RAREST ONE BOWIE. Nine - I don't know how rare -tracks - thought its nice to get the original studio version of "All the Young Dudes" - I'm not sure if it was ever commercially released.
THE RISE & RISE OF ZIGGY STARDUST (4) Outstanding set of BBC radio performances from the late 60's and early 70's. Takes over from the commercially fine Bowie at Beeb set.
ALTERNATE BIOGRAPHY (2) Must have collection of rare tracks, live tracks, outtakes etc. Highlights include the Italian version of "Space Oddity," the great cover of Springsteen's "It's Hard to Be A Saint in the City," could rave on and on. How about the rehearsal of "Under Pressure" with Queen.
CHRISTIANE F/BAAL/RARITIES. Really a collection of hard to find of disc material. Contains the Contains the titled material which I have on Vinyl, but not sure if ever released on CD. Nice to get the Bing Crosby "Peace on Earth" duet with the intro dialogue and other rare stuff.
A LETTER TO HERMOINE. Early studio demo's from 1968 along with a threefer lunch performance in 1969.
DAVID BOWIE & THE SPIDERS FROM MARS. BOY COULD HE PLAY GUITAR. Excellent sounding material from the early 1970's.
THE AXEMAN COMETH. A Mick Ronson oriented disc featuring 8 demo's/altnerative takes from Hunky Dory and an assortment of other collaborate efforts. Love it.
THE SHADOW MAN. Six studio outtakes from the early 70's. Been suggested on the web that these were either Hunky Dory/Ziggy outtakes or an abandoned album during the 70's.
DRIVE IN SATURDAY. Pirates world, Dania, Florida 1972. Horrible, unlistenable recording.
THE LEGENDARY LOST TAPES. Has 7 tracks from a May 1972 studio session with Mott The Hoople & Lou Reed and then the January 5, 1973 Glasgow show with the Spiders from Mars.
OCTOBER 1, 1972 (2) Boston, Massachusetts. A shitty recording, but I wanted this hometown boot for its location and vintage.
THE ZIGGY STARDUST JAPAN TOUR. April 10, 1973, Tokyo, Japan. Acceptable recording, a bit flushed but still captures the gig.
THE ALTERNATE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS (2) Very clever collection of outtakes, fan remixes (I think) and live stuff.
STRANGE FASCINATION. (2). September 5, 1974. LA. Real fine set from the Diamond Dogs tour.
1974 (2) October 4, 1974, Madison, Wisconson along with 15 bonus tracks from July 2, 1974 show in Tampa, Florida. While my ears adjusted to the sound quality the longer I listened, can't recommend.
INFECTED WITH SOUL LOVE (2) October 28, 1974 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Shame that sound quality doesn't match the incredible setlist. Hauling out some incredible covers - Love Train - Wow!! - but the disc just doesn't do this show justic. Bowie at his funky high water mark.
THE STAR MACHINE IS COMING DOWN. November 15, 1974, Boston Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts. You gotta take these '74 shows whenever you can get them. It's a cleaned up audience taping, but I'm able to adjust. Love the snippet of "Love Me Do" thrown in. Fun.
THE MAINMAIN AND THE MAINLINE: THE VANCOUVER 1976 REHEARSALS. Terrific sound and lots of fun.
MARCH 23, 1976. Uniondale, NY. Not the best fidleity, but still delivers the goods. Single disc, not complete show.
THE WEMBLEY WIZARD TOUCHES THE DIAL. May 7, 1976, London. Clearly scrubbed and tweaked, not what I was hoping for, it's a barely passable recording.
WE CAN BE HEROES (2) May 22, 1978, Vienna. Super show, lotsa fun. The recording seemed to get worse as the night progressed - usually it seems the other way around.
MUSIKLADEN ON STAGE. May 30, 1978, Bremin, West Germany. Pretty nice little 10 song boot.
ANOTHER STAGE (2). June 4, 1978. Good audience recording of the tour, I prefer the commerically released product frankly - though it's nice to get the complete show in proper order.
ISOTAR II (2) JUNE 12, 1978, Osaka, Japan. Subpar taping, Not worthy.
EARLS COURT LONDON. (2) June 29, 1978, London, England. Not a very good recording, I'd call it passable.
BATON ROUGE (2) November 4, 1978, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Very good recording - maybe a well scrubbed audience taping. The funky tracks seem to sound a little less clear than the others, maybe the bass distorts. This is far out, fantastic overall.
SENSE OF ADELAIDE (2) November 11, 1978. A noisy, crowd filled audience taping, but the music busts through the clapping and crowd singing. It is what it is.
LIVE IN COLOGNE (2) Cologne, Germany. Decent, washed taping,
OSAKA SECOND NIGHT (2) December 7, 1978, Osaka, Japan. Solid enough run through for this xeroxed set list tour.
