''TV Eye Live 1977'' (or ''TV Eye'') is a live album by American musician

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originally released in 1978. Iggy took a $90,000 advance ($419,807 in 2023) from

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to finish his contract with a live album. According to AllMusic, the album was assembled from

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doctored them in a German studio, quickly and cheaply for around $5,000 ($23,323 in 2023). The album features recordings from concerts on March 21 & 22, 1977 at The Agora in

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; on March 28, 1977 at The Aragon in

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; and on October 26, 1977 at The Uptown Theater in

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. The album is notable for the presence of

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on keyboards and background vocals for selected tracks and the rather crushing

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and

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sound; also, with the Sales brothers, the lineup prefigures in part Bowie's

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lineup.

Track listing

# " T.V. Eye" (Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton) # " Funtime" (Iggy Pop,

) # "Sixteen" (Iggy Pop) # "I Got a Right" (Iggy Pop) # " Lust for Life" (Iggy Pop, David Bowie) # "Dirt" (Iggy Pop) # " Nightclubbing" (Iggy Pop, David Bowie) # "

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" (Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton)

Charts

Personnel

* Iggy Pop –

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–

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and

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s (on tracks 1, 2, 6 & 8) * Ricky Gardiner –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six string instrument, strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or Plucked string instrument, plucking the strings with the dominant hand, w ...

(on tracks 1, 2, 6 & 8) * Stacey Heydon – guitar (on tracks 3, 4, 5 & 7) *

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– guitar, piano,

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, synthesizer (on tracks 3, 4, 5 & 7) *

Tony Sales Tony Fox Sales (born September 26, 1951) is an American rock musician and composer. Normally on bass guitar, Sales and his brother, Hunt Sales, have worked with Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop, and in Tin Machine with David Bowie. Early life and caree ...

–

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– drums ;Technical * Eduard Meyer – engineer * Barney Wan – art direction * Jan Michael Alejandro – tech, road crew * Vern "Moose" Constan – tech, road crew * Robert Joyce – tech, road crew

References

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