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Teaze - Tour of Japan

This is the one that got away from me back when I was in high school. There was a great little second-hand store I frequented all the time. It was where I got my used comics and picked up a seemingly inexhaustible number of Robert A. Heinlein paperbacks. Occasionally I'd get a Clarke or Asimov, but Heinlein was my jam..  They also had a small section with records. I picked up the first couple of PRISM albums there, along with my once-coveted copy of The Beatles White Album on white vinyl. There in the piles, where I found April Wine's Live! , was a copy of Tour of Japan . I'd never heard of these guys, but it was a cool-looking cover with an awesome logo, and the inside of the gatefold was really cool too, with an extra panel of band photographs. They looked like they were killing it. I'd pick up and put back that album many times, and then one day it was gone. Dang. Fast forward more than a few years (fine ... decades), and I'm digging through a bunch of records a...