David Bowie 1973-03-01 Detroit ,Masonic Temple Auditorium – American Daydream – (Diedrich) – SQ 7,5

David Bowie 1973-03-01 Detroit ,Masonic Temple Auditorium – American Daydream – (Diedrich).
Sound Quality Rating

-01. INTRO.flac
-02. HANG ON TO YOURSELF.flac
-03. ZIGGY STARDUST.flac
-04. CHANGES.flac
-05. MOONAGE DAYDREAM.flac
-06. PANIC IN DETROIT.flac
-07. FIVE YEARS.flac
-08. WATCH THAT MAN.flac
-09. ALADDIN SANE (Blends into a short riff from “On Broadway”).flac
-10. WIDTH OF CIRCLE.flac
-11. SPACE ODDITY.flac
-12. SURFFRAGETTE CITY.flac
-13. THE JEAN GENIE.flac
-14. ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SUICIDE.flac

Label: Switch On! ‎– S.O. 2001-12-1, Switch On! ‎– DEVIL KWSK 2001-12-1
Audio Source: audience
Lineage:
Total running time: 1:08:20
Sound Quality : Much noise ,dull ,but still good listened to
Attendance: 4,856
Artwork: Yes.

A fine concert,but very short,with Bowie introducing the new numbers. In his book Fletcher writes that before Panic in Detroit Bowie says “This one is particulary pertinent to this city,it’s called Panic in Det~oit”,which is incorrect. He just says “This one’s called Panic in Detroit“. Aladdin Sane is introduced with the words “This is the title track from the album,it’s called Aladdin Sane“. “Thank you Detroit!” Bowie calls out to the enthusiastic audience after Rock & Roll Sui­cide.

In a Rolling Stone interview with William S. Burroughs i 2001, David Bowie expanded on the Ziggy Stardust story:

“The time is five years to go before the end of the earth. It has been announced that the world will end because of lack of natural resources. Ziggy is in a position where all the kids have access to things that they thought they wanted. The older people have lost all touch with reality and the kids are left on their own to plunder anything. Ziggy was in a rock-and-roll band and the kids no longer want rock-and-roll. There’s no electricity to play it. Ziggy’s adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, ’cause there is no news. So Ziggy does this and there is terrible news. ‘All the young dudes’ is a song about this news. It’s no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite. […]
The end comes when the infinites arrive. They really are a black hole, but I’ve made them people because it would be very hard to explain a black hole on stage. […]
Ziggy is advised in a dream by the infinites to write the coming of a Starman, so he writes ‘Starman’, which is the first news of hope that the people have heard. So they latch onto it immediately…The starmen that he is talking about are called the infinites, and they are black-hole jumpers. Ziggy has been talking about this amazing spaceman who will be coming down to save the earth. They arrive somewhere in Greenwich Village. They don’t have a care in the world and are of no possible use to us. They just happened to stumble into our universe by black hole jumping. Their whole life is travelling from universe to universe. In the stage show, one of them resembles Brando, another one is a Black New Yorker. I even have one called Queenie, the Infinite Fox…Now Ziggy starts to believe in all this himself and thinks himself a prophet of the future starmen. He takes himself up to the incredible spiritual heights and is kept alive by his disciples. When the infinites arrive, they take bits of Ziggy to make them real because in their original state they are anti-matter and cannot exist in our world. And they tear him to pieces on stage during the song ‘Rock ‘n’ roll suicide’. As soon as Ziggy dies on stage the infinites take his elements and make themselves visible.”

David Bowie Tour Band – The Ziggy Stardust Tour
David Bowie – vocals, guitar, harmonica
Mick Ronson – guitar, vocals
Trevor Bolder – bass
Mick “Woody” Woodmansey – drums
Matthew Fisher – piano (20 Apr 1972 – 27 May 1972)
Robin Lumley – piano (2 Jun 1972 – 15 Jul 1972)
Nicky Graham – piano (1 Aug 1972 – 7 Sep 1972)
Mike Garson – piano, mellotron, organ (22 September 1972 – end of tour)
John Hutchinson – rhythm guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar (8 Apr 1973 – 20 Apr 1973 – 3 July 1973)
Aynsley Dunbar – additional drums (8 Apr 1973 – 20 Apr 1973)
Geoffrey A. MacCormack – backing vocals, percussion (19 January 1973 – end of tour)
Ken Fordham – saxophone (19 January 1973 – end of tour)
Brian Wilshaw – saxophone, flute (19 January 1973 – end of tour)

Crew
Robin Mayhew ,Will Palin ,Mick Hince ,Dean Heiser – Sound ,Ground Control ,Front of House Engineer ,Stage hands
Nigel Olliff, Nick Gilbey, Paul Normand and crew – Lights ,1972 Heavy Light ,1973 See Factor Industries NY Bob See ,Steve Hurston ,Mick Fussey
Peter Hunsley – Stage Equipment
Suzi Fussey – Wardrobe, Makeup and Hair

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