Recording and Release
Made in Japan was recorded live over three nights during 15–17 August 1972 at Festival Hall, 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."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 remaster
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. The remastered Made in Japan (Disc One) has most of Ian Gillan's stage banter edited out, making it 23 seconds shorter than the original release.
There was also a numbered limted edition purple vinyl release. 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.
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 version of track 5 from the original release tagged on to disc two.
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