The Band
Tokyo Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan,
Shinjuku,
Tokyo, Japan

1994-04-30

Lineage: AUD > Cassette (1st Gen) > WAV 24/96 > Audacity (Track) > FLAC 8 (24/96)

(Transfer by whotrader - Tracking by GW 2021-06-26)

01 Intro
02 Caldonia
03 Remedy
04 Crazy Mama
05 The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
06 Stuff Ya Gotta Watch
07 Blind Willie McTell
08 It Makes No Difference
09 Rag Mama Rag
10 Atlantic City
11 Caledonia Mission
12 Mystery Train
13 The Weight
14 Don't Do It
15 Short Fat Fanny
16 Blues Stay Away From Me
17 Stage Fright
18 Life Is A Carnival
19 Up On Cripple Creek
20 Genetic Method >
21 Chest Fever
22 The Shape I'm In

The Band

Rick Danko
Levon Helm
Garth Hudson
Randy Ciarlante
Jim Weider
Richard Bell

Comments:

This is the perfect audience recording combined with a great performance. Simply stunning. If you only have one recording of the reformed Band, make it this one!!!

Thanks to whotrader for the raw files which whotrader obtained in a trade direct from the taper in Japan. All I have done is track them. Thanks to the now unknown taper.

This show is incorrectly recorded as being from Osaka on The Band tape archive.

For some reason The Band had an affinity with Japan and the crowds there seemed to love them. Although the original quintet never went there, the reformed Band + Rick and Levon solo went several times (at least until Rick's drug habit landed him in a Japanese jail!).

There was a short tour there in 1994 by The Band:

29 April Tokyo Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan, Shinjuku, Tokyo
30 April Tokyo Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan, Shinjuku, Tokyo
1 May Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama
2 May Nippon Seinenkan Hall, Shinjuku, Tokyo
4 May Club Quattro, Shibuya, Tokyo

Recordings also exist of the Club Quattro show but neither the recordings nor the performance are even close to the quality of this show.

Images for all shows as well as full size images for this show.

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