David Bowie - David Live
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Artist: David BowieEdition: Music CD
Format: Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2005-03-15
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- 1984
- Rebel Rebel
- Moonage Daydream
- Medley
- Changes
- Suffragette City
- Alladin Sane
- All the Young Dudes
- Cracked Actor
- Rock 'N' Roll With Me
- Watch That Man
- Knock On Wood
- Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
- Space Oddity (Previously Unreleased)
- Diamond Dogs
- Panic In Detroit (First Issue on CD)
- Big Brother
- Time
- The Width Of A Circle
- Jean Genie
- Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
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Free Music Review: Wow!
Hit: 5 Stars
David Live, Bowie's legendary recording from Philadelphia's Tower Theater was one of the very first albums that I owned. I have been listening to the various versions of it for 30+ years and know every nuance, musical cue, lyric and sound emitted from the audience - well, at least I thought I did - until today. Though the performance itself, along with the arrangements in a `Philly Soul' style, was outstanding, the muddy production values on previous versions were accepted as a necessary downfall of the live recordings of the day. Yes, this new version is still a recording from 1974, and will never be technologically what it could be were it recorded in 2005, but what a vast improvement it is over the original. It's almost hard to believe this recording was taken from the same analog tapes as the others.
I've given the new remastered release of David Live two listenings since purchasing it today, one on my average car stereo and one on my above-average home system (in stereo) and can report that the new version of David Live is nothing short of brilliant. I should say that I am very leery of the `remixed / remastered' marketing ploy in music industry, but difference between the previous versions and this release is remarkable.
Gone is the flat, one-dimensional sound. Perhaps the most noticeable improvement is the aural depth of the concert recording. This is particularly true of DB's voice, as it reverberates with warmth and places him in front of the band. The stereo separation is also more pronounced, and the musician's individual instruments and backing vocals are clearly recognizable. The production can be described as clean and true, but not polished. On several tracks, the hum of the theater's sound system is actually audible, lending to the authenticity of the concert recording. The audience applause and cheers remain understated, but also seem to be more dynamic. And all of this on the stereo CD. I can't wait for the DVD audio version to be released in the US (it's available in the UK). Now if we could only see a re-release on vinyl - that may be asking a bit much.
Tony Visconti oversaw the remastering of this version, returning the recording to the show's original running order and including previously unreleased material in order to do so. No filler here though. It's particularly interesting that Space Oddity was finally able to be included due to technology that simply didn't exist in 1974. (The song was sung into a telephone in the concert and the quality was so bad it could not be included on the original.) Another worthwhile feature are the new liner notes by Visconti and a complete list of DB's 1974 concerts - including cancellations. This is a quality release.
Don't hesitate.
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DAVID BOWIE David Live (2005 UK Limited Edition digitally remastered 2-CD album set comprising 21 tracks recorded live in July 1974 during the Diamond Dogs tour with an exclusive mix by Tony Visconti and featured in the running order from theoriginal performance plus the previously unreleased Space Oddity & Panic In Detroit [on CD for the first time] complete with comprehensive sleevenotes written by Tony with chronology by Kevin Cann - presented in fold-out digipak picture sleeve still factory SEALED from new in its original hype-stickered shrinkwrap therefore MINT and unplayed!)Playing Rock's Greatest Chameleon was a great gig while it lasted, but by the mid-80's, David Bowie found his "Changes" led to an ironic dead-end. Yet this 1974 live album managed to distill his quicksilver nature as few others. Ostensibly mounted in support of Diamond Dogs, but sans Guy Peellaert's Ziggy-as-Great Dane imagery (a trick even the notorious pop changeling couldn't turn onstage), Bowie's image and music quickly evolved on the tour, taking on an American r&b-fueled edge that would seep into very corner its career-retrospective set. Indeed, the musician would pause mid-tour to record Young Americans with the core of the live band here, setting up his Thin White Duke incarnation in the bargain. Culled from shows at Philadelphia's Tower Theatre, this edition has been both remastered and expanded by the inclusion of "Panic in Detroit" and "Space Oddity," marking the first time the complete show has been available. Also includes insightful notes by producer/longtime Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti. --Jerry McCulley
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