| Thunder Live | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Casiopea |
| Cover: | CasiopeaThunderLivealbumcover.jpg |
| Released: | April 21, 1980 |
| Recorded: | February 8 & 9, 1980 |
| Venue: | ABC Hall, Shiba, Tokyo  |
| Genre: | Jazz fusion |
| Length: | 41:56 |
| Label: | Alfa Records ALR-6037 |
| Producer: | Shunsuke Miyazumi, Shinji Sawada |
| Prev Title: | Super Flight |
| Prev Year: | 1979 |
| Next Title: | Make Up City |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
Thunder Live is the third album and first live album released by jazz fusion group Casiopea in 1980. This album marked the first appearance of drummer Akira Jimbo, who replaced Takashi Sasaki that same year.[1]
This is their first live album, and it mainly includes songs from their past two albums, but "I'm Sorry" and "Have A Nice Dream" are included for the first time in this album.
In addition to the technical and detailed ensemble shown in their past two albums, their high performance in the live recordings, and the sophisticated drumming techniques of Akira Jimbo, have earned them even higher praise than ever. In particular, Harvey Mason heard this album during a listening project for a jazz magazine and was impressed, which led to him becoming involved in their subsequent activities, including participating in the production of the album "Eyes of The Mind."
The live performance that included this album also included video, and at the time of its release it existed as a promotional video, but it was not commercially available for a long time. However, more than 10 years later, in 1992, "Have A Nice Dream" and "Black Joke" (different takes on different recording dates from the album) were included in the Casiopea live video collection video software & LD software "ACT ONE". In 1999, the DVD software "CASIOPEA AGAIN" included "Take Me," which was not included in the album, along with "Have A Nice Dream."
There are two types of covers for this album. The jacket of the first edition, released in 1980, featured a caricature of the members in extreme colors, standing against a backdrop of crimson flames. This original jacket has received major criticism, even from Akira Jimbo's mother. However, from the re-press version, the cover was changed to a more subdued color scheme featuring an illustration of lightning falling on the sea surface.
All tunes arranged by Issei Noro.
CASIOPEA are
Recorded live at ABC Hall, Shiba, Tokyo on February 8 and 9, 1980.
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | April 21, 1980 | Alfa Records | 30cmLP | ALR-6037 | stereo |
| Compact cassette | ALR-6037 | ||||
| December 21, 1986 | 12cmCD | 32XA-106 | |||
| March 21, 1992 | ALCA-273 | ||||
| June 29, 1994 | ALCA-9003 | ||||
| July 23, 1998 | ALCA-9198 | ||||
| December 19, 2001 | Village Records | remastered 12cmCD | VRCL-2203 | DSD, LP paper jacket | |
| January 17, 2002 | VRCL-2223 | DSD | |||
| May 27, 2009 | Sony Music Direct | MHCL-20005 | DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket | ||
| February 3, 2016 | Music download | 1076212864 | iTunes Store[2] | ||
| 4582290413969 | mora AAC-LC 320 kbps[3] | ||||
| A1003862385 | Recochoku AAC 128/320 kbps[4] | ||||
| B01B5AR7PY | Amazon.com[5] | ||||
| Bngtow64ze5jvnlo3uzaasrgnii | Google Play Music[6] | ||||
| July 27, 2016 | 4582290418681 | mora DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[7] | |||
| smj4582290418681 | e-onkyo DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[8] | ||||
| 11183 | HD-music DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[9] | ||||
| 4582290418674 | mora FLAC 96.0 kHz/24bit[10] | ||||
| A1003862385 | Recochoku FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[11] | ||||
| smj4582290418674 | e-onkyo FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[12] | ||||
| 11172 | HD-music FLAC 96 kHz/24bit[13] | ||||
| November 10, 2016 | 2l1oVe4qT0xMwR32lSN8BI | Spotify[14] |
Aside from Casiopea Perfect Live II, all Casiopea lives officially released are cut.
Some songs are missing from the official release, some are not in the right order and some are shorter.