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and Trapeze vocalist and bassist

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. It was recorded at the

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in Kawasaki, Japan on Tuesday 24 May and Wednesday 25 May 1994 in support of the studio album '' From Now On...''.

History

This was the first official live solo album to be released by Hughes. It features a set-list of fifteen songs, four from his 1994 solo album '' From Now On...'', three songs from the ''

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'' album and seven

numbers. It also features a never before heard song titled ''Still In Love With You'', on which Hughes plays keyboards. Hughes’ band for the concerts was the same as the band that played on '' From Now On...'', including

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members Mic Michaeli, John Levén and Ian Haugland (who only performed on the bonus tracks from '' From Now On...''). It is of note that a live version of the track Kiss Of Fire (from the first

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album) was recorded during the same performance and included on the '' Talk About It EP''. There is an error in the sleeve notes for the album; they mistakenly credit the tracks This Time Around and Owed To G to ''Bolin/Hughes/Paice'', when they should read ''Hughes/Lord'' and ''Bolin'', respectively.

Track listing

#"Burn" – 6:44 ''(Blackmore, Coverdale, Lord, Paice)'' #"The Liar" – 4:39 ''(Beauvoir, Hughes)'' #"Muscle And Blood" – 5:48 ''(Hughes, Thrall)'' #"Lay My Body Down" – 5:08 ''(Hughes, Larsson)'' #"From Now On..." – 6:08 ''(Hughes)'' #"Into The Void" – 7:13 ''(Bojfeldt, Hughes, Michaeli)'' #"Still In Love With You" – 2:10 ''(Hughes)'' #"Coast To Coast" – 6:52 ''(Hughes)'' #"This Time Around" – 3:32 ''(Hughes, Lord)'' #"Owed To G" – 2:53 ''(Bolin)'' #"Gettin' Tighter" – 3:59 ''(Bolin, Hughes)'' #"You Keep On Moving" – 7:25 ''(Coverdale, Hughes)'' #"Lady Double Dealer" – 3:45 ''(Blackmore, Coverdale)'' #"I Got Your Number" – 4:17 ''(Hughes, Thrall)'' #"Stormbringer" – 5:10 ''(Blackmore, Coverdale)''

Personnel

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on track 7 *

Thomas Larsson Thomas Larsson (born 1964 in Falun, Sweden) is a Swedish guitarist and songwriter, perhaps most famous for his work with singer Glenn Hughes and with the band Baltimoore. He has also released a few solo albums. Biography Larsson started playing ...

–

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

s, background vocals * Eric Bojfeldt – guitars, background vocals * John Levén –

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* Ian Haugland –

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s * Mic Michaeli – keyboards, background vocals

References

External links

Burning Japan Live entry at glennhughes.com
{{Authority control Glenn Hughes albums 1994 live albums