Deep Purple Secret Mexican Tour

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Deep Purple Secret Mexican Tour
Tour by Deep Purple
Legs2
No. of shows3

Deep Purple Secret Mexican Tour was a small warm-up tour of British hard rock band Deep Purple with new guitarist Steve Morse and consisted of two shows in Mexico and one show in the USA

Tour Background[]

In 1993, because of the constant disagreements, musical differences, fights and tensions between vocalist Ian Gillan and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, Blackmore left the band during a show in Helsinki, Finland on 17 November, just days before the Japanese leg of the tour was set to start. The band hired Joe Satriani as a temporary replacement for Blackmore, to play the remaining gigs in Japan and Europe. After the tour, Satriani continued his solo career and the band asked Steve Morse to join. As the band were unsure of how audiences would react to the new permanent replacement, a "secret warm-up" tour of 3 shows were played. Audiences responded positively to Morse.[1][2] Train of Thought, a band from Port Arthur, Texas opened the Corpus Christi show. Train of Thought consisted of Daniel Jones (vocals, lead guitar), Danny Broussard (guitar), Brad Byram (bass), and Phil Hampsten (drums)

Tour dates[]

Date City Country Venue
23 November 1994 Mexico City Mexico Palacio de los Deportes
25 November 1994 Monterrey Auditorio Coca-Cola
26 November 1994 Corpus Christi United States Johnnyland Auditorium

Setlist[]

  1. Highway Star
  2. Ramshackle Man
  3. Maybe I'm a Leo
  4. Fireball (ended with Into the Fire)
  5. Perfect Strangers
  6. Pictures of Home
  8. Knockin' at Your Back Door
  9. Guitar Solo
  10. Anyone's Daughter
  11. Child in Time
  12. Anya
  13. The Battle Rages On
  14. When a Blind Man Cries
  15. Lazy
  16. Drum Solo
  17. Space Truckin'
  18. Woman from Tokyo
  19. Paint it Black

Encores:

  1. Speed King
  2. Smoke on the Water

Line-up[]

References[]

  1. ^ Siegler, Joe. "Corpus Christi, Texas, USA". Johnnyland. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 September 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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