David Bowie 1973-07-03 Hammersmith Odeon London-Final ever Ziggy Stardust Show

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This Bowie subject has cropped up from time to time for discussion on here, both in Bowie threads and one about Jeff Beck.

Well I've recently found out that Robin Mayhew the sound engineer for Bowie for all the "Ziggy Shows" recorded this show in it's entirity and has it for sale on his official website for £12 with 20% going to charity.

I have bought my copy and it arrived within two or three days and it's awsome.

Anyone else thats like minded can buy their copy here:

http://www.robinmayhew.co.uk/pages/rmshop.htm

If you like Bowie this is without doubt the best Bowie recording of the lot.

Track List:

Disc 1

01 Intro by Barry Bethal
02 Mike Garsons Medley
03 Intro to Concert/Beethovens 9th
04 Hang Onto yourself
05 Ziggy Stardust
06 Watch That Man
07 Wilded Eye Boy From Freeclound/All The Young Dudes/Oh You Pretty things Medley
08 Moonage Daydream
09 Changes
10 Space Oddity
11 My Death

Disc 2

01 Intro
02 Cracked Actor
03 Time
04 Width Of A Circle (All 15 minutes 55 seconds of it)
05 Lets Spend The Night Together (Rolling Stones Cover)
06 Suffragette City

Encore

07 White light White heat (Lou Reed Cover)
08 The Jean Genie (With Jeff Beck)
09 Around And Around (With Jeff Beck)
10 Farewell Speech/Rock N Roll Suicide.
 
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Just got this in the mail after ordering over the xmas break. A bit more emotional than expected. Thank you Mr. Ed for finding this!
 
Watching the concert right now for the first time. Too bad they didnt get Beck was part of the encore.
 
BimboBob said:
Is this the concert where he sacked everyone at the end as he hadn't told them he was moving on?


Classy.
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Sort of.

During the American leg of the 1973 Ziggy tour, Bowie recruited Mike Garson to play piano with the Spiders.

Whilst they were traveling to their next gig Woody Woodmansey was sat next to Garson and was reading a motoring magazine. He was admiring a lambourgine and Garson asked why he just didn't go and buy it.

This then led to a conversation about how much they got paid. It turned out Garson was getting 3 or 4 times the pay that the Spiders were getting and that the road crew were better paid. Robin Mayhew in an article says he has head soundman was on £35 a gig/day no one really knows, with free food etc on top.

The three Spiders Ronson, Boulder and Woodmansey confronted Bowie and threatened to go on strike. They won the day and for the remainder of the tour were paid comparable wages to Garson.

On the Japanese part of the tour Bowie decided he was going to end Ziggy at Hammersmith even though there was a full North American tour planed for 1974.

Ronson was informed but not Boulder or Woodmansey, with Ronson being promised help from Bowie with any solo career he might subsequently have if he kept quite about it. Which he did and Boulder and Woodmansey literally found out at that gig just before the encore Rock n Roll suicide.

On the subsequent American tour of 1974 ended up with Bowie just touring as himself and is known as the Diamond Dogs/Plastic Soul tour.

Ziggy Stardust, however did undertake another show at the Marquee Club London in October 1973 for American TV with the exception of Woodmansey the other two members of the Spiders plus Garson performed at that show (Three shows actually).

The album Pin Ups also features The Spiders aagin without Woodmansey but with Garson on keyboards.

Ronson played guitar on some of the tracks off Diamond Dogs including the title song.

Bowie did help him have a solo career, and he also went on to play with Mott The Hoople and Bob Dylan. He much later collaborated with Bowie on his Black Tie White Noise album in the 1990's.

Bowie never worked with Woodmansey again and Bolder went back to Uriah Heap until his death a year or so ago. Ronson died of pancreatic cancer in early 2000's. Garson however played with Bowie on virtually (not all though) every tour he undertook between 1974-2004
 
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