12/8/10

Kiss – Live in Japan ’77 | Rock Concert Video

Kiss – Live in Japan ’77 | Rock Concert Video
49:55 minutes
Kiss Video Concert Live In Japan'77 Filmed during 2 shows (3:00 pm & 7:00 pm) on April 2, 1977 at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. The broadcast was filmed by the japanese NHK Company and the soundtrack was recorded by Eddie Kramer for a never released Alive album for the japanese market. Later these recordings were used for the Alive 2 album where they were mixed with the recordings of the August 1977 L.A. Forum shows.

Kiss – Live in Japan ’77 | Rock Concert Video

If this video is not showing up, You can also see this video here
Track list:
01. Introduction
02. Detroit rock city
03. Let me go, rock and roll
04. Firehouse
05. Makin' love
06. Cold gin
07. Ace Frehley solo
08. Nothin to lose
09. Gene Simmons solo
10. God of thunder
11. Peter Criss solo
12. God of thunder (cont)
13. Rock and roll all nite
14. Encores
15. Black diamond intro
16. Black diamond

Bonus tracks (taken from a different reel and cut from the broadcast)
Tokyo, Budokan, April 2 (3:00 pm show), 1977
01. Detroit rock city (alternative beginning)
02. Take me
03. I want you
04. Do you love me ?
05. Shout it out loud
06. Beth

The NHK Company originally filmed this as a gesture for Kiss in exchange they would be able to produce a Kiss documentary which they finally did in 1977.

They shot it for Kiss who produced a film of it on Casablanca Records and Filmworks titled "Kiss live in Japan". The NHK Company released it to its television audience in Japan in late 1977 as "The Young Music Show". Unfortunately the print thez used was not of the quality of the original print. The original print, after Casablanca used it for "Kiss live in Japan", was sold to HBO in the summer of 1979 for a US broadcast.
This DVD is taken of that reel and is the best version available of this show. It's slightly different to the "Young Music Show" with different angles mixed in and without the annoying and ugly song titles and japanese subtitles in the screen. Also this print is free of the nasty artifacts and grain in the NHK "Young Music Show" print.
The bonus footage are aouttakes of this broadcast, cut from the original release but here preserved for the future… We kept the original broadcast intact but added the outtakes for compeltion giving you the entire performance here in the best possible quality !"

Kiss – Live in Japan ’77 | Rock Concert Video

No comments: