Made in Japan (Deep Purple album)

Occupation

Studios

  • Kosei Nenkin Kaikan, Osaka ( Japan)
  • Bodukan, Tokyo ( Japan)

Made in Japan (English for " Made in Japan ") is a double live album by the English hard rock band Deep Purple, which was released in December 1972 in Europe and in May 1973 in the United States. At first it was only released in Japan, but since Deep Purple at this time celebrated a huge success with the album Machine Head, the record company decided to a global publication.

The album is characterized by long improvisations of the pieces of Machine Head. Made in Japan is considered by many fans as the best album of the band and as a milestone in the history of hard rock. The guitar riff to " Smoke on the Water " is probably one of the most played of rock at all.

On 13 January 2006, a concert by that setlist of the progressive metal band Dream Theater was played in Japan and mixed by Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover and released on their own label the band as a CD.

  • 3.1 Success and Awards
  • 3.2 Opinions and reviews

Background

The album was recorded over three evenings in August 1972 in Osaka and Tokyo. Most tracks on the album are from the published 1972 studio album Machine Head. In the text accompanying the CD version is assured that the recordings were not subsequently altered with overdubs.

All three concerts were released on a 3- CD box set in 1993. 1998 " 25th Anniversary" CD was released with a bonus CD that contains some additions which were not included on the album originally released.

Title list

Original LP ( 2 LP )

  • Recorded in Osaka on August 16.
  • Recorded in Osaka on 16 August.
  • Recorded in Osaka on August 15.
  • Recorded in Tokyo on August 17.
  • Recorded in Osaka on August 16.
  • Recorded in Tokyo on August 17.
  • Recorded in Osaka on August 16

Remastered CD

CD 1: Made in Japan

  • The exclamation " Ian Paice on the drums, yes! " was excised

CD 2: The Encores

  • Addition, recorded in Tokyo on August 17.
  • Addition, recorded in Tokyo on August 17,
  • Addition, recorded in Osaka on August 16.

Reception

Success and Awards

The album was the biggest commercial success of the band and reached 1973 in the United States # 6 on the Billboard 200 and in the same year in England number 16 in the charts. In other countries managed Made in Japan made ​​it into the charts in Austria, for example, to square 1

In the UK, Made in Japan was on January 1, 1973, Silver, on January 1, 1975, the Golden Record. On October 13, 1986, the album in the United States has been awarded a platinum record.

Opinions and reviews

The album was rated by fans and critics overwhelmingly positive.

  • Jon Tiven described the album in Rolling Stone (24 May 1973) as follows: . " ... Made in Japan is Purple 's definitive metal monster, a spark -filled execution of the typical Purple style"
  • Billboard wrote that same year: " ... this set only accentuates the group 's already strong reputation Best cuts: . " Highway Star, "" Smoke on the Water, " " Space Truckin ' ".
  • Tom Graves wrote in 1995 in The All -Music Guide to Rock: " ... this double -album recorded in Japan ... set includes most of their best material ... and pushes the metal envelope even Further Ritchie Blackmore is in peak. form throughout. "
  • Ian Paice said in 1998: "It's the best synthesis numbers have ever been played ... "
  • Jürgen Roth and Michael Sailer wrote in the book Deep Purple, the story of a band: Made in Japan stands by its " instrumental frenzy ", the " epic breadth and density of the presented pieces " and is considered the " ideal image, sum and completion of the Seventies years - Hard -Rock- idea ".
  • Robert Pöpperl - Berenda wrote in the German magazine Rock Hard following review: " The mother of all live albums has now already nearly 30 years under his belt! What Purples house and yard engineer Martin Birch has ( he assumed this role is well known, and later with Iron Maiden ) with equipment that does not even reach more home recording standard today, magically, has never been surpassed. Even later became fashionable fake live albums with plenty of overdubs, and canned applause can not keep up with Made in Japan. The majority of the shots came from the show in Osaka on August 16, 1972. However, Smoke on the Water found in the version of the previous day on his way Made in Japan because Ritchie Blackmore actually found in the two other recorded through takes ( the third night in a Tokyo instead of ) the opening riff vernudelte. Completists need to define the triple- CD Live in Japan, necessarily, where almost the entire three shows are nachzuhören. The highlight is, of course, Child in Time, which should be settled in this version each satellite, leaving our solar system. Aliens would then have a clear idea of ​​the best music they can find on our planet. I was allowed to Child in Time once in the Mk II lineup hear ( ie with Gillan and Blackmore ), which I will certainly still have my grandchildren proudly tell ... ". The magazine published its 2007 list 500 best albums of rock and metal. Made in Japan placed here on the 39th place and was the fifth- höchstplatzierteste live album of the list. No album the band has also achieved a better place in this list.
  • Farin Urlaub, singer and guitarist of The Doctors, Made in Japan referred to as " the first rock moment in life ."
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