Come Hell or High Water

Come Hell or High Water is a CD and DVD by British rock band Deep Purple. It was recorded on 16 October 1993 at Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in Stuttgart and at the NEC in Birmingham on 9 November.

For the album by The Flowers of Hell, see Come Hell or High Water (The Flowers of Hell album). For other uses, see Hell or High Water (disambiguation).

Come Hell or High Water
Live album by
Deep Purple
Released31 October 1994[1]
RecordedHanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, Stuttgart, Germany, 16 October and Birmingham NEC, Birmingham, England, 9 November 1993
GenreHard rock, heavy metal
Length77:19
LabelRCA/BMG
ProducerPat Regan
Deep Purple live albums chronology
Gemini Suite Live
(1993)		 Come Hell or High Water
(1994)		 King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents: Deep Purple in Concert
(1995)
Singles from Come Hell or High Water
  1. "Anyone's Daughter" / "Speed King"
    Released: October 1994
Come Hell or High Water
Video by
Deep Purple
Released1994
RecordedBirmingham NEC, Birmingham, England, 9 November 1993
GenreHard rock, heavy metal
Length120:00
LabelBMG
DirectorHugh Symonds
ProducerLana Topham
Deep Purple video chronology
Come Hell or High Water
(1994)		 Bombay Calling
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[3]

The album is one of the last to feature Ritchie Blackmore, as he quit after the concert on 17 November 1993 in Helsinki. He was replaced by Joe Satriani for the rest of the tour and later by Steve Morse.

Recording

This live performance is well known for Blackmore's erratic behaviour on stage. For unknown reasons, he had issues with the presence of a cameraman on his side of the stage at the start of the Birmingham concert, which prompted the guitarist to return to his dressing room until the cameraman was removed. This leads to a longer-than-usual guitar-free intro to "Highway Star" and in the midst of the guitar solo, he throws a cup of water to the cameraman. This prompts several truncated guitar solo spots throughout the show and at the end, Blackmore is seen exiting the stage on the right side while the other band members proceed to the left.

The rest of the band's dissatisfaction with the behaviour of their soon-to-be-departed guitarist is evident in their interviews on the DVD and unsurprisingly, Blackmore is the only one who is not featured in this segment.

The CD features 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 Live in Europe 1993 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.

CD track listing

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

  1. "Highway Star" – 6:40
  2. "Black Night" – 5:40
  3. "A Twist in the Tale" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) – 4:27
  4. "Perfect Strangers" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) – 6:52
  5. "Anyone's Daughter" – 3:57
  6. "Child in Time" – 10:48
  7. "Anya" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord) – 12:13
  8. "Speed King" – 7:29
  9. "Smoke on the Water" – 10:26

US/Japanese track listing
  1. "Highway Star" – 6:40
  2. "Black Night" – 5:40
  3. "A Twist in the Tale" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) – 4:27
  4. "Perfect Strangers" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) – 6:52
  5. "Anyone's Daughter" – 3:57
  6. "Child in Time" – 10:48
  7. "Anya" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord) – 12:13
  8. "Lazy" – 4:18
  9. "Space Truckin'" – 2:39
  10. "Woman from Tokyo" – 1:53
  11. "Speed King" – 7:29
  12. "Smoke on the Water" – 10:26

DVD track listing
  1. "Highway Star"
  2. "Black Night"
  3. "Talk About Love"
  4. "A Twist in the Tale"
  5. "Perfect Strangers"
  6. "Beethoven's Ninth"
  7. "Knocking at Your Back Door"
  8. "Anyone's Daughter"
  9. "Child in Time"
  10. "Anya"
  11. "The Battle Rages On"
  12. "Lazy"
  13. "Space Truckin'"
  14. "Woman From Tokyo"
  15. "Paint It Black"
  16. "Smoke on the Water"
  • Besides the actual concert, there are interpolated interviews of all the band members, except Ritchie Blackmore.

Personnel
Deep Purple
Production
  • Pat Regan – producer, engineer, mixing at New Century Media Studios, Los Angeles
  • George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York

Charts
Chart performance for Come Hell or High Water
Chart (1994) Peak
position
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)[4] 37
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[5] 30

Certifications
DVD certifications for Come Hell or High Water
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[6] Platinum 15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[7] Gold 25,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References
  1. Popoff, Martin (2018). The Deep Purple Family, vol 2 (2nd ed.). Wymer Publishing. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-908724-87-8.
  2. Parisien, Roch. "Deep Purple – Come Hell or High Water review". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
  3. Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  4. Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
  5. Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005 (in Japanese). Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.
  6. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2013 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association.
  7. "British video certifications – Deep Purple – Come Hell or High Water". British Phonographic Industry.
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