[9] Bowie said, "It's not just about a rock singer, it's about rock music, so it has a lot to do with the audience and how they perceive rock, and rock figures, and all the cliches, archetypes and stereotypes, and also family relationship. "[18], Despite criticism in the press, Bowie at the time said that performing on this tour was the most fun he had ever had on the road because it was the "most inventive" tour he had ever been involved with.[58]. [2] Some of the outdoor performances in Britain had to start early due to curfew laws (a problem typically avoided in other European shows), which reduced the impact of the lighting of the stage and set dressing, and bothered Bowie considerably. Liked his music ever since, only took a Bowie cd out the card a couple of weeks ago. The David Bowie Serious Moonlight Tour was thus far Bowie’s longest, largest and most successful concert tour. went to all 3 and 3 at stafford and 2 at earls court just as you did,front each night at mk and stafford aswell. [2] Michael Clark, a lighting engineer for the tour, died at the Stadio Comunale in Florence, Italy on 9 June after falling from the scaffolding before the show commenced. I really don't know what they want from me. Posted by chris meehan on December 15, 2012 at 9:28 pm. Good to see the setlist because I’d completely forgotten everything he played. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. I remember the day as being red hot; I recall little about the support acts, other than they were not that impressive. There's something about it that I really like. "[15] "Sons of the Silent Age" was performed every night of the tour. I've sort of got that mutual agreement with them. [40] The opening acts in Europe varied, and included such acts as Iggy Pop, Big Country, The Cult, Erasure, The Stranglers and Nina Hagen. [82], Peter Frampton played two natural-finish maple body Pensa-Suhr Strat types, hand-made by New York-based John Suhr. ", "[The Glass Spider Tour] was the first time I'd had the opportunity to spend that kind of money and do shows like that! But it was David Bowie becoming an entertainer, a professional, (re)becoming Anthony Newley in terms of aiming for broad appeal; and Ziggy had become a memory. [4] A local paper in Portland, Oregon had a positive review that said that the dancers, music, set and band combined into an "overall effect [that] could rightly be called spectacular. [10] 16' x 20' (4.9m x 6m) video screens displayed video and images from the show to those in the audience who were further away from the stage. That plays behind the action in black and white and it's alarmingly sad. [20], This was Bowie's first tour where wireless microphone technology was available, allowing Bowie considerable freedom to move around the stage during a concert. Tour statistics We've Got A Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It!. [snaps fingers] Ah! Add setlist, 14 activities (last edit by pomes27, 7 Mar 2020, 17:44 Etc/UTC). In 1991, while preparing for his second tour with Tin Machine, Bowie reflected on the Glass Spider Tour's theatrics and presentation, suggesting that many tours and acts that followed benefited from this tour: The Stones' show, Prince's show, Madonna's show... all of them have benefited from [this] tour. In announcing the tour, Bowie embarked on a series of promotional press shows covering 9 countries in 2 weeks, including Canada, the US and seven countries in Europe. Not only did he grow noticeably thinner over the course of the tour,[2] he found that he was exhausted before the tour even started: I think [tours like this] are extravagantly dangerous to do because they're so fucking tiring. However, these plans failed to come to fruition, and the tour never reached those regions. "[70], In 1989 while working with Tin Machine, Bowie said "I overstretched. I also remembering the police/security clocking off circa midnight & leaving the backlogged exit convoy to itself.Took hours to get home diverted away from central areas of MK. Danny Kaye is a pretty good comparison! I really don't know. [7], Bowie decided that the theme for the show would be "the reality and unreality of rock,"[8] or, as one critic called it, "rock stars vs. Bowie later lamented that the Tour may have been viewed differently if La La La Human Steps had been involved: "It would have been a different ballgame. "[14] In a different contemporary interview he said, "I'm not doing 'Star' again. This worked in terms of making his music more accessible to a general audience, but lost something else along the way. Richard Cottle – keyboards, saxophone, tambourine, backing vocals, "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family", This page was last edited on 15 October 2020, at 15:11. I mean, I've lost audiences many times over the years, and they've come back again for one reason or another. ... One day, if you get the chance, get a copy of that show on video and take another look at it, because in the light of what's been done since, there's some interesting shit going on. Said Alomar, "[I] had to change my character into the mad, limping Mad Max reject with spiky hair. Then it's constant rehearsals, both the visual side and the musical side, through about 8 o'clock (p.m.). Mobs of fans, some who had camped out overnight to get into the venue, rioted and had to be controlled by police. He also played a Tokai Stratocaster, a Yamaha GS1000 bass and a Pedulla fretless bass. Huge loss. Needless to say this didn’t go down well with fans who had queued for over an hour in the sun! [5] Press tour shows included live performances of some of the songs from the album Never Let Me Down. Thanks for all the great memories Max & Larry….no longer with us RIP…David too…came back to see him at the Bowl in 1990.
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