Hello Tokyo, Bye Bye Osaka: Live in Japan 1999

by Blue Cheer

Hello Tokyo, Bye Bye Osaka: Live in Japan 1999 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 July 1999
  • Label: Captain Trip
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:13:34
  • Community rating: 3.8/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: You Ishihara, Paul Whaley, Booker T. Jones, Carl Wells, Al Jackson Jr., Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart, Dickie Peterson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Hello Tokyo, Bye Bye Osaka' documents Blue Cheer's 1999 Japanese tour, the band's first visit to Japan. The performances revisit their late 1960s heavy blues repertoire at undiminished volume.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, lo-fi, distorted, live, abrasive

Tracklist

  1. Babylon (4:59)
  2. Big Trouble In Paradise (4:15)
  3. The Hunter (4:42)
  4. Blue Steel Dues (7:27)
  5. Urban Soldiers (4:22)
  6. Girl Next Door (4:56)
  7. Ride With Me (8:01)
  8. Summertime Blues (5:46)
  9. Down And Dirty (5:19)
  10. Out Of Focus (5:43)
  11. Doctor Please (18:04)

Credits

  • Dickie Peterson - bass, vocals, written-by
  • Andrew Duck MacDonald - guitar, written-by
  • Booker T. Jones - written-by
  • Eddie Cochran - written-by
  • Jerry Capehart - written-by
  • Souichirou Nakamura - engineer
  • Noboru Iwanaga - engineer [assistant f.o.h.]
  • Sakae Kikumura - engineer [monitor]
  • Bob Rogers - liner notes
  • Hiromi Wakui - photography by
  • Hitoshi Kato - photography by
  • Ken Matsutani - producer
  • You Ishihara - producer
  • Hitoshi Okunari - recorded by
  • Al Jackson Jr. - written-by
  • Carl Wells - written-by
  • Tony Rainier - written-by

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