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:
- 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
Music reviews of David Live
Music Review: Great Record
Rating: 4 Stars
Sure. The original release of this record wasn't the best it could have been but that was primarily because of technical reasons. Even the original liner notes acknowledge that there were overdubs.
If you were around when this record came out and by that I mean old enough to have been a fan , then you know that lots of Bowie supporters felt betrayed that the Spiders had been jettisoned in favor of a new band and approach. So they were opposed, in principle, to this record before it even hit the streets. But I didn't see it that way then. Sure. It didn't sound that great ,again from a technical point of view, and there were times when the juxtaposition of Earl Slick's guitars and Sanborn's sax didn't so great but the arrangements of these songs were superb.
For example the version of Rock N' Roll suicide kicks total as$$ and blows the studio version away and I defy anyone to claim otherwise. The opener , 1984, is great the way it kicks in ,and the horns make this tune as well as Herbie Flowers' bass lines (which are a total pleasure to listen to throughout the entire album). Width Of a Circle takes on a whole new air and completely exceeds the studio verison by far. And lets talk about Sweet Thing/Candidate. Fantastic dynamics and we are hearing Bowie's recently acquired baritone voice at work. For those of you too young to remember, just a short time before this record, Bowie had that Anthony Newly sound going on which was kind of screechy and irritatingly high. I'm glad he copped the Scott Walker vibe. I realize that Scott Walker is a complete unknown to anyone under the age of 45 but do a google search kids and you'll be surprised to know that Bowie was mad for this guy's vocal tone to the extent that he emulated it.
What amazes me most of all are the people who pan this record who do so only because they have done internet searches which indicated a disdain based on the reasons I've desribed above. Don't try to be hip and act like you are in the know just to try to fit in or sound older than you are - just put aside your pride and preconveived notions and listen to the record and enjoy the awesome musicianship that is on offer here. It blows my mind that bands today can't even begin to reproduce this kind of sound on an organic basis. They have racks of samplers and even then it still sounds thin and heavily quantized.
I agree that this record isn't perfect and maybe songs like "Knock On Wood" were a little bit odd to include but so what. It didn't "suck" an it only preasaged Bowie's flirtation with R&B and Soul that just a few months later resulted in Young Americans album. I must also admit that "Rebel Rebel" had that phasey,tinny
guitar but it wasn't the end of the world. Frankly all tour versions of Rebel Rebel have been quite weak up until his most recent tour when it was finally restored to its original strength so don't blame "David Live" for it. Blame Bowie ! I guess he forgot that it was the driving, droning simplicity of the studio version that made it so appealing. Too bad he tried to "dress it up" in the live versions which only weakened it.
Anyway the new version of this record has been remixed and you can hear the layers and textures that were so flat in the original version. Too bad that Pro Tools technology wasn't available back in 74 else we wouldn't have had to wait so long to get this quality sound.
Description of David Live
Our Seller's Notes...Virgin EMI TWO CD In Very Good Shape.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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