release date: Dec. 1972
format: cd (1989 reissue)
[album rate: 4 / 5]
producer: Deep Purple
label: EMI - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "Highway Star" - 2. "Child in Time" - 3. "Smoke on the Water" - 4. "The Mule" - 5. "Strange Kind of Woman" - 6. "Lazy" - 7. "Space Truckin' "
Live album by Deep Purple originally released as a double vinyl album on Purple Records is taken from three live concerts - at the Festival Hall, Osaka, on both Aug. 15 and 16, and then at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Aug. 17, 1972.
The album really functions well to document how fine musicians this 'Mark II' constellation were. The tracks are at this point of their career highlights and it's a fine collection of songs, but also the live versions are quite different from the original tracks, mostly as much lengthier compositions.
Highly recommended.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, SputnikMusic 5 / 5 stars ]
