Everything Louder Than Everything Else. Made In Japan is one of my favorite albums it would be in my personal top 10, I bought this album in 1976 And it contains at least 5 of the greatest live performances by a rock band bar none. The album was released in December 1972 from recordings made on three nights between 15 - 17 of August; those live concerts were recorded in Osaka and the famous Budokan. The release very nearly didn't see the light of day in this country, the Japanese wanted the band to release a live album just for Japan but the band was reluctant as a live recording was something they hadn't done up until that ...  Read the complete review

The Group is Deep Purple. The Album is Made in Japan. The music is out of this world. This is a live recording by the line up that many people rate as the best ever version of Deep Purple. This is raw rock music played loud and proud and with a cutting edge to it that swept all before them. This album was the pinnacle for this group, not in terms of studio albums but in the way it catches the very essence of the group. Listen to it and learn what the purple experience was all about. The album starts with Highway Star from the machine Head album the first of four tracks from that particular album. It is brash and starts with a strong ...  Read the complete review

Deep Purple's Made In Japan album is a great document to the power of the band live and at thier peak. Once upon a time this album was considered one of the classic live albums of all time but now due to psychedelic influences at the time of making the album this collection seems somehow dated. Although there is quality material on like 'Highway Star' or 'Smoke On The Water' songs such as the usually brilliant 'Space Truckin' are dragged out to almost 20 minutes, and 'Stragen Kind Of Woman (once a three minute song) takes up 10 minutes. The awful excesses of 70's hard rock then comes screaming to the fore. This ...  Read the complete review

The deep Purple Mk II line up of Gillan Blackmore, Glover, Paice and Lord. Were for me the much emulated ground breaking 70`s heavy rock band. It’s a pity that they only managed to put out three albums and a live compilation. Before the ego’s of Gillan and Blackmore got in the war of progressive rock. I had the privilege of seeing then live in 1971 and again in1996. On the latter tour Steve Morce replaced Blackmore. I must say that he was very impressive very different to Blackmore though. They always were a live band, they have always admitted that they would rather be on stage than in the studio. There is that energy, it has that “wall of ...  Read the complete review