Mantra 77 -Berlin Trilogy Part 3

Mantra 77

Download the bootleg; Mantra 77.

The bootleg is what i understand a recording from 28th March in 1977. It was apart of the Iggy Pop tour which featured Bowie on keyboard. The recording its self sounds like a radio session of some sort and has the added bonus of not having any crowd noise distorting it.

The line up apart from Iggy was Bowie on keyboards and backing vocals [as seen in the cover], Hunt Sales on drums and backing vocals, Tony Sales on bass and Ricky Gardiner on guitar.

The track list is;
1) Raw Power                                         9) I Need Somebody
2) TV Eye                                                10) Search & Destroy
3) Dirt                                                       11) I Wanna Be Your Dog
4) Turn Blue                                           12) China Girl
5) Funtime
6) Gimme Danger
7) No Fun
8 ) Sister Midnight

My view of this bootleg is that its a great piece of history of this tour, [The tour that Bowie helped his fellow friend out and taught how to make money in the business]. Apart from looking at it as a history resource its a pretty good listen! My favorites are ‘No Fun’ which has a slightly different feel to it like most of the songs on this bootleg due to the Bowies presence. However nothing can beat my favorite track on this ‘Sister Midnight’ i love the sharp pointy keyboard notes David plays through out the song and the ending of the song is just like one big funky keyboard jam. This is a really great Bootleg.

Now i hope that link isnt copyrighted but what i believe its a bootleg on the circuit so it should be all good, but if so tell me and it will be removed.

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~ by Scott Willis on April 30, 2009.