Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Journey: 1981-07-31 Tokyo, Japan (Pro Shot DL DVD)

In celebration of a great (and now legitimately released since 2005) Journey concert from 31 years ago today in Houston, here's another never before released concert from Journey just three months and one week earlier than the officially released Houston Summit show.  I'd love to see Journey release this one too!

This upload is of a great remastering job of the Journey 1981 Tokyo concert.  This is a double layer (DL) DVD and not a regular DVD+/-R disc.  Many programs will compress the video and it can be burned to a regular DVD+/-R, but why would anyone want to do that?  It's much better to go out and buy a DL DVD and not compress the files to fit on a standard, regular recordable disc.

This is definitely the best copy of this show I have seen or have in my collection.  And I have seen (and have) a lot of versions over a lot of years :-)  This project, created by a fan, was put out about 3 - 4 years ago but has been very difficult to locate in this lossless format.  A special thanks goes out to Snivlle Remastered Edition for taking the time to build this project and everything that goes along with doing this.  It takes a lot of time and a lot more "getting it right" and this is a very well built and cleaned up end product.  You'll enjoy it if you download it!

SHOW DETAILS:
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Koseinenkin Hall
Date: July 31st, 1981
Label: Snivlle Remastered Edition
Title: Journey Escape Tour - Tokyo
Artwork: Yes (two different DVD covers to choose from, both with a few inconsistencies on them)

NOTE 1: I left the original uploader's, Snivlle Remastered Edition's, text/description file intact due to the technical details about how the DVD was built for those interested.

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Resolution: 720 X 480
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Video Bitrate: 8000 Mbps
Audio Streams: 1
Audio Channels: 2
Audio Codec: AC3/Dolby 2.0 Tru-Stereo
Audio Bitrate: 448 kbps
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
DVD: 1 DL DVD (DVD-9)
DVD Size:6.02 GB

SETLIST:
01. Where Were You
02. Line Of Fire
03. Don't Stop Believin'
04. Stone In Love
05. Keep On Runnin'
06. When The Love Has Gone
07. Who's Crying Now
08. Lay It Down
09. Jonathan Cain (piano solo)
10. Dead Or Alive
11. Turnaround Tokyo
12. Lights/Stay Awhile
13. Too Late
14. Dixie Highway
15. Lovin' You Is Easy
16. Neal Schon (guitar solo)
17. La Do Da
18. Steve Smith (drum solo)
19. The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love)
20. Wheel In The Sky
21. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
22. Anyway You Want It

LINKS:
Part 1 - 1981-07-31 Tokyo (Snivlle Remaster DL DVD)
Part 2 - 1981-07-31 Tokyo (Snivlle Remaster DL DVD)
Part 3 - 1981-07-31 Tokyo (Snivlle Remaster DL DVD)
Part 4 - 1981-07-31 Tokyo (Snivlle Remaster DL DVD)
Part 5 - 1981-07-31 Tokyo (Snivlle Remaster DL DVD)
Part 6 - 1981-07-31 Tokyo (Snivlle Remaster DL DVD)

Like I mentioned, I've seen this DVD out there before but I was always a little too late to get it.  Thankfully, when I was out of town last week, a friend from Budapest and on a forum we are both on saw it pop up just before the moderators yanked it from the site.  He was able to download it first and uploaded it file by file for me to download and get.  Thanks for grabbing it and sending it Istvan!

As for the "yanking it" on the forum goes, it had nothing to do with it being illegal or anything like that.  Some forums are super strict (which is not as bad as it may sound) about certain things.  The forum it was downloaded from removed it because the video was re-encoded and they do not allow that.  Under most circumstances, I like that policy.  But sometimes, as with this DVD, I wish that wasn't the case because this is the definitive copy of this show that is out there (as far as what has surfaced) and it'd be a shame to miss out on this one.  This is an excellent DVD and is definitely an improvement over the source video/DVD it came from.

So, enjoy the Tokyo 1981 Journey show for yourself and see what you think!  And if you want some more Journey, then put in your officially released and bought copy of the 1981-11-06 Houston show (or go buy it if you don't have it yet :-))...

Bootradr


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