Deep Purple – Made In Japan: The Complete Japanese Tour ’72 (1972)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 04:42:12 minutes | 3,45 GB | Genre: Hard Rock
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The band arrived in Japan on 9 August, a week before the tour started, to a strong reception, and were greeted with gifts and flowers. Birch was not confident that the recording quality would be satisfactory, since the equipment supplied by Warner Bros. did not have any balance control and that the recorder’s size did not appear big enough on sight to capture a commercial quality recording. The band were uninterested in the end result, concentrating on simply being able to deliver a good show. Lord later noticed however that he felt this attitude meant the spontaneity of the performances and interplay between the band members was captured well.
The second gig in Osaka was considered to be the stronger of the two, and indeed this show made up the bulk of the released LP. Only one song, “Smoke on the Water” from 15 August show was used, and this may simply have been because it was the only gig that Blackmore played the song’s opening riff as per the studio album.
The band considered the gig at Tokyo on 17 August to be the best of the tour. Glover remembered “twelve or thirteen thousand Japanese kids were singing along to ‘Child in Time’” and considered it a career highlight, as did Gillan. At the venue, a row of bodyguards manned the front of the stage. When Blackmore smashed his guitar during the end of “Space Truckin’” and threw it into the audience, several of them clambered past fans to try and retrieve it.
Tracklist:
DISC ONE – 15th August 1972 Koseinenkin Kaikan, Osaka, Japan
01 – Highway Star
02 – Smoke on the Water
03 – Child in Time
04 – The Mule
05 – Strange Kind of Woman
06 – Lazy
07 – Space Truckin’
08 – Black Night
09 – Speed King
DISC TWO – 16th August 1972 Koseinenkin Kaikan, Osaka, Japan
01 – Highway Star
02 – Smoke on the Water
03 – Child in Time
04 – The Mule
05 – Strange Kind of Woman
06 – Lazy
07 – Space Truckin’
08 – Black Night
09 – Lucille
DISC THREE – 17th August 1972 Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan
01 – Highway Star
02 – Smoke on the Water
03 – Child in Time
04 – The Mule
05 – Strange Kinf of Woman
06 – Lazy
07 – Space Truckin’
08 – Black Night
09 – Speed King
