The Tokyo Tapes

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The Tokyo Tapes
Live album by Steve Hackett
Released 1998
Recorded December 1996
Genre Progressive Rock
Label Camino Records
Producer(s) Steve Hackett
Steve Hackett chronology
A Midsummer Night's Dream
(1996)
The Tokyo Tapes
(1998)
Dark Town
(1999)


The Tokyo Tapes is a live Steve Hackett album featuring a progressive rock supergroup lineup of John Wetton from King Crimson, UK and Asia; Chester Thompson from Weather Report, Frank Zappa and Genesis live; Ian McDonald, also from Crimson, and Foreigner; and rounded out by keyboards man Julian Colbeck. Recorded live in Japan in 1996.

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Disc 1

  1. "Watcher of the Skies" (Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford) – 8:59
  2. "Riding the Colossus" (Hackett) – 3:32
  3. "Firth of Fifth" (Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford) – 9:32
  4. "Battlelines" (Wetton/Marlette/Mitchell) – 6:43
  5. "Camino Royale" (Hackett/Magnus) – 9:06
  6. "The Court of the Crimson King" (Fripp/Giles/Lake/McDonald/Sinfield) – 7:39
  7. "Horizons" (Hackett) – 1:53
  8. "Walking Away From Rainbows" (Hackett) – 3:47
  9. "Heat of the Moment" (Wetton/Downes) – 4:06
  10. "...In That Quiet Earth" (Hackett/Banks/Collins/Rutherford) – 4:02
  11. "Vampyre With a Healthy Appetite" (Hackett) – 7:23
  12. "I Talk to the Wind" (Fripp/Giles/Lake/McDonald/Sinfield) – 5:37

Disc 2 - Enhanced CD

  1. "Shadow of the Hierophant" (Hackett/Rutherford) – 7:14
  2. "Los Endos" (Hackett/Banks/Rutherford/Collins) – 6:54
  3. "Black Light" (Hackett) – 2:30
  4. "The Steppes" (Hackett) – 6:48
  5. "I Know What I Like" (Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford) – 5:51
  6. "Firewall" (Hackett) (Studio track) – 4:41
  7. "The Dealer" (Hackett) (Studio track) – 4:23

Plus videos of Watcher of the Skies, Heat of the Moment & Los Endos recorded live.

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