David Bowie - 1996-07-09 - Rome, IT (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

DAVID BOWIE 

Roma, Curva Sud dello Stadio Olimpico 

9 July 1996 

RAI StereoDue broadcast

Lineage: 

RAI Radio 2 broadcast > Sanyo FMT-3510L FM tuner > Tape (Maxell UD II) > Aiwa AD-WX 828 > Audigy Soundblaster > HD > Sound Forge 7.0 > CD Wave Editor > FLAC Frontend (level 6)

David Bowie - vocals, guitar 

Reeves Gabrels - guitar 

Gail Ann Dorsey - bass, vocals 

Mike Garson - keyboards 

Zachary Alford - drums 

01 - Look back in anger 

02 - Scary monsters 

03 - The Heart's filthy lesson 

04 - Outside 

05 - Aladdin sane 

06 - Voyeur of utter destruction (as beauty) 

07 - The man who sold the world 

08 - Hallo spaceboy 

09 - Breaking glass 

10 - Telling lies 

11 - Jump they say 

12 - Under pressure 

13 - Heroes 

14 - DJ Outro ("we cannot hide you that David Bowie will come back, even for two encores...") 

Not to be confused with the silver called 'Trouble in Rome', this is indeed my master tape. 

This concert is well known for being the shortest Bowie full performance. At one point, after exactly one hour of live set, Bowie left the stage. Everybody thought that he would return for the encores, but it was not the case: Bowie had already left to come back to his hotel! 

Bowie's management never wanted to give any explanation about this, since the singer was contracted to play 100 minutes. But a few speculations can be done: first of all, the audience was far below Bowie's normal standards: 4,000 people attending a show in a stadium that can hold more than 60,000! Second, the fight with the photographs, who were allowed to take shots during the first song only (instaed of two, as usually happens). As a protest, the photographs threw their photo passes on the stage while leaving at the end of the opening track. 

The recording is quite good. As always, italian radio stroke again, putting an idiot DJ to comment all the tracks. I have removed all the comments by crossfading all tracks. I only left the final comments at the end of Heroes, where he's saying that he's pretty sure Bowie would come back for the encores, even giving the names of the songs he would perform later. Bad forecast!