MY FIRST LOVE Deep Purple
MADE IN JAPAN
The Swedish shred star reflects on the live album that impacted him more than any other.
By Yngwie Malmsteen
“I was nine or ten years old when my elder brother brought home Made In Japan. I’d already heard Deep Purple’s In Rock and Fireball, both of which had affected me in Biblical proportions. I went out and got Machine Head because I had loved Made In Japan so much. But as a naïve little kid from Sweden I couldn’t understand why Lazy and Space Truckin’ had suddenly become so short.