David Bowie
The Spectrum
Philadelphia, PA
July 21, 1983
(Two Of Us Master Volume 62)

Recording: Shure Mic > Sony WM-D6C

2020 Transfer: Master Tapes > Nakamichi DR-01 (azimuth adjusted) > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity > iZotope RX / ozone 5 (mastered) > Peak Pro 6 (post production) > xACT 2.39 > FLAC

01 The Jean Genie Intro
02 Star
03 "Heroes"
04 What In The World?
05 Golden Years
06 Fashion
07 Let's Dance
08 Breaking Glass
09 Life On Mars
10 Sorrow
11 Cat People (Cat People)
12 China Girl
13 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
14 Rebel Rebel
15 White Light, White Heat
16 Station To Station
17 Cracked Actor
18 Ashes To Ashes
19 Space Oddity
20 Band Introductions
21 Young Americans
22 Fame
23 TVC15
24 Stay
25 The Jean Genie
26 Modern Love

Known Faults:
-Fame: 8 seconds patched at the start with alternate source
-Modern Love: all but first 43 seconds patched with alternate source

Welcome to Volume 62 of the "Two Of Us" Master Series.

Between 1983 and 1999 there was likely not a taper or taping duo more active than the "Two Of Us". For the better part of a decade and a half they taped over 250 artists with an array being taped multiple times.

If you collect Springsteen then you are already familiar with some of their work, "fmcleanboots" has posted a half dozen or so of their "Tunnel Of Love" tour shows but has decided to pass the baton.

What you don't know is their passion was not just for Springsteen but for music and that passion runs deep. It is astonishing how many artists they taped.

They followed tours taping club shows, theater shows, arena shows, big artists, mid-level artists and local artists. If they were following a tour and the tour had an off night they'd see who else was playing that night to tape.

Always focused on enjoyment of the show as the priority, tickets were for the most part acquired outside of the venue as they worked to obtain the best possible seats, continually trading up until the correct seats were acquired.

The results of this were the captures are uniformly excellent but on occasion the start of the show was sacrificed as a trade-off for the seats. The heavy lifting was done by the Sony WM-D6C and an external Shure Mic before moving to DAT for the last couple of years.

None of their masters have ever been circulated and have been safely stored for the past three to four decades in a climate controlled environment. Tapes transferred so far are in pristine condition.

Though we may do some mini releases of a series of shows in order for one portion of a tour for the most part shows will not be released in order, there are just too many of them.

This will be a very exciting series and we hope along the way we upgrade existing circulating audio and offer up shows that do not have any circulating audio.

We hope you enjoy the ride, this is definitely not a dark ride.

**************************

David Bowie @ The Spectrum - Philadelphia July 21, 1983

David Bowie was the artist that started it all for Two Of Us, a favorite artist, Bowie was taped on multiple occasions and are amongst the earliest shows recorded outside of a few shows recorded to likely prepare for the Bowie tour.

Volume 62 of our series features the fourth night in Philadelphia and fifth night of the tour.

This is a new uncirculated source and "Two Of Us" have once again acquired good seats and gotten a very good pull.

Due to a set of dead batteries only about 45 seconds of "Modern Love" was captured, we have patched the balance from an alternate capture making the song complete.

Thanks to goody for the detailed work on this patch.

There has been some mis-information out regarding this particular run of shows at the Spectrum with past some night being mis-dated. However, I don't believe there was any confusion surrounding this particular night.

Thanks to Steveboy at Bowiestation for helping sort out and correct the mis-information surrounding this run of shows...on to Madison Square Garden.

Thanks to "Two Of Us" and their dedication to capturing all these great shows as well as trusting me to be the caretaker of their work. Also, a big thank you to my friend "fmcleanboots" for putting me in touch and laying the groundwork that has resulted in this release and finally to professor goody for always being "on call" to ensure we're at the correct pitch...we've only just begun to scratch the surface.

