Scorpions "Tokyo Tapes" Original 1978 Live vinyl double LP gatefold RCA NL28331

	£		18
	$		24

Description

Tokyo Tapes is the first live album by German hard rock band Scorpions and their final album released by RCA Records. 

Tokyo Tapes includes songs from all Scorpions' albums released before 1978, which were recorded at Nakano Sun Plaza (Tokyo's Nakano Ward, Japan) on 24 and 27 April, during the band's Japanese tour in 1978. These shows were guitarist Uli Jon Roth's last performances with the band, who had announced his departure after the release of the studio album Taken by Force.  

The songs "Hell-Cat", "Catch Your Train" and the Japanese national anthem were also performed during these shows but were not included in the official album. The original release was in August 1978 in Japan only with cover artwork of an embossed platinum Scorpion on a rose as opposed to a live shot of the band when it was eventually released in Europe in late 1978. It was released in January 1979 in the U.S.A..

Roth commented about the recording of the album:

"Tokyo Tapes was a peak time, we have played together for all these years and it all came together at that time. Particularly on the first show, which unfortunately wasn't recorded. There were three shows in Tokyo, the first one was by far the best, but the second one was good too. Those are the ones on the album, the second and the third that were used. The first one I thought was a lot better and I was disappointed that it wasn't recorded."

Side one

1. "All Night Long" (Uli Jon Roth, Klaus Meine) – 3:44
2. "Pictured Life" (Rudolf Schenker, Meine, Roth) – 3:12
3. "Backstage Queen" (R. Schenker, Meine) – 3:44
4. "Polar Nights" (Roth) – 6:43 (omitted from single disc releases)
5. "In Trance" (R. Schenker, Meine) – 5:25

Side two

6. "We'll Burn the Sky" (R. Schenker, Monika Dannemann) – 8:07
7. "Suspender Love" (R. Schenker/Meine) – 3:38
8. "In Search of the Peace of Mind" (R. Schenker, Michael Schenker, Meine, Lothar Heimberg, Wolfgang Dziony) – 3:02
9. "Fly to the Rainbow" (M. Schenker, Roth) – 9:39

Side three

1. "He's a Woman, She's a Man" (R. Schenker, Meine, Herman Rarebell) – 5:22
2. "Speedy's Coming" (R. Schenker, Meine) – 3:40
3. "Top of the Bill" (R. Schenker, Meine) – 6:45
4. "Hound Dog" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 1:14
5. "Long Tall Sally" (Enotris Johnson, Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, Richard Penniman) – 2:50

Side four

6. "Steamrock Fever" (R. Schenker, Meine) – 3:41
7. "Dark Lady" (Roth) – 4:18
8. "K?j? no Tsuki" (Rentar? Taki, Bansui Doi, arr. Francis Buchholz, Meine, Rarebell, Roth, R. Schenker) – 3:35
9. "Robot Man" (R. Schenker, Meine) – 5:47

Info courtesy of Wikipaedia

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