Asia/Osaka,Japan 5.17.2010

The reunited ASIA has given us many fulfilling days beyond the golden age, with masterpieces and visits to Japan. Here is an original recording that allows you to experience the best of their performances in Japan. This work is recorded at the “May 17, 2010: Osaka International Convention Center” performance. This is a superb audience recording. The original ASIA, who reunited in 2006, performed in Japan almost every year. Those glorious days were already more than 10 years ago. In order to recall those memories, let’s first review the outline of their visit to Japan during the reunion era.・March 2007 (7 shows)・May 2008 (5 shows) “PHOENIX Tour”・May 2010 (5 shows) “OMEGA Tour”←★Here★・September 2012 (4 shows) “XXX Tour”《2013: Steve Howe leaves》・June 2014 (4 shows) “GRAVITAS Tour”《2017: John Wetton dies》This is the history of ASIA’s visits to Japan since their reunion. They came to Japan four times with their original lineup and once with Sam Coulson on guitar. This work was recorded. It was on the original third “OMEGA Tour”. We have reported on their masterpiece live albums, so let’s organize our collection by schedule here.・May 13: C.C. Lemon Hall ・May 14: “TIMEPIECE (C.C. Lemon)” ・May 15: Kanagawa Prefectural Hall ・May 17: Osaka International Convention Center ←★This work★ ・May 18: “TIME TO BELIEVE (Nagoya)” A total of 5 performances. The Osaka performance of this work was the second to last concert. In fact, this position is surprisingly important. In fact, the first day of the visit to Japan in 2010 was not good. Perhaps due to jet lag, he made a series of mistakes, and even Wetton’s vocals were not clear. After that, the second day of the European tour, which showed recovery in just one day, became a hot topic, and it improved even more after that. It was the second half of the tour that showed its true potential. And the content of the show is wonderful, but the sound of this work that conveys it is even more amazing! After all, the work was created by our familiar master, “Western Japan’s Strongest Taper”. 2010 was the early period of the “Strongest” collection, but this work sounds as amazing as the latest work of 2022! It is always praised as “like a sound board,” but I would like to call this work “official class.” In fact, in 2010, there were also genuine official live works “THE OMEGA TOUR LIVE” and “RESONANCE,” but even if you play them side by side, they are not inferior at all… Not only that, but this work is superior in vividness, stretchiness, thickness, and clarity. Such an official sound is drawn as a full show of “OMEGA Tour,” which is also the “second heyday.” Finally, let’s organize the set while comparing it with the official live work. Classics and others (11 songs) ・ Romance to Time: Only Time Will Tell / Time Again / Sole Survivor / Heat Of The Moment ・ Alpha: Don’t Cry / The Smile Has Left Your Eyes / Open Your Eyes / The Heat Goes On ・ Others: Go / Beginnings (★) / Intersection Blues (★) After the reunion (7 songs) ・ Phoenix: Never Again / An Extraordinary Life ・ Omega: I Believe / Holy War / Through My Veins / Finger On The Trigger / End Of The World *Note: The “★” mark indicates songs that could not be heard in “THE OMEGA TOUR LIVE” and “RESONANCE”. Anyway, the sound quality is amazing. After experiencing this work, the official sound board is so thin that you can’t listen to it. It is truly a new masterpiece from Japan that is proud of the world. Looking back now, the reunion ASIA was a wonderful and blissful era. Although it is common to reunite famous bands to enjoy them as if they were finding remnants of the golden age, ASIA was different. The classic songs of the past were played with a deep flavor, and new classics were born one after another. And above all, they came to Japan many times. A superb audience recording of the performance “May 17, 2010: Osaka International Convention Center”. This is a secret master of the “West Japan’s Strongest Taper”, who is familiar to us, and it is amazing to go “like a sound board”. The vividness, flexibility, thickness, and clarity… everything transcends even the genuine official live works “THE OMEGA TOUR LIVE” and “RESONANCE”. It is a new masterpiece from Japan that is truly proud of the world. Live at Grand Cube, Osaka, Japan 17th May 2010 ULTIMATE SOUND(from Original Masters) Disc 1 (56:24) 1. Intro 2. I Believe 3. Only Time Will Tell 4. Holy War 5. Never Again 6. Through My Veins 7. Don’t Cry 8. Beginnings 9. Intersection Blues 10. The Smile Has Left Your Eyes 11. Open Your Eyes 12. Finger on the Trigger Disc 2 (47:47) 1. Time Again 2. An Extraordinary Life 3. End of the World 4. The Heat Goes On 5. Drum Solo 6. The Heat Goes On (reprise) 7. Sole Survivor 8. Go 9. Heat of the Moment John Wetton – Vocals, Bass Steve Howe – Guitar Geoff Downes – Keyboards Carl Palmer – Drums