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I was just there! Here you go.Hi Mark. Could you post a link to your blog please. I’m sure many would love to read your thoughts and insightful words, but don’t know how to get there.
Thank you.
Loved it. Your storytelling of events during the times of these releases and findings is also very poignant Mark. Makes me feel like I was a part of that time rather than an afterthought! And the Hawaii trip, Wow. But I did make it by the time I was 20 years old. But I never found any musical treasures like the one you found! I found this paragraph to be dead on with my thoughts too:Hi Everyone,
For reasons we all know, today is a good day to help people discover how much they really do like the music of Karen and Richard.
In that vein of hope- and in celebration their music, my Revisited/Fresh Look at Live in Japan is up on my blog now.
Enjoy!
Mark
I loved reading it!Hi Everyone,
For reasons we all know, today is a good day to help people discover how much they really do like the music of Karen and Richard.
In that vein of hope- and in celebration their music, my Revisited/Fresh Look at Live in Japan is up on my blog now.
Enjoy!
Mark
Thanks for sharing, Mark. Would love to hear about your experience seeing them live and meeting them backstage.Hi Everyone,
For reasons we all know, today is a good day to help people discover how much they really do like the music of Karen and Richard.
In that vein of hope- and in celebration their music, my Revisited/Fresh Look at Live in Japan is up on my blog now.
Enjoy!
Mark
I found it! Just needed to Google that title and it was the first result that popped up. Thank you! By the way I LOVE the Live in Japan album.Thanks for all the stories and feedback! I so with Karen and Richard had received there same level of respect in their home country as they did in Japan! I was there in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka in 1979. Every record shop I saw in these cities had a significant number of Carpenters discs available. Due to limited space and not finding anything I "had" to have, (including the ones mentioned above), I foolishly bought nothing. How I regret it now!
@TimeWarp, I know I have at one time posted that on my blog, but I can't remember where.
You could try to find something titled "The Night I Met Karen Carpenter" - I think- or look at the Live at the Palladium album review as it was the same show I saw and met them in Las Vegas at the Riviera.
Gosh, thanks again everyone for reading and talking with me!
That’s interesting. Does this make you enjoy the live Japan better than the live Palladium. My experience seeing them live makes me prefer the latter over the former.I should mention that the show they did on LIVE IN JAPAN is the exact same show I'd seen them perform at the Valley Forge Music Fair in suburban Philly as part of the same tour. It was like getting a cleaned-up recording of the show I recorded with a portable cassette recorder. We even recorded the Skiles & Henderson part as well. I wonder that tape has gotten to...
WOW. I visit Ala Moana pretty regularly hahaha. There used to be a Sam Goody in the basement, but when Borders and Tower Records closed across the country, Sam Goody closed its doors at Ala Moana shortly thereafter. There's a Barnes and Noble in the basement (in a different space) that's still operating today. I am fairly certain that, given the physical and cultural closeness between Hawaiʻi and Japan, it is generally easier to find Japanese records (including "Live in Japan") in Hawaiʻi than on the continent. I got my double-LP for probably $8 in 2006. I'm digitizing it now.My first Hawaiian trip wasn't until sometime in the 1990s, but I recall also visiting the Ala Moana Mall on Oahu. And we visited a record store there, too. They also sold videos, and at the time I was big into LaserDiscs, and in their sale rack I found a title I wanted - and had to figure out how to get it home.
WOW. I visit Ala Moana pretty regularly hahaha. There used to be a Sam Goody in the basement, but when Borders and Tower Records closed across the country, Sam Goody closed its doors at Ala Moana shortly thereafter. There's a Barnes and Noble in the basement (in a different space) that's still operating today. I am fairly certain that, given the physical and cultural closeness between Hawaiʻi and Japan, it is generally easier to find Japanese records (including "Live in Japan") in Hawaiʻi than on the continent. I got my double-LP for probably $8 in 2006. I'm digitizing it now.
My only addition (for now) to this is that the double-LP in question came with the obi. It has a nasty tear in the middle, but other than that, it's in pretty decent shape. I'm sure I could scan it if I just set up my good flatbed photo scanner. Maybe I'll send the file to one of you to clean up if you want to take a stab at it. (Paging @Vinylalbumcovers and @Harry, the master scanner pros!)
I definitely will take you up on it! My scanner is unplugged now, but maybe I'll plug it in soon.If you want to, @Cuyler, it can be sent to covers (at) vinylalbumcovers.com. If you can scan it as a PNG or TIFF, that'd be great. Most things on the site are 1200 x 1200 at either 300 or 600 dpi. FYI.
Ed
I nominate Cuyler to translate the Mook!Hopefully this post was semi-enlightening
Breathtaking, Ed! Great work!Okay, here we go. This is the best I could do. I removed the old color cast, cloned out the damage, and straightened things out as best I could. That OBI has absolutely seen better days (many decades ago).
Ed
Correcting myself here -- it should say something like, "Carpenters, first live sound recording, finally released!"カーペンターズ初のライヴ録音遂に登場!
Carpenters’ first live appearance!