ASIA - Axis XXX Live in San Francisco

Asia – Axis XXX Live in San Francisco (2015)



The rock band Asia celebrated the 30th Anniversary of their self-titled debut album with a concert at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco in 2012. This is a documentation of that stunning performance. Featuring original members John Wetton: Bass / Vocals; Steve Howe: Guitar; Geoff Downes: Keyboards / Vocals; Carl Palmer: Drums.

CD 1:
1. Introduction
2. Only Time Will Tell
3. Wildest Dreams
4. Face On The Bridge
5. Time Again
6. Tomorrow The World
7. Ride Easy
8. Pyramidology
9. The Golden Mean
10. I Know How You Feel
11. Don’t Cry
12. The Smile Has Left Your Eyes

CD 2:
1. Cutting It Fine
2. Holy War/Drum Solo
3. An Extraordinary Life
4. Here Comes The Feeling
5. Open Your Eyes
6. Sole Survivor
7. Heat Of The Moment

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ASIA - Addenum: The Missing Tracks

Addenum: The Missing Tracks

Ride Easy 4:29  
Daylight 3:33  
Go 8:14  
Lying To Yourself 4:11  
Gypsy Soul 3:32  
Go (Instrumental Remix) 8:10  

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YES & ASIA - Riverplace Bethlehem, PA - 08/02/2009

Yes
2009-08-02
Riverplace
Bethlehem, PA

The Final Double Shift

Taped By: N. Andreas
Catalog: Nickeh Productions 095
 
Format: FLAC
Discs: 2CD
 
Lineage: Tascam DR-07

1. Siberian Khatru (10:29)
2. I've Seen All Good People (8:40)
3. Tempus Fugit (6:35)
4. Astral Traveler (9:10)
5. And You and I (12:22)
6. Intersection Blues (5:05)
7. Owner of a Lonely Heart, Take One (2:05)
8. Owner of a Lonely Heart, Take Two (5:41)
09. Machine Messiah (12:15)
10. Roundabout (10:22)
11. Heart of the Sunrise (13:33)
12. Starship Trooper (13:05)

Notes:
A good bit of work went into this recording. This was taped from the lawn way back with recording levels basically as high as they could go to capture as much sound as possible. However it is still obviously distant, and the bass really muddied up everything. However with some EQing it really cleared up a lot and I'm quite happy with how this turned out compared to the raw master. Still, it's not exactly a top notch recording, was taken from the lawn remember.

The show got the title it has because this was the last night of the tour, and Steve Howe was doing guitars for both bands.

Asia
2009-08-02
Riverplace
Bethelehem, PA

The Final Double Shift, Part One
Taped By: N. Andreas
Catalog: Nickeh Productions 093

1. Wildest Dreams (5:12)
2. Only Time Will Tell (5:04)
3. An Extraordinary Life (5:36)
4. Video Killed the Radio Star (4:58)
5. In the Court of the Crimson King (5:23)
6. The Smile Has Left Your Eyes (3:23)
7. Don't Cry (4:55)
8. Fanfare for the Common Man (8:44)
9. Sole Survivor (6:08)
10. Heat of the Moment (6:50)

Notes:
A good bit of work went into this recording. This was taped from the lawn way back with recording levels basically as high as they could go to capture as much sound as possible. However it is still obviously distant, and the bass really muddied up everything. However with some EQing it really cleared up a lot and I'm quite happy with how this turned out compared to the raw master. Still, it's not exactly a top notch recording, was taken from the lawn remember. Be careful at the very beginning, I did turn the recording level down a tad from max so it will be a little loud for the first 30 seconds or so.

The show got the title it has because this was the last night of the tour, and Steve Howe was doing guitars for both bands.


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ASIA - XXX

Asia – XXX [Deluxe Edition] (2012)

The British Rock band Asia is one of the very first so called ‘supergroups’. However, unlike others before them that fell by the waysides after a couple of years or a couple of albums as they realised that even one album together was too much, Asia are celebrating 30 years together with the appropriately named album XXX.
As solo artists or key cogs in other band’s machinery, Geoff Downes, John Wetton, Steve Howe and Carl Palmer are sublime, together they bring those key elements that make them stand out and turn into one of the bands of their time.
After 30 years you could expect the four musicians to be taking time to assess whether the music is as important as when they released seminal tracks such as Only Time Will Tell, Heat of the Moment…
…and Wildest Dreams.  However, if the last studio album, Phoenix and this new release XXX are anything to go by, the music is not just important, it’s vital. Very few bands of their genre and their time manage to combine excellent musicianship with such detailed imagery and deeply profound lyrics as Asia. Perhaps only Marillion and Steve Hackett really are in the same league.
The secret to this obviously lies in the past where the ideas sprung from the early days of Yes for Steve Howe and drummer supreme Carl Palmer’s time in arguably the first ‘supergroup- – Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Tailored and coupled with John Wetton’s and Geoff Downes’ lyrics, XXX delivers in fine and exquisite style, which really should never be doubted.
If the band set out to recapture the energy of the first album, then they surpassed themselves and their combined expectations. The music is more mature as we all get older and wiser.  However it takes good musicians to recognise that. In songs such as Face on The Bridge, the  tremendous Bury Me In Willow, Ghost of A Chance and Tomorrow The World the four musicians perform together with such skill that the album comes across in such a dream like fashion.  There are  elements of ethereal beauty that you feel as though Steve Howe’s guitars and the sublime keyboards of Geoff Downes wouldn’t be out of place in the new wave of Progressive Rock bands such as Touchstone and The Reasoning.
XXX is a well thought out album and it’s absolute pleasure to welcome Asia back.
1. Tomorrow the World (6:47)
2. Bury Me in Willow (6:01)
3. No Religion (6:36)
4. Faithful (5:37)
5. I Know How You Feel (4:54)
6. Face On the Bridge (5:59)
7. Al Gatto Nero (4:37)
8. Judas (4:43)
9. Reno (Silver and Gold) (5:15)
10. Ghost of a Chance (4:21)
11. I Know How You Feel (Midnight Mix) (5:23)
12. Faithful (Orchestral Version) (4:54)

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