High Stakes and Dangerous Men / Lights Out In Tokyo

UFO’s 13th studio album, 1992’s High Stakes and Dangerous Men, was their first record in ten years to feature bassist and founder member Pete Way. Fronted by Phil Mogg, the only band member to feature in every line-up of UFO’s 50 plus year career, the line-up was completed by guitarist Laurence Archer (Grand Slam/Wild Horses/Lautrec) and drummer Clive Edwards (Uli Jon Roth/Wild Horses/Bernie Marsden).

Although this was the sole UFO album that the guitarist and drummer would appear on, Archer and Edwards had the right musical chops and rock pedigree for UFO. UFO’s first, pre-Michael Schenker line-up had seen a level of popularity to rival Beatlemania in Japan in the early 70s, so it made perfect sense to record their third live album, Lights Out In Tokyo, on the tour to support High Stakes and Dangerous Men.

Recorded on 20th June 1992 at Club Citta in Tokyo, and airing a healthy selection from their latest opus with ‘Running Up The Highway’, ‘Borderline’, ‘She’s The One’, ‘Back Door Man’ and ‘One Of Those Nights’, the set inevitably includes a host of classics including ‘Lights Out’, ‘Rock Bottom’ and ‘Doctor Doctor’ concluding with ‘Shoot Shoot’ (originally from UFO’s Force It LP) and finishing off with the Eddie Cochran classic, ‘C’mon Everybody’.