Deep Purple Album: “This Time Around: Live in Tokyo 1975”

this cd is a double remix of the original LP who had appeared in warner bros Japan 1977.

Long ago the original LP Last concert in japan was rushed out very quickly, and the Japanese record company put out the songs on the LP not correct. The set had an errors, and many good songs such as lazy, Stormbringer, This time around and owed to G also Drifter were hacked.

This new double remixed cd is now presenting the whole Deep purple mk IV set from the beginning until finish.

You can checkt out from a thundering Burn until the great anthem Highway star. And Deep purple featuring Tommy Bolin on guitar was not a weak line up. This previous line up was short, but the legendary is still alive.

MK 4 line up deep purple were at that time on the japanese stage.

the line up seemed to be like exhausted band at that time the group hit JAPAN in 1975. But Deep purple members still had the capabilities on their instruments........JON LORD played the solo keyboard TOCCATA d minor of J.S BACH very excellent, Ian PAICE solo drums was totally incredible (no other drummer can do quick drumming style like him.) Tommy bolin was not in good condition at that night, but he tried to do his best solo guitar and his WILD DOGS SONG. Glenn Hughes was in the good mood,....but Coverdale sang and screamed all the time (this only make me feel a bit confused.) The re-made in Japan 1975 was also good as Made in JAPAN 1972. But this MK IV musical direction moved the Deep purple sound a litlle bit more Jazz/bluesier than their predecessor MK III OR II. It doesn't matter Deep purple fans can do any harm.......

Originally released as the much-maligned Last Concert in Japan, this release finally restores the original concert to it's intended state. The original tapes were, for want of a better word, butchered together to make the LCIJ album, which led to outcries from the fans, which also led to the US and UK markets not releasing the album. I first heard two of these tracks - You Keep On Movin' and Wild Dogs - on the Tommy Bolin Ultimate box set, and I was impressed with the sound of the songs. About two years ago I finally managed to locate a copy of LCIJ as a Japanese import. In my opinion, overall the sound quality is good. It's just the editing of the thing that I don't care for. And the album came out as sort of an epitaph to the Deep Purple band, as it had broken up the year before, but in comparison to their earlier works, LCIJ doesn't stand up as well.

This new release finally puts it in a new light. The whole show is present - no fade outs between songs, the running order of songs is corrected, solos left intact, etc. The LCIJ album was like reading only a few chapters of a book. This Time Around is like having the whole novel to read.

Along with the King Biscuit CD, this is a great document of the Tommy Bolin era of Deep Purple.

I've listened to Tommy Bolin playing with Zephyr, The James Gang,

Billy Cobham, his solo-band and of course Deep Purple. My conclusion is that Tommy was a god in the studio, but when performing live he was never on the same level. Of course this had a lot to do with his heroin problem. In a studio you can do your solos over and over again until it works, but on stage you only get one chance. With Deep Purple there was a second problem: Tommy wasn't interested in their older material. When I listen to "Burn", "Highway Star" or "Smoke on the water" I get the impression that Tommy's just jamming the time away and is trying to hide himself or the fact that he didn't rehearse properly.

This caused a lot of tension in the band. Furthermore, Coverdale & co started to realize that Tommy and his partner in crime - Glenn Hughes- were just using Deep Purple for their future solo-projects. "Come taste the band" may be one of my favourite Purple albums, but at this stage the band was no longer a tight-playing live-act. Coverdale had enough of Hughes' trying to take his place and this competition between the two singers was not favourable for the vocal parts, as you can hear on this record.

"On the wings of a Russian Foxbat", the double live CD recorded in the U.S. by Deep Purple Mark IV, is a better buy than this one. But "Live in Tokyo" has got that fantastic version of Tommy's song "Wild Dogs" , so I just had to add this album to my collection.

Much anticipated remaster/remix of Deep Purple's final concert on the Japanese leg of thier 1975 tour delivers mixed results, depending on your expectations. As a Tommy Bolin fan, it is painfully ironic to have his drug-addled fumblings showcased in such crystal clarity (there are definite pros and cons regarding "dry" soundboard mixes). It is difficult to listen to Bolin here without the saddening and nagging thought that this was Near The End. There are also strong aruguments for judicious editing...witness vocalist David Coverdale, who demonstrates a somewhat limited imagination when it comes to onstage banter (even allowing for the language barrier). That being said, the performances are energetic and overall sonic quality is quite good. Speaking purely as a collector, I would say "This Time Around" has more value as an historic item (the outstanding "Come Taste The Band" is how I would prefer to remember Deep Purple MK IV).