Underplayed Gems

Total Abandon: Australia '99 (1999)

Total Abandon: Australia '99 poster
Genre
heavy metal music
Country
United States
Runtime
3h 20m
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a live concert film of the band Deep Purple performing in Melbourne, Australia. It captures their show from 1999 and includes well-known songs like Smoke on the Water and Black Night.

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What happens

Total Abandon: Australia '99 is a double live album and DVD by English hard rock band Deep Purple, recorded at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia on 20 April 1999. When the album was released in September 1999, it was only available in Australia. From 12 October 1999, it was made available as mail-order merchandise in Europe. Later, it was also sold in music stores. In the USA, the album was not released until 2012; this edition was cut to only one disc. The album was accompanied in Australia by two collector edition singles: "Smoke on the Water" with a disc cut into the shape of the Australian continent, and "Black Night", which disc was manufactured in the shape of the DP logo. The VHS/DVD was originally available only in Australia and as mail-order merchandise. It was released in the US on 16 May 2000. It was re-released in Europe in 2003 with an additional documentary, A Band Down Under, which previously had been released only on VHS. The 1999 DVD edition of the album went platinum in Australia becoming Deep Purple's commercially most successful DVD/video release in that country. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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