Bowie at Glastonbury On BBC

mattdavis

These re-runs are fantastic. That bloke and his band were just on fire. And Earl Slick showing you can make a Peavey Tele through and Ampeg sound fantastic. 

dindude

I was there, not that I can remember a great deal! will give this a watch

MagicPigDetective

dindude said:

I was there, not that I can remember a great deal! will give this a watch

Same here. There but remember f all. I learnt tonight that I saw NIN there but it’s news to me I remember nothing!

mattdavis

You lucky bastards!

pintspiller

I saw the last twenty minutes. It was brilliant!

rze99

I watched it too. Seen it before.  What a band utterly top notch everything and a great mix too. Bowie barely missed a note all night. And Gail Anne Dorsey’s beautiful soulful vocals on Under Pressure were brilliant let alone her faultless bass playing.  What a star she is. 

rze99

I saw Earl Slick a few months ago in a tiny venue in a London playing guitar for Glenn Matlock. Simple upfront raw rock n roll. He was pure star class. Firebird with P90s into a cranked Supro combo. I was about 6 feet away. What a blast that was.

Gassage

The star of the show for me was Sterling Campbell. Bloke is a machine.

Useless trivia- that was the first Bowie show for 10 yrs without Gabrels on guitar- he was bitten in the woods by his home by a tick and cried off - turned out he'd got Lymes Disease. Slick answered an SOS from DB and then never really left until he died.

axisus

Must take a look at that ...

not_the_dj

If you enjoyed that check out The Reality Tour DVD from 2003

StefB

rze99 said:

I saw Earl Slick a few months ago in a tiny venue in a London playing guitar for Glenn Matlock. Simple upfront raw rock n roll. He was pure star class. Firebird with P90s into a cranked Supro combo. I was about 6 feet away. What a blast that was.

By strange coincidence I'm currently listening to David Coverdale's Into The Light solo album for the first time in years, featuring one Earl Slick on guitar, terrific playing and demonstrates what a versatile player he is.

I caught a bit of the Bowie performance last night, and enjoyed watching that sideman documentary Slick presented a couple of years back too.

rze99

Earl Slick @229 Club London 10th Aug 2019 phone pics









chatting after the show

Iamnobody

rze99 said:

I watched it too. Seen it before.  What a band utterly top notch everything and a great mix too. Bowie barely missed a note all night. And Gail Anne Dorsey’s beautiful soulful vocals on Under Pressure were brilliant let alone her faultless bass playing.  What a star she is. 

Last night was the first time it’s been broadcast in its entirety. Previously it was a cut down 1 hour show that had been on the bbc.

This is an interesting read on the background...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/25/david-bowie-lost-glastonbury-headline-set-bbc

KKJale

I was there, a long way back... the crowd was huge, one of the biggest I'd ever seen (my first year was 1985]... Bowie was fab. 

I wonder why GAD backed out of the slap part on Ashes and swapped to guitar... did she always do that? 

2000 was a brilliant festival if extremely mad. Friday night I saw Elliott Smith with full band in front of about 120 people in the BBC tent, possibly my all time fave Glastonbury moment. 

not_the_dj

KKJale said:

I was there, a long way back... the crowd was huge, one of the biggest I'd ever seen (my first year was 1985]... Bowie was fab. 

I wonder why GAD backed out of the slap part on Ashes and swapped to guitar... did she always do that? 

Yes they always did that, but no idea why 

https://youtu.be/WmiXjoknHDA

mattdavis

Still amazed by how cohesively brilliant the whole band were. Every member was just killing it. But the songs - oh, the songs. Wonderful musical structures ( the Bm to A7+ in Absolute Beginners is possibly the most satisfying chord progression ever) and lyrics you can get lost in. 

I hate that I only really go it into DB’s stuff when he died. I’d always liked it, but never properly listened.

EricTheWeary

not_the_dj said:

KKJale said:

I was there, a long way back... the crowd was huge, one of the biggest I'd ever seen (my first year was 1985]... Bowie was fab. 

I wonder why GAD backed out of the slap part on Ashes and swapped to guitar... did she always do that? 

Yes they always did that, but no idea why 

https://youtu.be/WmiXjoknHDA

Mark Plati plays bass, IIRC, for Bowie in the studio but guitar on stage. Perhaps they swapped because they’re clever bastards and they could 

KKJale

EricTheWeary said:

Mark Plati plays bass, IIRC, for Bowie in the studio but guitar on stage. Perhaps they swapped because they’re clever bastards and they could 

You're right: from markplati.com...

"Gail and I first decided to swap in Milan while we were doing one of those TV shows where you only get to play one song. We were playing 'Thursday's Child' for the umpteenth time, so we decided to make it interesting and switch off. We decided that we'd do it in concert after that, and we chose 'Ashes' as it has both a great guitar and bass part, and the band were then in the process of learning it. We later swapped on 'Seven', and also on 'London Boys' when Gail plays clarinet."

EricTheWeary

KKJale said:

EricTheWeary said:

Mark Plati plays bass, IIRC, for Bowie in the studio but guitar on stage. Perhaps they swapped because they’re clever bastards and they could 

You're right: from markplati.com...

"Gail and I first decided to swap in Milan while we were doing one of those TV shows where you only get to play one song. We were playing 'Thursday's Child' for the umpteenth time, so we decided to make it interesting and switch off. We decided that we'd do it in concert after that, and we chose 'Ashes' as it has both a great guitar and bass part, and the band were then in the process of learning it. We later swapped on 'Seven', and also on 'London Boys' when Gail plays clarinet."

Ha! 

Moominpapa

Bowie was just uncontrollably cool - he couldn't help it. You could've walked into a bathroom where he was taking a dump with his trousers round his ankles and you would have thought to yourself "this guy is cool". Also, he was like Zappa in that he knew who would be good musicians to play with him on stage and when they were up there playing he really enjoyed seeing them doing what they did best. And in turn those musicians knew that and enjoyed playing with him and therefore gave their best. Put all that together and you get killer live performances. One of the stupidest things I ever did in my life was not go with my friend to see Bowie in Preston on the Ziggy Stardust tour. 

RandallFlagg

David Bowie was 53 at the Glastonbury 2000 show, same age as I am now. He looks agile, sexy and cool.

I don't.