Without whom etc etc..... The people who have made this site possible!

The wife, my wonderful ball and chain, for accepting my foolish obsession, traipsing around Europe watching the band with me, getting my old tapes onto CD, not moaning about the clutter of my collection, the size of my credit card bills post trip, the pointless memorabilia collecting or anything else and being all round generally the perfect missus. xxx. She has also asked me to point out a number of other areas where she excels, though the only ones fit to print are all round sharp shooting clay pigeon legend and good with an iron (Morphy Richards, not Tiger Woods style).

Michael Richards for keeping me enthused when my efforts and interest were flaggging, providing numerous shows, motivation and scans as well as the definitive traders bible, the Deep Purple Live Analysis series-See the links page for more info. Also, for his tireless work on the videos section, providing me with a large number of the shows on my list and being an all round great mate.

Deep Purple Appreciation Society, their web page at www.deep-purple.net and Simon Robinson.

Jim Corrigan for the US and Canada support act information, I owe you *one*!

Scott Macarthur for the Glasgow tickets-Check out the link to the Glasgow Apollo site on the links page, a great piece of archiving and history.

Stathis Panagiotopoulos for the Greek memorabilia and other freebie stuff.

Stephen Graham for a number of tickets, passes, sleeves, corrections and pints over the years.

Nick Sovieko for venue corrections.