David Bowie 1974-07-02 Tampa ,Curtis Hixon Hall – An Old Fashioned Band –
Sound Quality Rating
101. Announcement.flac
102. 1984.flac
103. Rebel Rebel.flac
104. Moonage Daydream.flac
105. Sweet Thing.flac
106. Candidate.flac
107. Sweet Thing (reprise).flac
108. Changes.flac
109. Suffragette City.flac
110. Aladdin Sane.flac
111. All The Young Dudes.flac
112. Cracked Actor.flac
113. Rock’n’Roll With Me.flac
114. Watch That Man.flac
201. Space Oddity.flac
202. Diamond Dogs.flac
203. Panic In Detroit.flac
204. Big Brother.flac
205. Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family.flac
206. Time.flac
207. The Width Of A Circle.flac
208. The Jean Genie.flac
209. Rock’n’Roll Suicide.flac
Label: From The Hunky Geordie Tapes – HUG147CD
Audio Source: audience
Lineage: TDK D90 (Noggin)
Total running time: 1:29:24
Sound Quality: Much noise ,dull ,but still good listened to
Attendance: 7.400
Artwork: By steve23yh / 100PCB.
Note: Same as Toronto ,minus Drive in Saturday and Future Legend.
The driver or one of the lorries containing the scenery,lighting equipment,etc. ,got stung by a bee and so the lorry ended up in a swamp.
Before the concert starts the announcer says: “Good evening. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. The concert you’re going to see tonight is not the show we had planned for you. Due to an unfortunate road accident, half of our stage scenery, costumes, lighting equipment is in a local swamp fifteen miles north of here.“Oh my god” cry the audience.“There was talk of cancelling tonight’s performance but David Bowie would not hear of it and insisted we go on in the remaining half condition. So, in a few minutes we’ll go on with the concert – thank you”
Before All the Young Dudes Bowie says: “Good evening Tampa. Well,we thought it wasn’t gonna happen,because as you probably heard we had a bad road accident and we’re still upset about it,but l’d like to thank you for being here”. With or without scenery,Bowie made it into a great concert,and after a stand-up ovation which lasted twenty minutes,he even played an extra,the only one of the whole tour. However,this extra is not included in this tape and which number it was is unknown to me. This is a terrific tape and quality-wise it is the best of 1974.(?)
Tour band 1974 (June – July)
• David Bowie – vocals
• Michael Kamen – electric piano, Moog synthesizer, oboe, music director
• Earl Slick – guitar
• Mike Garson – piano, mellotron
• David Sanborn – alto saxophone, flute
• Richard Grando – baritone saxophone, flute
• Herbie Flowers – bass
• Tony Newman – drums
• Pablo Rosario – percussion
• Gui Andrisano – backing vocals
• Warren Peace – backing vocals
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Notes
iZotope RX2 denoiser to remove hiss.
Soundforge Enhance tool on +3
The announcement was bookeneded by some gaps, which I removed and tidied.
Some volume reprofiling throughout.
Gap in Changes at 2:25-26 – Let’s Dance repair from earlier reprise.
Abrupt join between Cracked Actor and Rock’n’Roll With Me is on the source tape.
Tape flip between Rock’n’Roll With Me and Watch That Man, also shows signs of old join. Fade-out/in to tidy.
Blip in Watch That Man @ 2:07 (checked three versions, all the same) – fade-out/in to tidy.
Set break between Watch That Man and Spade Oddity. Faded out fully.
Noise blip (not 100% sure it’s anything to do with the concert) @ 4 seconds in Time. Removed – loss of a beat.
The concert venue is listed in some places as “Seminole Turf Club”in Casselberry ,It was actually the Seminole Jai-Alai Fronton, Fern Park,Fl. Fern Park is a very small unincorporated area,there was a row of strip clubs there for years and the Fronton. Jai-Alai was a cuban game and it attracted Old Hispanic guys and a lot of old guys like you’d see in the old black and white gangster movies-guys wearing an old suit,wrinkled shirt and soup stains on their tie!,you never saw any young people there.The area wasn’t particularly seedy,and Casselberry is a pretty nice middle class residential area, but that area Fern Park was just a ungoverned area, for years Navy guys drove up there from NAS Sanford,or Air Force guys drove there from the base at McCoy for the strip clubs and the availability of alcohol on Sundays;the whole area was dry in the old days,and they had pretty strict laws about the hours you could sell alcohol.ClubJuana-Circus a-GoGo-Rachels were the joints.We didn’t frequent these places, Hippies generally congregated at homes and sat around smoking pot, listening to albums, I always used to hang out in the woods!
They must have got the truck back on the road because i saw the concert at the Seminole Jai-Alai Fronton on July 3,1974 and the whole set was there,bridge etc. you couldn’t see the band at all,thet were in the back corner with some sort of mesh tent over them, i was kinda bummed out because i always went up to the front before or after concerts to look at the drumsets.Sanborn came out a few steps when he had a short part,otherwise they stayed put.that Slick had some chops! There was a minor scuffle when the doors opened, everyone rushed the turnstiles, some jumping them, there was one security guard, an older Black man, and he really freaked out and started swinging his club. When we got in my friend asked if i had my ticket stub, i did and he took it, went outside, called his brother and he came up there, ran all the way and got in also-my friends ticket wasn’t torn in the melee.In hindsight this was the best {theatrical} concert i ever saw. We were lucky in Central Florida, we had a lot of concert venues from say 1967-mid 1970’s and i saw a lot of the bands while they were still young, before concerts got so big and you had to sit in your exact seat and not move or you got harassed by those seated around you or the ushers,who had a little power and usually acted like jerks!