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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Unusual Collection of Songs with Incredible Sound!, 19 Sep 2009
These recordings are from Bowie's 1978 world tour and was mixed by legendary Tony Visconti. Including twenty songs, only Bowie could pull off the tension and excitement on the opening track of, "Warszawa", of all songs! But just as that song ends, the classic anthemic song, "Heroes" sends the crowd into a frenzy. This 5.1 surround sound mix exudes all the excitement of the concert with fantastic and clear vocals and instrumentals. Halfway through the concert, after a rousing rendition of "Fame", Bowie and his incredible band jump into a five song set from `Ziggy Stardust' (sorry, no `Suffragette City'). The song, "Station To Station" is played in it's entirety and the locomotion sound effects travel around the room while the bass slowly feeds into the song. Closing with, "TVC15", Bowie's vocals are still at their best. Twenty songs just fly by.
There is no overstating the impressiveness of this recording in 5.1 surround. Visconti does an amazing job and with a loud 5.1 system, you can feel as if you are in that stadium. The song mix is all mid to late seventies, excluding anything from, "Hunky Dory" or "Aladdin Sane", but that's almost a welcome relief to hear Bowie do a song set of rarely performed songs. This concert version is a keeper!
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This is how a Live Surround mix should be done!, 6 Dec 2005
This disc is the second one in the new DTS Signature series of DVD-A releases and is absolutely superb in terms of technical quality and sound quality.
Rarely has a live show sounded so good - it's as if you are onstage with the band and David's vocals are, to quote the liner notes, "In your lap".
The album was originally recorded with the ill-fated Quadraphonic format in mind, and this shows well in the reissue featured here. Tony Visconti has done a superb job and you can feel the vibe right from the opening number.
Another good idea was restoring the show to it's original running order - the first vinyl release was arranged in chronological order for some reason.There are a couple of little niggles here.
1 - this is only the second DVD-A I have ever seen without a Dolby Digital stream in the Video_TS, so unless you are DVD-A capable or have DTS decoders, you cannot play this disc.
2 - the stereo mix is not a dedicated one, but is a downmix derived from the surround.
3 - the stills are poor. 20 tracks, yet only 7 slides have been used. This apart, the sound really is superb.
Well worth buying.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The Transmission Transition, 20 Jan 2006
This was the tour where Bowie played Bowie instead of hiding behind a persona. The choice of songs was inspired, its the way he chose to play them that leaves me slightly cold. One of the reasons the songs sound as they do may well have a lot to do with the influence of Carlos Alomar his guitarist, who openly admitted to wanting to bring more of a funky sound to Bowies material. This may work on one or two tracks (Stay, in particular) but at other times it all sounds to smooth for songs from his earlier career. This is an interesting transition period for David and altho Lodger and Scary Monsters was to follow, you can already begin to hear the calling of Nile Rodgers (much to Alomars delight). The other dvd-a album available, David Live is a much better piece of work and if you have to choose, leave this one alone and go for David Live. You wont be dissapointed
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