Earl Slick on Playing with David Bowie and John Lennon
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Earl Slick on Playing with David Bowie and John Lennon
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Bowies big strength was to choose the right musicians. Amazing. All of them. If I'm not mistaken Earl was only 22 when he played the Diamond Dogs tour 74
Earl Slick with David Bowie at the BBC Radio Theatre in 2000 was a fantastic show.
"Live at the Beeb". Incredible concert. The best live Bowie, and Earl Slick is a big part of it.
I met Earl by accident back in 83 . I was only 16 and very vulnerable ( musician wise and street wise ) . My friend and I just left the Bowie show at the Philly Spectrum and caught the subway to center city . Our next stop as the train station which would take us to our homes in the suburbs . -- Well -- That last train stopped running .Now we are stranded in the city . --- Luckily my friends mother had worked as a manager at a club located inside the Warwick Hotel . We knew she wasn't there but we figured on using the phones or perhaps she could recommend someone to take us home . ---- So here I am , tall - skinny - with my 'Diamond Dogs' hair cut (not orange though) - standing in the lobby -- wearing a Police concert baseball type t-shirt - and holding the Bowie program from the show in hand . My friend was on the phone . ---- Next - the elevator door opens and out walks this guy all dressed in black I believe - with longer dark black punk style hair ( think a shorter version of Nikki Sixx ) and wearing black wrestling shoes ( don't ask me how I remember that ) . I quickly opened the program to make sure I wasn't seeing things -- and verified that it was Earl Slick . My buddy hung up the phone and we talked to Earl for about 5 minutes . --- ( 5 minutes does not seem like a long time . But it is when you are speaking with a rock star ) !! -- Remember - I was young . -- I remember saying things like " what a great show !! That was awesome !! Best show ever !! ----blah blah blah . --- But most of the conversation was about what you just heard in the video clip . We talked about him working with John Lennon . ( Remember -- it was 1983 . Barely 3 years since John was killed . Still very fresh on everyones minds ) . --- What he said in the video above is exactly what he told us . ----- ((I wrote this before on other pages and on other comments sections here on youtube . So some of you 'True Fans' are reading this again . -- So what ! I am refreshing your memories )) . ---- Just wanted to share this with everyone again. Every single time I hear a Bowie song , or Lennon song - I immediately think of Earl . He is with the legends of Rock and Roll and Always will be . Thanx for reading . ---- In case you were wondering ----- my friend and I had no choice so we had to take a cab ride home . The most expensive cab ride ever !! And the best part was waking up my father at 2 a.m. telling him the cab driver was in the driveway awaiting payment . ( you can pretty much guess how that turned out ) . Oh what a great night it was !!
+tubes5150 That's a great story!
+Guilherme Eddino Thanks !! So glad someone out there can sort of feel the excitement and the star-struck kid I once was . Boy I wish I could meet him all over again , ya know ?? --- Ahh who am I kidden --- I still would be that clumsy kid all over again . --
What a fantastic story and a great memory for you. You never know who you will meet in this world. I was lucky enough to meet Bono in a small restaurant in Kohler WI. He came up to our table and started talking to us for about five minutes. You are right, five minutes is a long time. I met Carol King while working on then Senator Obama's first run for the Presidency. All of us volunteers in the Democratic office sang You've Got a Friend with her. I also met the band Manhattan Transfer in 1978 in a plane flying home from Munich. The sound guy sat down right next to me and we started talking. His girlfriend, one of the lead singers, was non too happy, but I was 18 and cute as Hell so who cares. Like I said, you never know who you will meet.
Love that story!
Kim Jasso I cant believe I never responded to this awesome comment !!
I apologize big time !!
( darn youtube )!!!
Thank you for sharing this .
Bono especially is one of those guys I’d love to have a coffee with ( these days it’s coffee haha ).
Must of been thrilling !!!
And the “ I was 18 and Cute as Hell “ is just priceless !!!
Love That !!!
I will always remember that .
You Go Girl !!!!
Hahahaha .
