Rare Deep Purple Made In Japan Film Discovered
…The only trouble is, the footage is silent.
Deep Purple fan-site The Highway Star is reporting that footage of Deep Purple’s legendary Made In Japan concerts has been unearthed.
Seven reels of silent 8mm footage filmed at the Purps’ famous August 1972 Japanese concerts have been found.
Rumours of such film have persisted for years, and now their existence has been verified.
Audio recordings of these three concerts formed the basis of the mighty Made In Japan album released in 1973 and the Live In Japan 3CD released in 1993.
We at Classic Rock assume some enterprising soul will be able to splice sound and vision together, which will lead to the next obvious development: a Made In Japan DVD. But we must stress there’s no firm news about this, although a small segment of the Japanese film is being used on an upcoming Purple DVD set titled History, Hits & Highlights.
Read more of the The Highway Star report here.
wow! if video quality is half good as the audio is, this one will be a blast!
*gulp*
Oh Wow!!
We’ll be able to see Gillan thwacking that overzealous bouncer during Speed King!
Havnt these videos been on youtube for the last two years?
thank God..
Hope this one materializes, 4 us fans 2 see the classic Mark 2 line-up once again (as w/ Live in Denmark ‘72)!