I saw him live during this tour, at Beach Rock in Ostend, Belgium, 2002. The amount of charisma oozing from the stage is indescribable, seeing Bowie live is really something else.
I knew a friends dad who saw practically EVERY band back in the day, including Janis Joplin- and he swore that the very best concert he ever saw was Bowie, when he toured with Iggy Pop. I can only imagine. And I believe it.
"look at that crowd".....that's what a great entertainer can do...make a crowd feel his magic and David certainly could do that. He was a Master in concert. A genius !!!!!
Saw Bowie live three times and he was phenominal live. Such a great voice and allways a top notch band. A true professional that deserves his legendary status.
He was amazing in concert - I saw him in 90 or 91. Surrounds himself with great musicians and he has talent to spare. He was the personification of cool.
The only artist I really wanted to see in concert that I didn't get to see. I miss him being in our world, but I suspect he's having a good time wherever he landed. ❤😊
Since his passing, hearing this song always made me cry and watching this vid was no different. That said, you should give 'Lady Grinning Soul' from 'Aladdin Sane" a whirl, a track that Bowie never played live.
I think that lyrically this is in the Top 10 of all of Bowie’s catalog. I never got to see him live, which I am very disappointed with. And this is a wonderfully arranged live performance.
This one makes me cry every time since he died for some reason. My one big disappointment is not getting to see Bowie. I wasn't born soon enough to see the Beatles which is my other big disappointment. I've seen The Who, Springsteen, Genesis, U2, and still I feel the lack of not having seen those two.
Gail Ann Dorsey is phenomenal. Lee, you should check out Bowie’s live version of Under Pressure where she not only handles the bass, but does Freddy Mercury’s lead vocal part and kills it. There are quite a few but there is one from Dublin in 2003 that’s good, and looks like mostly the same band, including Stirling on drums and Earl Slick on bass.
I saw him on the diamond dogs tour the night after a tractor trailer with his props chrashed in ever glades so he still put on an amazing show with very few props it was great music
yeah, great pick l33 But if you are short of Bowie suggestions, don’t you worry.. Aladdin Sane (title track). Because of the iconic and chaotic piano solo by Mike Garson Subterraneans: I don’t think you have done any of the more instrumental tracks from his collaborations with Brian Eno The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (Live in the White Room): Bowie was fighting his way out of the mainstream of the 80s with the album Outside 1995. I think the live versions are glorious and don’t miss the “hits”. You will love the band. Everyone is killing it.
Wow. I just did the math and he was my age when he did this concert. I wish I had seen him perform when I had the chance - he was such a charismatic performer and remarkable person. Hate that he passed so soon.
"I, l can remember (I remember) Standing, by the wall (by the wall) And the guns, shot above our heads (over our heads) And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall) And the shame, was on the other side Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever Then we could be Heroes, just for one day" The Berlin Wall came down in 1989, in just one day.
If you wanna hear Bowie live, you need to listen to David Live in Philadelphia. But, I have a suggestion if ya want it. From the Diamond Dogs album, Sweet Thing, Candidate, Sweet Thing(reprise), one song. IF you go with David Live, Moonage Daydream is good one. 🖖✌️❤️&😊. 🍻
Lee, if your looking for a different Bowie performance, in 2001, he opened up “The Concert for NYC” by performing Simon and Garfunkel song “America” sitting on the stage playing a toy piano by himself. The other song he played was heroes, not much different then here, but the America song performed in that way at Madison Square Garden just a few weeks after 9/11 was both beautiful and Erie
nice performance. One of Bowie's biggist hits. But misses much from the studio version, with Fripp and Brian Eno. Eno played synth but also wrote and produced and treated the music. Incidently, the "Wall" in the lyrics, was the Berlin Wall, where people trying to escapte from East to West Berlin were shot down.
I’m a big Eno fan, and yes he co-wrote and provided his trademark synth treatments, but he’s not actually credited as producer, that’s the often overlooked Tony Visconti, as much an architect of the sound of this record as Eno.
