SCORPIONS - Live In Tokyo 1978 - FRA Verne Limited Press - VERY RARE - LISTEN

Limited to 500 copies, this 58-minute black vinyl comes in a beautiful laminated sleeve with great photos of the band. This superb album was recorded during the Japanese tour of April 1978 promoting the LP 'Taken By Force', which was also the last tour with the Hendrix-loving guitarist Uli Roth. The LP includes, among other things, unreleased tracks taken from the master tape ('Catch Your Train', a 10-minute version of 'Hell-Cat' with snippets of Jimi Hendrix songs, and a performance of a 'Japanese anthem in the style of the Star-Spangled Banner'), as well as alternative, sometimes longer versions of recordings from the tapes that gave rise to the brilliant 1978 LP 'Tokyo Tapes'. The 3 additional tracks (lasting just 12 minutes) were recorded from the audience (with recently remastered sound), but they sound really very good. I stress: not a single second of this material appeared on the original vinyl version of the classic 'Tokyo Tapes', whereas those 46 minutes in superb quality eventually made it onto the expanded deluxe CD edition years later. An absolute must! Condition: NEW, but not shrink-wrapped.