Comments on: Get back in your technical area

By: John Anderson

John Anderson — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:08:36 +0000

Live at the Budokan (Ian Gillan Band album), 1977-1978 album

That’s sure to be good.

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:58:44 +0000

Spectacular pedantry from John. Chapeau.

However as NB57 is quoting some CAMRA bloke in the pub the discrepancy is a lovely character touch that we can credit as deliberate. Of 18 artistes on wikipedia with live at Budokan albums, 4 are “live at THE Budokan”

Live at the Budokan (Bryan Adams album), 2003 album
Live at the Budokan (Blur album), 1996 album
Live at the Budokan (Chic album), 1999 album
Live at the Budokan (Ian Gillan Band album), 1977-1978 album

The last-mentioned would have been played a great deal, along with the Cheap Trick album, on the Great Easton Express, Phil Easton’s rock show that often used to blurt out from an older brother’s radio set, in our house and probably many others on Merseyside. Hence the confusion possibly.

I also note that one artiste has an album called “One Night at Budokan” off which any individual tracks I might wish to download are listed as “Live at THE Budokan”. those Japanese never can get their articls seorted, tsk.

Anyway that song you mention was massive on Merseyside in 1979 too.

By: John Burscough

John Burscough — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:25:31 +0000

Quite so, quite so. I haven’t heard the album either, but it does contain one of the best live recordings of all the time, “I want you to want me”, which topped the charts in 1979 (in Holland).

By: Vendor of Quack Nostrums

Vendor of Quack Nostrums — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:09:41 +0000

You beat me to it Mr. L. I’ll console myself with the knowledge that I didn’t possess the information without the aid of Mr Google and Mr Wikipedia.

By: Vendor of Quack Nostrums

Vendor of Quack Nostrums — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:07:40 +0000

Pedantry is, as pedantry does John. The album is actually called ‘Cheap Trick at Budokan’ apparently; no Live (long or short ‘i’) and no definite article. Never heard it, but I bet that I wouldn’t enjoy it. Anyway it wouldn’t fit with ‘I’m a dirty great big Five Nations fan’ without the additional words.

By: Mr Larrington

Mr Larrington — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:04:08 +0000

If you’re up for even more pedantry, the album is called “Cheap Trick At Budokan”.

It worries me that I possess this information.

By: John Burscough

John Burscough — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:43:21 +0000

If you’re up for a bit of meta-pedantry, Vendor, it’s “Cheap Trick Live at Budokan” (like Bob Dylan). In the days when we had to make our own entertainment, I used to amuse myself by pronouncing “The Who Live At Leeds” with a short ‘ i ‘.

By: nigel, no not that one (nx3to)

nigel, no not that one (nx3to) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:16:57 +0000

I hear “by the way” too.

By: Vendor of Quack Nostrums

Vendor of Quack Nostrums — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:37:58 +0000

It occurred to me a couple of days after I’d posted 26 that ‘recorded live in Stapledon Wood’ was possibly a somewhat less than accurate sleevenote and that I’d been ‘Blackwelled’.

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:25:50 +0000

I’ve always assumed the “recorded live in Stapledon Wood” thing is a birding joke.The track doesn’t sound like it’s recorded live in the woods, despite that one-take feel with the cock-up and all.

But articles such as this one often contain the sentence “recorded in Stapledon Wood”.

But it’s definitely a query worth adding to the list.