I was fortunate to see Bowie live about a dozen times. He always talked to us, told jokes and always pointed out to someone in the crowd. Truly an icon. Bowie threw himself a 50th bday bash from MSG in 1997. Lou Reed, Robert Smith, Sonic Youth, Frank Black, Billy Corgan and The Foo Fighters all joined him on stage for a couple of tunes. Since you're a drummer, I would like to see you react to Hallo Spaceboy with the Foo Fighters. Put on your headphones, crank the volume dude and thank me later 😉
I saw Bowie twice, The "Serious Moonlight" tour 1983 ( let's dance) and The "Glass Spider " tour 1987. He was the consummate Entertainer. Peter Frampton played the guitar on the Glass Spider tour. Worth it both times. I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to see such a great entertainer.
I would definitely start diving into his 80's & 90's era for a bit. The stuff he did in the 90's is criminally under the radar for most people. Only just discovered it last year & I've been a fan for a very long time! It's fucking AMAZING!!! The albums Outside & Earthling he messed around with industrial & Drum n Bass. He also collaborated with Nine Inch Nails which was INSANE. Anyway that's my request, but you can't go wrong with any Bowie era really lol
Couldn't agree more! That Lee fellow sure knows how to pick 'em! I wish 2016 never happened. Prince and Bowie, and so many others. It was a sad year. This one and Starman make me cry every time. 😢
You want a real mind fuck; after a Bowie video watch a 1977 Bing Crosby Christmas special where they duet Little Drummer Boy and a song called Peace on Earth
This is probably the most famous song to feature E-Bow (the sustaining device used on the guitar). I went out and bought one after seeing Phil Keaggy once, who was a master at it. It's a cool effect that gives you all sorts of amazing textural possibilities. For anyone who hasn't seen one before, there's a good closeup of it at 7:49
😢😢 My world started to crumble when my Mum died in October 2015... But then ... In January 2016, we lost David Bowie. That made my world crash around me, I had nobody to turn to, nobody to weep with, nobody to share the losses with. (As my sister and I became estranged following our Mum's death...) My firstborn niece (my sister's firstborn) died aged 56 - of COPD - in April 2019, her Mum - my sister - died eleven days shy of her 75th birthday in December 2019, ...and my eldest daughter moved from London, England, to Canada, in mid September 2019 ...so I feel.my family is shrinking, my world has crashed, and without David Bowie, too... What is this world have I survived alone in? 💔🤔🏴
Some trivia for you: Bowie did Low and the song Breaking Glass was on it. Nick Lowe, power pop, new wave pioneer did an album called Bowi, and the song I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass, which actually sound a bit like Sound and Vision. I think you should do both of those! Well, all three lol! Then, you should do more Nick Lowe, and more Bowie, and some Rockpile or Elvis Costello or some Badfinger or other power pop, well, Badfinger mostly, mentored by the Beatles!
I remember going through the "New Releases" section at a record store/happily (already was a big fan of that-era Nick Lowe) spotting the Bowi EP/staring at it for a bit, trying to figure out what the title meant/figuring it out - and laughing so hard the other people in the store stared at me.
A rearrangement of sorts from the original - with the addition of that slow "build" for a while, at the start. I really like it. I also really enjoy the way he reworked "Rebel, Rebel" in this period: similar, in that it starts off sparsely - then explodes. In this concert, they perform his (Heathen album) cover of Neil Young's "(I've Been) Waiting For You" just before "Heroes": it's a feature piece for Sterling, who really gets to "go off" in it.
I always feel sad a little when I see him because in a doc I saw about him, they said his mom showed him no affection as a child. In the pics of her with him as a child, she looked so cold. I’m sure that empty feeling stayed with him throughout his life.
Of course Robert Fripp invented main riff for this song. Those 3 albums from Berlin are the first when Bowie was sober. I love King Crimson version with Adrian Below. I heard them live in 1999
This is one of my favorite live performances in all of RUclips. The energy and everything coming together perfectly to produce a magical moment. Separately the song Heroes was a perfect fit for the fabulous classic movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Check it out.
Key concept Berlin Wall. lovers. Love defiant of Authority, I Loved the work Bowie did with Eno. The, Low album is science fiction soundscapes. sandwiched between hard rockers.
