David Bowie 1973-05-19 Empire Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland

DAVID BOWIE
Empire Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland
May - 19 - 1973

unknown gen tape received from Steveboy

cass transfer via Akai GX-75 tapedeck -> Magix Audio & Music Lab -> edit/remaster -> flac 16/44,1

g sound after some EQ was done (some sound differences between songs were levelled). Some of the songs running too fast (3-5%) -> corrected (incl. pitch). Starting in the middle of the recording there are some scratch noises coming and going. Quite some hiss present.

Again a not very good sounding tape and a lot of work was involved to get it somehow listenable. But it is the complete (almost as the start of Ode To Joy is missing) concert and quite a good one.

I found a comment by Michael Palin (a member of Monty Python) in the web, not exactly about the show but somehow after it:

"Interestingly Michael Palin writes in his diary book, about being kept awake in the Forte Posthouse hotel at the zoo, as a certain Mr David Bowie was staying in the same hotel, on the same floor.  David Bowie had just played The Empire on the Saturday 19th May.  Palin remembers the Bowie entourage being a relief from the usual grey suited types, and recalls the lobby being full of Bowie people and equipment on the morning of Sunday 20th, also being particularly impressed by Bowie's Dodge van complete with blacked out windows."

Also I found a number of (not so high quality) photos of the show + flyers in the web which you find attached.

Setlist (82:01 min.):

01 Ode To Joy
02 Hang On To Yourself
03 Ziggy Stardust
04 Watch That Man
05 Quicksand
06 Life On Mars?
07 Memory Of A Free Festival
08 The Prettiest Star
09 Moonage Daydream
10 Changes
11 Space Oddity
12 The Jean Genie
13. Time
14 The Width Of A Circle
15 band introductions
16 Let's Spend The Night Together
17 Drive In Saturday
18 Panic In Detroit
19 Suffragette City
20 Cracked Actor


The Band:

David Bowie                          vocals, guitar, harmonica
Mick Ronson                         guitar, vocals
Trevor Bolder                        bass
Mick "Woody" Woodmansey  drums
Mike Garson                         keyboards
John Hutchinson                    rhythm guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar
Geoffrey A. MacCormack      backing vocals, percussion
Ken Fordham                        saxophone
Brian Wilshaw                       saxophone, flute

Uploaded to BowieStation by Learm on April 11th 2020

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