''Burning Japan Live'' is a live album by former

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vocalist and bassist Glenn Hughes. It was recorded at the Club Citta in Kawasaki, Japan on Tuesday 24 May and Wednesday 25 May 1994 in support of the studio album '' From Now On...''.

History

This was the first official live solo album to be released by Hughes. It features a set-list of fifteen songs, four from his 1994 solo album '' From Now On...'', three songs from the ''

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numbers. It also features a never before heard song titled ''Still In Love With You'', on which Hughes plays keyboards. Hughes’ band for the concerts was the same as the band that played on '' From Now On...'', including

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members

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(who only performed on the bonus tracks from '' From Now On...''). It is of note that a live version of the track Kiss Of Fire (from the first

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album) was recorded during the same performance and included on the '' Talk About It EP''. There is an error in the sleeve notes for the album; they mistakenly credit the tracks This Time Around and Owed To G to ''Bolin/Hughes/Paice'', when they should read ''Hughes/Lord'' and ''Bolin'', respectively.

Track listing

#"Burn" – 6:44 ''(Blackmore, Coverdale, Lord, Paice)'' #"The Liar" – 4:39 ''(Beauvoir, Hughes)'' #"Muscle And Blood" – 5:48 ''(Hughes, Thrall)'' #"Lay My Body Down" – 5:08 ''(Hughes, Larsson)'' #"From Now On..." – 6:08 ''(Hughes)'' #"Into The Void" – 7:13 ''(Bojfeldt, Hughes, Michaeli)'' #"Still In Love With You" – 2:10 ''(Hughes)'' #"Coast To Coast" – 6:52 ''(Hughes)'' #"This Time Around" – 3:32 ''(Hughes, Lord)'' #"Owed To G" – 2:53 ''(Bolin)'' #"Gettin' Tighter" – 3:59 ''(Bolin, Hughes)'' #"You Keep On Moving" – 7:25 ''(Coverdale, Hughes)'' #"Lady Double Dealer" – 3:45 ''(Blackmore, Coverdale)'' #"I Got Your Number" – 4:17 ''(Hughes, Thrall)'' #"Stormbringer" – 5:10 ''(Blackmore, Coverdale)''

Personnel

* Glenn Hughes –

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, keyboards on track 7 * Thomas Larsson –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are u ...

* Eric Bojfeldt – guitars, background vocals *

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– keyboards, background vocals

References

External links

Burning Japan Live entry at glennhughes.com
{{Authority control Glenn Hughes albums 1994 live albums