Deep Purple’s Come Taste The Band album was not an album that took the charts by storm. The only studio collection released by the Mark IV lineup (David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes, Jon Lord, Ian Paice and incoming guitarist Tommy Bolin), it received unexceptional reviews and crept into the UK Top 20, but worse was to follow as the band went out on the road.
The trek started in the Pacific, where Deep Purple stopped over for a single show in Honolulu on the way to New Zealand. After two shows there, the band crossed the Tasman for a run of eight dates in Australia, and with a quartet of pre-Christmas Japanese shows lined up, the band also accepted an offer from an Indonesian promotor to play a show en route.
