It was also officially released in 2015 as the B-side to the limited edition orange vinyl 7" Amsterdam single, for the Groninger Museum David Bowie Is exposition. Probably as another clue from the performer about his near future path.
Just read through the thread. Looks like a great interesting release. I shall try and get both cd and vinyl and maybe it will get a 24/96 flac official download release as well. I have a fair amount of tapes and boots from the 1974 tour which of course we never got to see in the UK. It was 1976 Wembley Empire Pool before we saw Bowie back here.
If that’s true then it would hold out the possibility of making the archive available for download at some point similar to what Young/Springsteen have done.
No worries. Coming on the heels of the previous post, it sounded like you were referencing the 1973 Radio City shows.
I've been playing Cracked Actor quite a bit in the last few days. When it came out officially, I was glad, but having heard the bootleg version a few times over the years, I wasn't overly excited. Besides, the 1974 tour - in its various incarnations - has never been my favorite, based solely on the sometimes-awkward rearrangements and Bowie's over-the-top vocal performance. David Live is a fine live album, especially in its 2005 remix (which captures a complete setlist - a must for me with any archival release), but hardly a favorite. I sort of thought Cracked Actor as more of the same, only with a slightly less appealing setlist ("It's Gonna Be Me" and "John, I'm Only Dancing Again" both being songs Bowie left in the vault for a good reason, IMO; on the other hand, it's missing "Panic in Detroit", a highlight of David Live for me). Anyway, it's taken me a while, but Cracked Actor has really grown on me. As others have remarked over the decades, it really does capture a looser, more vibrant show than the one on David Live, and honestly the sound quality and mix easily surpass every version of David Live. Earl Slick, in particular, plays magnificently, and Bowie's vocals are more sultry and loose here, all to the benefit of the tour arrangements. Many highlights, including "Moonage Daydream", "Sweet Thing/Candidate", "Rock 'n Roll With Me", even "Space Oddity" sounds great here. All this leads me to say: while I'd love to get a live document from the 1995 tour, or another release from 1976 or 1983 (all favorite tours of mine), I'm genuinely excited to get another official live document from the 1974 tour. A real surprise and something to look forward to.
Context is rather overstated, it's not like it was part of some funny walk (index finger on upper lip).
I always blamed the open top Mercedes for the 'confusion'. And Herr Bowie wasn't jack booted or Hugo Boss'ed that day. Infact, the Duke wore flip flops and a nice quilted track top from La Scala Boutique in LA.
This is for RSD, correct? Usually the initial release is vinyl followed by cd. Let's hope it follows what's happened in the past.
I don't really have any doubt that this will be available widely on cd as has happened in the past but as you say they usually release these separately so I am also wondering when the cd will be available outside of RSD.
The CD version was usually accompanied by a streaming/digital release as well, so hopefully that holds true this time.
Can’t see there being a wide CD release of this years RSD releases. The CD will be RSD exclusive and that’s it.
On the RSD website they list quantities for a lot of the titles, however, none of the Bowie releases have quantities.
Some are, some are not. Not seeing it on the site this year, but RSD lists from previous years made a distinction between items that were exclusive RSD releases and items that were simply using RSD as their first release day.
