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| David Bowie | Primary Artist, Vocals |
| Earl Slick | Guitar |
| Mike Garson | Piano, Mellotron |
| Michael Kamen | Oboe, Electric Piano, Moog Synthesizer, Musical Direction |
| David Sanborn | Flute, Alto Saxophone |
| Herbie Flowers | Bass |
| Richard Grando | Flute, Baritone Saxophone |
| Pablo Rosario | Percussion |
| David Bowie | Composer |
| Steve Cropper | Composer |
| Eddie Floyd | Composer |
| Michael Kamen | Musical Director |
| Barry Bongiovi | Studio Manager |
| Peter Mew | Mastering |
| Tony Visconti | Producer, Liner Notes, Sleeve Notes |
| Mario J. McNulty | Digital Editing |
| Chris Peyton | Reissue Design |
Anonymous
Posted October 1, 2010
The conventional wisdom seems to rate "Stage" as Bowie's best live album. While I certainly do think that "Stage" is one of the best live albums ever recorded, I give the edge to "David Live." Several of the tracks included here arguably surpass their recorded versions ("1984," "Sweet Thing," "Changes," "Cracked Actor," "Time" and "Width of a Circle." The live version of "All the Young Dudes" included here also surpasses all of Bowie's other versions of this song and almost blows Mott the Hoople's cover out of the water. The LP, and initial CD, versions of this album contained an edited version of Bowie's performance due to space limitations. This CD edition preserves the entire concert by including five songs that were not included on the original, including "Space Oddity" and "Time." Bowie performs the "Diamond Dogs" material (every track except for "Future Legend" and "We are the Dead" is included in this performance) and several of his classics in a style that presages the blue eyed soul thrust that would cahracterize his next album, "Young Americans." This is an underrated classic that will not disappoint.
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Posted October 1, 2010
I never was that big of a Bowie fan. The 70s for me were ruled by the beast that is Led Zeppelin. But anyway, a Bowiehead (i doubt that's we they called themselves, but that's all i got) friend of mine put me on to this live recording as a Bowie starter kit. I was expecting Disc One to be the one that grabbed me, with his better-known songs "Rebel Rebel," "Changes" and "Suffragette City" (which were all great live, don't get me wrong), but Disc Two is what makes the (double) album. This is going to sound like a lame movie review from the local NBC affiliate in Des Moines, but I swear that Disc Two grabs you and doesn't let go. To hear his band expand and improvise their way through the best of Bowie's first 6-7 albums with wild piano florishes and saxophone wails is an amazing experience; musta been cool to catch him live in person at this point in his career. Not sure what the original sounded like, but the sound on this new version is crisp and clean. Bonus points for the cool packaging.
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Posted October 1, 2010
Never was that big of a Bowie fan, but a Bowiehead (is that the term?) friend of mine recommended getting this re-issue of the original album that just came out today. I have to say, it's a perfect time capsule of Bowie at the halfway point of the decade that he owned. The most well-known tracks ("Rebel Rebel", "Changes" "Suffragette City"; all from Disc One) are the obvious highlights and are the best-received by the audience, but I think the best performances are on Disc Two, which is full of the best of Bowie's lesser known songs from his first 6-7 albums. I didn't hear the original album version when it came out in 1974, but it sounds extremely well-recorded to me with the remastering. And it's cool that they added two bonus tracks and reorganized the songs to be how that audience experienced them back then. To hear Bowie and his band expand and improvise on all these classics, wailing away on saxophone and piano, makes me understand why people called this period his "Philly soul" stage.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.I have searched the (so called) record stores more than a few times for this release and was unsucsesful. It was a great suprise to find it on your website. This is Bowie at his best.
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Posted October 1, 2010
I am a huge Bowie fan, needless to say I've collected many of his LP's & Cd's. Yes, Ziggy Stardust is a great work of art as well as his other works, but "David Live" takes it further. If your a true fan, it doesnt get better!
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Editorial Reviews
All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
During the supporting tour for 1974's Diamond Dogs, David Bowie shifted away from the arch camp of glam rock and turned toward a highly stylized variation of Philly soul -- a transition captured on the 1974 double live album David Live. It's an interesting idea for a record, although his concerts are equal parts visual spectacle and musical concert, so having just the aural portion of the show misses a crucial part of the story. The performances often turn into groove-oriented vamps here, but the soul reworkings of Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, and Diamond Dogs material are intriguing conceptually, and the version of "All the Young Dudes," a song Bowie gave Mott...