Damage: Live

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Field	Value
name	Damage: Live
type	Live
artist	Sylvian/Fripp
cover	Sylvian & Fripp - Damage - Live.jpg
released	26 September 1994
recorded	4 & 5 December 1993, mixed at Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire, March 1994
genre	Alternative rock
label	Virgin
producer	David Bottrill, Robert Fripp
chronology	David Sylvian
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prev_year	1993
next_title	Dead Bees on a Cake
next_year	1999
misc	{{Extra chronology
artist	Robert Fripp
type	live
prev_title	Darshan (The Road To Graceland)
prev_year	1993
title	Damage: Live
year	1994
next_title	Vrooom
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| name = Damage: Live | type = Live | artist = Sylvian/Fripp | cover = Sylvian & Fripp - Damage - Live.jpg | alt = | released = 26 September 1994 | recorded = 4 & 5 December 1993, mixed at Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire, March 1994 | venue = | studio = | genre = Alternative rock | length = | label = Virgin | producer = David Bottrill, Robert Fripp | chronology = David Sylvian | prev_title = Darshan (The Road To Graceland) | prev_year = 1993 | next_title = Dead Bees on a Cake | next_year = 1999 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Robert Fripp | type = live | prev_title = Darshan (The Road To Graceland) | prev_year = 1993 | title = Damage: Live | year = 1994 | next_title = Vrooom | next_year = 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.

Reception

| rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score =
| rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music | rev2Score = Paul Stump, in his 1997 History of Progressive Rock, called Damage: Live "a wonder of elegiac splendour."

Track listing

1994 release

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

2001 re-release

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

Personnel

Musicians

David Sylvian – lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, tapes
Robert Fripp – lead guitar, electronics
Michael Brook – Infinite Guitar
Trey Gunn – Chapman Stick, backing vocals
Pat Mastelotto – drums, percussion

Technical

David Kent – sound engineer
David Bottrill – mixing
David Singleton – digital editing, assistant producer
Stuart White – keyboard and recording technician
Alan Pollard – keyboard and recording technician (U.K. and Europe)
Steve Flewin – monitor engineer
John Sinks – guitar technician
Clint Lockyer – stick/drum technician
Dave Newton – stage manager, keyboard/guitar technician
Haruki Kaito – light and stage design
Phil Wiffen – light operator
Tim Hook – tour manager

Visual

David Sylvian – art director
Yuka Fuji – art director, visual projects co-ordinator
Russell Mills – design
Michael Webster – design assistance
Masataka Nakano – artwork
Shinro Ohtake – artwork (details)
Kevin Westenburg – photography (live)

References

(24 September 1994). "New Albums".
(2021-04-01). "davidsylvian".
(2015-02-16). "The First Day (Damage)".
(2020-04-17). "Damage".
{{AllMusic. Kelvin. Hayes
Larkin, Colin. (2011). "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". [[Omnibus Press]].
Stump, Paul. (1997). "The Music's All that Matters: A History of Progressive Rock". Quartet Books Limited.

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