Friday, February 25, 2022

David Bowie 1997-09-09 Slim's, San Francisco, CA

David Bowie
David with Reeves Gabrels on guitar
Live at Slim's, San Francisco 9 September 1997 (FM stereo)

Excellent quality

Downloaded files>Audacity>FLAC

01 Interview
02 Always Crashing In The Same Car
03 Interview
04 I Can't Read
05 Interview
06 Dead Man Walking
07 Interview
08 Scary Monsters
09 Afters

This session is excellent quality. It ran slightly too slow, and on comparison with other shows I sped it
up by 1.5%. I have also included an introduction to the show, and an 'afters' bit, from a seperate source.

The music
This is a very good listen on the first 3 songs played. There is, however, considerable wobble on Bowie's
voice on Scary Monsters. This could well be a fault with the tape used by the radio station: I checked a
second source of this show. While the second source is vastly inferior, and does not sound like a tenth
generation copy of this one (by the late 90s, multiple generation tapes were less likely, with the advent
of CD-r on other technology at that time), the voice wobble on Scary Monsters was also present on that.

The chat.
It's worth noting this was recorded at 7 in the morning. Bowie's chat for much of the interviews here is
an acquired taste, not for me for the most part. The presenters manage his riffing on his personal
tangents (Dudley Moore referencing, sounds like to me) as best they can. Halfway through track 5 he does
talk about William Boroughs, and answers a question raised about his part in Labyrinth. In the comment
before Scary Monsters, he does his standard bit about Johnny Cash - I do like the fact he says 'I think
you'll see from this, where he got his style from. No matter how gruelling I found the chat (I wished
Greeves interjected more, but the comic who chats in the afters bit - don't listen to that if you like
The Spice Girls or the royal family - loved it), in this session, Bowie delivered as a musician, as always.

If this is for you, enjoy.

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