Atlanta Municipal Auditorium.

[nofi]

atlanta's main rock and roll dump for almost forty years. closed in 1978 but goes way back to 1940 when the ink spots played! you will probably see any band you can imagine in these pages. includes tour info, some set lists, etc for all acts.

http://www.setlist.fm/venue/municipal-auditorium-atlanta-ga-usa-3d60953.html?page=5



uwe, there is no set list for the machine head tour. maybe you could put your obsession to good use here.

[uwe]

Nofi, how you take care of me! 

With the exception of Pictures of Home (which was only played post reunion), all tracks from Machine Head saw live renditions (that album was written with the goal to make it "work live" after a lot of the predecessor Fireball's tracks - almost all - had not translated well to the stage): Highway Star, Lazy and Space Trucking (replacing Mandrake Root as the tour de force for extended Lord and Blackmore solos) became live staples almost at once, Smoke on the Water (after an initial hesitant start, no one within Purple thought much of the number) followed soon, Maybe I'm a Leo was played for a while too (to make Roger happy, it was largely his number), even the slated (and failed) single Never Before was initially played (but probably already dropped by the time they hit the US for another countless tour). Older stuff that remained was (rarely) Fireball, (always) Child in Time, (sometimes) Strange Kind of Woman, Black Night, Speed King and Lucille, the Little Richard chestnut.

In truth, Purple changed its set list during Mark II days too rarely, the band excelled in giving different renditions of the songs every night, extending or cutting them short at will, but the set list pretty much repeated itself, thanks to a largely inflexible Ritchie Blackmore in that department. If Ritchie didn't want to play something live, it wasn't played, end of story.

For instance, the only song from Who Do We Think We Are that saw live performance during Mark II's halcyon days was Mary Long. Blackmore flatly refused to play My Woman from Tokyo (though he wrote it, but disliked that it was in a major key) and post Mark II reunion it only entered the set in a ravaged form excluding the lovely middle eight (mainly Gillan's do, Blackmore found it too off the wall and still wouldn't play that part even in the 80ies and 90ies).

[Highlander]

Saw him come on stage at the Marquee and do the whole song (MWFT) as an encore with Mr Gillan... they also did "that other" song too...

[nofi]

not to beat a dead horse but here is a much more complete listing of the shows. as you can see the place was quite busy.http://sealplace.blogspot.com/2014/12/atlanta-municipal-auditorium.html

[uwe]

Saw him come on stage at the Marquee and do the whole song (MWFT) as an encore with Mr Gillan... they also did "that other" song too...

I loved the Gillan band for its punkish attitude - Rainbow sounded like old men in comparison - and its musical adventurism, but frankly they never did any Purple songs well. Smoke on the Water sounded like the Sex Pistols were jamming it. They came across jagged with them, Tormé was too berserk on his Strat and Colin Towns was a great piano and synth player, but didn't really have a Hammond feel. That said, Rainbow's versions of Purple songs were crap too (I hated how they butchered Lazy by playing it much too fast and then only instrumentally). The best of the bunch was really Whitesnake who in their early days did credible versions of Lady Luck, Mistreated and Might just take your life. Having Jon Lord on board (and later on Ian Paice) certainly helped. Both were essential for the Purple groove.