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Live Santa Monica '72 | 
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| Artist: David Bowie
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 135
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5.1 x 0.7
UPC: 724358322125
EAN: 0724358322125
ASIN: B00166QJRU
Release Date: June 30, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| Tracks:
| » | Introduction (Live) | | » | Hang On To Yourself (Live) | | » | Ziggy Stardust (Live) | | » | Changes (Live) | | » | The Supermen (Live) | | » | Life On Mars? (Live) | | » | Five Years (Live) | | » | Space Oddity (Live) | | » | Andy Warhol (Live) | | » | My Death (Live) | | » | The Width Of A Circle (Live) | | » | Queen Bitch (Live) | | » | Moonage Daydream (Live) | | » | John, I'm Only Dancing (Live) | | » | Waiting For The Man (Live) | | » | The Jean Genie (Live) | | » | Suffragette City (Live) | | » | Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (Live) |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
Great performance of iconic songs. July 18, 2008
I've not listened to Bowie for many years, but when I saw this had been released I decided to get it straight away. This was my favourite era, and I'm a big fan of live albums, seeing how well a small group can reproduce the songs on stage - and they certainly don't disappoint. The band wend their way through a brilliant 18-song set, ranging from the full-on rock of Suffragette City to a wonderful version of Space Oddity - just 2 vocals and a 12-string acoustic guitar. There are only one or two tracks which don't quite match up to the quality of the studio versions; but this is live music and you would expect that. The one thing that stops me giving this five stars is the sound quality and mix. Mostly it is very good, but frequently there are problems: Bowie's guitar is nearly always too quiet (almost inaudible, in fact) and his vocals are occasionally a bit lost in the mix, but my biggest complaint is that various sounds seem to wander over from one side of the stereo mix to the other during the songs, for no apparent reason - Ronson's guitar frequently does this, as do some of the vocals, which is really annoying. I've no idea of the sound source, but surely in this digital age something could have been done to fix it? The CD is nicely packaged in a small box, great artwork and lots of little goodies inside: postcards, booklet, etc. - a lot of effort has gone into this project - it's well worth the money.
 Disappointingly inferior to Hammersmith Odean July 16, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The album may be much hyped but when I bought it I was deeply disappointed. Frankly I felt that none of the songs were performed any better than the farewell concert at Hammersmith Odean the following year, and some of them were considerably worse. Released as Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: the Motion Picture Soundtrack, the Hammersmith Odean CD offers 20 tracks and they give a much better flavour of David Bowie and Mick Ronson at their very best. Buy that CD instead, or even better the DVD of the concert.
 ZIGGY!!!!! July 13, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Brill cd,would recomend. i whish i could have been old enough to go and see Bowie as Ziggy but 72 was the year i was born!!
Get this cd up at full volume and if you have it ,through surround sound it sounds as if you are actually there.
Ziggy: warts and all July 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A bit of a holy grail for Bowie fans, this is identical to the earlier CD release back in the 90's so if you already have then that don't buy this. That said any self-respecting Bowiephile should have a copy of this in their collection.
It's not perfect: what you get here comes complete with technical hiccups, Mick Ronson's flat backing vocals and bum guitar notes, and Bowie's attempt to recreate the 'lift off' section from Space Oddity ranks alongside The Laughing Gnome as a truly cringe-worthy moment. But what you also get is the definitive historical record of Ziggy in his most formative and creative period. When Bowie introduces one number with "This song was written by Ziggy" he's not kidding. At the time he recorded this he was living and breathing his most famous creation.
And there are some very special moments, too. Acoustic versions of My Death and Andy Warhol stand out, the latter adopting an eerie quality lacking in the Ken Scott studio production. All in all this is THE definitive Ziggy live album, rivalled only by the original bootleg versions of 'last' show at Hammersmith Odeon the following year.
 Beware, this is an edited release! July 1, 2008
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
First off this is truly a superb gig. The track listing is faultless and the performances, though beautifully flawed at times, are blistering. It is a far superior document of the Ziggy period Bowie to the 73' retirement gig at the Hammersmith Odeon.
I already own the 94' official release of this concert on the mainman `golden years' label. I bought this new EMI edition because I had read somewhere that Bowie had remastered the recording himself. He hasn't! Listening to it I cannot really detect any significant differences in sonic quality from the 94' release.
What is shockingly obvious however is the absence of big chunks and small snippets of Bowie's playingly camp dialogue with his audience throughout. Where's his "painter from New York" impression of Warhol for example or his "give me a pair of pliers.... or a strong hand". I'm absolutely gutted that this historical artefact has been hacked in this way. These edits are unnecessary and unforgivable in my opinion and I'm sure that I like many others will consequently always consider this release inferior to the earlier one because of them.
On the plus side the disc does come in a nice box with handsome RCA period memorabilia. 3 stars worth in fact. Also I'm hoping, because he sanctioned this release, that the Dame may give the nod for more official bootleg releases in the future. A little something from the `station to station' tour perhaps? Just don't rip chunks out of them please!
Buy this only if you can't get hold of the mainman release.
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