Bowie AGAIN. This has just been announced to be released in June. It has been highly rated by many folks here. The setlist looks good although it seems a touch expensive.
Is it worth it?
http://fridaymusic.com/product.aspx?pc=Y4LPFM0334&cp=80419_80591_80637
It is indeed an excellent album and his best live album, but Lord that is monstrously pricey…
DB’s best live album. Phenomenal.
Better still would have been the performance in Berlin from that tour – he played the complete “Low” album (in sequence) mid-set. And it was filmed and recorded (there were camera cranes everywhere, and a second mixing board near the stage…).
The Montreux Jazz “Low” from that tour is, er, available.
Is it any good? I couldn’t possibly say.
knew you’d say dat.
Here’s Heroes from that night in Berlin. I think it’s definitive. Wonderful performance.
Cheers.
It’s magnificent.
The duet with Gail Anne Dorsey on Under Pressure makes me cry. It’s fabulous.
One downer.
After the ‘Rebel Rebel’ opener, the Dame greets the crowd with the Tioch ar la.
Unnecessary but all water under the bridge. It jarred at the time.
Well, there’s a story about Mr Bowie’s controversial bit of Gaelic. He was put up to it as a bit of a dare, or perhaps to prove his bona fides.
The tale of the man who wasn’t quite sure if he was Bowie’s email correspondent….
Thank you for that bogl, that is just wonderful.
Isn’t it just? Of all the tales I’ve read since Our Hero passed, that is one of the best.
I should point out that I was at that Reality gig. So technically, I’m on an album with David Bowie.
*waits for @johnny-concheroo to one-up @DrJ by saying he was at the Ziggy farewell gig*
Dude, Jonny was at the Hype gig in 1970. He was the only one not throwing things.
Beckenham Arts Lab, surely?
Er, yes. I’ve written about this before – bumping into Barbra Streisand in the foyer of the Hammersmith Odeon etc.
Barbara went to see Hype? Sheesh!
Hasty PS. You are to infer nothing from the fact that I referred to Barbara Streisand as simply Barbara.
I am very very heterosexual indeed, I’ll have you know.
I would roar now, but I daren’t in these cycling shorts.
It’s part of every music publication’s style guide that her name is spelled Barbra, btw.
Clear your desk.
Very intresting!
Actually what I should have said was I was the doctor who said “congratulations Mrs. Jones, it’s a boy, or possibly a girl”
I know, I know. You were in a whirl and you weren’t sure.
Did I mention I also appear briefly in the D.A. Pennebaker Ziggy film (in the scenes showing the fans arriving at the start).
Of course the biggest thrill for me at the time was the surprise appearance of Jeff Beck at the end for Jean Genie/Love Me Do.
Although heavily bootlegged those tracks have never been released officially. I’m guessing the always grumpy Beck couldn’t/wouldn’t agree terms for some reason.
I’ve heard that. Ronno arguably bests him. Great harp from the Ziggster, too.
It was a messy performance. Two guitarists blasting away on an ill-rehearsed jam session.
“I know what kind of welcome you’re gonna give to JEFF BECK!”
Jeff is on fire here. Ronno doesn’t stand a chance.
Guitarist note: Jeff is using the oxblood Les Paul made famous on the cover of Blow By Blow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imu0ZPrx6gA
Wow. That must have really stuck out like a sore thumb in early 70s London 😉
Sarcasm will get you nowhere young man
Friday Music did a similarly pricey reissue of ‘1.Outside’ as a double white vinyl of the complete album rather than the ‘Excerpts From…..’ vinyl issue which actually works quite well. The sound quality was said not to be the best
The reason always given for the Beck footage being cut from the film was his embarrassment over his garish loonpants.
The Garish Loonpants were the best rhythm section he ever had.