Made in Japan

Deep Purple: Ian Gillan (vocals); Jon Lord (piano, organ); Roger Glover (bass); Ian Paice (drums).
Recorded live in Osaka, Japan and Tokyo, Japan on August 16 & 17, 1972.
Recorded on the Japanese tour of 1972, Deep Purple created the most effortless of great live albums. Labouring under the Machine Head tour and with inter-band relationships that saw both Gillan and Glover feuding with the sometimes difficult Blackmore and quitting the band early the following year, the record, for its part, does not suffer from the personnel inconsistencies, the band playing what would become, in retrospect, a greatest hits set. The consistency of the material - 'Child In Time', 'Strange Kind Of Woman', 'Space Truckin'' - was, and still is, astounding, matched only by the arch standards of Purple's live performance.