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DVD 3066; lineage: Master cassette => cassette => Stand-alone Pioneer CD burner => EAC => Magix Audio Cleaning Lab => WAV => FLAC Front-end (level 8)

Comments: Pretty nice recording from David Bowie's "Sound and Vision" tour in 1990. I'm putting
this one up by request; there are certainly better recordings from the tour; however, this is a
spirited performance and a pretty good recording for the era. This show is notable because of the first
appearance of "Gloria" at the end of "Jean Genie." I was sitting about five rows up for this and could see
Bowie and Belew laughing and asking each other if they really wanted to play it . . . they dove in and did a
flawless rendition of the song, after which Bowie exclaims, "I can't believe we really did that!"

There are three cuts, all at the beginnings of songs -- "Let's Dance" and "Heroes" are brief cuts due
to tape flips, and "Sound and Vision" suffers from the same cut one finds on most recordings from the tour --
Bowie came back from the break with no fanfare and while the lights were still on; the taper had to scramble
back to his seat and start his rig, thereby missing the first few seconds.

This is worth having if you like this tour -- if you're a casual fan, there are better 1990 shows around.

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