[1] The album features recordings from performances from Young's 1976 tour with Crazy Horse in support of Zuma.

The first side features performances from the opening solo acoustic set at the Hammersmith Odeon on March 31, 1976.

The second side features performances from the closing full band electric sets at the Nippon Budokan Hall on March 10 and 11, 1976.

[2] Odeon Budokan was first compiled for release in 1976 by producer David Briggs but was shelved in favor of other projects.

During the ending of "The Old Laughing Lady", Young sings additional lyrics, titled "Guilty Train", as he often did in 1976.

[5][6] A promotional video was made of the band performing "Like a Hurricane" in front of a wind machine at the Hammersmith Odeon.

Two additional acoustic songs from the concerts appear on Disc 9 of Archives Volume II, "Midnight on the Bay" and a banjo take of "Mellow My Mind".

The day after the live performance, overdubs were recorded in CBS Studios in London for "Stringman", which nearly saw release on Chrome Dreams in 1977.

In a 1979 Cameron Crowe interview for Rolling Stone, bassist Billy Talbot remembers: "We played England, Japan, everywhere except America.

Compared to this tape, Zuma sounds like a bunch of guys sleeping in big, fat armchairs, smoking pipes.

"[6] In a 2020 Uncut interview with Michael Bonner, Sampedro recounts hallucinating during the March 11th performance in Japan: "Billy and I took acid at the last show at the Budokan.

'[10] He continues in a 2020 Aquarium Drunkard interview: "Billy and I both dropped acid because that night, after the show, we were flying to Copenhagen.