David Bowie 1974-10-30 New york ,Radio City Music Hall – Infected With Soul love – (Diedrich).
Sound Quality Rating
The Garson band:
– 01. INTRO – FUNKY MUSIC.flac
– 02. BABY BABY.flac
– 03. I’M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE.flac
– 04. STORMY.flac
– 05. DEEP IN THE HEART OF ME.flac
– 06. LOVE TRAIN.flac
– 07. MEMORY OF THE FREE FESTIVAL.flac
David’s set
– 08. REBEL REBEL.flac
– 09. JOHN , I’M ONLY DANCING.flac
– 10. SORROW.flac
– 11. CHANGES.flac
– 12. YOUNG AMERICANS.flac
– 13. 1984.flac
– 14. FOOTSTOOMPIN’.flac
– 15. ROCK ‘N’ ROLL WITH ME.flac
– 16. LOVE ME DO – JEAN GENIE.flac
– 17. DIAMOND DOGS.flac
– 18. MOONAGE DAYDREAM.flac
– 19. CAN YOU HEAR ME.flac
– 21. SUFFRAGETTE CITY .flac
– 22. ROCK AND ROLL SUICIDE.flac
Bonus
– 23. IT’S GONNA BE ME – DETROIT 1974-10-16.flac
– 24. SPACE ODDITY – DETROIT 1974-10-16.flac
Label: Savage Hippo Records – SH112
Audio Source: audience
Lineage:
Total running time: 1:44:42
Sound Quality : Much noise ,dull ,but still good listened to
Attendance: 6.200
Artwork: Yes.
Information: Bowie performs Footstompin’ for the first time on this night.
The opening act was the Mike Garson band, who played :
An audio recording exists of this show which is commonly thought to be from 28 October 1974. However, David did not play New York on that date and in his book “People Stared At The Make-up On His Face”, Per Nilsen suggests that the correct date is 30 October.
This recording is the only one known to contain the full set played by the Mike Garson Band prior to David taking the stage:
This is the only tape which also contains the pre-programme played by the Garson band:
– Announcement
– Funky Music
– You Keep Me Hanging On
– I’m in the Mood For Love
– Stormy Monday
– Love Train
– Memory of the Free Festival
“Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen” one of the lady singers says after Stormy Monday. “You’ve been lovely. I’d like you to know that we really have enjoyed performing for you tonight.We love you and we’d love to come back, and we will”.
At the end of Memory of the Free Festival Bowie is announced and the band starts playing Rebel Rebel. At the beginning of Sorrow Bowie says: “Good evening, thank you. It is a pleasure to be here. I want to ask you something. When I come to New York,I usually get a flu. Well,I got it again as usually,so if I sing a little … like that,I … but uhm … here it comes … Your long blond hair …” “This is the title song from the next album,it’s called Young Americans“ Bowie announces, and like the other new numbers this number is received well. Rock & Roll Suicide is sung beautifully and at the endd of the song Bowie calls in a husky voice: “Hey, and you’re wonderful! Hey,and I’m wonderful! Yeah ,we’re all wonderful! All you got to do is win,when you’re trying not to loose …”
This was the first of a sequence of seven nights in New York and it is a great concert. However,not all the seven were as good: some of them started two hours late,Bowie was overtired. Actually only the first and the last were good concerts. Deborah Swamback from Rome ,New York saw the concert on Novemver I: “It only lasted fifty minutes,and tickets were $10.50 which was quite high a price back then,and my friends and I had travelled 250 miles to see Bowie,to return home imnediately after the concert. 500 Miles to see a fifty-minute show is a bit insane”.
The Concert in Cleveland, November 6,lasted sixty minutes. It was probably Bowie’s exhaustion that started to get the better of him.
While still ostensibly part of the Diamond Dogs tour, this seven-night stand at Radio City Music Hall would present a completely different show, now referred to as “Philly Dogs” to denote the tour’s drastic swing from proto-punk apocalyptic nightmare to r&b revue. To the confusion of fans dressed as Ziggy and Aladdin, Bowie had already ditched the tour’s original concept — the elaborate set, which hadn’t fared well on the first leg, wouldn’t get farther than the West Coast — in favor of a band that included Robin Clark, Ava Cherry, and a pre-superstardom Luther Vandross on backing vocals (the backing band also performed a seven-song set of r&b material to open the show). All of Bowie’s hits were reinterpreted through this soul-based filter, to varying results; reviews were overwhelmingly not positive. The band was great (with the addition of Carlos Alomar, and David Sanborn’s role expanding due to the new arrangements), and the enthusiasm and desire was authentic, but there was just too much bombast. “Young Americans” is introduced as being from the forthcoming album, recorded back in August at Philly’s Sigma Sound.
The Tour Band – The Soul / Philly Dogs Tour (October–December)
• David Bowie – vocals
• Mike Garson – piano, mellotron, music director
• Earl Slick – lead guitar
• Carlos Alomar – rhythm guitar
• David Sanborn – alto saxophone, flute
• Willie Weeks – bass
• Dennis Davis – drums
• Pablo Rosario – percussion
• Warren Peace – backing vocals
• Ava Cherry – backing vocals
• Robin Clark – backing vocals
• Anthony Hinton – backing vocals
• Diane Sumler – backing vocals
• Luther Vandross – backing vocals
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Hello to all Bowie fans.
According to the complete 1974 tour date information that is listed on the official ‘David Live’ C.D.
David and the band did in fact play Radio City Music Hall on 28th October 1974.
A Seven nights stint – 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, – 1st, 2nd & 3rd of November 1974.
This makes sense with him saying that he always gets flue when he come to New York as it is the first of seven concerts.