Live in Tokyo (HTP album)

Infobox Album | Name = Live In Tokyo
Type = Live album
Artist = Hughes Turner Project


Released = August 21 2002
Genre = Hard rock AOR Funk
Length = 72:35 (European vsn)
75:22 (Japanese vsn)
Label = MTM Music (Europe)
Pony Canyon (Japan)
Producer = Glenn Hughes
Joe Lynn Turner
Akira Kajiyama
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*"RevelationZ" rating-10|8 [http://www.revelationz.net/index.asp?ID=375 link]
Last album = "HTP"
(2002)
This album = "Live In Tokyo"
(2002)
Next album = "HTP 2"
(2003)

"Live In Tokyo" is a live album by Hughes Turner Project, a collaboration between Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple/ Black Sabbath/ Trapeze) and Joe Lynn Turner (Deep Purple/ Rainbow/ Yngwie Malmsteen); it was released in 2002 on MTM Music and Pony Canyon Records.

History

"Live In Tokyo" was the first and only live record to be released by the Hughes Turner Project. The album was recorded at the Shibuya Club Quattro in Tokyo, Japan on May the 17th and 19th 2002 on the first leg of their tour to support their debut album "HTP".

The set-list comprises four songs from the "HTP" album as well as other songs from both Hughes and Turner’s back catalogues including Deep Purple, Rainbow and Black Sabbath numbers. For the most part the two sing their own songs solo, only performing duets on the HTP songs.

For the Japanese leg of tour the pair were joined by native musicians Akira Kajiyama (guitar), Toshio Egawa (keyboards) and Yoshihiro Kudo (drums). While Kajiyama had contributed some guitar solos to the "HTP" album, the others had not taken part in its recording and this is the only Hughes Turner Project release they appear on.

The European version of the album included the studio track Against The Wall, which had originally been released as the bonus track on the Japanese version of "HTP". However the European version excludes the live recording of the Black Sabbath track No Stranger To Love, which only features on the Japanese version.

Track listing

#"Devil's Road" – 6:11 "(Hughes, Marsh, Turner)"
#"Cant Stop Rock and Roll" – 4:45 "(Hughes, Marsh, Turner)"
#"Death Alley Driver" – 4:22 "(Blackmore, Turner)"
#"I Surrender" – 4:11 "(Ballard)"
#"Stormbringer" – 4:41 "(Blackmore, Coverdale)"
#"Dark Days" – 3:57 "(Kajiyama, Turner)"
#"Mistreated" – 9:15 "(Blackmore, Coverdale)"
#"No Stranger To Love" – 7:23 "(Hughes, Iommi)" (Japanese version only)
#"Can't Stop the Flood" – 3:41 "(Hughes, Marsh)"
#"Better Man" – 6:00 "(Hughes)"
#"Ride the Storm" – 4:03 "(Hughes, Marsh, Turner)"
#"King of Dreams" – 6:44 "(Blackmore, Glover, Turner)"
#"Street of Dreams" – 5:01 "(Blackmore, Turner)"
#"Spotlight Kid" – 5:08 "(Blackmore, Glover)"
#"Against The Wall" – 4:36 "(Hughes, Marsh, Turner)" (European version only)

Credits

Performers

*Glenn Hughes – Vocals/ Bass
*Joe Lynn Turner – Vocals/ Guitar
*Akira Kajiyama – Guitars/
*Yoshihiro Kudo – Drums
*Toshio Egawa – Keyboards

References

[http://www.glennhughes.com/htpliveintokyo.html Live In Tokyo entry at glennhughes.com]