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Setlist
- https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/deep-purple/1975/nippon-budokan-tokyo-japan-33d28409.html
- https://www.purple.de/dirk/purple/tours/1975/75-12-15.php
- December 15, 1975
- at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Budokan
- Capacity: 14,471 people (arena seats: 2,946, 1st floor seats: 3,199, 2nd floor seats: 7,846, standee: 480)
DEEP PURPLE “Phoenix Rising” Trailer
Deep Purple “Phoenix Rising Japan” – 1975
Concert Releases:
1977 – Vinyl Release
1985 – VHS Release in Japan as “Rises Over Japan”
2002 – This Time Around Live in Tokyo
2011 – Phoenix Rising
- Tony Klinger: Director, editor.
- Martin Birch: Film & record producer, engineer, recorder.
- Clive Smith: Film editor.
On IMDB Glenn Hughes is credited as Glenn V. Hughes III
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400631/bio
Setlist:
- Burn
- Video
- Lady Luck
- Love Child
- Video
- Gettin’ Tighter
- Smoke on the Water
- Video
- Featuring Georgia on My Mind
- Wild Dogs
- I Need Love
- Soldier of Fortune
- Keyboard Solo
- Lazy
- This Time Around/Owed to ‘G’
- Guitar Solo
- Drifter
- You Keep On Moving
- Video
- Stormbringer
- Highway Star (Encore)
- Video
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- Love Child
- You Keep ON Moving
- Wild Dogs
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Reviews
- “Nearly 12,000 rock fans filled the Budokan concert hall to see the new Deep Purple. The band had flown their producer, Martin Birch, in to supervise the recording of the album, and two film crews, one stationary and one mobile, were there to record the excitement on celluloid. Purple opened to pandemonium with “Burn” and with Tommy Bolin healthy again, they played their most explosive set of the tour. Jon Lord and Ian Paice dazzled the rock & roll ravers with an impromptu jam of “Woman From Tokyo”. Tommy Bolin mesmerized them with his echoplex during [sic] “Ode to G”.Glenn Hughes, one of rock’s funkiest bassists, had the girls screaming during his soulful rendition of “Georgia On My Mind” and David Coverdale was fully in command as he sang “Smoke on the Water”, the song that made Ian Gillan’s wail famous.” Peter Crescenti/Rolling Stone
- Stargazer Issue Eleven, May / June 1977
| Last Concert In Japan– Album Review |
| After I’d done a review of the ‘Get It While It Tastes’ bootleg from the same 15th December 1975 Tokyo concert, this arrived from Japan. Stripped of the bootleg’s atmosphere the music has very little to offer. There is always something missing in the sound – it’s like listening to an LP with one of the tracks mixed off. |
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For More Information:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Concert_in_Japan
- https://www.discogs.com/release/1641598-Deep-Purple-Last-Concert-In-Japan
- https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/deep-purple/1975/nippon-budokan-tokyo-japan-33d28409.html
- https://www.purple.de/dirk/purple/tours/1975/75-12-15.php
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Rising_(Deep_Purple_album)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rises_Over_Japan
- https://www.discogs.com/release/2486691-Deep-Purple-This-Time-Around-Live-In-Tokyo
- http://www.deep-purple.net/DPASmags/stargazer11.htm
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