Damage: Live

Damage: Live
Live album by
Sylvian/Fripp
Released26 September 1994
Recorded4 & 5 December 1993, mixed at Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire, March 1994
GenreAlternative rock
LabelVirgin
ProducersDavid Bottrill, Robert Fripp
David Sylvian chronology
Darshan (The Road To Graceland)
(1993)		 Damage: Live
(1994)		 Dead Bees on a Cake
(1999)
Robert Fripp chronology
Darshan (The Road To Graceland)
(1993)		 Damage: Live
(1994)		 Vrooom
(1994)

Damage is a 1994 live album by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp. It was recorded on the "Road to Graceland" tour at London's Royal Albert Hall, December 1993.

This album, originally mixed by Fripp, was first released in 1994 as a limited edition box set: a 24-carat gold CD and 32-page colour booklet in a jewel box inside a cardboard slipcase. It was remixed by David Sylvian and re-released in standard jewel case packaging with different artwork on 10 September 2001.

The album contains mostly live renditions of songs from the 1993 album The First Day but also from Gone to Earth, as well as previously unreleased pieces. The song "Darshan: The Road to Graceland" was replaced by "Jean the Birdman" on the reissued version as Sylvian believed that this track would fit in better with the rest, and the track order was slightly changed.

Background

The songs "Damage" and "The First Day" were only released on this album, and no studio versions has ever been released. "Blinding Light of Heaven", however, has a studio version on the limited edition third disc of Sylvian's compilation Everything and Nothing.

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Paul Stump, in his 1997 History of Progressive Rock, called Damage: Live "a wonder of elegiac splendour."

Track listing

1994 release

  1. "Damage" (Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, David Sylvian) – 4:31
  2. "God's Monkey" (David Bottrill, Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 6:42
  3. "Brightness Falls" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 6:29
  4. "Every Colour You Are" (Richard Barbieri, Steve Jansen, Mick Karn, Sylvian) – 5:40
  5. "Firepower" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 7:02
  6. "Gone to Earth" (Fripp, Sylvian) – 2:28
  7. "20th Century Dreaming (A Shaman's Song)" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 8:03
  8. "Wave" (Sylvian) – 6:11
  9. "River Man" (Sylvian) – 5:01
  10. "Darshan (The Road to Graceland)" (Bottrill, Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 10:47
  11. "Blinding Light of Heaven" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 4:15
  12. "The First Day" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 4:44

2001 re-release

  1. "God's Monkey" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn, Botrill) – 6:39
  2. "Brightness Falls" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 6:29
  3. "Every Colour You Are" (Sylvian, Karn, Jansen, Barbieri) – 5:44
  4. "Jean the Birdman" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 4:03
  5. "Firepower" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 7:09
  6. "Damage" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 4:26
  7. "Gone to Earth" (Sylvian, Fripp) – 2:29
  8. "Twentieth Century Dreaming (A Shaman's Song)" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 7:54
  9. "Wave" (Sylvian) – 6:17
  10. "River Man" (Sylvian) – 4:58
  11. "Blinding Light of Heaven" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 4:36
  12. "The First Day" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 5:22

Personnel

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Visual

References

  1. ↑ "New Albums". Music Week. 24 September 1994. p. 40.
  2. ↑ "davidsylvian". 1 April 2021. Archived from the original on 18 August 2009.
  3. ↑ "The First Day (Damage)". David Sylvian : Expect Everything And Nothing Less. 16 February 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  4. ↑ "Damage". Vista. 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  5. ↑ Hayes, Kelvin. Damage: Live at AllMusic
  6. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press.
  7. ↑ Stump, Paul (1997). The Music's All that Matters: A History of Progressive Rock. Quartet Books Limited. p. 342. ISBN 0 7043 8036 6.