David Bowie - 1990-03-06 - Montreal, Canada (SBD) so many roads

 David Bowie - 1990-03-06 - Montreal, Canada (SBD)

 

David Bowie

1990-03-06

Sound & Vision Tour

Montreal Forum

Montreal, Canada

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

CD 1:

01. Space Oddity

02. Changes

03. TVC15

04. Rebel Rebel

05. Golden Years

06. Be My Wife

07. Ashes To Ashes

08. John I'm Only Dancing

09. Queen Bitch

10. Fashion

11. Life On Mars

12. Blue Jean

13. Stay

14. Ziggy Stardust

CD2

01. Sound & Vision

02. Station to Station

03. Alabama Song

04. Young Americans

05. Panic In Detroit

06. Suffragette City

07. Heroes

08. Jean Genie

09. Pretty Pink Rose

10. Modern Love

11. Rock n Roll Suicide

Speedy says: 

1990s - #1: On March 4, 1990, David Bowie embarked on his Sound & Vision tour,  a run of shows built upon an unusual premise. The set list for the tour would feature a host of his greatest hits, which Bowie would then retire from all future concert performances. For fans, it would supposedly be their last opportunity to hear classics such as Suffragette City, Ziggy Stardust, Rebel Rebel and Changes, just to name a few, in concert. Fortunately, Bowie didn’t completely abandon his old material in future tours, but at the time no one was quite certain how serious he was about the claim. This soundboard recording captures Bowie on  the 2nd night of the tour, in Montreal, on March 6, 1990, 3 dozen years ago today.

but closing for the day with Brian Eno's great friend and collaborator and a fine fine set from Bowie from Speedy at so many roads

 

Jerry Garcia posts | so many road . . . . . . Grateful Dead & Jefferson Airplane - 1967 - Toronto

 Grateful Dead & Jefferson Airplane - 1967-08-04 - Toronto, Canada (SBD)

Grateful Dead & Jefferson Airplane

1967-08-04

O'Keefe Centre

Toronto, Canada

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

Grateful Dead:
01.  New Potato Caboose         
02.  Viola Lee Blues      

  
Jefferson Airplane:
03.  She Has Funny Cars         
04.  Bringing Me Down           
05.  High Flying Bird           
06.  White Rabbit              
07.  Come Back Baby             
08.  Runnin' 'Round This World  
09.  Tobacco Road              
10.  Run Around                
11.  It's No Secret             

It was billed as the summer of love. In the wake of the Monterrey Pop Festival in June 1967, the flower power generation and psychedelic rock music, both of which had become synonymous with San Francisco, were firmly embedded in the public consciousness. On July 7, Time Magazine featured a cover story entitled, The Hippies: The Philosophy of a Subculture. It is estimated that around 100,000 people traveled to San Francisco in the summer of 1967. The media was right behind them, casting a spotlight on the Haight-Ashbury district. Albums such as Sgt. Pepper's by the Beatles and Surrealistic Pillow from San Francisco's own Jefferson Airplane, with their vivid imagery and allusions to drug use, climbed to the top of the Billboard charts. Ever the sharp eyed promoter, Bill Graham took the Airplane and Grateful Dead on tour across the US and into Canada, billing the shows as "Bill Graham Presents The San Francisco Scene" in order to capitalize on the attention that the city of the Golden Gate Bridge had been receiving. The 2 bands played Toronto from July 31 to August 5. This soundboard recording captures part of the Grateful Dead's set and the entire Jefferson airplane performance from August 4, 1967, 58 years ago today. Stop back tomorrow for a 2nd installment from this joint tour. 

The connections between Jerry Garcia/Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane go far beyond their 1967 visit to Canada. As mentioned above, both the Dead and the Airplne emerged from the San Francisco scene in 1965 and would be leading lights of psychedelic rock. The 2 bands would headline the Human Be-in on January 14, 1967 in Golden Gate Park, a concert which put San Francisco’s counter culture on the map and served as a prelude to the Summer Of Love.  The Airplane and Dead also performed at Monterrey Pop in June 1967, and at Woodstock in August 1969. In fact, the 2 bands shared the same bill quite frequently, with Deadbase listing 50 such concerts from 1965 to 1970. Who knows how many more undocumented pairings also took place?   In 1967, as the Grateful Dead were working on their debut album, Jerry Garcia also spent time helping the Airplane produce their landmark 2nd album, Surrealistic Pillow. Garcia in fact, was the source of the album’s title, when he mentioned that, as a whole, the album sounded "as surrealistic as a pillow is soft." Although RCA, the Airplane’s record company would not acknowledge Garcia's considerable contributions to the album with a "Producer" credit, he is listed as "spiritual advisor."