Judas Priest July 25, 1978 Nakano Sun Plaza Hall Tokyo, Japan Stained Class Tour
1. Exciter 2. White Heat, Red Hot 3. The Ripper 4. Sinner 5. Beyond the Realms of Death 6. Better by You, Better Than Me 7. Victim of Changes 8. Diamonds and Rust 9. Genocide 10. Starbreaker 11. Tyrant
Total length: 72:24
Lineage: unknown gen cassette tape -> Denon DRM44HX dual capstan tape deck -> Audacity 2.1.1 for recording -> FLAC -> Sent to me via WeTransfer -> Audacity 2.1.1 for track splitting and channel balancing -> WAV -> Trader's Little Helper -> FLAC level 8 (align on sector boundaries with fix) -> DimeADozen From the collection of Ericfg; track splitting and other edits by Nuppiz (aka The Finnish Ripper/The Priest's Boot).
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Rob Halford (vocals) Glenn Tipton (guitars) K. K. Downing (guitars) Ian Hill (bass) Les Binks (drums) I was recently contacted by a bootleg trader called Ericfg who has a sizeable collection of Judas Priest bootleg tapes he's collected since the 1980s and now wants to share them with the rest of the world. The deal is that instead of sending tapes or CDs back and forth, he digitizes the tapes at home and then sends the raw, unedited recordings to me by WeTransfer to which I apply whatever edits I see fit and then get them out to the rest of the bootleg world. No EQing by the way, I've learned my lesson from some previous uploads. Just track splitting, volume balancing and tape speed corrections if needed. The seventh show in this series takes us way back to the very first concert Judas Priest performed in Japan, during the Stained Class Tour. Glenn Tipton confirms this at the start of Tyrant. This date is often claimed for a FM bootleg called "Red Hot Tokyo", but that was actually recorded on 29th July at Shiba Yubinchokin Hall. The audio has some occasional volume problems which cause distortion, most notably at the start of Sinner. Ericfg actually had to take another recording from the tape as the first version ended up having way too much clipping, which is also why the sound volume is a bit silent (normalised to -3 dB) as he wanted to make sure he wouldn't have to take a third attempt. The audio is also a bit boomy so I presume this isn't that close to the master or the equipment used wasn't very good. The taper seems to have moved around during the concert to find a good spot, as the audio dips occasionally only to come back again after a few seconds, sometimes much louder than before. Despite these problems the audio quality is still fairly good for a 1978 audience recording, although not as good as the other bootlegs available from this leg of the tour. All songs are complete so none of the music is missing. I patched a tape flip just before the 2-minute mark in Genocide, which wasn't there in the original master as the same audio was repeated for about 15 seconds on both sides of the flip. You can probably hear the change as the audio quality at the start of side B was somewhat lower. I also cut away some silence between Starbreaker and Tyrant, though I kept in a short fade-out and fade-in as the audio wasn't continous. Beyond these the only edits I made were the usual track splitting and channel normalisation. My bootleg list is here, if you want something else uploaded or can share something I don't have yet: http://nuppiz.webs.com/lossless-bootleg-list. I'm especially interested in any audio and pro-shot video from the 1970s to 1991.
1 CD 1 Audience unknown gen cassette tape -> Denon DRM44HX dual capstan tape deck -> Audacity 2.1.1 for recording -> FLAC -> Sent to me via WeTransfer -> Audacity 2.1.1 for track splitting and channel balancing -> WAV -> Trader's Little Helper -> FLAC level 8 (align on sector boundaries with fix) -> DimeADozen FLAC 1:12:25 VG
