1981 Bootlegs – Saxon Deep DISCOGRAPHY

1981

Date	Location	Recording	Time	Quality	Bootleg	Official release
1981, Jan 23	Bracknell, Sports Centre	AUD	75	gd+/gd	CD	No
1981, Feb 14	Jaap Edenhal, Amsterdam	FM	28	ex	CD	No
1981, Feb 16	Hippodrome de Pantin in Paris, France	FM	27	ex	CD	No
1981, Feb 19	Hemmerleinhalle, Neunkrichen a Brand (Check)	AUD	33	gd-	CD	No
1981, Feb 20	Messehalle, Sindelfingen	AUD	43	gd	CD	No
1981, Feb 27	Rhein-Main Halle in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany	AUD	45	bd	CD	No
1981, Mar 16	Palazzo dello Sport Bologna Italy	AUD	71	gd	CD	No
1981, Mar 17	Teatro Tendastrisce, Rome	AUD	66	gd	CD	No
1981, Mar 17	Teatro Tendastrisce, Rome	TV	39	ex/ex-	Video	No
1981, Mar 18	Palasport, Florence	AUD	74	gd+/gd	CD	No
1981, Mar 19	Palasport, Torino	AUD	70	gd+/gd	CD	No
1981, Mar 20	Palasport, San Remo	AUD	77	ex-/gd+	CD	No
1981, Mar 28	De Vereeniging, Nijmegen	AUD	79	gd-	CD	No
1981, Mar 29	De Roma, Antwerp	AUD	52	ex+	CD	Yes
1981, Mar 30	TV Studio 3 Radio Bremen	TV (Unedited)	60	ex	CD	No
1981, Mar 30	TV Studio 3 Radio Bremen	TV	30	ex	DVD	Yes
1981, Apr 4	Hemmerleinhalle, Neunkirchen	AUD	45	gd-	CD	No
1981, Apr 6	Stadthalle, Offenbach	AUD	79	gd-/bd+	CD	No
1981, May 4	Nakano Sun Plaza Hall, Tokyo	AUD	82	gd	CD	No
1981, May 4	Nakano Sun Plaza Hall, Tokyo	AUD	88	ex	Bootleg CD	No
1981, May 5	Expo Hall, Osaka	AUD	85	ex-	CD	No
1981, May 6	Aichi Kinro-Kaikan, Nagoya	AUD	76	gd+/gd	CD	No
1981, May 7	Shibuya Koukaidou, Tokyo Japan	AUD	83	gd+/gd	CD	No
1981, Jun 22	Velodrome de Anouta, San Sebastian Spain	AUD	49	gd+	CD	No
1981, Sep 30	Alabama, Munich	VIDEO	19	ex	VIDEO	No
1981, Oct 21	City Hall, Newcastle	AUD	76	gd+/gd	CD	No
1981, Oct 24	Hammersmith, London	SB	75	ex/ex-	CD	No
1981, Oct 25	Hammersmith Odeon, London,	AUD	83	gd+/gd	CD	No
1981, Oct 30	Forest National, Bruxelle	AUD	77	ex-/gd+	CD	No
1981, Oct 31	Jaap Edenhal, Amsterdam	AUD	75	ex-/gd+	CD	No
1981, Nov 5	Ernst Merck Halle, Hamburg	AUD	78	gd+	CD	No
1981, Nov 8	Sporthalle, Koln	AUD	70	gd-	CD	No
1981, Nov 9	Stadthalle, Offenbach	AUD	71	gd	CD	No
1981, Nov 19	Westfalenhalle 3 in Dortmund, Germany	AUD	75	gd+/gd	CD	No
1981, Dec 1	Pala Lido, Milano	AUD	77	gd+/gd	CD	No
1981, Dec 3	Teatro Palapartenope, Napels	AUD	72	ex-	CD	No
1981, Dec 8	Teatro Tenda, Imola	FM	86	gd+	CD	No
1981, Dec 9	Palasport in Brescia	AUD	77	gd+	CD	No
1981, Dec 10	Palazzo dello Sport, Genoa	AUD	70	gd+ (check)	CD	No
1981, Dec 11	Teatro Tenda in Turin	AUD	72	gd+	CD	No

