(Soundboard FLAC)
Date: 1973-07-03
Venue: Hammersmith Odeon
City: London
Country: England
Taper: Robin Mayhew (Sound engineer at the show)
Lineage:
Turner 24 Channel mixing console -> Portable cassette machine (TDK tape) -> Reel to Reel -> CD -> PC (?) -> Homemade CDRs -> Exact Audio Copy (Secure Mode) -> Bowie Station
CD1:
01 Introduction by Barry Bethal
02 Mike Garson's Medley
03 March From The Clockwork Orange (Beethoven's Ode To Joy)
04 Hang On To Yourself
05 Ziggy Stardust
06 Watch That Man
07 Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
- All The Young Dudes
- Oh! You Pretty Things
08 Moonage Daydream
09 Changes
10 Space Oddity
11 My Death
CD2:
01 Announcement and William Tell Overture
02 Cracked Actor
03 Time
04 Width Of A Circle
- Band Introduction
05 Let's Spend The Night Together
06 Suffragette City
07 White Light White Heat
08 Jean Genie
09 Round & Round
10 Rock & Roll Suicide
- Pomp and Circumstance by Edward Elgar
Robin Mayhew who was the sound mixer on the Ziggy Stardust tour has released his version of the famous last Ziggy concert. The recording is complete including Jeff Beck and is straight from the soundboard. This is the only surviving recording he has with Bowie. He taped all the shows, but reused the tapes the next day. Therefore only the last show survived. He is selling selfmade CDRs for £12 (UK) and £15 (International) at his website.
Robin Mayhews own words from the CD cover:
Only Mick and Suzie (later) Ronson knew of Bowie's decision to kill of his Ziggy persona that night. I believe Suzie must have told stage manager Peter Hunsley at some point after the interval as he alerted me via the stage to mixer intercom giving me the news. It came as no real surprise to me and quitting while ahead seemed the perfect and logical way to end something which would soon have to become repetitious.
Recorded directly from the sound console. Engineered by Robin Mayhew of Ground Control. This recording was made on a portable cassette machine on the night of the show, transferred to reel to reel in 1976 and to CD in 2008. The only studio engineering done on my recording is to the first part of Wendy Carlos's March from Clockwork Orangebecause the original tape was
slightly stretched (note you can hear Ronno join in with a couple of chords at the end) and the attenuation of a feedback howl during the opening song Hang on to Yourself.
This posting is done with permission from Robin Mayhew. A lot of thanks goes out to him for giving us this Christmas present at Bowie Station. This is a unique and unaltered recording of what the Ziggy Stardust tour sounded like.
This CDR was released in August 2015 and due to the nature of the recording, and the cheap price, I made a promise to Robin Mayhew not to share it on Bowie Station unless he accepted it.
4 months on, the recordings "news value" has passed and at least one bootleg company has pressed their own version selling it for twice the original price. Therefore Robin Mayhew has agreed to let me post the recording to probably avoid some people buying the overpriced bootleg versions and that others might order the CDR set from him when they first hear the quality of the recording.
I was told by Robin Mayhew to tell that he is now signing the inner sleeve of the CDRs he is selling.