Stay Safe As Always and I hope you read this 🤠
The solo on “Station to Station” is one of my favorites. So creative, so good, so beautiful.
To me-Earl was one of the most underrated forgotten guitarist, Simply amazing.
He played some really nice guitar on David Live at the Tower in Philly
+clemenza24 The solo on Moonage Daydream;-) Slightly good;-)
peartfaldo
It sure is,I like the live version on David Live in Philly
I did not know Earl was on "Live @ the Tower"
meow6369
he sure was and that was some incredible playing he did there,did you think it was Ronson on lead ?
Big brother
Cracked Actor on David Live is Slick’s finest moment.
Damn that's a beautiful ax...
Besides looking fabulous and sounding fabulous Earl Slick remains on top. loov loov
That is probably the "coolest" guitar I´ve ever seen
I bought a slick tele style guitar I love it
ah yes and witnessed the Serious Moonlight tour in Dallas...Loov darlin
I saw Serious Moonlight and Glass Spider, and Earl's playing was just stunning both shows.
the back and forth between Earl and Peter Frampton was freaking awesome. And we got Charlie Sexton as a bonus!
Slick was not on the Glass Spider tour. The guitars were Alomar and Frampton. Slick was not with Bowie from after the Serious Moonlight tour in 83 until around 2000
Earl's guitar work is as great as ever. Just saw him February 6, 2019 Arizona
I love Earl Slicks playing. And I really enjoyed the latest inarnation of Davids band, Earl Slick , Mike Plati, Gerry Leonard, Mike Garson, Gail-Anne Dorsey and Catherine Russel. Such a good chemistry and sound between them. I never really liked Reeves Gabrels. Earl Slick and Plati are far superior in my opinion.
+whataboutredlorry totally with you on this statement. Bowies 2003 tour the Best.
Reeves is great but being a guitar player myself I find the "out-there" players very interesting because the will walk a path without fear.
Great interview with a great guitar player.
You have to be good for David Bowie to want you in his band! Also John Lennon! Iconic!
Earl Slick on the David Bowie's Serious Moonlight DVD. Man friggin awesomeness. Watch White light White Heat when Earl does his solo so cool. But the whole concert is just Raw. Love it
mr. slick is my favorite guitar player.....
Always knew of Earl Slick,Cool stuff.
Wow - Confirmation that John was seriously thinking about touring again.
Yep, he was going to do a world tour in '81. And Earl Slick was to be his lead guitarist. Well, all his session band from DF was to go. It would've been great! Bummer, it didn't happen, of course. 😭😢
Saw him play in 1986 in New York with two members of the Stray Cats as 'Phantom, Rocker & Slick'. Also got their autographs on my copy of their album. They did all their album plus one Beatles number 'The one after 909' as well as the Stray Cat song 'Drink that bottle down' ....
one of the best,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, no doubt!!
Great guy, but wonder if he'd have worked so much if he'd stayed Frank Madeloni?
The title's good enough for me. ✋
For me Bowies best was with Mick Ronson
I'm offended! I asked him what pickups in his ESP strat he used...nothing. LOL Kidding aside I love his playing.
That opening piece he plays is amazing. The first time I saw him was on Bowie's Station to Station tour when they played Wembley Pool (now Wembley Arena), and to be honest I'd never heard of him before, but he really was the stand out guy that night...almost upstaging Bowie himself!
When they came to Boston on that tour, for some reason Slick had been replaced by Stacy Heydon. We stood outside by the doors, waiting for the place to open, and could hear the train whistles coming out of the building...
Some great advice Earl, this mans the reason I picked up a guitar when i first watched him perform a solo on Sunday from David Bowie's Reality tour dvd dublin. 2006 Id still like to meet and have a good discussion about Bowie blues and just music. cheers Earl youv still got it :)
wouldve been nice to have miked the interviewer as well
ahh that's nice 6:29
Great player, naturally beautiful sound.
Your a real prized Earl to be placed to play with such artists of all the world. Listen my brother. You would never have reached so damn far. If you didn't self deliver the love of yourself. Said the Truth!
