RAINBOW / FREEZING BLOW DAY-TWO (2CDR)

RAINBOW / FREEZING BLOW DAY-TWO
(2CDR) SD0035 Day 2
Live at Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan – October 13, 1982

Disc 1
1. Introduction
2. Over The Rainbow
3. Spotlight Kid
4. Miss Mistreated
5. I Surrender
6. Can’t Happen Here
7. Tearin’ Out My Heart
8. Lazy – All Night Long
9. Child In Time – Stone Cold

Disc 2
1. Power
2. Difficult To Cure
3. David Rosenthal Keyboard Solo
4. Difficult To Cure (Reprise)
5. Bob Rondinelli Drum Solo
6. Long Live Rock’n’Roll (incl. Hey Joe)
7. Maybe Next Time
8. Since You Been Gone
9. Smoke On The Water / Kill The King / Long Live Rock’n’Roll (Reprise) – Over The Rainbow

The final "holy grail" of the 1982 Japan tour—the previously unreleased Osaka 3-day run—has finally arrived! Released by the Smooth Dancer label, this is an absolute must-have for fans! The full picture is finally revealed! A complete recording featuring top-tier sound quality for that era!

[Review from a specialized music magazine]
For some reason, the 1982 Osaka 3-day run hadn't circulated widely—except among a select group of collectors—until recently, making this a welcome release for enthusiasts. The sound quality is excellent for an audience recording across all shows, with crowd noise adding to the sense of realism. The content is virtually complete; it is an essential listen for readers who attended these shows some 20 years ago, and those who didn't will enjoy it just as much.

Let’s take a look at the individual shows.
While the sound quality on the second day is slightly lower than the other two, it remains at a perfectly listenable level. The basic setlist—excluding the encore—was identical across all three days, so there were no particular surprises on this day either; however, perhaps because it was the third consecutive show, the performance felt a bit rushed. For the encore, they played the standard track [Disc-2] 7, followed by [Disc-2] 8—a song that hadn't been included on the first day. Even though I had been watching with my arms crossed, that choice made me grin; naturally, however, I crossed my arms again the moment the intro to [Disc-2] 9 began to play. I have to admit, I was one of the people grumbling to my friends on the way home about how the show's content was virtually the same as the previous day's.