David Bowie-David Live (1974)

 



Artist: David Bowie

Title: David Live

Label: RCA Victor

Format: 8-Track

Catalog Number: CPL2-0771

Year of Release: 1974

Country and Year of Edition: US 1974

Sell Price: $6.51

Sell Date: 8/14/26

Condition: VG+/VG

Discogs Last Sold: 6/16/26   VG+/VG+ $5.77

Low: $2.00

Median: $5.38

Average: $5.10

High: $7.95

Current low price: $4.99

Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 4

Have/Want: 87/83

Where Sold: Canadaigua, NY

Time It Took To Sell:  2 years

Where and When Bought: Facebook lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

It seems that David Live got a bit of the short shift critically and for the life of me, I can't understand why.  The arrangement are different enough to be worth hearing.  The band sounds great.  The song selection is peak Bowie on the Diamond Dogs tour featuring a half dozen tracks from there, 4 from Aladdin Sane, a few from Ziggy, old hit "Changes" from Hunky Dory and "The Width of A Circle" from The Man Who Sold The World.  Covers were old Eddie Floyd "Knock On Wood" (5 years before Amii Stewart discofied it) and contemporaries Mott The Hoople's "All The Young Dudes." 

I did wake up this morning with "Big Brother" and "Cracked Actor" going through my head, which were both songs that I never really thought about in the past, so I guess that's all you really want a live record to do. Although the 8-track keeps to the track order, the side lengths were just varied enough that "Big Brother" falls victim to the fade out between tracks 3 and 4.

Future editions of David Live added left out songs like "Panic In Detroit" and "Time" from Aladdin Sane, the title track from  Space Oddity and the Ohio Players cover "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow" from 1969's Observations In Time.

The bridge to the Thin White Duke.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972)

Diamond Dogs (1974)

Young Americans (1975)

Station To Station (1976)

Mott The Hoople-Live (1974)

Iggy Pop-Blah Blah Blah (1986)

The Wedding Present-Hit Parade 2 (1992)

Queen-Greatest Hits (1981)

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