DAVID BOWIE Live Santa Monica '72 *NUMBERED* #2840 2-LP/Records - SEALED -RARE

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DAVID BOWIE Live Santa Monica '72 
*NUMBER #2840
FACTORY SEALED - RARE - COLLECTOR'S ITEM! 
A MUST HAVE FOR ANY DAVID BOWIE OR MUSIC FAN!

Released on EMI Records in 2008 - LIMITED EDITION NUMBERED ON 180-GRAM VINYL!

CONDITION:

Vinyl is *MINT* - NEVER OPENED

Packaging is *MINT* FACTORY SEALED - NOTE: there is a very small cut in the lower-left spine (see pics)

FROM THE ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE:

Hollywood, California – April 17, 2008 – On July 8, Virgin/EMI will release David Bowie: Live Santa Monica ’72 in Limited Edition CD and numbered 180-gram double vinyl LP packages. Previously out-of-print and long a fan favorite, the October 20, 1972 concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was Bowie’s first live U.S. radio appearance, broadcast live by the now-defunct Los Angeles station KMET (“The Mighty Met,” 94.7 FM).  The CD and double vinyl packages include photos taken at the show and a reprint of Robert Hilburn’s original Los Angeles Times concert review.

In 1972, David Bowie set out on his first U.S. tour. He'd recently introduced the world to his Ziggy Stardust persona with his album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and he had completed a hugely successful U.K. tour.  Accompanying Bowie on tour were The Spiders From Mars: Mick Ronson – guitar, vocals; Trevor Bolder – bass; Mick "Woody" Woodmansey – drums; and Mike Garson – piano.
Hilburn captures the scene in the following excerpt from his concert review: “Bowie’s arrival on stage was accompanied by a marvelously designed slice of rock drama.  The flashing strobe lights and strains of Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ combined perfectly with the band’s futuristic space suits and Bowie’s own bisexual image to provide an aura of Clockwork Orange, not so much in the sense of violence as in an incredible sense of ‘nowness’ and the wave of the future.  Future shock had arrived.” 
Released on CD in the mid-‘90s but long since out-of-print, the performance captured by David Bowie: Live Santa Monica ’72 is a standout for fans.  In a 1981 poll, NME’s critics crowed, “(quite simply)… the performer’s, and one of rock’s, best ever bootlegs.”   
David Bowie is also particularly fond of the concert recording, saying, “I can tell that I’m totally into being Ziggy by this stage of our touring. It’s no longer an act; I am him. This would be around the tenth American show for us and you can hear that we are all pretty high on ourselves. We trainwreck a couple of things, I miss some words and sometimes you wouldn’t know that pianist Mike Garson was onstage with us, but overall I really treasure this bootleg. Mick Ronson is at his blistering best.” 
Hilburn’s Los Angeles Times concert review closes with these prescient words: “In his most intense and perhaps open portrayal of the evening, he assured the audience (in his ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide’ encore), ‘You’re not alone… gimme your hands.’  And the hands reached up for him.  Bowie, there’s no doubt about it, is a major star, both in a commercial and, most importantly, an artistic sense.” 
 TRACKLIST

SIDE A

1. Introduction
2. Hang On To Yourself
3. Ziggy Stardust
4. Changes
5. The Supermen
6. Life On Mars?

SIDE B

1. Five Years
2. Space Oddity
3. Andy Warhol
4. My Death

SIDE C

1. The Width Of A Circle
2. Queen Bitch
3. Moonage Daydream
4. John, I'm Only Dancing

SIDE D

1. Waiting For The Man
2. The Jean Genie
3. Suffragette City
4. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide