GEORGE HARRISON (Eric Clapton Band) SEALED "Live In Japan" 1st Press/ GER/ 1992
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GEORGE HARRISON (w/ ERIC CLAPTON BAND)
“Live In Japan”
(Germany) Dark Horse / Warner Brothers
7599-26964-1
1992
SEALED COPY - ONLY SEALED COPY ON EBAY AS OF 5-30-2016
Original 1992 mix and mastering. Later releases had DIFFERENT sound.
Live in Japan is a live double album by George Harrison, released in July 1992. Credited to "George Harrison with Eric Clapton and Band", it was Harrison's second official live album release, after 1971's Grammy-winning The Concert for Bangladesh. The album was recorded during his and Clapton's joint Japanese tour in December 1991, and it features a selection of Harrison's hits as a solo artist alongside some of his best-known Beatles songs.
In 2004, Live in Japan was remastered and reissued, both separately and as part of the deluxe box set The Dark Horse Years 1976–1992, on Dark Horse with new distribution by EMI. The release offered a bonus SACD 5.1 surround sound remix alongside the original. None of these recordings had the same sound as the original release listed here.
Billboard magazine described Live in Japan as "a skin-tinglin' romp, delicious and indispensable" in which "several renditions surpass the originals". The reviewer praised Clapton's playing and found Harrison's singing "splendidly nuanced throughout" before concluding: "A portable, utterly fab house party; just add plenty of room to dance. "A shining moment belongs to Clapton, whose solo on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' is perhaps even more spectacular than the one he played on the original.”
In a review for Rolling Stone in which he considered Harrison's live album in the context of other Beatles-related releases, 22 years after the band's break-up, Parke Puterbaugh wrote: "by and large this is a rocking, extroverted performance, and that is where Clapton and band, providing a solid foundation, helped firm up Harrison's repertoire and resolve. From the sprung rhythms and tart slide licks of 'Old Brown Shoe' to the crunching satire of 'Devil's Radio,' it is a pleasure to hear a pair of past masters bring out the best in each other.”
Writing for MusicHound, Roger Catlin views Live in Japan as "a remarkable live set, featuring Harrison … playing a repertoire that blends the best of his Beatles writing with his solo material". AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes the album as a "fine double-disc set" on which Harrison "turns in surprisingly strong versions of his best solo material". Erlewine adds: "it easily surpasses Paul McCartney's double-disc Tripping the Live Fantastic or Paul Is Live. Not bad for a guy who doesn't like to give concerts."
Stored vertically in a smoke free environment for 24 years.
