Eric Clapton/Kanagawa,Japan 1981

The live album “JUST ONE NIGHT”, which recorded the 1979 Japan performance, was released the following year and became a huge hit, reaching number 2 in the United States. As a result, Eric Clapton shifted his band personality and musicality in that direction, and the following year, in 1981, he visited Japan for the fifth time. This CD is a complete recording of the Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium performance on December 8th from that 1981 Japan tour in superb stereo sound quality. We will release this performance with a new original master that is different from other previously released titles that had excessive equalization! Written by Mr. Taper, who is known for his works such as “BRITISH PRIDE”, “JUST ONE NIGHT IN MITO” (Mito 11/23/79), and “PERPETUAL BLACK” (Niigata 11/27/81), and this album is also directly from Mr. Taper. I use the provided master cassette tape directly. This disc includes the “announcement of concert precautions” by Udo Music Office staff before the band appears (the last part also includes BGM when leaving the venue after the performance). Just hearing this brings me back to those days. The sound quality is very clear and can be said to be the best that accurately captures the sound of the day. This is a genuine complete version with perfect sound balance and no problems during recording. There is also no clapping near the recorder in the up-tempo number that was in “LET ME IN”. We never expected that a master with this superb sound quality would be discovered for the first time in 34 years. With this quality, it has to be released into the world. With that strong belief, I made it into a CD. The performance of Clapton and the band on this day was especially wonderful even on this Japan tour. There are many emotional moments like this where Blackie cries and groans. If you like “JUST ONE NIGHT,” you’ll probably find it “unbearable.” Moreover, the band at this time included Gary Brooker, the leader and keyboardist of Procol Harum, a veteran British rock band. Reflecting this, in the middle of the album, his big hit number A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Japanese title: Blue Shadow) is played. For this song and the next song, Country Boy, featuring Albert Lee, Clapton left the stage (which is why Albert Lee took the guitar solo in the middle of A Whiter Shade Of Pale), but then he played again. In the then-new title number Another Ticket, which appeared and was played, they showed off a play that could be called the height of mellowness. And Muddy Waters’ blues Blow Wind Blow from the same album also creates the best groove. Furthermore, the nostalgic Motherless Children from their 1974 comeback work “461 Ocean Boulevard”. This groove is also great! And this withering condition is also amazing! From the deep blues Ramblin’ On My Mind/Have You Ever Loved A Woman, to the popular song Cocaine, which was the most requested by the venue, and then to Layla, the stage progressed towards a grand finale. Clapton on this day is really in great shape. Actually, at the Budokan performance the day before, there was an “incident” where she had to cut her Layla and get off the stage due to poor health, but on this day, she was doing well as if she were a completely different person. This edition is not to be missed even by those who have “LET ME IN”. The Yokohama performance, which appears for the first time and is listened to with a completely different master, is a lump of oxidized silver. Live at Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan, Yokohama, Japan 8th December 1981 PERFECT SOUND(from Original Masters) Disc 1 (47:08) 1. Intro 2. Tulsa Time 3. Lay Down Sally 4. Wonderful Tonight 5. After Midnight 6. I Shot The Sheriff 7. A Whiter Shade Of Pale 8. Country Boy 9. Another Ticket Disc 2 (51:24) 1. Blues Power 2. Blow Wind Blow 3. Motherless Children 4. Ramblin’ On My Mind / Have You Ever Loved A Woman 5. Cocaine 6. Layla 7. Member Introduction 8. Further On Up The Road Eric Clapton : Guitar & Vocals Albert Lee : Guitar & Vocals Dave Markee : Bass Henry Spinetti : Drums Chris Stainton : Keyboards Gary Brooker : Keyboards & Vocals