BEAUTY (2) December 11, 1978. Another good show and run through, solid audience recording.
WILD MUTATION. December 12, 1978. Terrific, amazing single disc. Superb sound.
JUNE 6, 1979 (2) Gothenburg, Sweden. A washed out soundboard, sounds like it's been remastered a bit too much and, I think, sourced off vinyl. Less than perfect, but oh what
a time.
ALARM. A shabby disc of material you'd expect to sound better. Lots of TV appearances (SNL, Tonight Show) that you'd just expect better quality. A bunch of duets with Iggy as well in mediocre sound.
VAMPIRES OF THE HUMAN FLESH. Outtakes and demos for the Scary Monsters record.
DAVID BOWIE & STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN. COMPLETE DALLAS REHEARSALS. VOLUME 1 & 2. April 27, 1983. Individually packaged sets featuring Stevie Ray in Bowie's band before he quit over pay. Seems Bowie wanted to pay him scale or so I have read. Anyway, terrific sound quality and performance.
SERIOUS MOONLIGHT. (2) Montreal, 1983. The Thin White Duke is in fine voice on this soundboard boot. While the band, at times, is a bit too big, this is a great show with a superb setlist. Bowie is God.
MAY 24, 1983 (2) Lyon, France. The best that I can say is that it does cross into an acceptable recording.
LIVE IN BRUSSEL (2) May 19, 1983. Acceptable and tinny, but I was able to adjust and enjoy.
NOTHIN' BUT A STAR (2) May 20, 1983. Standard taping and show, no better or worse.
MERCI BEAUCOUP (2) May 27, 1983. Frejus, France. Suitable show, nice enough.
COOL MILLION (2) May 30, 1983, US Festival, San Bernadino, California. This is Bowie's US Festival the short lived brainstorm of Steve Wozniak the co-founder of Apple. Title reflect's the man's fee.
WEMBLEY 3.6.83 June 3, 1983. A well played single disc. Audience taping.
BOCHUM STADION (2) June 15, 1983. It's a sturdy taping, a little muffled but still pretty good. Just sit back and enjoy.
BAD SEGEBERG '83 (2) June 18, 1983. A cut above other tour shows in sound quality. Missing "White Light." but otherwise resplendent.
JUNE 30, 1983 (2) London, England. Very good recording, one of the better of tour.
JULY 1, 1983 (2) Milton Keyes,England. A pretty good washed out recording. On a couple of tracks towards the end of the show the vocals sounded speeded up (tape flaw).
MILTON KEYES BOWL (2) July 2, 1983. An okay taping, still enjoyable.
DEDICATED TO LEONARD HOLT (3) July 3, 1983. Milton Keyes, England. Enjoyable romp, you get a funny stage rap when someone threw a key on stage.
LAVENDER BLUE (2) July 25, 1983. Capable boot, good run thru.
VISIONS & SOUNDS (2) April 3, 1990. Paris, France. Don't have source info, but this is a substandard product. Piss poor recording.
GLASS IDOL June 6, 1987. Berlin, Germany. Here's a fantastic fifteen Great sound and performance. Makes the case that the "Never Let Me Down" album wasn't all that bad.
THE GLASS SPIDER TOUR. (2) August 27, 1987. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. A clean soundboard from a less than loved tour. Hey, Peter Frampton was his lead guitarist on this voyage (he even sang background on "Sons of Silent Age"). And certainly Dave's vocals are on the mark. And you don't have to watch La-La-La Human Steps dance when you listen to this disc.
TOKYO DOME. SUMMER. 1990. From a radio broadcast, he plays all the hits, but the crowd is a little overmiked if you ask me.
ALL TIME MODEL (2) August 5, 1990. UK. Sensational soundboard boot from this greatest hits tour. A great show!
ROCK IN RIO (2) SEPTEMBER 20, 1990. Pretty good recording its kind of a okay soundboard. You did get Adrian Belew on lead with his guitar theatrics.
TV IS KING. Collection of European TV appearances in promoting the Outside disc. Carried around the same tunes from show to show, but a nice disc to grab.
OCTOBER 10, 1995 (2) St. Louis, Missouri. This is the co-headlining tour with Nine Inch Nails and you get their complete set too. Wowee, it's pure soundboard. Bowie's gone techno and doesn't play too many familiar tunes, but it is still great stuff if not essential
1. TOYKO. (2) June 4, 1996. From the Outside tour, not Bowie's best, but always some great moments from the Thin White Duke.
THE LAST HERO (2) June 22, 1996, Loreley Festival, Germany. Soundboarder! Sweet! Absolute killer of a show. Closes with a rousing "All The Young Dudes."
