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| 1. Roll On Down The Highway |
| 2. Hold Back The Water |
| 3. Welcome Home |
| 4. Don't Get Yourself In Trouble |
| 5. Four-Wheel Drive |
| 6. Takin' Care Of Business |
| 7. Slow Down Boogie |
| 8. Thank You - Domo |
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* Bachman-Turner Overdrive are a Canadian rock group from Canada, that had a series of hit albums and singles in the 1970s, selling over 7 million albums in that decade alone. Their 1970s catalogue included five Top 40 albums and six Top 40 singles. The band has sold nearly 30 million albums worldwide, Many of their songs, including `Let It Ride', `You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet', `Takin' Care of Business', `Hey You' and `Roll On Down the Highway' , still receive play on FM classic rock stations. * BTO Live - Japan Tour is an album containing live recordings from a 1976 Bachman-Turner Overdrive Japan tour concert. It was only issued in Japan and Canada. It was never released on CD and is a very rare find on vinyl. * This is the first time ever on CD and contains new sleeve notes by Malcolm Dome and enhanced art- work making this release a must for all fans of Classic Rock
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Ok, the title is arguably unfair. This is not a poor album by any means. I would not accuse it of being indifferent either, but I do think it is / was an opportunity missed, and to make matters worse, an opportunity missed on two occasions.
The original 1977 album was a disappointing 44 minutes in length when the BTO back catalogue clearly merited at least 75 mins. A double album with an extravagent sleeve covered in pictures of our cuddly, bearded, check-shirted heroes. This single album smacked of perfunctory tour souvenir syndrome. The track selection is fine and the production is OK but to my mind it sounds rushed.
This 2008 version goes some way to correcting the problem, boosting the running time to 70 minutes and adding "You ain't seen nothing yet" which amazingly was missing from the original release. It does not really address the central problems though. The packaging is quite frankly cheap and my (admittedly far from perfect) ears have yet to discern and significant remastering.
Am I being hard? Possibly, but if you are anything like me, you expect the best both for, and from, your favourites. The 1986 "Live! Live! Live" album was woefully short as well but at least boasts a crisper production. Can it really be that there are no mid seventies BTO tapes that could be cleaned up and released in a slightly more lavish manner? Just a thought.
The original 1977 album was a disappointing 44 minutes in length when the BTO back catalogue clearly merited at least 75 mins. A double album with an extravagent sleeve covered in pictures of our cuddly, bearded, check-shirted heroes. This single album smacked of perfunctory tour souvenir syndrome. The track selection is fine and the production is OK but to my mind it sounds rushed.
This 2008 version goes some way to correcting the problem, boosting the running time to 70 minutes and adding "You ain't seen nothing yet" which amazingly was missing from the original release. It does not really address the central problems though. The packaging is quite frankly cheap and my (admittedly far from perfect) ears have yet to discern and significant remastering.
Am I being hard? Possibly, but if you are anything like me, you expect the best both for, and from, your favourites. The 1986 "Live! Live! Live" album was woefully short as well but at least boasts a crisper production. Can it really be that there are no mid seventies BTO tapes that could be cleaned up and released in a slightly more lavish manner? Just a thought.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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While this release is clearly a ..shall we say..somewhat legal bootleg, re Italian releases, this is a gem that is hard to find. The LP version of the record plus the extra tracks from King Buscuit blast out of your speakers. Check the woofers to find out if your system has any balls at all. This is the BTO I remember in their mid to late 70's prime. No BS, just plain ol' rock and roll that's FUN !
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I had this album already on vinyl for a very long time, that is the first part, the concertregistration in Tokyo, i.e. the first 8 tracks. If I am not mistaken the other half of it was available on CD, begin the release of the King Biscuit Hour tapes. Anyway, they don't differ too much, the soundquality is tremendous, loud, just like it ought to be with this band and this kind of music. The setlist is completely different so you have the impression of listening to one show, in 1975, with the exception - although you can not decipher this - that the band consisted of the (3) brothers Bachman (Rob drums, Tim guitar and Randy leadguitar and leadvocals, shared with C.F. Turner on (five string) bass, [which was in the seventies not seen often although it doesn't make a big difference, soundwise], on the latter part of this album, and in place of Tim Bachman the laterday bandmember Blair Thornton on second lead and rythmguitar. So presumable the latter part was recorded before the first part. Anyway, this is a very good, rocking, livealbum, with many of the betterknown songs, the hits, with a few extended guitarsolo's and improvisations and an odd inclusion of Mountain's "Mississippi Queen", also very good, they perform it like a song of their own. So after all these years I am fond I found my way to this CD, I wonder if this is an offical release and not any kind of bootleg or something the like. But probably not, since crew and management of BTO are named, so this is more likely a semi-official album altough it seems to be rare and obscure. (Strangly from the first four studioalbums the first and fourth are not officialy made available on Compact Disc, I can only guess why not but nevertheless this is a shame). Back to this album: it really rocks! It shows you a band in its prime time, whether with the one or other member, boogieing to the tilt. Oddly therefore is the absence of the one and only BTO-song who's begging to be played live and loud: "Not Fragile", with the heavy midsection of fathumming bass and screaming guitars. That said I can only strongly recommend this album, it doesn't stand aside from so many other live albums in the seventies but deserves its own right therein. So more with the inclusion now of 6 extra tracks which make this - on vinyl that is - a doublealblum, worth to be played loud. Sadly not longer afterwards the band lost its grip on the musicworld, with lesser hardrocksongs and finally disengrated totaly, to be erected some 25 years later, not as one unit but two, one abreviated to "BTO" and the other with the full name, with switching bandmembers, both containing a least one of the Bachmansiblings, but still performing a selection of the songs presented on this album, which makes it also a historical "rockumentary".
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