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Sunday…Er, Saturday Fun

Hey, I haven’t done one of these in a while…here’s a blast from the past: David Bowie, doing my favorite version of Heroes, from the Serious Moonlight tour, Vancouver, 1983. This is a seriously killer backing band, with Earl Slick, Carlos Alomar, Carmine Rojas, and the Simms twins doing the excellent backing vocals. Enjoy!

2 comments to Sunday…Er, Saturday Fun

Andy

January 14th, 2007 at 3:28 pm

Dang Mark, I enjoyed that. You gotta stop tripp’in me off down memory lane. I can’t get any work done when you do that.

I didn’t see this tour, but I saw David, with Peter Frampton, Charlie Sexton (remember him?) on the Glass Spider Tour in Dallas in ’87. I saw that Toni Basil (“Hey Mickey”) was mentioned as being on the tour, but frankly I can’t recall her there. I loved the screened video that went with the song.

Sometime after that, I picked up a Rhino Label Greatest Hits, where David sang Heroes/Helden, auf Deutsch.

I then saw David in Berlin at his so-called farewell tour in Summer ’90 — Outdoor Fest at Weissensee, East Berlin –and he drove everyone nuts singing, IIRC Helden, not Heroes, as his finale. He also proclaimed that this was the LAST time EVER singing any of the goldie-oldies and it was gonna be Tin Machine/new stuff from now on. Then the rains came pouring down.

I did a quick search for the clip on YouTube and dug up another flashback at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLcypYaHYM

Beginning in 1975 and lasting until 1978, Germany’s Stern magazine ran a series of articles chronicling Christiane’s life and that of her friends. That effort eventually led to a very powerful and revealing book, Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (We children of the Bahnhof Zoo railway station).

In 1981, the book was made into a highly successful film featuring an appearance by David Bowie, Christiane’s favorite musician from that era. (Bowie appears as himself in the film and also provided the soundtrack for much of the movie)

However, nada on that particular 1990 concert. One of these days, Gene, I’m gonna have to dig up, outta deep storage, my Sony 8mm bootleg.
Mark

January 14th, 2007 at 4:06 pm

I was actually at that Glass Spider tour in Dallas – and I saw him in Austin on that greatest hits tour. Not only do I know who Charlie Sexton is, but I saw him playing pool one night here in Austin and I went up to him and told him that I saw him with Bowie at Dallas and that the whole energy level just shot up when he came out (they did White Light, White Heat by the Velvet Underground if memory serves)…he was gracious and just said thanks…