Title:
Live Santa Monica ‘72
Description:
Taken from KMET FM’s radio broadcast, it was available only as a bootleg for more than 20 years; according to author David Buckley, possessing a copy was the test of a ”proper Bowie fan”.
This live album features a quite different setlist to the one found on Ziggy Stardust – The Motion Picture (1983) (namely that, with the exception of The Jean Genie, the setlist contains no songs from Aladdin Sane, which were very present by the end of the tour), which was recorded nine months afterwards and similarly bootlegged prior to its belated official release. The Santa Monica recording is generally considered a superior representation of the Ziggy Stardust concerts in terms of both sound quality and standard of playing. In 1981, NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray called it not simply ”the performer’s best ever bootleg”, but ”far superior to either of Bowie’s official location recordings” to that date, David Live (1974) and Stage (1978).
This live album features a quite different setlist to the one found on Ziggy Stardust – The Motion Picture (1983) (namely that, with the exception of The Jean Genie, the setlist contains no songs from Aladdin Sane, which were very present by the end of the tour), which was recorded nine months afterwards and similarly bootlegged prior to its belated official release. The Santa Monica recording is generally considered a superior representation of the Ziggy Stardust concerts in terms of both sound quality and standard of playing. In 1981, NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray called it not simply ”the performer’s best ever bootleg”, but ”far superior to either of Bowie’s official location recordings” to that date, David Live (1974) and Stage (1978).
Band or Artist:
Bowie, David
Release Year:
1994
Format:
12”
Speed:
33 1/3 rpm
Genre:
Glam
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Subgenre:
1970’s
Producer:
David Bowie
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AllMusic Rating:
5
Album Type:
Album
Number of Discs:
2
Date Added:
2018-06-28 16:52:33
Packaging:
Gatefold Vinyl Sleeve
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-12-31
Date Added:
2018-06-28 16:52:33