Have you heard an earlier album called Hunky Dory yet? My favourite DB album. Also,check a track from that album called Queen Bitch,but play the live version from The Old Grey Whistle Test (essential 70’s music programme that ntrpduced me to many a band and easily the best UK music prog in our history) because although it’s short and oh so sweet,it fucking ROCKS with Mick Ronson tearing it up.
The lyrics seem simple, but much of what he is saying is coded, Lee, it is subversive. This is the song of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain. Bowie knew how important it was, so he recorded it in German and French as well. For the people of the age it was clear who "us" and "them" were, why "nothing could drive them away", why it would have been useful to swim like a dolphin, why many men drank all the time etc. This particular version was done live in Berlin more than 10 years after the fall of the wall, so it sounds like a victory anthem, but, back then, in 1977, it was a desperate cry for action against the authorities (see the official video). The version from 1987 that Bowie sang in front of the Reichstag was quite rallying. There were riots in the streets of East Berlin the next day. This song has its history and it helped change history. Do you by any chance like Tolkien and remember the "songs of power" what the maiar and some elves could sing and they changed the fabric of reality? This is one of them, mate. Bowie was a real wizard.
Bowie's music for some reason feels like it becomes part of one's DNA or maybe IV just been listening to him for that long ❤
I saw him live during this tour, at Beach Rock in Ostend, Belgium, 2002. The amount of charisma oozing from the stage is indescribable, seeing Bowie live is really something else.
I saw him during his Sound and Vision tour. Wish I saw more.
Saw him on this tour as well in St. Louis Missouri. Fantastic show!!!
I knew a friends dad who saw practically EVERY band back in the day, including Janis Joplin- and he swore that the very best concert he ever saw was Bowie, when he toured with Iggy Pop. I can only imagine. And I believe it.
I am glad that I was able to see David Bowie live several times. His stage presence and charisma were overwhelming!
"look at that crowd".....that's what a great entertainer can do...make a crowd feel his magic and David certainly could do that. He was a Master in concert. A genius !!!!!
Loved you saying, "he looks so young here". The man was in his early 50s. The Bowie elixir of youth!
Saw Bowie live three times and he was phenominal live. Such a great voice and allways a top notch band. A true professional that deserves his legendary status.
"Station to Station" tour in the mid 70's. Ditched work (bartender), somebody dimed me, got fired.
Worth it.
He was amazing in concert - I saw him in 90 or 91. Surrounds himself with great musicians and he has talent to spare. He was the personification of cool.
Make sure you listen to the studio version! ❤
Bowie at his evolved best. I'm a natural fan of the original "Heroes" which takes me back to just post high school. I'm 67, and I miss him!
You'd love the album version, too. Amazing track, one of my all-time faves of any artist. (gotta be the full length album version, not the short edit)
There's a live clip of him singing this song in Berlin in the early 80s German movie "Christiane F."
That was Station to Station.
Love Bowie...saw him live two times.Heroes is the song of my heart❤
The only artist I really wanted to see in concert that I didn't get to see. I miss him being in our world, but I suspect he's having a good time wherever he landed. ❤😊
Bowie was perfection. Love this performance.
Absolutely seduced the audience. Style, charisma.... A true original.
He was the coolest, in everything!
As always. Fabulous ❤
He sings from beyond the grave ❤
I was lucky enough to have seen him live during the Serious Moonlight tour - still one of THE best shows I've ever been to
Me too.
Also saw a one off at hammy odeon for a Brixton charity in ‘84 I think and it was stunning.
Bowie is a God.
My absolute favourite Bowie song ever.
Since his passing, hearing this song always made me cry and watching this vid was no different. That said, you should give 'Lady Grinning Soul' from 'Aladdin Sane" a whirl, a track that Bowie never played live.
I think that lyrically this is in the Top 10 of all of Bowie’s catalog. I never got to see him live, which I am very disappointed with. And this is a wonderfully arranged live performance.
This one makes me cry every time since he died for some reason. My one big disappointment is not getting to see Bowie. I wasn't born soon enough to see the Beatles which is my other big disappointment. I've seen The Who, Springsteen, Genesis, U2, and still I feel the lack of not having seen those two.
