Journey: 1982-04-13 Osaka, Japan (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

This is an incredible show that I've not heard (until yesterday) in many, many years.  I lost it for a long time and have only been able to find a replacement mp3 copy to hold me over until I found another lossless copy.  But as I was searching in a box I hadn't looked through in a decade yesterday, it was in there with a few other trading days shows I'd thought were gone.  It made my day!

LINEAGE:
1998 CD-R trade > burned to two Verbatim Blue 74 minute CD-R's > EAC (Secure) > WAV > Media Creator 2010 Pro (to remove all track markers) > CD Wave Editor (to create new and accurate tracking and name tracks) > Trader's Little Helper (for FLAC 6 encoding, md5 and ffp file creations, testing for lossiness and for SBE's...neither found, and for files verification) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: April 13th, 1982
Location: Osaka Japan
Venue: Fuitsutaika (Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium)
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (Thanks to "steve7711" and "shemethree" for two great sets of artwork each created!!!)
Label: None
Title: None (I'd call it "Lost Osaka Gem")
Size: 572 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. opening music
102. Escape
103. Line Of Fire
104. Lights
105. Stay Awhile
106. The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love)
107. Lovin' You Is Easy
108. Open Arms
109. Mother, Father
110. Jonathan Cain (keyboard solo)
111. Who's Crying Now
112. Where Were you
113. Steve Smith (drum solo)
114. Dead Or Alive

CD 2:
201. Don't Stop Believin'
202. Stone In Love
203. Keep On Runnin'
204. Wheel In The Sky (intro)
205. Wheel In The Sky
206. Neal Schon (guitar solo)
207. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
208. Anyway You Want It
209. crowd & closing music

LINKS:
(1) 1982-04-13 Osaka, Japan (AUD)
(2) 1982-04-13 Osaka, Japan (AUD)

Dime Torrent - http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=479025
NOTE: I created a torrent and posted it on Dime.  If your a Dime member, you'll know what to do.  If not, sign up for a free account and READ THE RULES.  Go to http://www.dimeadozen.org for their home page.  And remember to keep your sharing ratio at 0.25% or higher so as to not get banned.  It's a much faster download almost always!  Now, back to the original blog post.

NOTE: Since my upload earlier this morning, two excellent sets of artwork for this show that were created by Dime members have been shared for this show!  I'm adding a new link below just for the new artwork I got and will eventually add it to the show's zipped files and make a new upload soon.

ARTWORK LINK:
Download Artwork

This show is awesome in sound and performance.  There are a few split second dropouts in the audio, but not many.  I believe there are 3 or 4 of them but they do not ruin the recording.  The taper quit recording as the band left the stage after "Wheel In The Sky".  He didn't record the audience cheering and missed about a second or two of the encore where Neal Schon's solo begins.  Whoever recorded the show did an excellent job, and as always, the Japanese crowds were polite and quiet during the music and showed their enjoyment of the music between songs.

The CD-R's I got in trade long ago were not tracked at the beginning of many of the songs.  I'm just quessing here; but I imagine the recorder may have been marking new tracks live as the songs changed.  I don't recall if tape recorders in 1982 had that capability but I imagine DAT recorders may have.  That's why I took both CD's, removed all track markers, and created new song tracks.  Nobody wants to jump to a song and it began at the end of the previous track :-)

The trader I got this show from added bonus tracks and there were two songs, "The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love)" and "Where Were You" that were from another show.  They were uncut and in this order and I have no idea what show they came from (yet).  He also had added some tracks from the 1986 Raised on Radio TV Special as filler songs I guess.  I left all of these out since they were not part of the Osaka show (not to mention the Raised On Radio TV Special wouldn't be allowed on Dime anyhow).

One thing I really like about this show is the song order and song selections Journey picked.  This was the end of the tour for the Escape LP and the setlist here contains more of the earlier Journey as well as the current Journey of the time.  "The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love" near the beginning of the show and "Don't Stop Believin" in the middle; that wasn't the normal Journey lineup of songs.  The setlist looks like a late 1978 through 1981 excellent mix of songs.

NOTE: Do any of you notice anything not right with the Journey 1982 Osaka tee-shirt in the image below :-)

I hope you enjoy this show...

Bootradr

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