I don’t know if this already publicised but my Amazon account has just alerted me the release of ‘Bowie Live Nassau Coliseum ’76’ in double CD and vinly format. The CD is a mere £12.99. The release date is 10/2/17.
When I looked a few months ago following a Dame debate, I could find hard copy only as part of a reissue collection costing tens and in some cases hundreds of pounds.
Sounds like a steal to me.
The double vinyl is only £15.95 at the moment.
And triple David Live remix with the extra bonus 2 tracks was only 20 quid
Even if it’s still a bit pony
Now 16 quid! I have broken my New Year resolution 🙁
Thanks for the heads up. Nabbed, even if I already have it on the Station to Station deluxe (and some of the mixes/sources are pretty ropey).
Yeah I didn’t get the S2S SDE but thought the Nassau gig was pretty poorly mixed / brickwalled so hoping the new edition will be better. Like a sucker
I reviewed the box when it came out, so I’m looking forward to comparing too. Some of it was bootleg sourced and other problems were from bad mic-ing, so I wouldn’t expect much, if anything.
I would beware. I have the 2010 box and the sound is awful. And yet the two two songs from the same show on the Ryko remaster of STS sound great.
Tony Visconti is probably involved with the new release. I have a lot of respect for TV but the only thing I don’t like about Blackstar and The Next Day is the very heavy handed use of compression to ruin the sound.
Yes it’s odd that. And most of the bootlegs of Nassau found better than the official.
Still got all my Rykos. Think they kick the shit out of the 99 and 2016 CDS but might just be what I’m used to. Think the vinyl reissues are good but not startling enough to double dip. Apart from TMWSTW for the dress cover
All the normal albums from last year’s box (except for Gouster, Live, STS (2010 mix) & Re:Call2) are being issued separately.
http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/bowie-who-can-i-be-now-vinyl-available-separately-and-competitively-priced/
To be fair to Visconti his remix of TMWSTW on the Five Years set is very good indeed. It sounds very different, and I think better, too. I might be tempted if it’s available on vinly. My 1972 reissue of TMWSTW (Kick cover) has always been a little thin.
I can only suppose that TV was given carte blanche with the reissues but Bowie actively chose the compression on the two last albums. The three extra tracks on the Lazarus CD are just as bad sounding (but well worth hearing as songs).
The Ryko CDs get bad press on the Hoffman site but they were the best sounding until the recent two box sets. Great bonus tracks as well.
Yeah I have the vinyl of the 2016 MWSTW and it’s very good. I keep meaning to take it round my mate who has an original dress pressing to compare.
The US cartoon copy I have is better than yhe UK strangely. Or maybe just different
Thanks all for your responses. I think the message is ‘proceed with caution’.
After ‘Stage’ it is the single live ‘official’ Bowie album I covet.
I think a little over a tenner is a reasonable punt.
Don’t listen to the naysayers. It’s great.
is the 2010 reissue ultra rare or something ? Someone is selling the CD?DVD box set for £600 and the 3 CD set for £119 on Amazon !!!
You can have mine for 100!
Ridiculous. Possibly bot-driven prices.
I would agree with this:
“The band is far less cabaret than Bowie’s 1974 outing and less cold and brittle than the instrumental-dominated 1978 Stage incarnation.
The concert has a good mix of Station to Station tracks – of which the title track, Stay and Word on a Wing are masterful – and older hits. Some of the recordings are a little ropey – Life on Mars and Five Years are (superior) bootleg quality and the mix on the 2nd half of the concert is somewhat unbalanced – cymbals dominate, you can only hear one guitar for a lot of the time, the piano is very quiet and the bass just a low rumbling. Whilst Jean Genie and TVC15 suffer most from this – both sound thin and even weedy during choruses and solos – Changes, Diamond Dogs and Queen Bitch are by contrast hugely entertaining – and Panic in Detroit is positively furious.”
Would be tempted by the live releases on vinyl and these prices are good, but have a strict “buy no new vinyl” for the year, so far 25 days gone …