Phoenix Rising (Deep Purple album)

Phoenix Rising
(Coverdale • Hughes • Bolin • Paice • Lord)
Phoenix Rising (Coverdale • Hughes • Bolin • Paice • Lord)
Live album by Deep Purple
Released	11 May 2011
Recorded	Live on 15 December 1975 at the Budokan, Tokyo, Japan & on 27 February 1976 at Long Beach Arena, Los Angeles, CA
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal
Length	70:13 (CD) 142:00 (DVD)
Label	Edel
Producer	Deep Purple (CD) Drew Thompson & Tony Edwards (DVD)
Deep Purple Video chronology

Phoenix Rising (subtitled "Coverdale • Hughes • Bolin • Paice • Lord") is a combo CD/DVD live album by the Mark IV line-up of Deep Purple, released in May 2011. It includes rare live tracks from Mk IV history, Rises Over Japan, a (30 minute) concert film directed by Tony Klinger,^[1]^[2] Gettin' Tighter, an 80-minute new music documentary about the band's 1975/1976 tour, and some extras.

Overview

The concert film Rises Over Japan was made at Budokan Hall on 15 December 1975. The concert was released on LP in an incomplete form as Last Concert in Japan in 1977 and the whole concert was issued in 2001 as This Time Around: Live in Tokyo.^[3] The footage was shot professionally with multiple cameras on 16mm film. Despite this, for many years only very poor quality bootleg copies from an obscure Japanese VHS release circulated among fans and collectors. Finally, after over 36 years the concert was restored from the original 31 minute print and released as a bonus feature on the "Deep Purple: Phoenix Rising" Blu-ray Disc in 2011, complete with the original stereo sound mix and a new 5.1 surround sound mix.^[4]

In May 2012, "Phoenix Rising" won German Leserwahl award as the Best Music Blu-ray.

Track listing

CD and 2LP

The Official Soundtrack and More – Rare Live Tracks from MKIV History (digitally remastered in 2011)

"Burn" – 8:09 (Longbeach) {from Burn (1974)}
"Getting Tighter" – 15:04 (Japan) {from Come Taste the Band (1975)}
"Love Child" – 4:23 (Japan) {from Come Taste the Band (1975)}
"Smoke on the Water" (including "Georgia") – 9:29 (Japan) {from Machine Head (1972)}

"Lazy" (includes drum solo) – 11:41 (Japan) {from Machine Head (1972)}
"Homeward Strut" – 5:44 (Longbeach) {from Teaser (1975)}
"You Keep on Moving" – 5:44 (Japan) {from Come Taste the Band (1975)}
"Stormbringer" – 9:49 (Longbeach) {from Stormbringer (1974)}