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}} ''David Live'' is David Bowie’s first official live album, originally released by RCA Records in 1974. The album was recorded in July of that year, on the initial leg of Bowie's US Diamond Dogs Tour, at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. (The second leg, a more soul-oriented affair following recording sessions in Philadelphia for the bulk of ''Young Americans'', would be renamed 'Philly Dogs'). The album catches Bowie in transition from the ''Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane'' glam-rock era of his career to the 'plastic soul' of ''Young Americans''. While the cover featured a picture of Bowie in his latest soul threads – baggy trouser suit complete with shoulder pads and braces from October 1974 – the music was recorded in July of that year when he was showcasing his two most recent studio albums of original material, ''Diamond Dogs'' and ''Aladdin Sane'', as well as selected favourites from ''Ziggy Stardust'' and earlier. The tour was Bowie's most ambitious to date, featuring a giant set designed to evoke "Hunger City", the post-apocalyptic setting for ''Diamond Dogs'', and his largest band, led by Michael Kamen. For "Space Oddity" (recorded at the time but not released until the album's 2005 reissue) Bowie sang using a radio microphone disguised as a telephone whilst being raised and lowered above the stage by a cherry picker crane. The tour was documented in Alan Yentob's ''Cracked Actor'' (1975). ==Background and recording== Capturing the music on tape was itself problematic; most of the backing vocals, as well as the saxophone, needed to be overdubbed in the studio later (a fact noted on the original album sleeve as well as the reissue) because the performers were often off-mike. The Tower Theater concerts also gave rise to a backstage revolt by Bowie's touring band. David Sanborn and Hugh McCracken (Uncredited0, Having been made aware in a casual conversation with John Venable of The Record Plant Remote that the concerts were being recorded, informed other members and the band and they confronted Bowie an hour before the first show and refused to take the stage, Venable negotiated that Record Plant would hold the tapes until negotiations were settled so the recording could proceed. It is said, they received a more reasonable $5,000 fee per member, to which Bowie agreed only 20 minutes before showtime. Several members of the band (including Mike Garson and Herbie Flowers) have since remarked that the tension of this confrontation was audible in the stilted performances found on the live album. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Live」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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