David Bowie: Serious Moonlight

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Summary: Poor video and sound quality spoil this
Review: The Serious Moonlight Tour was a brilliant concert tour. I was at the Singapore performance and enjoyed it tremendously. However, the picture and sound quality on this disc fails to do credit to DVD technology.

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Summary: DONT LISTEN TO THE OTHERS!
Review: There is absolutely nothing wrong with the quality of the sound or vision. The camera is always completely focused and the sound is perfect. This is great concert footage from the Vancouver show on the Serious Moonlight tour. Please don't listen to the other guy because I honestly don't know what he's talking about. Here's the list of the songs that David performs....Look Back in Anger--Heroes--What in the World--Golden Years--Fashion--Let's Dance--Breaking Glass--Life on Mars?--Sorrow--Cat People--China Girl--Scary Monsters--Rebel Rebel--White Light, White Heat--Station to Station--Cracked Actor--Ashes to Ashes--Space Oddity--Young Americans--Fame. The songs sound so good live and if you can find this on either DVD or VHS (I own the DVD) you should buy it because it is very professional and definately worth buying.

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Summary: Bowie At His Best
Review: This Concert is absolutely spectacular- Bowies Best Concert on Tape. Bowie Sings Hits like Lets Dance, China Girl, Life on Mars? , Look Back in Anger -- and Heroes , etc. ,etc. Bowies voice is top notch and his performance is a knock-out! dont pass this one up-- its a must- for any Bowie fan or Rock fan. This concert RULES!

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Summary: Bowie At His Best
Review: This Concert is absolutely spectacular- Bowies Best Concert on Tape. Bowie Sings Hits like Lets Dance, China Girl, Life on Mars? , Look Back in Anger -- and Heroes , etc. ,etc. Bowies voice is top notch and his performance is a knock-out! dont pass this one up-- its a must- for any Bowie fan or Rock fan. This concert RULES!

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Summary: Ground Control to Major Tom
Review: This is only one of my several Bowie DVD's and the only one that is a concert DVD. I really don't have too many complaints about it. Well I would have preferred some of his songs that he covered in the Ziggy Concert DVD such as Changes and All the Young Dudes, but most of the songs on his BowieChanges CD are performed here. He is an artist who really loves interaction and it can be seen here. Especially when he "Teases" the audience members in the front row during China Girl! Sound is good, and some of the video effects are a little hokey, like pausing on an image longer than neccessary but from what I hear it sounds like I got the better concert DVD rather than the Ziggy/Glass Spider DVD! EVERY BOWIE FAN SHOULD GET THIS DVD

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Summary: Let's Dance!
Review: This is the way old tube cameras recorded things back then in the eighties - lights would smear, and soft focus filters and spotlights shining through smoke just add to the at-time-fuzzy, at-times-glossy look. Don't believe the reviews that say the DVD had bad visual mastering; my criteria for this disc is simple: Does it look and sound the way it did when it aired on HBO those many years ago? It does. That's both relief (the master video could have deteriorated - except for a couple split second breaks, it hasn't) and unfortunate (the sound needs to be remixed/remastered). About that all-important sound: Background hiss exists, but what really bothers me is that the mix doesn't do justice to Carlos Alomar's guitar. A modern mix would bring him out more, but who knows if the unmixed audio tapes from the show even exist anymore? At least the vocals are clear. About the show itself, this was Bowie at his most accessible, with everyone dressed up in shirts & suspenders and proper shoes (except for Earl Slick, who looks and acts like he escaped from an episode of Welcome Back Kotter), and just a few smoke and light effects, with some great performances; Cat People sounding great, and even Fame - which often turns into a laborious affair - is engaging.

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Summary: Serious Bowie.
Review: Two words - classic Bowie! Taken from the Vancouver show of David Bowie's 1983 world tour, this concert is a great representation of the Thin White Duke's career up to that point. Bowie's voice is strong and his performance epitomizes the charisma and energy for which his live shows are known. Although not nearly as theatrical as the Ziggy Stardust through Diamond Dogs era ('72-'74) or the Glass Spider tour ('87), it's a fun concert filled with lots of hits. Except for "Sorrow" and "The Cracked Actor", Bowie performs no Ziggy-era songs, but he does indulge in a Hamlet-esque, show-stopping rendition of the latter. Dressed very dapper in baggy suits, Bowie parades the stage, playing with the audience and giving them their money's worth. His band is one of his strongest - with Earl Slick on lead guitar, Tony Thompson on drums, and the funky saxophone section, The Borneo Horns, to name a few. A masterful performance. In summary: a must for die-hard Bowie-heads and a great way to get started for those not acquainted with the music of the talented David Bowie

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Summary: Poor Production Dogs The Thin White Duke
Review: While I enjoyed Bowie's tight band and Bowie himself having a ball, the video quality was grainy and the editing doesn't give you a sense of being there. The editing makes it seems as if the Bowie was just running through his numbers. I would have liked to seen Bowie interacting more with the crowd which I imagine was edited out of the concert to some degree.