OK, so we're not offically 'doing' live albums and videos, etc as part of two thousdant and bowie. But I happened to get 'David Live' for my birthday. So here's a little something about it and what I thought of it:
In 1974 David Bowie dumped playing live in the UK and followed the smell of cash to the USA, touring Diamond Dogs coast to coast. The tour famously started life as a theatrical feast of gloomy distopian rock ‘n’roll fun. It featured a great big set of ‘hunger city’ (the album’s setting) and Bowie singing from inside an oversized blue hand. The tour took a break in which the Bow-ster recorded the Young Americans album. When Bowie played the remaining tour dates the theatrics were gone, replaced by big suits and the sound of ‘Philadelphia Soul’.
David Live was recorded on the first leg of the tour, but the saxophone freak outs and over blown backing singers turned up loud that would dominate his next album are all present on this record.
The Diamond Dogs tracks are the best thing on the album which is dominated by over blown reworking of the classic Ziggy songs. The simple rock n roll Ziggy tunes loose their finesse under the weight of all that sax.
David Live is an underwhelming record that out stays it’s welcome.
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