Artwork included...

mjk5510 & Two Of Us

PREVIOUS RELEASES
01 Elvis Costello 1989-08-20 Columbia, MD
02 David Bowie 1983-07-16 Hartford, CT
03 David Bowie 1983-07-18 Philadelphia, PA
04 Chuck Berry & Ron Wood 1986-06-25 NYC, NY
05 Bangles 1986-03-28 NYC, NY
06 Pretenders 1984-05-01NYC, NY
07 Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band 1989-08-04 Saratoga Springs, NY
08 Tracy Chapman 1988-11-28 NYC, NY
09 Animals 1983-11-12 NYC, NY
10 Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit 1984-08-18 NYC, NY
11 Blasters 1986-07-25 NYC, NY
12 Roy Orbison 1988-07-27 NYC, NY
13 Paul McCartney 1989-08-24 NYC, NY
14 John Cale 1987-06-27 NYC, NY
15 Nick Lowe 1995-01-30 NYC, NY
16 E Street Band Presents The E Street Revue 1992-11-21 Red Bank, NJ
17 David Byrne 1993-12-23 NYC, NY
18 Dave Edmunds 1994-09-15 NYC, NY
19 Marianne Faithful 1990-10-17 NYC, NY
20 Ronnie Spector 1989-12-22 NYC, NY
21 Ronnie Spector 1989-12-23 NYC, NY
22 John Fogerty 1997-09-18 NYC, NY
23 A Christmas Gift For You 1988-12-22 NYC, NY
24 A Christmas Gift For You 1988-12-23 NYC, NY
25 Elvis Costello 1989-08-29 Holmdel, NJ
26 Bob Dylan 1997-04-20 Long Branch, NJ
27 Ronnie Spector 1990-09 NYC, NY
28 Gary US Bonds 1983-07-11 NYC, NY
29 Kinks 1993-05-13 NYC, NY
30 Bruce Springsteen 1985-01-15 Charlotte, NC
31 Blasters 1985-10-26 NYC, NY
32 Difford & Tilbrook 1989-09-23 NYC, NY
33 Elvis Costello 1984-08-18 Queens, NY
34 Joe Ely 1986-09-12 (Early) NYC, NY
35 Elvis Costello 1989-08-19 Philadelphia
36 Original Crickets w/Steve Forbert 1987-04-28 NYC, NY
37 Squeeze Acoustic 1996-07-30 NYC, NY
38 Elvis Costello 1989-08-23 Wantagh, NY
39 David Bowie 1983-07-20 Philadelphia
40 Nils Lofgren 1989-06-09 NYC
41 Nils Lofgren 1989-12-08 NYC
42 Nils Lofgren 1989-12-09 Asbury Park
43 Joe Strummer & The Latino Rockabilly War 1989-11-11 NYC
44 Willy DeVille 1986-11-21 NYC Early Show
45 Bob Dylan 1991-07-11 Jones Beach
46 Willy DeVille 1989-11-28 NYC Early & Late Show
47 Deborah Harry 1989-11-12 NYC
48 Chuck Berry 1986-10-18 NYC
49 Nick Lowe 1989-04-11 Brookville, NY
50 Nick Lowe 1989-04-13 Waltham, MA
51 Neil Young 1993-08-20 Wantagh, NY
52 Carl Perkins 1988-07-12 NYC, NY
53 Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie 1987-12-28 NYC, NY
54 Roxy Music 2001-07-23 NYC, NY
55 Roxy Music 2001-07-24 NYC, NY
56 John Fogerty 1997-06-04 NYC, NY
57 Squeeze 1990-08-04 NYC, NY
58 Lou Reed 1989-03-21 NYC, NY
59 Nick Lowe 1989-04-21 Ann Arbor, MI
60 Nick Lowe 1989-04-22 Evanston, IL
61 Neil Young 1996-08-19 NYC, NY

Images for all shows as well as full size images for this show.

Images for this show: