This is an excellent recording of Boston's first of three nights of playing in Tokyo in 1979. I recently uploaded the second night, 1979-04-19, and a lot of people have grabbed that one. So, I figured I'd go ahead and upload their frist night's show now.

I noticed something interesting as I was getting this show and the artwork together. This date (1979-04-18), being Boston's first night in Tokyo, was also Journey's last night in Tokyo that I uploaded recently. Boston played at Budokan Hall (larger venue) and Journey played at Shibuya (a 2084 seating venue...much smaller) on this night. Wow, what a choice that would've been. Do I go see Boston or Journey tonight? I'd have picked Journey myself, but I would have hated to miss seeing Boston that night too!

I have no idea of the lineage of this recording and I got it from a Japanese sharing site I could not even read most of the text on (I don't know Japanese). But I did fix the sector boundary errors (SBE's) using TLH before this upload.

DETAILS:
Artist: Boston
Date: April 18th, 1979
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Budokan Hall
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Label: none
Title: Tokyo Day 1
Size: 500 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Rock And Roll Band
102. Shattered Images (Help Me)
103. Peace Of Mind
104. Feelin' Satisfied
105. Don't Look Back
106. The Journey
107. More Than A Feeling
108. A Man I'll Never Be

CD 2:
201. Smokin'
202. Tom Scholz (guitar solo)
203. Foreplay/Long Time
204. Something About You
205. Party
206. Television Politician
207. Don't Be Afraid

As with so many shows recorded in Japan, this one is another great one. It truly sounds like a soundboard recording throughout much of the show.

I think I recently stated I liked the 1979-04-19 show better and thought it sounded better. I'm going to have to recheck this now. This might be the better recording. Either way, they're both great shows and great recording from Tokyo 1979!

I'm still searching for a lossless copy of the third and closing show from Boston's three nights playing in Tokyo before they left Japan. he date of the last Tokyo 1979 show is 1979-04-20. Please let me know if you have it or know where to find it :-)

What a time it must have been to have lived in Japan, had tickets to all of these excellent bands and performances we've collected over the years, and to have just said "I was there" during the 1970's (and later)!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr
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