Alabama, Munich, Germany 1981 Sep 30 [Last concert of Pete Gill with Saxon]

German TV Recorded March 30 1981

Hippodrome de Saint Cloud, Paris, France 16th February 1981 SBD

JUDAS PRIEST/SAXON – PARIS 1981: RADIO BROADCAST

61:15)
SAXON
1. Intro.
2. Heavy Metal Thunder
3. See the Light Shining
4. Strong Arm of the Law
5. Wheels of Steel
6. Machine Gun

JUDAS PRIEST
7. Diamonds & Rust
8. Grinder
9. Breaking the Law
10. Sinner
11. Beyond the Realms of Death
12. Troubleshooter
13. Hot Rockin’

Live…In the Raw – 29 Mar

Hof Ter Lo, Borgerhout Belgium

Saxon - Live...In The Raw (2000, CD) | Discogs

Saxon – Live...In The Raw (CD) - Discogs

Live…In the Raw LP – 29 Mar

1981 Live in Nakano Sun-Plaza Tokyo Japan (2CD)

Mr. Peach Recording: 4th May 1981, Nakano Sun-Plaza,Tokyo Japan

Famous Tapers Mr. Peach

Source:

Famous Tapers # 2: Mr. Peach

What can you say about all these fantastic recordings Mr. Peach worked so hard to capture? I’ll leave it with an all encompassing “Holy cow!” Words fail when taking it all in. Just the cost and logistics of recording all over Japan must have been very high. And then all this for an amazing collection he never seems to have shared for decades.

There were two kinds of tapers. Those that traded their tapes relatively soon after the shows and those that did not until an opportunity presented itself decades later “Mr. Peach”. He was/is a Tokyo resident, which I already knew based on the concert listing I had collected (49 shows recorded at the Budokan alone, so far). He is also the only taper I have known to smuggle in more than one recording device and come out with two recordings from the same concert. Did he have someone helping him? I wonder how strict security was in those days and what the policy was in regards to bringing in recording equipment. If anyone knows more about him, do leave a comment.

I have compiled a list of all known Mr. Peach recordings as of December 31st, 2013 (supposedly he has around 300 masters?) with quality comments from collectorsmusicreviews.com added. They might get a bit tedious after a while but I believe they add enough information to make it worthwhile. (The often somewhat daft) Name of CD title in brackets; it was not my goal to promote the CD bootleg label that has ‘contracted’ his master tapes, these were just added for reference purposes. Their release policy mirrors that of the early and mid-1970s Japan bootleg vinyl releases, which were usually limited to around 200 copies.

Overall, his recordings tend to be very loud and “in your face”. He still seems to have been at the mercy at whatever seat he could get once tickets went on sale, so I doubt he was connected to Udo Presents or another concert promoter but many of his recordings have littel intrusion from other patrons sitting close by. I also doubt he wrote for Music Life or some other publication and ad a professional reason to go to these concerts.

Mr. Peach hit his stride and a first peak in 1976 with the excellent documentation series of the Neil Young and Rainbow tours and just kept going, still dependent on the position of his seat in the arenas, of course, until changes in how drums were miked and amplified via the PA introduced some extra distortion here and there but his recordings usually always come out on top.

From 1976 onwards, Mr. Peach used this Sony portable recorder:

and upgraded in the Spring of ’77 to the latest Technics model, the 686d:

SAXON Nakano Sun-Plaza, Tokyo – May 4th, 1981 (TOKYO 6:30PM) “…the recording is very clear, powerful and loud. At times it’s too loud that it distorts, but it is generally very enjoyable…”