JULY 10, 1996 (2) Monte Carlo. Another excellent recording with strong material all night long. "Aladin Sane," and thanks Dave for the terrific cover of "Lust for Life." It's funky and it cooks.
FUCK YOU ALL NIGHT (2) October 19 & 20, 1996. Both nights of his Bridge School performance, excellent performances and singing. Love that "Aladdin Sane" opener
BRIDGE 1996. Same show as above thought squeezed onto a single disc.
NIGHT DREAM. June 19, 1997 (2) Clermont-Ferrand, France. Not the setlist I'd xerox and tape to the stage if I were Mr. Bowie. It's a pretty good recording, but do you really want to hear live versions of "Outside"
SIGMA SOUND STUDIOS 1997, Philadelphia. Fun stuff, it's an in studio appearance with Reeves Gabrel in tow. You get that self reverential, self "mocking" Bowie that is so damn intrigueing. Also on the disc is the 2 song Howard Stern Birthday show performance.
SAVE THE CHILDREN (2). January 9, 1997. NYC. The outstanding Birthday show with terrific guest shots from Lou Reed (Queen Bitch kicks) to Black Francis and Billy Corgan. Essential Bowie boot with some phenomonal performances. Superb.
NIGHT DREAM (2) June 19, 1997. No setlist or artwork. Decent sounding show there are a few clicks on a couple of tracks. It's a mixed bag at best, even dreary at times.
OUTSIDE IN BUDAPEST August 14, 1997. 15 smokin' tunes in nearly flawless quality. Oh yes another tight band. Can't point to a highlight because it is all good from the opening "Quicksand" to the closing "Scary Monsters."
CHAOS GIRLS (2) September 28, 1997. A Cherry fellow that fellow. Engaging soundboarder.
ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE (2) October 1, 1997. Boston, Massachusetts. Internet broadcast with mix of old & new. For some reason, it sounded better on my crappy computer speakers than in my car.
QUICKLIVE. (2) October 14, 1997. Nice show, though the audience taper caught the enthusiastic audience as well.
FRENCH AFFAIR. October 14, 1999. Nice single disc show - kicking off with "Life on Mars" and closing with "Rebel Rebel.".
STORYTELLER AND BEYOND. Excellent sound from the VH1 special, that Bowie is one funny due. Great stories and singing.
SOMETHING IN THE AIRWAVES Collection of TV performances from the Spring and Fall of 1999. Perfect sound.
IT KAT CLUB. November 19, 1999. N.Y.C. Sweet single disc of a quick club date by the dame. Nice mix of old and new songs in crisp sound.
GLASTONBURY 2000. June 25, 2000. Truly superb performance. Great mix of tunes from "Changes" to "Halo Spaceboy." Hail Hail!
COME TO DADDY. September 22, 2002. Berlin, Germany. Jeez, a darn good recording with just about an even mix between old and new.
THE ENGLISH PRESUME. September 27, 2002. Bonn, Germany. Another snappy recording, terrific. Opens with "Life on Mars" and then a mix of everything.
BAHAMAS 2003. The Bahamas. December 20, 2003. Superb recording and a very good show - even a few unfamiliar tunes for me.
FEBRUARY 7, 2004 (2) Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, California. Another killer performance you even get an Elvis impersonation. Lots of good stuff, he wonders outloud after "Fantastic Voyage" if anyone knew the tune. Shit Dave, I do.
FEBRUARY 17, 2004 (2) Brisbane, Australia. A par audience taping. Bowie's in fine form but not sure it was captured so well here. Not sure that my copy was burned in an incorrect order - that said, I enjoyed.
SIMON SAYS QUICKSAND (2) February 21, 2004 Sydney, Australia. Fine audience recording. Hauls out "Quicksand" hence title. Great mix of tunes.
APRIL 1, 2004 (2) Toronto, Canada. Acceptable audience taping. Nice show & David always the upbeat, charming, in charge front man.
APRIL 22, 2004 (2) Los Angeles, California. Nearly a perfect boot - ruined by occassional sharp static noices on source - what a bummer.
APRIL 27, 2004 (2) Austin, Texas. Super show, Don't forget BOWIE IS AWESOME!
REALITY TOUR COLUMBUS. (2) May 24, 2004. Columbus, Ohio. Bowie can still bring it - fantastic.
VOCALLON POP TO REALITY (2) Holmdel, New Jersey. First, a good audience taping. Second, you get a mid song pause on "Man who fell to Earth" so that Bowie can yell at a security guard. Third you get a 40 year old "Liza Jane" his first 'dreadful' single on it's anniversary. And fourth, you get a sweet "Station to Station."
OUTSIDE MIX. A peculiar mashup disc. Seven old tunes mashed up in the mode of Outside or with Outside instrumentation and then 6 Outside era tunes remixed.
