Here is perhaps THE BEST audience footage documenting the 1987-88 'House Of Blue Light' era of the newly reformed MK.II lineup of Deep Purple at the time. The song is a very short version of Woman From Tokyo with a bit of Gillan & Blackmore improvisation at the end.
The MK.II lineup never did a complete live version of Woman From Tokyo as far as Im concerned, neither during the 80s and early 90s, or back in the 70s. The song was never played in its entirety until Steve Morse joined, and it was first performed during the 1995 tour they did with Steve. Anyway, the place and date here is Vienna, Austria, August 26th 1987. In 1984-85 and in 1987-88, the band did a short version of Woman From Tokyo usually before Smoke On The Water, as part of the encores, and usually with a bit of improvisation and bits of rock n roll or folk songs thrown in between. The footage is excellent, and the best that is out there when it comes to audience shot video footage from this era. There are no pro-shot complete or official live videos documenting the 1987 'House Of Blue Light' and 1988 'Nobody's Perfect' Tours unfortunatly, so this is perhaps the best we will ever get. A number of shows in 1987 and '88 was apparently filmed, but has never been released, and probably never will be. The audio here isn't the best, but it's still enjoyable if you ask me.

Note that any negative anti-Ian Gillan or anti-Steve Morse (or related) comments WILL be DELETED immediatly. I'm a big Blackmore fan myself, but that doesn't mean I flame Gillan for he can't sing like he did in 1970, or Steve Morse because he isn't copying Blackmore's playing style etc. I love ALL eras of Deep Purple MK.1 to the present MK.8, and think most lineups of Deep Purple have released a lot, or in some cases, at least some great material. Deep Purple is more than only Blackmore, any true Deep Purple fan knows that. That said though, MK.II will always be THE best Deep Purple lineup that released the best material and held the BEST concerts. Any Purple is better than no Purple!

Enjoy!

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