Made in Japan

Made in Japan
Live album by Deep Purple
Released	December, 1972 (UK) April, 1973 (US)
Recorded	August 15–17, 1972
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal
Length	76:44 (Original 2LP) 98:06 (1998 2CD edition)
Label	EMI/Purple TPSP 351 (UK) Warner Bros. 2 WS 2701 (US)
Producer	Deep Purple
Deep Purple chronology
Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1969) Made in Japan (1972) Made in Europe (1976)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	(favorable)[2]
George Starostin	(13/15)[3]
Sputnikmusic	[4]
Piero Scaruffi	(7.5/10)[5]
Truemetal	(100/100)[6]
Rockline	(98/100)[7]

Made in Japan is a double live album by English rock band Deep Purple, recorded during their first tour of Japan in August 1972. It was originally released in December 1972, with a U.S. release in April 1973.

Recording and release

Made in Japan was recorded live over three nights during 15–17 August 1972 at Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan, Osaka and at Budokan, Tokyo, Japan. Four of the tracks come from the album Machine Head which had been released earlier that year.

The album was at first seen as somewhat unimportant by the band members, and only Roger Glover and Ian Paice showed up to mix it. It is organist Jon Lord's favourite Deep Purple album, and he describes the release as follows:

"Deep Purple was at the height of its powers. That double album was the epitome of what we stood for in those days. It wasn’t meant to be released outside of Japan. The Japanese said, 'Will you please make a live album?' We said, 'We don’t make live albums; we don’t believe in them.' We finally said okay, but said we wanted the rights to the tapes because we didn’t want the album to be released outside of Japan. That album only cost about $3,000 to make. It sounded pretty good, so we said to Warner Bros., 'Do you want this?' They said, 'No, live albums don’t happen.' They wound up putting it out anyway and it went platinum in about two weeks."^[8]

The release in the US was delayed, until April 1973, because Warner Bros. wanted to release Who Do We Think We Are first.

The three concerts recorded were later released as Live in Japan 3-CD box set (1993). According to the liner notes for that set, unlike many live albums, there are no overdubs or studio additions to the original album.

The remastered anniversary edition, issued in 1998, has an extra CD of encores played on the tour in Japan and has the colour scheme of the cover reversed so cover is black with gold print. There was also a numbered limted edition purple vinyl release, on which the stage banter of tracks 1-6 was edited. There are 3 songs each to Sides 1 and 2, and "Space Truckin'" was placed on Side 3 in order to allocate The Encores to Side 4.^[9]

Cover version

On January 13, 2006, progressive metal band Dream Theater played the original album in its entirety at Kokusai Forum in Tokyo, and also on the 15th at NHK Hall in Osaka. Both performances were recorded, and the latter of the two shows has been released through the band's YtseJam Records label.^[10] It has been mixed for release by Roger Glover.

Track listing

All songs written by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice except where indicated.

Original release on vinyl (2 LP)

Side one

1. "Highway Star" - 6:50
   • Recorded in Osaka on August 16.
2. "Child in Time" - 12:24
   • Recorded in Osaka on August 16.

Side two

3. "Smoke on the Water" - 7:31
   • Recorded in Osaka on August 15.
4. "The Mule" - 9:49
   • Recorded in Tokyo on August 17.

Side three

5. "Strange Kind of Woman" - 9:35
   • Recorded in Osaka on August 16.
6. "Lazy" - 10:50
   • Recorded in Tokyo on August 17.

Side four

7. "Space Truckin'" - 19:41
   • Recorded in Osaka on August 16.

The remastered edition (2CD)

Disc one

Made in Japan

1. "Highway Star" - 6:43
2. "Child in Time" - 12:17
3. "Smoke on the Water" - 7:36
4. "The Mule" - 9:28
5. "Strange Kind of Woman" - 9:52
6. "Lazy" - 10:27
7. "Space Truckin'" - 19:54

Disc two

The Encores

8. "Black Night" - 6:17
   • Encore recorded in Tokyo on August 17. An edited version had previously appeared on single B-sides.
9. "Speed King" - 7:25
   • Encore recorded in Tokyo on August 17. Previously unreleased.
10. "Lucille" (Albert Collins, Richard Penniman) - 8:03
    • Encore recorded in Osaka on August 16. Previously unreleased.

A special Spanish release of the remastered album was released by EMI in 1998. This had the same track listing as the 2 cd edition with remastered album versions of track 1-4, 6-7 and the remastered single verion of track 5 from the original release tagged on to disc two.

Personnel

Deep Purple

• Ritchie Blackmore – lead guitar
• Ian Gillan – vocals, harmonica, percussion
• Roger Glover – bass guitar
• Jon Lord – organ, keyboards, electric piano
• Ian Paice – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

• Produced by Deep Purple
• Engineer – Martin Birch
• Equipment – Ian Hansford, Rob Cooksey, Colin Hart, Ron Quinton
• Cover Design – Roger Glover
• Original album mixed by Ian Paice and Roger Glover
• Remastered by Peter Mew

Sales accomplishments

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