Gail Ann Dorsey is phenomenal. Lee, you should check out Bowie’s live version of Under Pressure where she not only handles the bass, but does Freddy Mercury’s lead vocal part and kills it. There are quite a few but there is one from Dublin in 2003 that’s good, and looks like mostly the same band, including Stirling on drums and Earl Slick on bass.
He was like about 55 here. Sadly lasted less than 15 years longer. RIP.
I saw him on the diamond dogs tour the night after a tractor trailer with his props chrashed in ever glades so he still put on an amazing show with very few props it was great music
The epitome of "cool"... RIP, David. Such a fabulaous musician and entertainer.
A true original, oozing star quality from every pore, effortless class and he always was
Saw Bowie in Tampa in 1987. Glass Spider Tour. He was SO good.
Played live in the 9/11 concert tribute to emergency responders.
Another great performance which sadly has been removed from RUclips.
This song and Young Americans are my favorite David Bowie songs, so thank you ❤
i feel privileged to have seen a few of his concerts, great music, sadly missed
Good pick Lee. The master.
He really is. I could throw a dart at all of his songs and hit an iconic track each time lol
yeah, great pick l33
But if you are short of Bowie suggestions, don’t you worry..
Aladdin Sane (title track). Because of the iconic and chaotic piano solo by Mike Garson
Subterraneans: I don’t think you have done any of the more instrumental tracks from his collaborations with Brian Eno
The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (Live in the White Room): Bowie was fighting his way out of the mainstream of the 80s with the album Outside 1995. I think the live versions are glorious and don’t miss the “hits”. You will love the band. Everyone is killing it.
You should do a video just talking about his album covers…many are as iconic as the songs within them!
Wow. I just did the math and he was my age when he did this concert. I wish I had seen him perform when I had the chance - he was such a charismatic performer and remarkable person. Hate that he passed so soon.
Miss you 🥲🙏🏻❤️
(Jan.10th 2016)
"I, l can remember (I remember)
Standing, by the wall (by the wall)
And the guns, shot above our heads (over our heads)
And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall)
And the shame, was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes, just for one day"
The Berlin Wall came down in 1989, in just one day.
If you wanna hear Bowie live, you need to listen to David Live in Philadelphia. But, I have a suggestion if ya want it. From the Diamond Dogs album, Sweet Thing, Candidate, Sweet Thing(reprise), one song. IF you go with David Live, Moonage Daydream is good one. 🖖✌️❤️&😊. 🍻
Lee, if your looking for a different Bowie performance, in 2001, he opened up “The Concert for NYC” by performing Simon and Garfunkel song “America” sitting on the stage playing a toy piano by himself. The other song he played was heroes, not much different then here, but the America song performed in that way at Madison Square Garden just a few weeks after 9/11 was both beautiful and Erie
I saw him in 1975 as the Thin White Duke on his tour promoting Station to Station.
I will forever regret never being able to see Bowie live...I grew up with Bowie since the 70's ,A tragic loss to music . It's a beautiful love song.
nice performance. One of Bowie's biggist hits. But misses much from the studio version, with Fripp and Brian Eno. Eno played synth but also wrote and produced and treated the music. Incidently, the "Wall" in the lyrics, was the Berlin Wall, where people trying to escapte from East to West Berlin were shot down.
Agree the studio version is an alchemical wonder
I’m a big Eno fan, and yes he co-wrote and provided his trademark synth treatments, but he’s not actually credited as producer, that’s the often overlooked Tony Visconti, as much an architect of the sound of this record as Eno.
Yes it does
His interactions with the crowd make this performance.
I'm always amazed by his charisma live. You should check out his live aid performance.
Saw Bowie twice, Serious Moonlight and Glass Spider tours, in the 80's in Toronto. Incredible performer! RIP David.
I was there at both shows too
I was fortunate to see Bowie live about a dozen times. He always talked to us, told jokes and always pointed out to someone in the crowd. Truly an icon.
Bowie threw himself a 50th bday bash from MSG in 1997. Lou Reed, Robert Smith, Sonic Youth, Frank Black, Billy Corgan and The Foo Fighters all joined him on stage for a couple of tunes. Since you're a drummer, I would like to see you react to Hallo Spaceboy with the Foo Fighters. Put on your headphones, crank the volume dude and thank me later 😉
I saw Bowie twice, The "Serious Moonlight" tour 1983 ( let's dance) and The "Glass Spider " tour 1987. He was the consummate Entertainer. Peter Frampton played the guitar on the Glass Spider tour. Worth it both times. I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to see such a great entertainer.
