Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy

Infobox Album
Name = Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy
Type = live
Artist = Deep Purple


Released = 2001
Recorded = 2000
Genre = Hard rock
Symphonic rock
Length = 1:51:09
Label = Thames Thompson
Producer = Drew Thompson
Reviews =
Last album = "Live at the Royal Albert Hall"
(2000)
This album = "Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy"
(2001)
Next album = ""
(2001)

"Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy" is a live album recorded by Deep Purple on the 30th of October 2000 and released in 2001. It includes most of a concert performed in Rotterdam, Holland during the 2000/2001 "Concerto Tour". The Concerto for Group and Orchestra itself was performed, but it does not appear on the album due to "legal requirements" (according to the liner notes). Some tracks are solo compositions by members of the band, two are songs originally recorded by guest Ronnie James Dio, and the remainder are a mix of new and old Deep Purple songs.

Track listing

Disc One

#"Introduction" - 2:06
#"Pictured Within" (Jon Lord) - 9:26
#"Sitting in a Dream" (Roger Glover) - 4:18
#"Love is All" (Glover, Eddie Hardin) - 4:16
#"Fever Dreams" (Ronnie James Dio) - 4:23
#"Rainbow in the Dark" (Dio, Vivian Campbell, Jimmy Bain, Vinny Appice) - 4:49
#"Wring That Neck" (Ritchie Blackmore, Nick Simper, Lord, Ian Paice) - 6:01
#"Fools" (Ian Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 10:04
#"When a Blind Man Cries" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 7:43
#"" (Gillan, Steve Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 5:13
#"The Well-Dressed Guitar" (Morse) - 3:31

Disc Two

#"Pictures of Home" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 10:11
#"Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" (Gillan, Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 7:26
#"Perfect Strangers" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover) - 7:37
#"Riff Raff"/"Smoke on the Water" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 10:20
#"Black Night" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 6:27
#"Highway Star" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 7:18

Personnel

*Ian Gillan - vocals
*Steve Morse - guitar
*Jon Lord - keyboards
*Roger Glover - bass
*Ian Paice - drums

Additional personnel

*Ronnie James Dio - vocals (tracks 3, 4, 5 & 6 on disc one, track 4 on disc two)
*Miller Anderson - vocals, guitar
*"The Backstreet Dolls" - backing vocals
*"The Rip Horns" - horn section
*The Romanian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paul Mann