Come Taste the Band with Bolin and Ian Paice. The tour to support this album started strong, according to Lord in the documentary video "Deep Purple – Getting Tighter, The Story of MK-IV" (2011), in Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand. However, according to Lord and Hughes on the same documentary, in Jakarta, Indonesia, the band was 'set up' for murder. Specifically the two affirmed that Hughes and two others were "framed" for the death of the band's highly trained security worker, Patsy Collins, who died under 'suspicious circumstances'. Hughes and the two others were placed in jail. The promoter also sold a second night's
The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band skiffle on homemade banjos, ukuleles and washboards. Their first performance was at the Hollybush Inn in Oxford on 21 October 2006, advertised as "Banjo Madness". By 2007 the band had begun to shift away from skiffle and more firmly towards blues and jazz. The instrumentation of the band began to reflect this change with the addition of bass and drums and a horn section. The band's repertoire is now made up exclusively of original compositions by Macbeth. In February 2009 the band played a gig at Oxford's Wheatsheaf pub which met with a favourable review in Oxford's "Nightshift" magazine. "Oxford