Thursday, February 10, 2022

David Bowie Hunky Geordie Tapes Volume 08 (Rev A)

HUG061CD  TO ALL THE GAYS

DAVID BOWIE - Frankfurt 1990-04-05

Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany

Audience recording
Lineage: Maxell SLXII C90/60 tapes (Andre F - 1st gen) > JVC SA-X95 tape deck > direct wire > Goldwave for track splits > FLAC 4
Number of discs: 2
Artwork: included
Total running time: Disc 1: 57:26; Disc 2: 55:46

Tracks:

Disc 1

1. Ode to Joy intro
2. Space Oddity
3. Changes
4. TVC 15
5. Rebel Rebel
6. Be My Wife
7. Ashes To Ashes
8. Queen Bitch
9. Fashion
10. Life On Mars?
11. Blue Jean
12. Let's Dance
13. Stay
14. band introductions
15. China Girl

Disc 2
1. Sound + Vision
2. Ziggy Stardust
3. Station To Station
4. Alabama Song
5. Young Americans
6. Panic In Detroit
7. Suffragette City
8. Fame '90
9. Heroes
10. Pretty Pink Rose
11. The Jean Genie

Notes

Ode to Joy a bit messy (stop/start of machine).  Cut some dreck from the beginning, one join still in there.
Tape flip between Let's Dance and Stay - ending of Let's Dance is missing.
Gap removed @ 2:36 in Fame - some music lost (could be as much as 30 seconds).

Torrent History:

Originally seeded to MWP by steve23yh as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 8 (1st May 2013)
Uploaded to Bowie Station as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 8 by steve23yh on 16th June 2015





HUG062CD  TEATRET 78.1

DAVID BOWIE - Copenhagen 1978-05-31

Falkoner Teatret, Copenhagen

Audience recording
Lineage: TDK D60 x 2 tapes (Noggin) > JVC PC-X95 tape deck > direct wire > Goldwave for track splits > FLAC 4
Number of discs: 2
Artwork: included
Total running time: Disc 1: 47:25; Disc 2: 45:36

Tracks:

Disc 1

1. Warszawa
2. Heroes
3. What In The World
4. Be My Wife
5. The Jean Genie
6. Blackout
7. Sense Of Doubt
8. Speed Of Life
9. Breaking Glass
10. Fame
11. Beauty and the Beast

Disc 2

1. band introductions
2. Five Years
3. Soul Love
4. Star
5. Hang On To Yourself
6. Ziggy Stardust
7. Suffragette City
8. Art Decade
9. Alabama Song
10. Station To Station
11. Stay

Notes

Two passes of iZotope RX denoiser tool to dehiss.

Warszawa volume vary variable, impacting left channel.  Right channel copied with 0.02 second offset.
Gap between Heroes and What In The World.  Removed, crowd noise only.  A further gap in What In The World at 0.6 seconds - no material impact.
Clumsy join between Blackout and Sense of Doubt removed.
Another gap between Fame and Beauty and the Beast - loses the start of Beauty and the Beast

Fade at 2:49-2:54 on Five Years is on the source tape
Tape flip between Soul Love and Star - seamless
Gap between Hang On To Yourself and Ziggy Stardist - crowd noise only.
Tape flip, catching the end of Station To Station.  Edited successfully, but different sound quality after join.
Sound quality for the end of Station To Station plus Stay is a notch or two down - different source?

No TVC 15 or Rebel Rebel

Torrent History:

Originally seeded to MWP by steve23yh as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 8 (1st May 2013)
Uploaded to Bowie Station as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 8 by steve23yh on 16th June 2015





HUG063CD  TAKE A SPACESHIP RIDE

DAVID BOWIE - Munich 1990-04-10

Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany

Audience recording
Lineage: TDK IECII C60 x 2 tapes (Andre F - 1st gen) > Denon DRM-500 tape deck > direct wire > Goldwave for track splits > FLAC 4
Number of discs: 2
Artwork: included
Total running time: Disc 1: 55:50; Disc 2: 48:26

Tracks:

Disc 1

1. Ode to Joy intro
2. Space Oddity
3. Changes
4. TVC 15
5. Rebel Rebel
6. Be My Wife
7. Ashes To Ashes
8. Queen Bitch
9. Fashion
10. Life On Mars?
11. Blue Jean
12. Let's Dance
13. Stay
14. band introductions
15. China Girl

Disc 2
1. Sound + Vision
2. Ziggy Stardust
3. Station To Station
4. Young Americans
5. Suffragette City
6. Fame '90
7. Heroes
8. Pretty Pink Rose
9. The Jean Genie
10. Modern Love

Notes

Tape flip between Queen Bitch and Fashion - seamless
Gap between Life On Mars and Blue Jean.  Some crowd noise lost.
Volume boosted on Blue Jean to China Girl by 33% to bring in line.

