David Bowie 1990-09-29 Buenos Aires ,River Plate Stadium (DVD rip, soundboard) – SQ 8,5
Sound Quality Rating
01 – Space Oddity.wav
02 – Life On Mars.wav
03 – Rebel Rebel.wav
04 – Ashes To Ashes.wav
05 – Stay.wav
06 – Band Introductions.wav
07 – Pretty Pink Rose.wav
08 – Blue Jean.wav
09 – Let’s Dance.wav
10 – Sound and Vision.wav
11 – Ziggy Stardust.wav
12 – China Girl.wav
13 – Suffragette City.wav
14 – Fame.wav
15 – “Heroes”.wav
16 – Modern Love.wav
Label : ?
Audio Source : Soundboard
Lineage :
Total running time : 1:07:42
Sound Quality : very good. Equals record or radio apart from a slight noise and some dullness.
Attendance : 100.000
Artwork : Yes
Note: A few cuts in this recording but very good sound
Description:
Now here’s one that may not circulate that much, a low generation, complete audience tape from the last show of the Sound and Vision Tour.
A commonly circulating set is the FM version of this show, but it is truncated down to around 35 minutes. This is the whole show,
in very good quality, full stereo sound. There is a small cut in the beginning of China Girl, and there are some channel separation
issues toward the end of the first set but they don’t detract from the listening experience. I would have normalized but I’ll leave to
those more skilled than me to take that on…..Panic In Detroit also has a small cut within the song.
As was the case later in the Sound and Vision Tour, Bowie cuts the setlist down to the bare minimum, but it’s a good performance.
Funny moment before Life on Mars where Bowie emphasizes how the song is to be performed this night for the last time.
It is hard to believe this tour was twenty years ago. I personally saw a few shows on this tour, since I was in college at the time I got to see the Dodger Stadium show in late May in Los Angeles, then returned home to the Northeast, and caught Foxboro and Hartford later in July. My thought at the time which still holds was wishing Bowie had used just a couple of more musicians in this band, if he had it would have been really incredible. I thought all along it was one or two musicians short, despite Adrian Belew’s ability to fill in the gaps. This issue of course was remedied a few years later with the Outside Tour band! Still, some of the best versions of Jean Genie are found on this tour, and Belew’s Stay solos are still my favorite to this day.
David Bowie Tour band 1990 – Sound+Vision Tour
Bowie specifically chose a smaller band for the tour, saying in a contemporary interview that “It’s a much smaller sound. It’s not quite as orchestrated as any of the other tours. The plus of that is that there is a certain kind of drive and tightness that you get with that embryonic line-up, where everybody is totally reliant on the other two or three guys, so everybody gives a lot more”
• David Bowie – vocals, guitar, saxophone[
• Adrian Belew – guitar, backing vocals, music director
• Erdal Kızılçay – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Rick Fox – keyboards, backing vocals
• Michael Hodges – drums
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