Finally a good guitar sound
really liked working with Slick in the 90's nice guy.
That Orange combo and his Framus sound so thick and creamy together, especially when doing those drop D riffs in the intro
i think earl slick is amazing ,very impressed a nice guy
I always thought he should be more famous but maybe why he is so cool years later under big radar.
Cool hearing about N.Y.R.&R.E.
Don't know Earl. I'll check him out. I was just listening to Belew say basically the same thing about working/touring with Bowie.
I wish I could hear leaders like Bowie and Lennon talk about their chosen musicians, like Earl and Adrian.
" I don't wanna face it, no no no no ! "
what made him a great guitar player is that he didn't play a lot of notes, but he did play the right notes to make a memorable song
Yoko..No! I then switched off!
One Magical Dude...........
Wow pure rock saund
Loved him with Bowie.
Earl Slick !!!!!
@nght5tlkr There is but the video can only be viewed in 240p maybe because it was recorded at that quality or got saved at that quality.
I will have to look you up on facebook of myspace. Are you married. be my friend on facebook, Thanks . I'm a big Lennon fan, somewhat Bowie too!
@nght5tlkr :L well no one else had and I just found this video. I answered your question didn't I :)
Slick is so flippin amazing! Under appreciated for sure. He is definitely up there w/the all time Bests...hence why Bowie snagged him up for most all of his professional life. Legends all playing together...how cool huh? I was blessed enough to be able to see Slick here in Denver for the Bowie Tribute concert and he is even more
Amazing to watch and hear, Live. I think I used up all of my vid space
recording him alone!
Interviewer: You enjoyed playing with Lennon? Earl: Ya, but Yokos tracks..with Yoko’s...😂he could get away with stuff he wouldn’t typically be doing: ”some of the more out there stuff” 🤣😂🤣 Ya, Probably because what could SHE actually “tell” him to do? She couldn’t exactly tell him how to play or what “sound” she was looking for. She was musically handicapped, period. I hope Earl got to have a ton of fun on there.
Favorite artist to work with (he interrupts)..”Bowie..ANY tour, song, with Bowie”
That’s classic; absolutely golden.
Thank you Slick! You’re the best!
Your girl must love your magic fingers!
This guy is the real deal make no error. Could be considered one of the greatest axers of his time to be fair. It is said and believed session playing musicians are the best in the business. Forget the rest.
All, Bowie, s materiel no other word but genius is suffice on all albums.
Great German Framus ES Style Guitar. The Germans do great guitars anyway. The Duisenberg Guitars are the best E-Guitars around, handmade in Germany - very great perfect instruments.!!
Sick , AF.
Well props to you Earl I always thought it was cheap trick on I’m losing you with that funky Guitar it looks like a cigarbox but it’s not
Rock's Wild Card.
Ronno rules ! :-)
I don't have the answer, but that album and track are also on my favorites list., and I just had to say something. So..."Wish I was a Bewley Brother!" Also, ever heard the 80's Brit band JAPAN? Check out "Wish You Were Black" or "...Rhodesia." Lots-o-great RUclips clips.
jimstardust Rob dean's on Here somewhere
Great guitarist!
he was awesome to meet
Can anyone tell me the rig that Earl used on David Live at the Tower Theater? I loved the sound that he got on that album, especially on "Cracked Actor" -- on my list of all-time favorite guitar solos. Thanks in advance.
Mentioning that Bowie wrote/assembled bands based in personality was odd to me. I always think of Bowie as writing a song( to how he wanted the song to be) staying with the singing part. And then pulling people he simply 'liked' into playing what he had written.
Like when as a teen a friend and a guy he met, who was also a musician, decided to make a band. Because of a love of music, they hit it off, and decided to play, and very quickly decided to start a band. It was also , both knew other guys, they had never played with, that played, and in very short time, just of remembering who had said played ( musician, not like, dj) music created a band. ( They played some gigs, and got some local college radio play)
But they played( which I guess is/was naive) because they liked each other as friends( friendships based in an enjoyment of a hobby) Not because they saw a person's personality as a tool to create a public image( like as Earl states here).
