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A Reconstructed extended edit of Shilling... From the Leaked in 2009 Sigma reel why “Shilling the Rubes” in full remains unavailable is a mystery surely it could of surfaced along with the Gouster album in the Who can I be now Boxset
The rumors were true. Many Bowie researchers had concluded that “Shilling the Rubes,” long considered to be a lost Bowie classic, was only just a working title for Young Americans, a name that bootleggers occasionally slapped upon another outtake. Then in 2009, a reel from Bowie’s Sigma sessions supposedly turned up in a Philadelphia street fair (it’s speculated that the tape went astray (cough) from the rest of the Sigma reels, which are housed in the Drexel University Audio Archive) and it subsequently sold on eBay for $15,000.
The tape, apparently a rough mix from early in the sessions (13 August), featured an early take of “Young Americans,” a rewrite of the Astronettes song “I Am a Laser,” an early version of known YA outtake “After Today” and the grail itself: “Shilling the Rubes.”
Bowie's 1974 album Diamond Dogs showed glimpses of his growing infatuation with R&B, which became a full-fledged obsession that summer as he toured America. Crisscrossing the country by bus, he became enraptured by Philly Soul beaming over the airwaves.
Bowie decided to head straight to the source by booking time at Philadelphia's famed Sigma Sound that August. There he assembled a dream team of studio musicians, including a young Luther Vandross. Several weeks of cocaine-fueled activity yielded enough songs for an album. "It's Gonna Be Me," "After Today," "Who Can I Be Now" and "Shilling the Rubes" are all strong songs in the "plastic soul" vein. "Young Americans" is the best known from these sessions, with its lyrical nod to Richard Nixon recorded just two days after his resignation that August.
Producer Tony Visconti assembled the tracks under the obscure black slang term The Gouster, which he defines as: "A hip guy who walks down the street snapping his fingers." It was a label that suited Bowie just fine. "I think it's the closest thing I've ever done on record to being very me," he said while previewing the album for Melody Maker.
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