| Identifier | 8970856 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Media Type | cdr |
| Media Count | 2 |
| Sound Rating | b |
| Note | David Bowie
Radio City Music Hall, New York. 14 February, 1973 Re-worked version Good quality recording Low gen cassette > Nakamichi Tapedeck > CD-R > Audacity [re-work as per notes below] > CD Wave > TLH > FLAC CD 1 01 Intro 02 Hang Onto Yourself 03 Ziggy Stardust 04 Changes 05 Soul Love 06 John, I'm Only Dancing 07 Moonage Daydream 08 Five Years 09 Space Oddity 10 My Death CD 2 01 Watch That Man 02 Drive-In Saturday 03 Aladdin Sane 04 Panic In Detroit 05 Cracked Actor 06 Width Of A Circle 07 Time 08 The Prettiest Star 09 Let's Spend The Night Together 10 The Jean Genie 11 Suffragette City 12 Rock N'Roll Suicide This is the recording of the show where David fainted at the end, shocking the audience. One thing that is particularly interesting, to me anyway, is the leap in quality on reaching side 2 of the tape here - Aladdin Sane onwards. Often there are small differences in fidelity upon turning over tapes - for example, sometimes one side will have more hiss than the other, as somewhere in the copying someone has switched the dolby off or on. The difference here is more pronounced than that. Prettiest Star is a highlight here! Rock and Roll Suicide had to be combined from two sources of this recording...but then this does have the long ending with the audience's reaction to David's fainting. On certain Bowie tapes I will be presenting 'raw' and 'processed' versions...not so much a concession to some who have as good as demanded this, more practicality : the person kindly lending me tapes is interested in hearing both so if I seed both it saves me doing CD-R's of the raw version. The raw version of this will be seeded in due course. This is the 'processed' version. The process I use in Audacity to widen the sound, usually consists of the following - -9db decrease (as the mixing and combining needs space) double up the tracks, add .01 sec delay to one of the channels, split channels and mix either side (balance achieved through trial and error) Combine above doubled up track with untouched track with the latter at a higher level. The above mixing while giving a nice widening effect I am more than aware can sometimes sound artificial to some, and I have found combining it with the untouched file means a balance is achieved between the raw sound of the original and the mixed version. Studios used - and I'm sure still do - used to resort to all sorts of double tracking and compression effects and the bottom line is this method I found by trial and error sounds good to me and others. Those who do not approve or find it does not sound good to them - no-one is forcing you to download this. Voila...I listen to live recordings in headphones for the most part, and many people listen in headphones / earphones these days. This may sound better to many like that, and I am aware that through conventional speakers this sort of mix / re-work may or may not sound as good as an untouched version. It's very subjective, and very much down to individual preference. Where I don't provide samples the downloader who is unsure about this can simply pick one or two tracks to ascertain how good this is, just as I do. |
| Trades Allowed |
Performance
| David Bowie 1973-02-14 Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY | |
|---|---|
| Set 1 | Ode To Joy
Hang Onto Yourself Ziggy Stardust Changes Soul Love John, I'm Only Dancing Moonage Daydream Five Years Space Oddity My Death Watch That Man Drive In Saturday Aladdin Sane Panic In Detroit Cracked Actor The Width Of A Circle |
| Set 2 | Band Introductions
The Prettiest Star Let's Spend The Night Together Jean Genie Suffragette City Rock 'N' Roll Suicide |
| Set 3 | A Lad In Vain
Time Drive In Saturday Aladdin Sane A Lad In Vain (2) All The Young Dudes |
| Comment | "St Valentine's Day Massacre" bootleg. Last 6 tracks are instrumental outtakes from the "Aladdin Sane" sessions. |