David Bowie - Live in Santa Monica 72
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Music CD Cover Artist: David Bowie Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Limited Edition, Live, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2008-07-22 Music Label: Virgin Records US Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Live in Santa Monica 72 Album
Free Music Review: Classic 1972
Hit: 4 Stars
Back when I was still in high school David Bowie played at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (California) and the concert was broadcast live on Los Angeles radio station KMET FM 94.7 (now defunct). There were a lot fewer "rock" stars back in 1972 than today. Even though Bowie's first album came out in 1967, there was still a bit of a mystery or mystique about him and his sexuality back then. There was a buzz in town about the concert -- his first in the area, hard to imagine now.
I set up my stereo receiver and reel-to-reel tape deck and recorded the concert off-the-air. It turned out to be a really great performance and from what I've read, one of his best ever. Years later all the belts in my old reel-to-reel streched out so the deck no longer worked. So I never got around to copying the show to a cassette tape. A few months ago (November 2008), I had a musician friend copy my old tape to a CD-R for me. For some technical reason the second side of my original tape did not correctly copy. So I ended up with about 2/3 of the concert.
I then started searching through Amazon.com for "David Bowie Santa Monica" and was surprised to find that there have been commercial CD's of this concert put out. I was also glad to find that at least a couple versions (releases) were still available. So I purchased the "boxed" version. It is a great CD for an older live recording. I gave it an over all rating of 4 stars, but I feel the performance itself rates 4 & a half stars. But since the live recording techniques of the early 1970's were not what they are today, I would give it 3 & a half for sound or fidelity. It is still a pretty good live recording. And I really have been enjoying the CD album.