David Bowie Courting Disaster Earl's Court Arena London U.K. May 12 1973 Audio Source: Audience Artwork: None Running Time: 93.03 Lineage: Audio Cassette---Wav---Flac(level.8)---MWP
An audience tape of the infamous opening show of the UK Aladdin Sane tour, this was the first time Earls Court was used for a concert gig and a large proportion of the 18,000 audience had a very bad view and poor sound, hence a riot ensued, fistycuffs and general mayhem. Not bad for an opening night!! At one point Bowie left the stage and the audience were passified by a roadie, the audience finally calmed down when Bowie refused to carry on unless they behaved.
This is a typical audience recording with the usual pops and squeaks etc although the quality is much better than average (8-8+), I have removed a tiny bit of hiss from the top end but thats about it. The tape does have a drop in quality from "Panic" onwards (6) and I had to do a bit of work, mainly by amplifing this section to keep the level as consistent as possible. Whether this is only on my recording or the master i do not know (Perhaps the guy was being trampled by this point!).
Tracklisting: 01 Ziggy Stardust 02 Watch That Man 03 Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud/All the Young Dudes/Oh you pretty things (Medley) 04 Prettiest Star 05 Cracked Actor 06 Moonage Daydream 07 Changes 08 Space Oddity 09 Jean Genie 10 Time 11 Width of a Circle 12 Lets Spend the Night Together 13 Drive In Saturday 14 Aladdin Sane 15 Quicksand/Life on Mars/Memory of Free Festival (Medley) 16 Panic in Detroit 17 Suffragette City 18 Rock n Roll Suicide
David Bowie
ReplyDeleteCourting Disaster
Earl's Court Arena
London U.K.
May 12 1973
Audio Source: Audience
Artwork: None
Running Time: 93.03
Lineage: Audio Cassette---Wav---Flac(level.8)---MWP
An audience tape of the infamous opening show of the UK Aladdin Sane tour, this was the first time Earls Court was used for a concert gig and a large proportion of the 18,000 audience had a very bad view and poor sound, hence a riot ensued, fistycuffs and general mayhem. Not bad for an opening night!!
At one point Bowie left the stage and the audience were passified by a roadie, the audience finally calmed down when Bowie refused to carry on unless they behaved.
This is a typical audience recording with the usual pops and squeaks etc although the quality is much better than average (8-8+), I have removed a tiny bit of hiss from the top end but thats about it. The tape does have a drop in quality from "Panic" onwards (6) and I had to do a bit of work, mainly by amplifing this section to keep the level as consistent as possible. Whether this is only on my recording or the master i do not know (Perhaps the guy was being trampled by this point!).
Tracklisting:
01 Ziggy Stardust
02 Watch That Man
03 Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud/All the Young Dudes/Oh you pretty things (Medley)
04 Prettiest Star
05 Cracked Actor
06 Moonage Daydream
07 Changes
08 Space Oddity
09 Jean Genie
10 Time
11 Width of a Circle
12 Lets Spend the Night Together
13 Drive In Saturday
14 Aladdin Sane
15 Quicksand/Life on Mars/Memory of Free Festival (Medley)
16 Panic in Detroit
17 Suffragette City
18 Rock n Roll Suicide