Oh man, it's so fast, and so energetic, and so tight, and Ian's screaming is so perfect, and Lord's organ sounds like he staked his own life force to how cool he could make his solo, and Ritchie is divebombing and soloing like a madman and playing with his whammy bar like *insert Prindlesque self-abuse metaphor here* … I'm simply in awe. As much as I enjoy the studio "Highway Star," there's no question which rendition I'd take with me to my island. I only have the 1-CD, seven-track version, even though there's apparently a 2-CD version that has the encores of the shows from which this CD was taken, but suffice it to say that the other five tracks justify the rating.
It's still really fun, though.īut the rest, oh man. And I guess Lazy could stand some trimming - it's better than the studio version, since the organ intro (while slightly overlong) is eerie as hell in places (but also amusing, like in that place where those distorted organ chords blast out the riff to Louis Louis), and the jams that come out of the "main" part of the song give a nice dose of upbeat boogie, but ten minutes was certainly a bit much for such a piece. Ok, so I'm peeved that "The Mule" turns into a nine-minute excuse for Paice to have a drum solo (I'm sorry, but I just don't jive that well with endless drum solos).
I'm really at a loss to describe how incredible most of these songs are. This is the near ideal meeting point of balls-out energy and of technical perfection, where any inhibitions found in the studio versions of tracks are discarded and replaced with a primal need to do songs faster and heavier than one could probably imagine, and where solos and jams seemingly last forever but kick so much ass that they can win over any casual listener. To say that Made in Japan shows DP as a great live band is to say nothing to say that Made in Japan shows the band as one of the greatest ass-kicking machines rock'n'roll ever beheld would come close. Ladies and gentlemen, this is why In Rock doesn't get the band's high score.
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