Like New Kids on the Block, put it. We are a boy band that was not manufactured( like Menudo..we are 5 guys, put together by a record label, after weeks of auditions, and sometimes weeks of rehearsals. Are songs are written by other people, ..like that. Manufactured). NKOTB, are simply guys that enjoyed a same hobby, worked at it, and got lucky. The becoming of what they wanted to be and the unifier of, the public is the challenge, kept it together.
Type thing.
It wasn't, look at a person as a mold in a factory, what function does 'it' fill, and assemble a machine with the items. As he says, Bowie use to do.
To me, it puts Bowie in a category of predator. Which I never look at Bowie as. Creative, visualizer, performer. But predator.
But then. There it is..predator.
Guess my naive teenage mind needed to review the world more than it did.
Unlike Micheal J., though, at least Bowie wasn't known for looking at children as tools for public image. But then that's the right way to go. Restricting the business mind to adults. Children need childhood. Otherwise, wtf, it isn't childhood .
Bowie the business predator.
You're kind of an idiot. When a director casts a movie, he hires specific actors to fill a specific part. Does that make him a predator?
We'll, Greg, my response covers, the personal to the business to the sales pitch to the age to the leisure view , to me. Not much is missing. Bowie, in this, is the band's director, to me. In, Hollywood, a director is almost automatically connected to 'couches'. ( meaning casual sex, as part of the initial 'interview/initiation'). Why is it, for a rock band, the 'director' isn't viewed as a predator, and for hollywood, the director is viewed as a predator.
Bowies,p.r. reps had me sold on Bowie as relatable, personable. Someone though a bit crazy, was in general, someone admirable for listed reasons.
Same with Trump. Trumps, I'm a pig ( area of his activities), is flag, blowing in the wind. Yet his ' thing's, is always promoted as a billionaire, near genius, philanthropic, almost non-committal married playboy. Never, people, don't hang around me. I'll frack your life up.
Celebrity is Barnum and Bailey's, there's a sucker born every minute. In conflict with, in values, we go with, equality is everybody's RIGHT. Capitalism says viewing people as nonhuman tools is tolerable. Constitution says slavery is unacceptable.
In short, everyone wants friends( an emotional problem), or at least models to role with.
Allowing everyone has a right to opinions here, and every adult has a right to do consensual business. How is it, that's being an idiot?
@@davidlevesque6532 I apologize for calling you an idiot. That was uncalled for and I was just being flip But I will say that you don't seem to know much about Bowie. And honestly, I can't figure out what you're trying very hard to say. So let's just leave it.
What is he playing at the strat of the clip? Anyone know?
+Jim Rafferty - This is no Strat. Its a Semi Hollow Body .. Fe plays a Epüiphone ES-335 Cherryred with Bigsby and ohten a Telecaster. I never saw him on a Strat !!! - I guess, this is one of his German build Framus Guitars in Epiphone / Gibson ES Style, but handmade to the special likes of Earl Slick, he has some of these. Mainly he plays a Framus in Grey/light blue metalic. A similar Model as well from Framus / Germany is played by Dave Grohl for the last few years! He plays nothing special, Thi is common Blues Rock, played out oif the moment. Earl plays those things very good sounding - great guy !!!
666app Thanks - I meant at the start of the clip...not strat....?
+Jim Rafferty - okay, but you wrote it wrong... no prob !!! I guess, in the end my last 2 sentences were the right answer anyway, or ? Have a nice week,....
Earl Slick is Grace Slick's younger brother. True story...
Oh he is not, don't spread bullshit. There are people out here who don't know better and will believe you. His name is Frank Madeloni and has has absolutely no ties to Grace Slick. "Earl Slick" is an anagram of "Real Licks"
@@ShiroiTengu It's true!! I wouldn't lie!!
Nile Rogers > Earl Slick.
The fact is. Slick's guitar sounded like garbage. Always did, always will. Just the facts.
Totally agree.
Who is this guy?