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Made in Japan was recorded live over three nights during 15–17 August 1972 at K?sei Nenkin Kaikan, 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. Ian Gillan has hand signed in blue ink the front cover of the gatefold sleeve Deep Purple LP “Made In Japan.” NOTE: item contains only record one of this two record set.