Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana & Steve Lukather - Live Karuizawa, Japan '86 (Bootleg)

Live Karuizawa, Japan '86 (Bootleg)


Live Karuizawa, Japan '86 was recorded at the Suntory Beer Sound Market, Karuizawa Prince Hotel, Karuizawa, Japan on June 1, 1986
and features a mind blowing concert from Jeff Beck and Santana with special guest Steve Lukather.
The three guitar heroes jammed with the band of Jeff Beck, who was promoting his album "Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop" in Japan at the time.
The concert was professionally shot with multiple cameras, and then edited to 71 minutes for television and broadcast over the radio.


Genre: Blues Rock, Hard Rock
Source: DVD NTSC
Label: Super Rock
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Video Format: AVI
Resolution: 640×480
Video Bitrate: 1350 KB/s
Frames per second: 29.970
Pixel Depth: 24 bits
Audio Format: AC3
Channels: 2.0
Audio Bitrate: 384 KB/s
Sampling Rate: 48 KHz
Language: English
Subtitles: None
Runtime: 1:10:38
Recorded: June 1, 1986
File Size: 876 MB


Line-Up

Jeff Beck Band

Doug Wimbish - Bass
Simon Phillips - Drums
Jan Hammer - Keyboards
Jimmy Hall - Vocals

Santana Band

Alphonso Johnson - Bass
Graham Lear - Drums
Chester Thompson - Keyboards
Tom Coster - keyboards
Orestes Vilato - Timbales
Raul Rekov - Percussion
Armando Peraza - Congas
George "Buddy" Miles - Vocals


Tracklist

Santana
01 Intro/Primera Invasion
02 Black Magic Woman
Santana/Steve Lukather
03 Open Invitation

Jeff Beck
04 Star Cycle
05 Cause We've Ended As Lovers
06 Wild Thing
Jeff Beck/Steve Lukather
07 Freeway Jam
08 Going Down

Jeff Beck/Santana/Steve Lukather
09 Super Boogie
10 People Get Ready
11 Johnny B. Goode









The opening of the Sound Market Festival in Karuizawa is instrumental with Santana's emphasis upon thunderous Latin rhythms
underlying his melodic guitar solos.
Carlos Santana, a wizard on guitar, a global star and one of the musicians whose names are synonymous with the bands they
form, is considered to be one of the early protagonists of "world music".
Since he started his brilliant career in the 1960s, Santana has combined Mexican mariachi and other Latin rhythms with blues,
jazz, and rock 'n' roll.
This particular Santana tour featured Buddy Miles, of Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys fame, on lead vocals, and he would also go on
to sing on Santana's 1987 album "Freedom".
Santana's touring band at this time consisted of Chester D. Thompson on keyboards, Orestes Vilato on timbales, Raul Rekow and
Armando Peraza on percussion, Alphonso Johnson on bass, Tom Coster on keyboards, Graham Lear on drums, and Buddy Miles on
vocals who leads the audience in a large sing-a-long to "People Get Ready".
British guitarist Jeff Beck has safely secured his spot in rock history.
His unique style has been described as a combination of Jimmy Page's innovation, Eric Clapton's taste, and Jimi Hendrix's vision.
After participating in the 1983 ARMS tour with Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and a multitude of others, Jeff Beck went silent in terms
of live performance.
He played a handful of shows with Rod Stewart in 1984 and worked on his LP "Flash".
His return to the stage included two live appearances in Los Angeles in 1986 and a short seven date tour of Japan that June.
For the first show of the Japanese tour Beck gives a demonic display of his ability as he rips through the setlist beginning with
"Star Cycle" which is led by keyboard wiz Jan Hammer, introduced by Beck as "the finest synthesizer player in the universe".
This was a killer band Beck put together for this tour, who along with Hammer, also featured Doug Wimbish on bass, Simon Philips
on drums who would later replace the late Jeff Porcaro in Toto, and Jimmy Hall who was also the lead vocalist for the 1970's
southern rock outfit Wet Willie, on vocals.
With help from special guest Steve Lukather, Santana unleashes one of his most straightforward rock songs, "Open Invitation".
Lukather is considered to be one of the most talented guitarists on the planet, so if you only know him from his Toto stuff,
make sure to check out some of his solo and guest work as well.
The three guitarists play in unison and solo off of one another in their various styles on the instrumental "Super Boogie".
The evening ends with a riotous version of "Johnny B. Goode" where Beck's vocalist Jimmy Hall joins in on the fun.
The number of releases for this show is not simply due to the tremendous sound quality of the broadcast but the spirited
performance as well.
Beck made so few live appearances in the eighties (after this he wouldn't tour again for another three years) this release
stands as a great document of the era.