Artist: Jeff Beck
Date: July 8th 2005
Venue: Kousei Nenkin Kaikan Hall
Title & Catalog #: Guitar Hero (the last guitar samurai) T&J-M&G-003/004
Sources: Matrix from two audience recordings.
Sound Qualtiy: Please check sample recordings posted here

Tapers: Tom & Jerry
Art Work Designer: Mickey Jaggar

Lineages:
Source 1:
Sound Professionals CMC-8 > SP-SLIM Battery >TCD-D8 Line-In 16bit/48khz > Santa Cruz Turtle Beach > Sound Forge Ver.09
Source 2:
OKM Rock2 > A3 > TCD-100 Line-In 16bit/48khz > Sound Forge Ver.07
Mixed Sound Forge files of two recordings above > WAV > Flac

Set List/Disc Info
Disc 1
1. Beck's Bolero
2. Stratus
3. You Never Know
4. Cause We've Ended As Lovers
5. Rollin' And Tumblin'
6. Morning Dew
7. Behind The Veil
8. Two Rivers
9. Star Cycle
10. Big Block
11. Scatterbrain

Disc 2
1. Nadia
2. Angel (Footsteps)
3. Led Boots
4. Diamond Dust
5. Hey Joe
6. Manic Depression
7. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
8. Brush With The Blues
9. Blue Wind
10. Earthquake
11. Blast From The East
12. Going Down
13. People Get Ready
14. Over The Rainbow

Recording Info

Tom & Jerry recorded the entire show from the relatively right side of the floor seats, a few feet away from �gsweet sounding spot�h. No much clapping and no screamer around them. Tapers were fully satisfied with this recording quality.

Performance & Show Review
I have collected several Jeff�fs shows from the past Japan tours. Probably this show is one of the best. However, since my expectation for Jeff Beck is a little bit higher than the most peoples�f is, I can not help making a few of negative comments. So please bear in mind when you read my (rather long) review.

The band did not click at first and sounded like they needed a few more days for rehearsal before they hit the road. As the show went on, the band sounded better but did not take off the way they should. Jeff was not in the top form but still delivered the goods. He seemed very relaxed and did not wear that nasty pissed off look on his face. He kept on smiling and grinning all through the night. Jeff�fs guitar was pretty up-front but he did not interact with band members who were all handpicked by Jeff for this Japan tour.

Vinnie Colaiuta - drums
Pino Palladino - bass
Jason Rebello - keyboards
Jimmy Hall - vocal
Jennifer Batten - guest guitarist for the encore

They looked impressive on their resumes but not much so on Jeff�fs music. My first impression on them is: Vinnie is a fine fine drummer for Sting but not for Jeff. Pino is also a versatile bass player working with many artists of all kinds. He is OK but does not have to be the one for Jeff. Jason sounded too timid to play with Jeff. He tried to play less and to leave more space in the sound for Jeff to fill in. The unexpected surprise is Jimmy Hall. �gPeople get ready�h belted out by Jimmy saved the day. He got the whole crowd up out of their seats swinging and moving to Jeff�fs music. Jennifer is a real treat for Osaka. She is one of the most underrated and under-appreciated guitarists. But she played only a couple of the encore tunes. It might sound funny to you but I wished Jimmy had sung more songs and Jennifer played more solos the first night of two Osaka shows.

Most people I met at the show said to me �gtonight (the first night) is one of the best Jeff�fs shows they �eever seen�h They may be right but I thought to myself �gthe best is yet to come�h

Frankly after the first show in Osaka I got the overall impression that Jeff got the band that is not much clearly-focused, less spontaneous, but well-packaged for a small club show. I guess I just tried to comfort myself by thinking that I should not expect too much from a sixty something rock legend.

But the second night performance changed my mind completely. Jeff and his band whipped up more energy than expected. Jeff proved himself that he got the best band in town. The music bursting from his guitar and the whole band is spontaneous, inspiring and totally different from the previous night. This was the third Japan tour I saw him play but had never seen him fired up. The energy that radiated from the whole band has ever-changing spectrums: hard-hit hotrod, delicate incredible soft touch & feel, dynamics with inventiveness----------- No word describes it. This was year 2005�fs best live show for me, a lot better than R.E.M.

About this title
During the show I stood up and looked around to see many Japanese Jeff-wannabes drop their jaws to the floor and completely mesmerized. This awestricken crowd was actually frozen on their seats, which was very rare for a rock concert in Osaka. They didn�ft seem to care to get on their feet nor to make big noises as if totally in the state of shock. Or in the total concentration?? I guess they didn�ft want to miss even a single guitar stroke. Rather quietly but immensely they enjoyed & appreciated Jeff�fs music.

�gJeff is guitar god�h said a worn-out Japanese businessman sitting right next to me. He also went on to say �gJeff often uses a spur-of-the-moment lick and brings out the unbelievable sound that I have never heard before. It just blew me away, the way the wall of sound temporarily demobilizes me�h. I could not catch all he was bubbling on and on. But all we agree that Jeff is one of a kind.

�gJeff Beck isn't your typical guitar legend. His goal, in fact, is to make you forget that he plays guitar.�h(epic record site: http://www.jeffbeckmusic.com/)
He does not play an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Sometimes his guitar sounds like the synthesizer or the bass while the synthesizer or the bass sounds like the guitar. His guitar merging, blending in and metamorphosing with various instruments is the key ingredient for his music. His guitar is more of three or four-dimensional music.

Jeff Beck generally isn�ft held in the same high regard as his contemporaries Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton in the U.S and other parts of the world. Here in Japan, all those Japanese fans I talked to kept on praising and admiring Jeff�fs guitar and his works. They think that Jeff is in a class by himself and in a different league.

I named this torrent �gGuitar Hero�h after all those gentle, kind and enthusiastic Japanese fan of Jeff who taught me so much about Jeff.

Get this show. You won�ft regret it.
Do not sell the music you download here. I don�ft care whatever stupid reason you might have. If you do that, you will become a shape-changing creature called �gBOOTLEGGER�h.

If you encode this to MP3 or other lower sound quality formats or re-master this, please do so for your own personal pleasure but do not even think about seeding it here or any other place.

Mickey

Extra Info
1) Future uploads
I am planning to seed the following shows from Tom & Jerry sound archives:
Asia, May 9th 2008, Osaka Japan
Bon Jovi, Feb 16th 2008, Osaka Japan
Guns N�f Roses, July 17th 2007, Nagoya Japan
Joe Lynn Turner, Feb 6th 2006, Osaka Japan
Maroon 5, March 13th 2008, Osaka Japan
Night Ranger, June 13th 2007, Osaka Japan
Night Ranger, April 24th 2008, Osaka Japan
Fire House, April 24th 2008, Osaka Japan
Rolling Stones September 25th 1981, Philadelphia USA
Rolling Stones March 29th 2006, Sapporo Japan

2) Wanted to contact with Japanese tapers to exchange info. Please feel free to PM me.