David Bowie 1983-11-20 Sydney ,RAS Showgrounds – Full concert (Pro-Shot Video)
Sound Quality Rating
01. Intro.flac
02. Look Back In Anger.flac
03. “Heroes”.flac
04. What In The World.flac
05. Golden Years.flac
06. Fashion.flac
07. Let’s Dance.flac
08. Breaking Glass.flac
09. Life On Mars.flac
10. Sorrow.flac
11. Cat People.flac
12. China Girl.flac
13. Scary Monsters.flac
14. Rebel Rebel.flac
15. White Light White Heat.flac
16. Station To Station.flac
17. Cracked Actor.flac
18. Ashes To Ashes.flac
19. Space Oddity.flac
20. Band Intro.flac
21. Young Americans.flac
22. Fame.flac
encore:
23. Star.flac
24. Stay.flac
25. The Jean Genie.flac
26. Modern Love.flac
Label : No label
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Total running time : 1:48:15
Sound Quality : Excellent quality! Equals record or Radio/TV
Attendance : 30.900
Artwork : No
On the 20th November 1983, David Bowie performed his final Australian concert of the Serious Moonlight tour. This Betamax recording was apparently taken from a sight screen feed made at that time.
The first and last numbers have some deterioration with drop outs, and there was a small drop in Life on Mars? and Station to Station. But, as it hasn’t been viewed in 39 years, the quality overall has held up well. The audio feed was in mono and has been remastered as much as possible.
Fighting galore
Bowie was in the right mood for this concert,he joked with the banu and was quite gay – it was a real good concert,and the audience were calmer and less agressive than the night before. Yet,the area near the stage remained a hazardous place. This tape was taken from there: as early as Look Back in Anger there is fighting galore: “Get out of there” a man screams, “fuck off!” someone else. There is so much screaming and yelling that it,almost drowns the music. “Don’t hit me,for God’s sake,don’t hit me!” a man is yelling hysterically (and I mean: hysterically!) as if he feels his last minute has come. It is not known to me whether this person has survived.
“Terrific” Bowie calls out after Space Oddity. “You’re lovely. Very sad to say that this is the last gig of our Australian tour and we can’t say how much we’ve enjoyed it. It’s been very good and we are coming back”.“Yeaaaaah!” the audience reply,and after the band intro: “And YOU! So what are your names. All at once … one-two-three” which is followed by a confusion of 30,900 tongues!
At the beginning of Stay,just when Bowie starts singing, something happens: the musicians are not in harmony,and for a second they don’t know what to do. One fears they must stop and start anew,but it is not quite as bad as that; it’s amazing how quickly they recover!
Tour band 1983 – The Serious Moonlight World Tour :
• David Bowie – lead vocals, guitar, saxophone
• Earl Slick – guitar
• Carlos Alomar – guitar, backing vocals, music director
• Carmine Rojas – bass guitar
• Tony Thompson – drums, percussion
• Dave Lebolt – keyboards, synthesizers
The Borneo Horns:
• Steve Elson – saxophones
• Stan Harrison – saxophones, woodwinds
• Lenny Pickett – saxophones, woodwinds
backing vocals
• George Simms – backing vocals
• Frank Simms – backing vocals
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