Deep Purple - MADE IN JAPAN: Limited Edition Super Deluxe Boxed Set-7" Vinyl & 4 CDs & DVD - 16.05.2014
- Deep Purple (Overseas) Ltd. / Universal International Music-0602537696383-5100 grn
BOX SET CONTAINING:
CD1 - 15th August 1972-Osaka;
CD2 - 16th August 1972-Osaka;
CD3 - 17th August 1972-Tokyo;
CD4-of Encores (From All Three Nights);
DVD-New 60 Minute Documentary Featuring Unseen Live Footage;
7" Vinyl-‘Smoke On The Water’ Japanese 7" of Promo Replica;
Deluxe 60 Page Hardback Book;
Other Merchandise-Original Tour Program, Family Tree Poster, Original Album 1972+2013 Mixes In HD Audio (via download).
This edition features the complete performances from each night in a linear manner. You also get the encores, on a separate disk, making-of DVD, and a Japanese 7" promo. Also included is a hardcover book and a download code for the MP3 and HD files. Let’s just say it is a pretty impressive CD collection that gives you everything, except the original 1972 mix and the 2013 Kevin Shirley remix; although from what I understand each performance, in this collection, is from the Kevin Shirley 2013 remix/mastering sessions. All of a sudden things got awfully complicated for this completist collector! It is clear that each edition has been purposely designed to have something that is not available on another edition. Therefore, those wanting to purchase the complete recordings of this iconic performance will need to dig deep and hide the expenditure from their significant other. That said, lets take a look and see how the analog formats fit into this equation. Originally recorded only for the Japanese market, album has since become seen as one of Deep Purples seminal albums, and one of the greatest live albums of all time. A Rolling Stone reader’s poll in 2012 voted Made In Japan as the sixth greatest live album of all time.
Presented In A Hardcover Box (325 mm x 325 mm x 30 mm).
ON DISCs: MADE IN THE E.U.; ON BOX BACK COVER: MADE IN GERMANY.