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Live At The Budokan LP cover

Artist: Ian Gillan Band
Title: Live At The Budokan (2 x LP)
(Volumes I and II)
Record Label: Virgin
Catalogue No.: VGD3507
Year: 1978

Track listing:

Volume I

  • Side 1
    1. Clear Air Turbulence (12.56)
    2. * Smoke On The Water (9.50)

  • Side 2
    1. Scarabus (5.32)
    2. Money Lender (10.56)
    3. Twin Exhausted (5.08)
Total running time = 44.22

Volume II

  • Side 1
    1. Over The Hill (8.41)
    2. * Child In Time (10.20)

  • Side 2
    1. * Smoke On The Water (9.50)
    2. Mercury High (5.06)
    3. * Woman From Tokyo (4.46)
Total running time = 38.43


Personnel

Vocals: Ian Gillan
Keyboards & vocals: Colin Towns
Bass & vocals: John Gustafson
Guitars & vocals: Ray Fenwick
Drums & percussion: Mark Nauseef


Recording details

Produced by: Ian Gillan Band
Mixed by: Paul 'Chas' Watkins at Kingsway Recorders, London, UK
Recording engineer: Kenji Murata
Assistant engineer: Hitoshi Matsubara

Recorded live at the Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan on 22nd September 1977

All songs written by the Ian Gillan Band, except * written by Blackmore / Gillan / Glover / Lord / Paice

For reasons unknown, My Baby Loves Me was omitted from this set, resulting in the same version of Smoke On The Water appearing twice. The missing track eventually turned up on the CD version of Scarabus


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