What a tragic loss to music and the world at large. RIP you genius.
Such a tragic loss Britain’s finest songsmith
I'm 70 from Detroit seen him in his Diamond Dog in Toledo, just WOW
Saw Bowie live during his Serious Moonlight tour...best concert performance ever. He is a music genius!
"Pizazz" is absolutely a word. From Oxford languages:
noun informal
an attractive combination of vitality and glamour
Nailed it!
I knew it was. But they keep saying it's not a word lol 😆 it's OK. Maybe it's not "proper" English lol
Saw him at the Tacoma Dome in 1983. Great show.
Class act . Gone way too soon.
MY FAVORITE SONG BY DAVID!!!!!
This is the song that brought down the Berlin Wall.
One of the best covers of any song ever is Lemmy and Motorheads great cover of this song.
Like his cheeky humour...have a big motor....
ooh ooh I know! Lady Stardust - it's about Marc Bolan of T. Rex. That reminds me: have you done T. Rex?
I would definitely start diving into his 80's & 90's era for a bit. The stuff he did in the 90's is criminally under the radar for most people. Only just discovered it last year & I've been a fan for a very long time! It's fucking AMAZING!!! The albums Outside & Earthling he messed around with industrial & Drum n Bass. He also collaborated with Nine Inch Nails which was INSANE. Anyway that's my request, but you can't go wrong with any Bowie era really lol
Bowie was so awesome in concert, l must have seen him at least 7 times or more. 💖 U Bowie 🥰🤘🎶
Couldn't agree more! That Lee fellow sure knows how to pick 'em!
I wish 2016 never happened. Prince and Bowie, and so many others. It was a sad year.
This one and Starman make me cry every time. 😢
No PRINCE HARRY still alive lol
Blocked and reported. Find something better to do, eh?@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN
RIP
Thanks, Lee. This is a fine version. Not seen it before.
Heck "Under the God" by Tin Machine" David's occasional band.
On the album, the lead guitarist was Robert Fripp.
You want a real mind fuck; after a Bowie video watch a 1977 Bing Crosby Christmas special where they duet Little Drummer Boy and a song called Peace on Earth
That is so fabulous!
This is probably the most famous song to feature E-Bow (the sustaining device used on the guitar). I went out and bought one after seeing Phil Keaggy once, who was a master at it. It's a cool effect that gives you all sorts of amazing textural possibilities.
For anyone who hasn't seen one before, there's a good closeup of it at 7:49
I could swear I saw you react to this one already... Oh well, great reaction! :)
Was lucky enough to see him five times as well as his contribution to the 9/11 benefit concert (‘The Concert for New York City’) in 2001.
😢😢 My world started to crumble when my Mum died in October 2015...
But then ...
In January 2016, we lost David Bowie.
That made my world crash around me,
I had nobody to turn to, nobody to weep with, nobody to share the losses with. (As my sister and I became estranged following our Mum's death...)
My firstborn niece (my sister's firstborn) died aged 56 - of COPD - in April 2019, her Mum - my sister - died eleven days shy of her 75th birthday in December 2019, ...and my eldest daughter moved from London, England, to Canada, in mid September 2019 ...so I feel.my family is shrinking, my world has crashed, and without David Bowie, too...
What is this world have I survived alone in? 💔🤔🏴
Man. Just the way the crowd gets in to the song
RIP, David Bowie: YOU are SORELY MISSED!! Thanks for listening to this one, Lee!! :) HUGS!
Great choice! You went for the big one. My favorite live Bowie performance, and he has many great ones. This song is so powerful.
I saw this show. It’s the set he used as the middle act with Moby headlining. We drove to Pomona for it. I was awestruck.
Robert Fripp was the lead guitarist on the studio album.
