David Bowie 1987-08-03 Giants Stadium East Rutherford, NJ

David Bowie
Giants Stadium
East Rutherford, NJ
August 3, 1987

Lineage: Master tape (with exceptions marked*) --> Audacity --> TEAC w600r tape deck --> RealTek HD Manager --> Wav --> FLAC 8 --> Upload

Recorded with AIWA handled stereo built in microphone.

Setlist:
1. Fans Intro
2. Purple Haze Intro
3. Guitar Intro
4. Up The Hill Backwards
5. Glass Spider
6. Up The Hill Backwards (Reprise)
7. Day In Day Out
8. Bang Bang
9. Absolute Beginners
10. Loving The Alien
11. China Girl
12. Rebel Rebel
13. Fashion
14. Scary Monsters
15. All The Madmen
16. Never Let Me Down
17. Big Brother
18. '87 And Cry
19. "Heroes"
20. Sons Of The Silent Age*
21. Time Will Crawl*
22. Band Intros*
23. Young Americans*
24. Beat Of Your Drum*
25. Let's Dance
26. Fame
27. Encore Break
28. Time
29. Blue Jean
30. Modern Love

Notes: Given a bass boost and a slight speed tweak, based on age of the master tape.  Recorded by a friend in front of the speaker stacks.  I rarely see either the show from this night or August 2nd offered, so I worked on my recording of the 3rd to get it out there.  This is a very decent recording considering the unit used, and with some tweaking I think it's a pleasurable listen.  The taper missed a few songs the night of the show and these are marked with an asterisk, I found a difference source over the years and "plugged them" so the recording is complete.  Being a Giants Stadium show I have always expected to see alternate sources of this gig, but never have!  So there you have it.  I was in the front row center for this performance, and it was like bliss, the place was general admission on the field and it took some serious strategy to get sitauated in the right spot, including showing up early, lining up, then running the 100 yards plus across the field to where people sat until security allowed "the grand rush."  Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam and Squeeze opened up.  LLCJ were basically booed off the stage, and Squeeze was well received.  I will never forget looking back and seeing the stadium full of people from the perspective of being in the front row center.

My personal feeling on the Spider Tour is that Bowie of course was his own worst enemy buying into the stupidity of his "hits" era and for the most part the Never Let Me Down songs can be pretty embarassing (Beat Of Your Drum?).  However, the band is extremely talented, and some of his song choices for this tour (Big Brother, All The Madmen, Loving The Alien, Time) showed that he was at least interested in bringing his better material to the table.  Enjoy the listen.  Blackout.

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