Deep Purple - Made In Japan (2LP)
Ian Gillan – vocals, harmonica (uncredited), percussion (uncredited)
Roger Glover – bass guitar
Jon Lord – organ, piano
Ian Paice – drums
2 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Live
Record Press : Rhino Entertainment Company
Label : Friday Music
Original Label : Purple Records
Recorded live at Festival Hall, Osaka, 15 and 16 August 1972, Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, 17 August 1972 by Martin Birch
Produced by Deep Purple
Remastered by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music
Originally released in 1972
Reissued in 2010
Tracks:
Side A
Highway Star (Live) [1998 Remaster]
Child in Time (Live) [1998 Remaster]
Smoke on the Water (Live) [1998 Remaster]
Side B
The Mule (Live) [1998 Remaster]
Strange Kind of Woman (Live) [1998 Remaster]
Lazy (Live) [1998 Remaster]
Side C
Space Truckin' (Live) [1998 Remaster]
Side D
Black Night (Live) [1998 Remastered Version]
Speed King (Live) [1998 Remastered Version]
Lucille (Live) [1998 Remastered Version]
Reviews :
"Recorded over three nights in August 1972, Deep Purple's Made in Japan was the record that brought the band to headliner status in the U.S. and elsewhere, and it remains a landmark in the history of heavy metal music. Since reorganizing with singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover in 1969, Deep Purple had recorded three important albums -- Deep Purple in Rock, Fireball, and Machine Head -- and used the material to build a fierce live show. Made in Japan, its selections drawn from those albums, documented that show, in which songs were drawn out to ten and even nearly 20 minutes with no less intensity, as guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and organist Jon Lord soloed extensively and Gillan sang in a screech that became the envy of all metal bands to follow. The signature song, of course, was "Smoke on the Water," with its memorable riff, which went on to become an American hit single. But those extended workouts, particularly the moody "Child in Time," with Gillan's haunting falsetto wail and Blackmore's amazingly fast playing, and "Space Truckin'," with Lord's organ effects, maintained the onslaught, making this a definitive treatment of the band's catalog and its most impressive album. By stretching out and going to extremes, Deep Purple pushed its music into the kind of deliberate excess that made heavy metal what it became, and their audience recognized the breakthrough, propelling the original double LP into the U.S. Top Ten and sales over a million copies." AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4,5 / 5 , Discogs : 4,48 / 5