Moonage Daydream from the Ziggy concert.. Mick Ronson tore it apart!! and lee should know it, he's seen the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
Some trivia for you: Bowie did Low and the song Breaking Glass was on it. Nick Lowe, power pop, new wave pioneer did an album called Bowi, and the song I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass, which actually sound a bit like Sound and Vision. I think you should do both of those! Well, all three lol! Then, you should do more Nick Lowe, and more Bowie, and some Rockpile or Elvis Costello or some Badfinger or other power pop, well, Badfinger mostly, mentored by the Beatles!
I remember going through the "New Releases" section at a record store/happily (already was a big fan of that-era Nick Lowe) spotting the Bowi EP/staring at it for a bit, trying to figure out what the title meant/figuring it out - and laughing so hard the other people in the store stared at me.
LOL! What a great memory! I would also have laughed so loud that everyone would look. :D@@donholl
Saw Earl Slick with The Cure last summer, he's holding his own here, but it's tough to handle Robert Fripp's original stunning accompaniment.
David Robert Jones was freaking cool, hopefully he's up in heaven now.
Amazing. Bowie was my favourite since I was a teenager. I would love to see you to react to some of his early stuff like Starman or Diamond dogs.
A classic.
You chose wisely.
You made me feel it too, David.
Check out the songs Panic in Detroit and Time from the Aladdin Sane album. The whole album is great!
A rearrangement of sorts from the original - with the addition of that slow "build" for a while, at the start. I really like it. I also really enjoy the way he reworked "Rebel, Rebel" in this period: similar, in that it starts off sparsely - then explodes.
In this concert, they perform his (Heathen album) cover of Neil Young's "(I've Been) Waiting For You" just before "Heroes": it's a feature piece for Sterling, who really gets to "go off" in it.
Nope good but no cigar
I always feel sad a little when I see him because in a doc I saw about him, they said his mom showed him no affection as a child. In the pics of her with him as a child, she looked so cold. I’m sure that empty feeling stayed with him throughout his life.
He found true love.
Can really feel the Lou Reed/Velvet Underground influence on this.
I’m not sure if you did Let’s Dance but it great.
Of course Robert Fripp invented main riff for this song. Those 3 albums from Berlin are the first when Bowie was sober. I love King Crimson version with Adrian Below. I heard them live in 1999
You should react to his song called Slip Away from the same 2002 concert 😉. Its amazing!
Without the studio vocal techniques and Fripp's amazing guitar, I can never enjoy the live version of this song.
This is one of my favorite live performances in all of RUclips. The energy and everything coming together perfectly to produce a magical moment. Separately the song Heroes was a perfect fit for the fabulous classic movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Check it out.
Still haven’t listened to any Graham Parker and the Rumour or Elvis Costello yet ?
Good suggestion
Love them both!
Key concept Berlin Wall. lovers. Love defiant of Authority, I Loved the work Bowie did with Eno. The, Low album is science fiction soundscapes. sandwiched between hard rockers.
Nice Bowie pick, but miss the Fripp effect on this version. Remember we too can be heroes... if just for one day
The Thin White Duke at his best.
Have you heard an earlier album called Hunky Dory yet?
My favourite DB album.
Also,check a track from that album called Queen Bitch,but play the live version from The Old Grey Whistle Test (essential 70’s music programme that ntrpduced me to many a band and easily the best UK music prog in our history) because although it’s short and oh so sweet,it fucking ROCKS with Mick Ronson tearing it up.
Nope
The lyrics seem simple, but much of what he is saying is coded, Lee, it is subversive. This is the song of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain. Bowie knew how important it was, so he recorded it in German and French as well. For the people of the age it was clear who "us" and "them" were, why "nothing could drive them away", why it would have been useful to swim like a dolphin, why many men drank all the time etc. This particular version was done live in Berlin more than 10 years after the fall of the wall, so it sounds like a victory anthem, but, back then, in 1977, it was a desperate cry for action against the authorities (see the official video). The version from 1987 that Bowie sang in front of the Reichstag was quite rallying. There were riots in the streets of East Berlin the next day. This song has its history and it helped change history. Do you by any chance like Tolkien and remember the "songs of power" what the maiar and some elves could sing and they changed the fabric of reality? This is one of them, mate. Bowie was a real wizard.
Motors was really used most in the 70s and 80s. We pretty much say car now
My love, thought I would marry you one day. Sounds mental, I know. Just loved him xx