Live in Japan is a 1973 release by the rock supergroup power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice. The album, although initially called Beck, Bogert & Appice Live, was only issued in Japan and is also known as Live in Japan. It is generally considered rare due to the fact of it being manufactured in only limited numbers in Japan. Live in Japan was the last LP by Beck, Bogert & Appice and their only live album. Within months of the album's release the band would dissolve after Jeff Beck suddenly decided to leave.
On this record, Beck can be heard heavily using a Heil Talkbox, two years before the release of Peter Frampton's landmark album, Frampton Comes Alive! (1976). The album also contains renditions of songs originally recorded by the Jeff Beck Group, "Plynth", "Going Down", and "Morning Dew" and one Yardbirds number "Jeff's Boogie".
Reception
Stephen Thomas Erlewine in a retrospective review for AllMusic felt the live album worked better than the studio album, but that the music has an appeal only to "diehards".
Track listing
1973 original LP
40th anniversary edition
Personnel Jeff Beck – guitar, talkbox; lead vocals (track 8) Tim Bogert – bass guitar, vocals; lead vocals (tracks 1, 7, 10, 11, 12) Carmine Appice – drums, vocals; lead vocals (tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12)
Charts + Chart performance for Live in Japan Chart (1973) Peakposition Japanese Albums (Oricon) 21 Chart (2013) Peakposition Japanese Albums (Oricon) 32 Chart (2023) Peakposition Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan) 27
References
External links Beck, Bogert & Appice - Beck, Bogert & Appice Live (1972) album review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, credits & releases at AllMusic Beck, Bogert & Appice - Beck, Bogert & Appice Live (1973) album releases & credits at Discogs Beck, Bogert & Appice - Live in Japan (1973) album credits & user reviews at ProgArchives.com