David Bowie | Live on Musikladen Extra | Complete Show | Bremen | 29 May 1978 | 2025 Restoration

On this day, 4th of August 1978, a live performance by David Bowie and his ‘78 tour band at the Radio Bremen TV Studio, was first broadcast on German TV, via the Musikladen Extra show. Bowie is in fine voice, and clearly enjoying himself very much.

Here for the first time ever, is the complete 55-minute performance, which was never broadcast or previously made available in this form.

The material, taken from several different sources, has been restored for your optimal sound and vision enjoyment!

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David Bowie’s Isolar II 1978 World Tour, also known as The Low / “Heroes” World Tour or The Stage Tour, opened on the 29th of March, 1978 at the San Diego Sports Arena. The tour continued through North America, Europe and Australia and New Zealand before reaching a conclusion at the NHK Hall in Tokyo, on the 12th of December, 1978. Eighty dates were played, with a total attendance of almost 1.2 million people.

The musicians on the tour were Bowie’s mainstay D.A.M. Trio band - Dennis Davis on drums, Carlos Alomar on guitar, band leader, and George Murray on bass. In addition Bowie recruited Adrian Belew, lead guitar, Simon House, violin, Sean Mayes, piano and Roger Powell, synthesizer.

Sean Mayes, Life On Tour With David Bowie: We Can Be Heroes:

David had chosen us for our individual abilities and didn't really interfere with us much. So the music found its own level and became very much the band’s music played in our own way.

David Buckley, Strange Fascination:

He gave me full rein to be his guitarist and to add a lot of colours and sounds; to play solos and to be involved in the shape and form of the music itself - Adrian Belew

That was a wonderful band. You wouldn't normally find a band that would have a violin player, a lead guitar player, a synth player and a piano player – these are all soloist instruments - Carlos Alomar

The Musikladen show gives us a pretty much unprecedented closeup of the brilliance of Bowie and his fantastic ‘78 tour band, in front of just a tiny studio audience.

Sean Mayes, from Life On Tour With David Bowie: We Can Be Heroes:

We flew up to Bremen in north Germany for a TV show. Musik Laden was the largest pop show in the world, going out to all Germany and parts of surrounding countries. The studio is arranged just like a music club with posters of Marx, Dietrich, etc on the painted walls. There's a bar and tables and chairs for 150 kids so the cameras seem out of place, not the crowd. The stage was quite small and had no barriers, but the Germans said there would be no problems. David had put together a short show and we filed out between the scenery and the potted palms to applause from the 150.

They were right about "no problems" - our only problem was adjusting to such a small and self-possessed audience. One girl, who was close enough to reach out and touch David's leg, sat with her back to the stage for the entire performance. Eat your hearts out Bowie fanatics! It was a good show, though.

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After the ‘78 tour, Bowie never again toured with this band configuration, or indeed his mighty D.A.M. Trio, and many of the songs from those shows were never played live again.

And so it's a dream come true for me, and I am sure for many fans of Bowie's music from that era, that the surviving members of D.A.M. Trio will finally reunite for a tour later this year. Here's the information:

The D.A.M Trilogy Tour

Carlos Alomar and George Murray (original members of the D.A.M. Trio), essential to David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy albums, tour together for the first time in five decades!

The ‘faster’ songs from Low, “Heroes” and Lodger are the focus of 16 shows with an expanded band, including Bowie 80’s-90’s collaborator Kevin Armstrong, and the incredible vocalist, Cunio.

Carlos Alomar presents
THE D.A.M. TRILOGY
Back to Berlin Tour 2025
A tour honouring David Bowie & Dennis Davis
16 European Dates On Sale now!!

Get your tickets here: https://damtriotour.tix.to/2025

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In the meantime please enjoy this great performance from 1978.

Thanks for watching, I hope you dig it!

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Video and audio:
David Bowie | Live on Musikladen Extra | Bremen | 29 May 1978 | Radio Bremen TV Studio 3 | Bremen, West Germany | Original Broadcast 4 August 1978 | A Radio Bremen Production | Directed by Michael Leckebusch | ZDF | ARD

Musicians:
David Bowie | Vocal, keyboards
Dennis Davis | Drums
Carlos Alomar | Guitar, band leader
George Murray | Bass
Adrian Belew | Lead guitar
Simon House | Violin
Sean Mayes | Piano, string ensemble
Roger Powell | Synthesizer

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