Jackson Browne – Osaka, Japan (03/24/77)

JACKSON BROWNE with band featuring David Lindley
First Time in Osaka
Osaka Festival Hall
Osaka, Japan
March 24, 1977

Jackson gave an amazing show for his first appearance in Osaka. The setlist is outstanding overall and contains unique one-of-a-kind performances of The Only Child and Cocaine in addition to arrangements which feature his band and, especially, David Lindley.

This is a wonderful audience recording with excellent sound for 1977. The recording remains as I received it in a trade except that at the beginning of Disc 2 I separated Jackson’s comments to the audience from The Only Child into a distinct track.

The band:

Jackson Browne–vocals, guitar, piano
David Lindley–guitars, violin, vocals
Mark Jordan–keyboards
John Mouseri–drums
Bryan Garafalo–bass
David Morgan–guitar
David Landau–guitar

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Disc 1 (63:21):

  1. Take It Easy >
  2. The Fuse
  3. Rock Me on the Water
  4. Fountain of Sorrow
  5. For Everyman
  6. Late for the Sky
  7. For a Dancer
  8. Song for Adam
  9. Doctor My Eyes >
  10. These Days

Disc 2 (61:36):

  1. Jackson talks to the crowd via Japanes interpreter
  2. The Only Child
  3. Walking Slow
  4. The Road and the Sky
  5. Before the Deluge
  6. The Pretender
  7. Do You Wanna Dance >
  8. Redneck Friend
  9. Sweet Little Sixteen
  10. Cocaine

3 thoughts on “Jackson Browne – Osaka, Japan (03/24/77)”

  1. Hi Mat,

    Thank you for posting this! This is the show that for many years in the 90s circulated on a Japanese bootleg known as the only child. I mentioned it in a previous post.

    to clear up any confusion about the band member lineup on this tour, Jackson hadn’t yet hired the section who is the band that would back him up on what became of the running on empty album for the summer of 1977. This tour he still had the band that he had in 1976 on his winter European tour. I don’t think there was a band member named David Morgan who played guitar. However there was a keyboard player in his band at this time named David Mason (not to be confused with David Mason from Traffic). Mark Jordan was also on keyboards, but he primarily played piano in the band. Jordan also played acoustic guitar on the songs where Jackson sat down behind the piano. Such as Rock me on the water. The keyboard player David Mason played a electric piano pretty much exclusively on this tour. Not sure if it was a B3, but videos from that era show a similar double-tiered organ. For those of you interested, David Landau is the brother of Jon Landau, who produced the Pretender, and was also the producer of Bruce Springsteen’s born to run album (and then became Bruce Springsteen’s manager.) His brother David Landau also played a lot with Warren Zevon. Fender has recently come out with a David Landau custom shop Stratocaster.

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