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Live and Loud! began as a fortnightly internet radio show in 2012 taking old unreleased live concert recordings I could find and working to repair and improve them - fixing tape hiss, noise, tape drop out, clicks, speed variations, defects - before improving the sound quality by EQing the sound to bring out the instruments as clearly as possible. These are now made directly available to download for free to reach as many fans of the music as possible.

Depending on the quality of the original recording, these can often be made to sound almost like commercial recordings - but of course I can't guarantee that for every show. What I can guarantee is it will sound far better than the original files available which have been floating around the internet and on bootleg recordings for many years.

Almost all are either "soundboard" recordings (taken directly from the mixing desk used at the gig on the night) or old FM radio recordings. A few gigs, if they are of special historical importance, make an appearance even if they were recorded from the audience - these can also be made to sound better than ever.

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Sunday, 18 December 2016

Show 87: David Bowie - Live In Cleveland - 25 November 1972



This is a remaster of a recording by someone from the audience on the night (update: that person did get in touch with some more details - see the comments section below). As such it might not be as clear as most of the gigs on the archive (especially the first track, where the sound engineer on the night took a few minutes to get things sounding ok).

2016 has been a bad year for many. It was also the year David Bowie passed away which affected me and many others more than I guess we would have thought, so I wanted to do something from him to close the year as a mark of respect. This gig catches him coming towards the end of his first proper US tour. The recording - recorded in the crowd, on cassette, so long ago - is a remarkable record of a great gig, with Bowie chatting in between songs. I spent more than a few hours on EQ'ing this but fortunately otherwise there wasn't too much to do in repair terms.  There are a couple of instances where the song fades out and back in - these were on the original recording and have been left as is.

***2025 UPDATE***

Someone donated to the website and asked for this gig to be put on CD. Given I did this restoration almost 9 years ago, I figured it was worth me trying to improve on what I had done before. So with better software than I had at the time and new mastering tools, I WAS able to improve quite a bit on the sound quality. My donor now has that new version on CD and you now get that new version for free here too. And as it's  stored on the new cloud server, it's also now streamable for the first time.

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As always, the restored and remastered show is available to download or stream for free as a single 320kbps MP3. Just hit the link:

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Setlist
Hang On To Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Changes
The Supermen
Life On Mars
Five Years
Space Oddity
Andy Warhol
Drive In Saturday
The Width Of A Circle
John, I'm Only Dancing
Moonage Daydream
Waiting For The Man
The Jean Genie
Suffragette City
Rock'n'Roll Suicide

Be sure to check out the other gigs from David Bowie I've restored HERE - all similarly downloadable for free.


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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous18 December 2016 at 12:17

    Cheers fo this & is good to hear from you at BS

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  2. richie18 December 2016 at 13:14

    thanx for all the work
    you put into these recordings
    and sharing

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  3. Anonymous21 December 2016 at 04:28

    Thank You !!! Krivos

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  4. JoeRay3 January 2017 at 12:46

    Just a brief update, I recorded this concert using Memorex Cassette Tape, a Sony Box Portable Cassette Recorder and a AKG D1000E microphone from the 4th row left center at Cleveland’s Public Hall (not Music Hall). I have considerable photo’s from this concert in color...

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    1. Flip Martian4 January 2017 at 01:24

      Joe, thank you so much for that information and for getting in touch. I'll update the graphic to show the Public Hall. I'm guessing the copy I had to work on is several generations away from your original; I would have loved to have been able to take a copy from that - but I hope I did it some justice with my cleaning up.

      Those photos you have must bring back great memories; what I would have given to see him at that time. Thanks for recording the gig, its priceless. Feel free to contact me anytime.

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