David Bowie - TVC15 - Live 1976

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David Bowie – TVC15 – Live 1976 TVC15 is originally a track from David Bowie’s Station To Station album, released in January 1976. This wonderful live version was recorded at the Nassau Coliseum, New York on the 23rd March 1976. It is available on Live Nassau Coliseum ‘76 - part of the Station To Station reissue box set, released in 2010. This is an attempt to provide a satisfying live video from the ’76 tour. No video material is available of a complete song from the tour, in decent quality. The two minutes of TVC15 Paris footage is the best we have, but the sound is pretty awful. After editing a basic lip-sync, I tried to make a straight TVC15 “live in concert” video, utilizing the Vancouver rehearsal footage to fill in the considerable gap in the Paris clip. But whatever I did, the result was not satisfactory. Compared to the Paris clip, the quality of the Vancouver footage is vastly inferior, it doesn’t have a live feel, and Bowie’s hair is totally different. So after perhaps 50 hours of slaving over hot editing software and many unsuccessful tries, I was ready to give up ever finishing the project. Then out of the blue, the idea came to take the song at it’s name, and start the video with the scene from The Man Who Fell To Earth, where Newton is transfixed by his bank of TV’s, and then to create a montage of all the classic Bowie TV footage from the period. So I gathered together all the usable concert footage, TV show appearances, the Rochester arrest, the Victoria Station “incident” etc. and tried to make sense of all of it. I made a basic edit, with the Vancouver footage, used sparingly, and it became immediately obvious that the thing could work. Thereafter it took on an energy of it’s own, and took shape quite naturally. However, it was an intensely complex edit, with a lot of very time consuming trial and error, much of which got me nowhere. I estimate that in the end, this thing took me around 100 hours to make. I’m satisfied with the result – I think that making it a (hopefully) humorous and enjoyable mix of so many different kinds of footage of The Thin White Duke period balances out the lack of live material in the middle of the track. I guess some Bowie purists might hate me for using him out of context. But what the hell, the man had a great sense of humour, and after having been a Bowie fan myself for over 35 years, I think I am qualified to evaluate what is appropriate. If anyone has any other footage, or ideas for another video project, of material from Bowie's classic period, do please get in touch: nachomarcho@gmail.com Audio technical note: I’ve utilized crowd sounds from other parts of the Live Nassau Coliseum ‘76 album, to soundtrack the intro and outro to the video. At one point, I also allowed a small amount of audio bleed from one of the video sources because it looked too weird seeing Bowie singing, but not hearing his voice. The ending of the track was also made slightly longer to fit the footage. Here’s all the video footage I used, in chronological order: The Man Who Fell To Earth, filmed July / August 1975, released March 1976 Soul Train, 4th November 1975 The Cher Show, 23rd November 1975 Russell Harty Interview, 27th November Vancouver tour rehearsals, 2nd February 1976 Live in Montreal, 25th February 1976 The Dinah! Show, February 1976 Rochester arrest interview, 25th March 1976 Victoria Station incident, 2nd May 1976 Live in London, 8th May 1976 Live in Paris, 17th/18th May 1976 http://www.bowiegoldenyears.com/1976.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolar_... Do me an' yerself a favor - watch it in HD with the sound UP LOUD! Hope you dig it! Putting this video together was another huge labour of love, made with love and with respect for the source. I don't own the rights, and I'm not making any money out of this etc. Just a fan making videos for other fans. Please Like, Comment, Subscribe. Thanks!