Live in Japan (Beck, Bogert & Appice album)

Live in Japan
Live album by
Jeff Beck
ReleasedOctober 1973 (Japan)
RecordedMay 18 & 19, 1973
VenueKoseinenkin Hall (Osaka, Japan)
GenreBlues rock, hard rock
Length87:42
LabelEpic
ProducerThe Boys (Beck, Bogert & Appice)
Jeff Beck chronology
Beck, Bogert & Appice
(1973) 		Live in Japan
(1973) 		Blow by Blow
(1975)

Live in Japan is a 1973 release by the rock supergroup power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice. The album, although initially called Beck, Bogert & Appice Live, was only issued in Japan and is also known as Live in Japan. It is generally considered rare due to the fact of it being manufactured in only limited numbers in Japan. Live in Japan was the last LP by Beck, Bogert & Appice and their only live album. Within months of the album's release the band would dissolve after Jeff Beck suddenly decided to leave.

On this record, Beck can be heard heavily using a Heil Talkbox, two years before the release of Peter Frampton's landmark album, Frampton Comes Alive! (1976). The album also contains renditions of songs originally recorded by the Jeff Beck Group, "Plynth", "Going Down", and "Morning Dew" and one Yardbirds number "Jeff's Boogie".

Reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine in a retrospective review for AllMusic felt the live album worked better than the studio album, but that the music has an appeal only to "diehards".[1]

Track listing

1973 original LP

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Superstition" (Stevie Wonder)5:17
2."Lose Myself with You" (Jeff Beck, Carmine Appice, Tim Bogert, Pete French)10:49
3."Jeff's Boogie" (Beck, Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith)3:33
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Going Down" (Don Nix)3:32
2."Boogie" (Beck, Appice, Bogert)4:58
3."Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose)14:11
Side three
No.TitleLength
1."Sweet Sweet Surrender" (Nix)4:43
2."Livin' Alone" (Beck, Appice, Bogert)6:11
3."I'm So Proud" (Curtis Mayfield)5:42
4."Lady" (Beck, Appice, Bogert, French)6:16
Side four
No.TitleLength
1."Black Cat Moan" (Nix)9:13
2."Why Should I Care" (Raymond Louis Kennedy)7:20
3."Plynth/Shotgun (Medley)" (Nicky Hopkins, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Autry (Junior Walker) DeWalt)5:57

40th anniversary edition

Disc one
No.TitleLength
1."Superstition" (Stevie Wonder)5:21
2."Livin' Alone" (Jeff Beck, Carmine Appice, Tim Bogert)6:11
3."I'm So Proud" (Curtis Mayfield)5:42
4."Lady" (Beck, Appice, Bogert, Pete French)6:18
5."Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose)14:08
6."Sweet Sweet Surrender" (Don Nix)4:39
7."Lose Myself with You" (Beck, Appice, Bogert, French)10:43
8."Black Cat Moan" (Nix)9:16
9."Jeff's Boogie" (Beck, Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith)3:32
10."Why Should I Care" (Raymond Louis Kennedy)7:23
Disc two
No.TitleLength
1."Going Down" (Nix)3:44
2."Plynth/Shotgun (Medley)" (Nicky Hopkins, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Dewalt)5:30
3."Boogie" (Beck, Appice, Bogert)4:57

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Live in Japan
Chart (1973) Peak
position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[2] 21
Chart (2013)[nb 1] Peak
position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[4] 32
Chart (2023)[nb 2] Peak
position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[6] 23
Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)[7] 27
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[8] 75
  1. ^ 40th anniversary edition.[3]
  2. ^ Two-in-one reissue with previously unreleased Live in London 1974 recorded at the Rainbow Theatre on January 26.[5]

References

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Beck, Bogert & Appice – Live in Japan (1972) album review | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  2. ^ オリコンチャート・ブック LP編 昭和45年‐平成1年 [Oricon Chart Book LP Edition, 1970-1999] (in Japanese). Tokyo: Original Confidence. 1990. p. 264. ISBN 4-87131-025-6.
  3. ^ ベック・ボガート＆アピス『ライヴ・イン・ジャパン』40周年記念盤は “次世代紙ジャケ” [Beck, Bogert & Appice ‘Live in Japan’ 40th Anniversary Edition Features ‘Next Generation Paper Sleeve’]. CDJournal.com (in Japanese). October 8, 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
  4. ^ "Oricon Top 50 Albums: 2013-11-04/p/4". Oricon (in Japanese). Archived from the original on April 6, 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
  5. ^ "Listen to Jeff Beck's Newly Released 'Superstition' Live Recording Ahead of the Epic Beck, Bogert & Appice Boxed Set". Guitar Player. June 28, 2023. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
  6. ^ "Oricon Top 50 Albums: 2023-09-25/p/3" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
  7. ^ "Billboard Japan Hot Albums – Week of September 20, 2023". Billboard Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved September 20, 2023.
  8. ^ "Swisscharts.com – Jeff Beck / Tim Bogert / Carmine Appice – Live In Japan 1973 / Live In London 1974". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 24, 2023.
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