''Live at Budokan'' is a DVD by

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singer-songwriter

Butch Walker Bradley Glenn "Butch" Walker (born November 14, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was the lead guitarist for the glam metal band SouthGang from the late 1980s to early 1990s as well as the lead vocalist ...

, released on December 13, 2005, by

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. It contains two concerts — a 40-minute full-band set, recorded in Tokyo, Japan during Walker's 2005 tour with

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, and 75-minute acoustic set, recorded in

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, Georgia in 2003.

Content

Live at Budokan

The DVD's main feature is a concert recorded on Walker's "Bonez Tour" supporting

Nippon Budokan The , often shortened to simply Budokan, is an indoor arena located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally built for the inaugural Olympic judo competition in the 1964 Summer Olympics. While its primary purpose is to host martial arts con ...

in Tokyo, Japan on March 15, 2005. Each song is followed by a documentary interlude of self-shot material by Walker, filmed on the streets of Tokyo and in the venue's backstage area. Just before "

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" (a

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of a song off their 1978 album ''

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''), there are two rather inaudible

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clips of two covers played during the tour of

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's "Radio Radio" and Blur's "

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Setlist

#"Radio Tokyo" #"Uncomfortably Numb" #"#1 Summer Jam" #"Last Flight Out" #"Mixtape" #"Best Thing You Never Had" #"

" (

cover) #"Lights Out"

This is me... Justified and Stripped

As a bonus, the DVD also features an acoustic concert filmed between the releases of ''

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'' (2002) and ''

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'' (2004). The set includes tracks from both albums, as well as many

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tunes and fractions of cover versions in between songs, including

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' "Close to You",

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's "Close to You",

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's "

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" and OutKast's "Ms. Jackson". The concert was filmed on June 7, 2003, at the

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, Georgia. Excerpts of it can also be found on Walker's 2004 live album '' This Is Me... Justified and Stripped''.

Setlist

#"Sober" #"Promise" #"Race Cars and Goth Rock" #"Diary of a San Fernando Sexx Star" #"Mixtape" #"Don't Move" #"Best Thing You Never Had" #"Cigarette Lighter Love Song" (

original) #"Suburbia" #"

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" (

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cover) #"Grant Park" (Marvelous 3 original) #"Over Your Head" (Marvelous 3 original) #"Every Monday" (Marvelous 3 original) #"Freak of the Week" (Marvelous 3 original) #"Let Me Go" (Marvelous 3 original) #"Take Tomorrow (One Day at a Time)"

Personnel

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– guitar, piano *Kenny Cresswell – drums *Darren Dodd – drums *Jayce Fincher – bass *JT Hall – bass *Mitch "Slug" McLee – drums *

– vocals, guitar, piano

References

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