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Made in Europe

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Great remaster of this fantastic live album. The remastered sound is punchy and crisp, with Ian Paice's drumming thrashing about in all its glory. One little nitpick, Blackmore's guitar seems to be pushed a little bit back in the mix here and there, but it's never inaudible. It's a great CD, although there are no bonus tracks. And bassist Glenn Hughes' high-pitched shrieking doesn't occur much here. Only on the break in "Burn," and a spot or two elsewhere, which is great. Glenn is a fantastic bassist and a great singer when he sings in his natural range, but his shrieking is hit and miss. Thankfully, there's little of his squealing here. Glenn's bass sounds great on this remaster, too. I never owned this LP or the original CD, so I don't know what to compare it to, but to these ears, this jewel sounds great. I only wish there was a little bit more artwork and essays in the CD booklet (like the Gillan-Glover reissues), but the remastering is really great.

I remember buying this album back in 1979-80, and the new remastered edition is a welcome improvement to the original vinyl recording. Unquestionably, Made in Europe is yet another shining example of Deep Purple's superb live musicianship. All of the songs on this album (Burn, Mistreated, You Fool No One, Lady Doubledealer, and Stormbringer) are infused with an electricity and emotion that I feel make them more enjoyable than the studio versions, especially the live renditions of Burn, Mistreated, and You Fool No one. Each member of the band is firing on all cylinders with his respective instrumental or vocal contribution, making this album an overlooked treasure for both fanatics and casual listeners alike.

I have read in other Amazon reviews a certain bias against Glenn Hughes, which I feel is unwarranted. After listening to his bass playing on this album, I am more impressed with his improvisational skills and his crisp, decisive note playing than before. Actually, and no disrespect intended to Roger Glover, if you listen carefully to this album and compare it to Made in Japan, Glenn Hughes far outshines his Mark II counterpart in a live performance. I do have one small critical remark about the album, and that is the muted guitar on Lady Doubledealer. You really have to crank up the volume to enjoy Blackmore's guitar genius because it is audibly hemmed in by Paice's drums and Lord's keyboards. Otherwise, this live offering is a five-star tour-de-force and well worth the investment. David Coverdale sums it up succintly in his vocal intro to Burn when he says "Rock and Roll." Made in Europe epitomizes the very best of hard rock music in the 1970s.

I owned this recording back in the day when vinyl was king. The transition to digital is of course fantastic. I am a huge DP fan and every fan should have this CD. While it may be somewhat overlooked compared to Made in Japan it is still a must have in every DP or hard rock or guitar hero collection!! The recordings of Burn and Mistreated are each worth the price of the CD by themselves. BUY THIS CD.

Alright! I knew that one of these days "Made in Europe" would finally be issued in a remastered format, and I'm glad that it finally happened. I literally wore out the vinyl version when it was released back in 1976, and it's good to see a CD mix that does the original some justice.

Chronicling the final concerts of the Mark III Purple era, "Made In Europe" showcases surprisingly tight performances from all of the members of the band. I say surprising because Ritchie Blackmore was reportedly very disinterested at the time, as he was planning to leave the band in short order. His playing on this record belies none of that, however. His shredding solo during "You Fool No One" certainly doesn't seem tossed-off or mailed-in in any way.

"Made in Europe" also proves that Purple still had quite the proto-metal edge to it's style. Glenn Hughes added some funk elements to the Purple sound, but little of that can be heard on this disk. The band instead focuses on giving the head-on hard rock treatment to all of these songs. "Stormbringer" for example,is far heavier than it was in it's studio incarnation, proving that the band still regarded itself primarily as a heavy rock vehicle.

All in all, this is a tremendous 70's-era hard rock live recording. Gotta get it if you're a Deep Purple fan.

The album is great. A great remastering and a good way to put a bow on the Coverdale/Hughes era of Blackmore's Purple. My main reason for writing this though is just to alert everyone who downloads this is tht the last three tracks are labeled in the wrong order. They're still great, but you're going to want to go and relabel them in your iTunes. That is all. Enjoy!

I'm not telling you about the music, you sure know about it. But this remaster, well, I used to have the old LP and the 1990 cd and I'm throwing both away. This remaster is THE REAL THING. Kudos to these guys, great job!

I'm glad I finally acquired "Made In Europe", remastered, on cd. I have been waiting for it a long time. I only wish there would have been some added goodies. But, the void has been filled.

If you are in a certain age group you can probably remember what it felt like to buy a live album by your favorite band because it contained nearly all of their best songs on one (sometimes 2 records/cds). I certainly do. But I also remember the ones who didn't let me down from that era. This is one of them along with Robin Trower Live, Mahogany Rush LIve, Unleashed In The East, One More From The Road & Live Bullet, Other live albums of the day sounded like butchered versions of your favorite songs with extended, boring, sloppy solos, or no solos at all, nearly inaudible vocals, and of course all the usual chants to and from the audience while disregarding the audience that heard this in somebody's car stereo on the way to the mall.
If you're a DP fan then you already know the songs and you don't need me to explain that each and every song here is as good as the studio version and that's what other live albums lacked.
This one is a classic that sounds great and it just gets better with age.

I have been a Deep Purple fan since 1973, and here's the deal. If you want to buy Purple live albums, buy Made In Japan or any of the myriad MkIII 2-CD issues that chronical that period so much better. This album was orinally released in 1976, after the band broke up, and it was the first in a long string of releases which simply exploited the memory of what had been a great band. The story is: Ritchie told the management that he was leaving. They thought the band was going to fall apart so they recorded the last shows they did for a double live album. However, Jon, Ian, David and Glenn brought in Tommy Bolin and continued. Once the end finally came the management rushed out this single album version, which, it is rumored, used multiple versions of each track to get a good working version. The packaging was obviously not quality controlled becaus they spell Ritchie's name wrong, and to add insult to injury the label on the original UK LP showed Tommy Bolin's face - again, management figured that with Bolin they would be around for longer so printed up a whole load of labels for the next MkIV album, which never came.

My advice would be to totally ignore this CD and go for The Mark III Final Concerts 2CD or any of the others that actually use the right tapes.

I hate having to give a bad review of a Deep Purple album, but I only kept my LP version for completeness.

And by the way, if we're on that subject, buy This Time Around Live In Tokyo 1975 and not Last Concert In Japan, as this was even worse!!