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Track List
01) All Night Long
02) Pictured Life
03) Backstage Queen
04) Polar Nights
05) In Trance
06) We'll Burn the Sky
07) Suspender Love
08) In Search of the Peace of Mind
09) Fly to the Rainbow
Cd 2
01) He's a Woman - She's a Man
02) Speedy's Coming
03) Top of the Bill
04) Hound Dog
05) Long Tall Sally
06) Steamrock Fever
07) Dark Lady
08) Kojo No Tsuki
09) Robot Man
01) All Night Long
02) Pictured Life
03) Backstage Queen
04) Polar Nights
05) In Trance
06) We'll Burn the Sky
07) Suspender Love
08) In Search of the Peace of Mind
09) Fly to the Rainbow
Cd 2
01) He's a Woman - She's a Man
02) Speedy's Coming
03) Top of the Bill
04) Hound Dog
05) Long Tall Sally
06) Steamrock Fever
07) Dark Lady
08) Kojo No Tsuki
09) Robot Man
3:12
3:48
3:40
6:55
5:31
8:13
3:40
3:02
9:49
5:29
3:40
6:47
1:14
2:44
4:22
4:32
3:23
5:50
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First Released
1978
Hard Rock
Gritty
Rock/Pop
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Tokyo Tapes is the first live album by German heavy metal band Scorpions.
Tokyo Tapes includes songs from all Scorpions' albums released before 1978, which were recorded at Nakano Sun Plaza (Tokyo's Nakano Ward, Japan) on April 24 and 27, 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 ("Kimi ga yo") were also performed during these shows but were not included in the official album. On the 2001 EMI re-mastered CD, "Polar Nights" was omitted so as to fit a single CD, although it was included on the re-mastered version of Taken by Force. The earlier two-CD release, however, is the original album in its entirety. 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."
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Tokyo Tapes is the first live album by German heavy metal band Scorpions.
Tokyo Tapes includes songs from all Scorpions' albums released before 1978, which were recorded at Nakano Sun Plaza (Tokyo's Nakano Ward, Japan) on April 24 and 27, 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 ("Kimi ga yo") were also performed during these shows but were not included in the official album. On the 2001 EMI re-mastered CD, "Polar Nights" was omitted so as to fit a single CD, although it was included on the re-mastered version of Taken by Force. The earlier two-CD release, however, is the original album in its entirety. 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."
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