At some point the Bowie company is going to run out of product to put out. At that point they will want more money and they will decide to officially release Leon in a limited edition.
Supposedly there were five suites recorded for the Leon project. For some reason two were deleted. The other three got a final mix before being offered to the record company for release. Those three equal one hour of music. As for the other thirty hours, I am not sure, but Bowie said he wanted to go thru it all at some point. He said out of everything he had done, it was the one project he wanted to return to.
But what are you going to call the post-RCA collections? "Re:Call" is a pretty obvious reference, design and all, to RCA. mEMrI?
I've been trying to re-org/retrofit the three Parlophone boxes onto Blu-Ray media, under a better organizing principle than I used the first time I archived, and in the process 1) I discovered that I forgot about the long "Panic in Detroit" from Nassau '76 with the drum solo, available digitally from 2010 to about 2016. It really should have been on "Re: Call2", no? 2) I decided to create a fake "Re: Call" with one track on it: the stereo "All the Young Dudes" from "Nothing Has Changed". So sue me. 3) I discovered that, despite my fevered imagination, Parlophone never put out "Nassau Coliseum" in 96/24 on WCIBN. I used a lovely 96/24 vinyl rip, et voila! Four live Parlophone 70s albums (although the vinyl used on Nassau was technically EMI's) on one Blu-Ray disc. Cheats: I found that I had to use some EMI material to get what I wanted, aesthetically; and while I wanted to relegate all 44.1/16 stuff to the "Re:Calls"s, I thought it prudent to include a CD-rip of "The Gouster", because apart from the 192-24 download from 7digital, that CD rip is still my only version with the right version of "Young Americans". (Don't lecture me on piracy. I bought that darn digital box 3 times).
JUST dropped the needle on the Pinups vinyl reissue. Man, I am pretty new to Bowie...what a FANTASTIC sounding record!
no. they are compilations of non-album singles and b-sides. incomplete and often inauthentic but that's the idea at least.
Well, in any case, I settled on my "Re:Call 4" [sic] lineup last night, each one contemporaneous with one of the boxes. "All the Young Dudes" ('Nothing Has Changed') "Panic in Detroit (full drum solo)" (Amazon MP3) ""Heroes"" (Energy-loss 09/2017 Parlophone release, complete with set of sneer quotes) On the compliance upside, they've all been officially released in the past. Also nabbed a 192/24 rip of a "White Vinyl" Ziggy while messing around. And that's about the extent of the description. (ObListeningTestimony: After downloading, it frankly sounded like there was a dust bunny on the stylus.) The pedigree (pictures) included with the vinyl-rip download didn't really show the actual matrix numbers, and the vinyl in the pics didn't look snow white. At least, nothing like any of the "white vinyl" Ziggys I was able to stalk online. Pics were included of a nice aged outside cover and great RCA labels from an early UK pressing, but I couldn't really place this combo all in one package anywhere in the firmament due to the "white vinyl" claim. The rip is probably from a real white vinyl - said to be an unofficial release with non-English language on cover and label. (Certainly sounds like an unofficial knockoff). The pics were probably just thrown in from another source. Another clue that this was a bit of a Frankenstein job: usually vinyl rips include a text file telling the full life story from turntable to torrent, but this one did not. Also, too: My "Labyrinth" wall calendar arrived from Amazon yesterday. June is glamorous! ObListening2: I actually couldn't get through all of "PID". Drum solos, eh?
I've been listening to five hours of glam rock hits including JIOD, Jean Genie, Life On Mars, Sorrow and Drive-In Saturday. Found it somewhere on www. Much Gary Glitter, Suzi, Slade and T.Rex, Mott and Sweet.
Lodger - Orange label UK RCA A2/B2 with the laminated gatefold sleeve. Paid £15 for it last week after recovering from the shock of seeing RCA Bowie in the used bins. When I realised it was laminated and an early pressing I had to have it. Cleaned it up and it's in VG condition. Plays great other than the needle drop pops from the previous owner between some tracks, and a bit of light crackle at the start of each side. Sterling cut, it's probably the best I've heard this album sound. I know the Parlophone reissue is just around the corner for roughly the same price, but at least with the original I won't have to put up with tape drop-outs and missing drum beats.
The Next Day Blackstar Listened to the CD versions on headphones, first proper listen in a long time. They had been a bit under appreciated by me previously.
Vancouver Rehearsals Buddha of Suburbia Ziggy The Man Who Sold The World Tin Machine 2 ...so far this week. Playing All Saints at present