Tape flip between Fame 90 and Heroes - seamless
Gap between Heroes and Pretty Pink Rose (encore break) - crowd noise only

Torrent History:

Originally seeded to MWP by steve23yh as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 8 (1st May 2013)
Uploaded to Bowie Station as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 8 by steve23yh on 16th June 2015






HUG064CD  YOU ARE MY MOON

DAVID BOWIE - Vienna 1987-07-01

Prater Stadion, Vienna

Audience recording
Lineage: Maxell XLII 90 tapes (Arcorman, very low gen) >
Denon DRM-500 tape deck > direct wire > Goldwave for track splits > FLAC 4
Number of discs: 2
Artwork: included
Total running time: Disc 1: 71:48; Disc 2: 56:16

Tracks:

Disc 1

1. Purple Haze
2. Carlos's Guitar Intro
3. Up The Hill Backwards
4. Glass Spider
5. Up The Hill Backwards
6. Day In Day Out
7. Bang Bang
8. Absolute Beginners
9. Loving The Alien
10. China Girl
11. Fashion
12. Scary Monsters
13. All The Madmen
14. Never Let Me Down
15. Big Brother
16. Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family
17. 87 & Cry

Disc 2

1. Heroes
2. Time Will Crawl
3. band introductions
4. Beat Of Your Drum
5. Sons Of The Silent Age
6. Dancing With The Big Boys
7. Zeroes
8. Let's Dance
9. Fame
10. Time
11. Blue Jean
12. Modern Love

13. Interview (Viennese FM radio)

Notes

Fade on source tape between China Girl and Fashion.
Tape flip between Fashion and Scary Monsters - cuts the crowd noise down, but no music lost.
Gap between 87 & Cry and Heroes on the tape.  Used as the split between the two discs, but Heroes fades in on the source tape.
Tape flip between Sons of the Silent Age and Dancing With The Big Boys - seamless.
Pause between Fame and Time (encore break) is on source tape and left alone.  First note of Time is thereby missed.

Don't know original source of the interview - it was on the tape with the concert.

Torrent History:

Originally seeded to MWP by steve23yh as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 8 (1st May 2013)
Uploaded to Bowie Station as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 8 by steve23yh on 16th June 2015






HUG065CD  PIRATE'S WORLD

DAVID BOWIE - Dania, FL 1971-11-17

Pirate's World, Dania, FL, USA

Audience recording
Lineage: TDK D90 tape (Noggin) > Denon DRM-500 tape deck > direct wire > Goldwave for track splits > FLAC 4
Number of discs: 1 (90 minute CDR)
Artwork: included
Total running time: 83:20

Tracks:

1. Ode To Joy Intro
2. Hang On To Yourself
3. Ziggy Stardust
4. Changes
5. The Supermen
6. Life On Mars?
7. Five Years
8. Space Oddity
9. Andy Warhol
10. Drive In Saturday intro
11. Drive In Saturday
12. The Width Of A Circle
13. John I'm Only Dancing
14. Queen Bitch
15. Moonage Daydream
16. Waiting For The Man
17. The Jean Genie
18. Suffragette City
19. Rock'n'Roll Suicide
20. Ode To Joy outro

Notes

iZotope RX denoiser used (one pass for most, additional pass for middle tracks) to remove hiss.
Three little gaps in the intro to Andy Warhol.  Removed and tidied.  Similar gap in intro to Drive In Saturday removed.
Gap (original tape flip?) between Drive In Saturday and Width Of A Circle.  Removed but rather abrupt.
Actual tape flip at 5:49 in Width Of A Circle.  Fade out/in, but only a couple of seconds of music is actually lost.
Couple of short cuts between Waiting For The Man and The Jean Genie.  Crowd noise only and removed.

Torrent History:

Originally seeded to MWP by steve23yh as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 8 (1st May 2013)
Uploaded to Bowie Station as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 8 by steve23yh on 16th June 2015






HUG066CD  CAPITAL

DAVID BOWIE - Capital Radio Interviews 1976-77

FM Radio Interviews
Lineage: TDK D90 tape (one side, 1976) or D60 (1977) (Noggin) > Denon DRM-500 tape deck > direct wire > Goldwave for track splits > FLAC 4
Number of discs: 1
Artwork: included
Total running time: 75:34

Tracks:

1-22 Maggie Norden, Hullabaloo 1976-05-02
23-39 Nicky Horne, Your Mother Wouldn't Like It, 1977-10-20

Notes

No intervention required on Maggie Norden tape.

Nicky Horne 1977 - Goldwave light hiss removal
Between tracks 3 & 4, adverts removed
More adverts between 5 & 6, 8 & 9

Tape flip @ 3:08 in track 9.  Fade-out/in but some talk missing

More adverts removed between tracks 13 & 14 - the taper had already taken most out, but fades track 14 up afterwards
Beauty and the Beast buts onto adverts, which I've removed with fades

Torrent History:

Originally seeded to MWP by steve23yh as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 8 (1st May 2013)
Uploaded to Bowie Station as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 8 by steve23yh on 16th June 2015





HUG067CD  BEAT IN MY POCKET

TIN MACHINE - Paris 1991-10-30

Le Zenith, Paris

Audience recording
Lineage: TDK D90/60 (AndreF - 1st gen?) > Denon DRM-500 deck > hard wire > Goldwave to capture and split tracks > FLAC 4
Number of discs: 2
Artwork: included
Total running time: Disc 1: 51:08; Disc 2: 47:34

Track listing:

Disc 1

01 Bus Stop
02 Under The God
03 A Big Hurt
04 Baby Can Dance
05 Shopping For Girls
06 Stateside
07 Goodbye Mr Ed
08 I Can't Read
09 Go Now
10 Baby Universal
11 Sacrifice Yourself

Disc 2

01 Betty Wrong
02 You Can't Talk
03 Debaser
04 If There Is Something
05 Heaven's In Here
06 One Shot
07 You Belong In Rock And Roll

Fix notes:

Side 1 has variable volume, boosted tracks except I Can't Read by 125%
On side 2, left channel boosted by 21.6%
Tape join between I Can't Read and Go Now.  Minor impact to crowd noise.
Tape flip at 8 minutes into Heaven's In Here.  Some loss of music.

Torrent History:

Originally seeded to MWP by steve23yh as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 8 (1st May 2013)
Uploaded to Bowie Station as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 8 by steve23yh on 16th June 2015

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