Before we consider the frankly stunning existence of The Complete Budokan 1978 — a new box set compiling the two concerts that formed the basis of the notorious 1979 double-live album Bob Dylan At ...

The '70s were the decade of the live rock album, as a few concert sets such as Kiss' Alive! and Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive! helping trigger massive mainstream breakthroughs. But few were ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Nippon Budokan sits serenely nestled in a verdant park at the heart of Tokyo. Visitors admire the elegant lines of its Buddhist temple-based design before they step into the graceful ...

Cheap Trick found early success in Japan, and capitalized on this popularity by recording Cheap Trick at Budokan in Tokyo on April 28 and 30, 1978, with an audience of 12,000 screaming Japanese fans ...

Cheap Trick's 1978 live album At Budokan was a triumphant success that marked their critical and commercial breakthrough. It also, apparently, wasn't totally honest. “So Budokan's not Budokan,” ...

Cheap Trick has had something of a comeback over the last couple of years—playing Lollapalooza, recording a single with Steve Albini, and releasing its best album in over a decade—but the band is ...

Following up 1978’s career-changing At Budokan was never going to be much of a problem for Cheap Trick – given that they’d actually recorded the material for Dream Police before their live album was ...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 21: Eric Clapton performs on stage at the Royal Albert Hall on 21 May 2015 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Christie Goodwin/Redferns) In the formative days of heavy ...

TOKYO – The Nippon Budokan sits serenely nestled in a verdant park at the heart of Tokyo. Visitors admire the elegant lines of its Buddhist temple-based design before they step into the graceful ...