David Bowie • TVC 15 • Live at the NHK Hall • Tokyo • 12 December 1978

David Bowie • TVC 15 • Live at the NHK Hall • Tokyo • 12 December 1978 • This video is a newly restored version of David Bowie’s TVC 15, live in Tokyo 1978, synced to an improved sound source of the same show. This performance of TVC 15 was the last song of the last show of Bowie’s last tour with his mighty band, The D.A.M. Trio. That show happened at the NHK Hall in Tokyo on this night, the 12th of December 1978. • 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. • When I first heard the original version of David Bowie’s TVC 15 from the Station to Station album, the crazy rhythm initially reminded me of the offbeat and jerky 1970 novelty hit, In the Summertime, by Mungo Jerry. So then it amazes me how Bowie took TVC 15, and by the time we get to the Isolar II ’78 tour, had re drafted it into a massive set-closing stomping rock monster. The version of TVC 15 from the ’78 live LP Stage, produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti, has long been a favorite track of mine. It would be great to sync that version to some decent live ’78 concert footage, as I have done with many tracks from that album. But alas the only...