 16. Never Before 17. Highway Star 18. Smoke On The Water

Mark Three Line-Up (Jun 1973 to May 1975): Ritchie Blackmore (guitar), David Coverdale (vocals), Glenn Hughes (bass & vocals), Jon Lord (keyboards), Ian Paice (drums)
19. Burn 20. Mistreated

Mark Four Line-Up (Jun 1975 to Mar 1976): Tommy Bolin (guitar), David Coverdale (vocals), Glenn Hughes (bass & vocals), Jon Lord (keyboards), Ian Paice (drums)
21. Love Child 22. You Keep On Moving

Disc Two – 2hrs 23mins

HIGHLIGHTS – bonus performances and interviews

Mark One Line-Up
1. And The Address (Playboy TV)

Mark Two Line-Up
2. Wring That Neck (Bilzen Jazz Festival 1969) 3. Mandrake Root (“Pop Deux” Paris Concert 1970) 4. Wring That Neck (“Pop Deux” Paris Concert 1970) 5. Black Night (Promo Clip) 6. No No No (Take 1) (Rockpalast Rehearsal Session) 7. No No No (Take 2) (Rockpalast Rehearsal Session)

Mark Three Line-Up
8. “Jt Nuit” – French TV 1974 9. Burn (Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974) 10. Interview (Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974) 11. Space Truckin’/Interview (Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974)

Mark Four Line-Up
12. New Zealand TV Documentary (Nov 1975) 13. Smoke On The Water (New Zealand TV)

14. Tony Edwards (Deep Purple’s manager) French TV Interview 1976

If this is at all reasonably priced, I'm in. If not, there's always netflix........ If it is expensive, keep in mind that most Eagle DVD's seem to hit the cutout bins within 2 years of release.

Every Eagle DVD I've ever purchased has been very reasonably priced. I'd hope that's the same here because I do want to get this.

I'd like to be in on this one, but it's priced too high. Will wait for used or cutout.

Shame there is nothing from the Albert Hall 1969 performance pre orchestra stuff they recorded but never seemed to film.

Picked this up last weekend. Excellent DVD, many things I have never seen. Includes Purple MK1 doing the Beatles "Help" in Denmark I believe ( their you go Goog) and even includes a short but rare Tommy Bolin interview.

Very well done and easily worth the $22.00 I paid for it, and I still haven't seen Disc 2 yet! :}

Rick A.

Unfortunately, netflix isn't on this one.

Rick:
That did it! Now I have to get this. Cheapest I've seen so far is around $19 or so, so I'll have to keep searching. But, I really want to get this one. How is the audio on these clips?

Audio is excellent! Much better than expected, their is so much to see and hear on this package. I wish other bands were done this well. You will not be disappointed IP.

Rick A.

A lot of time Eagle offers a cd quality lpcm audio track, which is much better then Dolby or DTS.

I just rented this from Netflix along with Deep Purple: Heavy Metal Pioneers. While it was great to see classic footage I'd never seen before -- Never, never before -- I was wondering if there's a more comprehensive documentary of the band, particularly the first decade.

That's the best there is, the Classic Album Series - Machine Head has a brief history of the band as well, worth getting.

I've seen that one, too. I just think that given the band's history, the documenataries on these discs are too short.

Thanks for letting me know!