Product Description
Rare Actual 1975 Japanese First Pressing ~ Complete With Highly Collectable Obi Strip! Heavy Grade Golden Cover Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics, Which Folds Out To Cool Poster Of Deep Purple Live On Stage! A Superb DP Compilation, Featuring Their Best Known Cuts, Spanning 1970 – 1972.
Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT! Sounds Fantastic!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Light ring wear, obi has fold mark.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Top condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Woman From Tokyo
Fireball
Strange Kind Of Woman (Live)
Never Before
Black Night (Live)
Side 2:
Speed King
Smoke On The Water (Live)
Child In Time (Live)
AMG –
The first compilation conceived by Deep Purple as opposed to the band's record company, 24 Carat Purple appropriately stands proud, among what is now a landslide of collections and hits packages, as a flawless representation of the band's Mark II identity at its very best. The Made in Japan double live album consumes much of the single disc's body weight -- the epic renditions of "Smoke on the Water," "Child in Time," and "Strange Kind of Woman" are, after all, among Deep Purple's most resonant moments, while 24 Carat Purple also lures in collectors with a thunderous "Black Night," recorded at the same shows but omitted from the original album. With "Woman from Tokyo," "Fireball," and "Never Before" peeling off recent singles and "Speed King" excerpted from Deep Purple in Rock, 24 Carat Purple truly is a gold-plated depiction of the band at its all-time peak, before Ian Gillan and Roger Glover went their separate ways and an entire new journey kicked off with Burn.