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PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:39 pm
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Kevin Cann says in your last book about Bowie playing it with Ronson live in 1971.
Anyone have more informations about it?


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 4:50 pm
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It was on the Glastonbury set list, so Cann is right.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 4:54 pm
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Thank you so much Ruud!
Let's wait it surface someday.


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:56 pm
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ruud wrote:
It was on the Glastonbury set list, so Cann is right.
I always thought the Glastonbury set list was as follows:
Oh! You Pretty Things, Kooks, Changes, Amsterdam, The Supermen, Memory Of A Free Festival, Song For Bob Dylan (& occasionally, depending on what we read) Bombers
This was David without Ronno.

Does Kevin list other songs?


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 11:49 pm
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lots of new Glastonbury info in nick's latest edition. i'm sure he'll chime in soon, if he's not tired of giving away his new discoveries. but yes, as ruud says, it was played at Glastonbury, and as the hype says, this was solo and without Ronson.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:54 am
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Bombers is actually the only Glastonbury track that there is publically available audio of.

About five years ago the Radio Geronimo website http://www.radiogeronimo.com/mglastonbury.htm streamed about 6 minutes of all sorts of cut up and jumbled audio from their unique archives and it included about 30 seconds of Bombers alongside a whole load of other gibberish.

It's not there any more.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:19 am
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It's Gonna Rain Again was indeed played at Glastonbury 1971.

Here’s the set list in the correct order. You can find a great deal more information about this in the new edition of my book – there’s a full account in the live chapter, and more about the less familiar songs in the A-Z chapter.

Unknown opening number
The Supermen
Quicksand
Changes
I’d Like a Big Girl with a Couple of Melons
Oh! You Pretty Things
Kooks
It’s Gonna Rain Again
Memory of a Free Festival
Amsterdam
Song for Bob Dylan
Bombers

The fact that David began performing at around 5 o’clock in the morning means that the Radio Geronimo engineer who taped the set was taken by surprise, so the opening number was missed as he ran to his post and began recording. On the basis of the information currently available we can do no more than guess what the opening song might have been, but going by the evidence of Bowie’s other live sets at around that time, the most obvious contenders would probably be 'Fill Your Heart', 'It Ain't Easy', 'Queen Bitch' or 'Looking For a Friend'. Of these, 'Fill Your Heart' might perhaps be the most likely contender, bearing in mind that in earlier live sets David had accompanied himself very simply on acoustic guitar for that number, thus making it a good candidate for a solo performance like Glastonbury.

Of course, the other glaringly obvious omission is 'Space Oddity'. As far as we know he didn't perform it very often in 1971, although he did play it at Aylesbury three months later, so it's not out of the question. And I suppose it might have been the best song to grab the attention of the sleepy punters at five o'clock in the morning!

Nick


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:55 pm
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"I’d Like a Big Girl with a Couple of Melons"

Wouldn't we all, I can only imagine the chorus

Thanks for the update Nick, looking forward to your latest, (it'll be in my Christmas stocking, right beside the Melons)


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