David Bowie - 1978-05-07 - New York City, NY (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Madison Square Garden, New York, USA

Audience tape of unknown generation received in a trade back in the 80's

Rec. Info:

Cassette of unknown generation -> transfer via Onkyo tapedeck TA-2330 -> Magix Music Cleaning Lab (remaster/edit) -> FLAC (44,1 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo) -> Mindwarppavilion

It was my greatest challenge so far to remaster this tape. Principally the sound quality was very good (I think it is a relative low gen copy)

but with the following restrictions:

1. tape running too fast

2. very thin bass

3. always changing sound level, especially at the start of the tracks very low level

4. some cuts (mainly betwen songs) with gaps

5. my tape copy is made on 2 C60 tapes, at the end of each tape side a song is started and then cut. On the next tape side the song is started again.

All of these "problems" I tried to solve by the following measures:

1. tape speed corrected (as good as possible)

2. bass level increased

3. sound level equalized as good as possible

4. gaps between songs removed

5. waste song fragments removed

The result in my opinion was really worth all work and I think it is one of the better recordings of the 1978 tour as the sound is very clear and with the bass improvement

I would rate it as vg+. Also the balance between band and audience is quite nice as to give it an authentic "live" experience.

Tour band Isolar II 1978:

David Bowie - vocals, chamberlain

Adrian Belew - lead guitar, backing vocals

Carlos Alomar - rhythm guitar, backing vocals

George Murray - bass guitar, backing vocals

Dennis Davis - drums, percussion

Roger Powell - keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals (except 11–14 November 1978)

Dennis Garcia - keyboards, synthesizer (11–14 November 1978 only)

Sean Mayes - piano, string ensemble, backing vocals

Simon House - electric violin

01 Warszawa (small cut)

02 "Heroes"

03 What In The World

04 Be My Wife

05 The Jean Genie

06 Blackout (2/3 only)

07 Sense Of Doubt

08 Speed Of Life

09 Breaking Glass

10 Beauty And The Beast

11 Fame

12 Five Years

13 Soul Love

14 Star

15 Hang Onto Yourself

16 Ziggy Stardust

17 Suffragette City

18 Art Decade

19 Alabama Song

20 Station To Station

21 Stay

22 TVC-15

23 Rebel Rebel

Tape length 99:42 min.

The concert itself is simply great and it seems to be the full show even if the first track is slightly cut in.

This is 100 min. pure Bowie magic and the audience pays it back. It must have been a great experience to be at this gig. The show has been on dime already in 2009 uploaded by blackout. I can't say how the quality of this upload was in comparison to mine but I beg that blackout had to struggle with the same challenges as me according to his comments. Also a part of the show is on mindwarp uploaded by steve23yh. The sound quality seems to be comparable.