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Live and Loud! began as a fortnightly internet radio show in 2012 taking old unreleased live concert recordings I could find and working to repair and improve them - fixing tape hiss, noise, tape drop out, clicks, speed variations, defects - before improving the sound quality by EQing the sound to bring out the instruments as clearly as possible. These are now made directly available to download for free to reach as many fans of the music as possible.

Depending on the quality of the original recording, these can often be made to sound almost like commercial recordings - but of course I can't guarantee that for every show. What I can guarantee is it will sound far better than the original files available which have been floating around the internet and on bootleg recordings for many years.

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Friday, 8 January 2016

Show 58: Japan - Live at Budokan, Tokyo - 6 March 1979




The new 2016 season of Live and Loud! kicks off with Japan, who were touring the country of Japan after releasing their first 2 albums Adolescent Sex and Obscure Alternatives, in 1978. They were already looking ahead and starting to introduce a more electronic sound into their demos for what would be their 3rd album Quiet Life, released at the end of 1979. You can start to hear that influence in the early version of European Son, included in this live set, which otherwise consists of songs from their first 2 albums.

Someone had already applied far too much noise and hiss reduction to the recording I had access to but I've done what I can to lessen the impact of the noise that added. This has polished up a treat.

The show is available for download HERE as 1 MP3 file.

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Setlist
Don't Rain On My Parade
Obscure Alternatives
Love Is Infectious
Deviation
European Son
Suburban Love
Ballad-Suburban Berlin
Adolescent Sex
The Unconventional
Automatic Gun
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5 comments:

  1. Rich Aird20 January 2016 at 14:47

    Amazing, thank you so much for upping!

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  2. Karl27 February 2016 at 13:34

    Great upload,thanks always loved Japan

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  3. Unknown20 March 2016 at 06:51

    Great

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  4. Anonymous2 July 2019 at 00:33

    Nice! I came to Japan, as I suppose many others did, through their later 'new romantic' stuff (no offence to Japan fans if that's the wrong term), and was a bit surprised at the sound of their first two albums. The first album though, Adolescent Sex, proved to be a real grower, and here I am now, thirty something years on, and it's only that first album, and to some degree the second one, that I now choose to listen. Lovely stuff!!

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  5. Unknown1 August 2020 at 12:36

    I actually received this boot from my Japanese pen friend shortly after the gig. I had never heard European Son before. Prepared me for the Rainbow gig ��

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