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David Bowie - Stevie Ray Vaughan - DALLAS Texas 1983 - Voodoo Wagon
Superb version of the Serious Moonlight rehearsals and interesting articles from the Boss over at The Voodoo Wagon this afternoon and if you don't have this (or want another version like me!) you could do worse than download these. If you haven't read the article it is really worth it and if you haven't heard Stevie play guitar on this ( then I really don't know where you've been!?) check out this here The Last Dance of David Bowie and Stevie Ray
David Bowie +Stevie Ray Vaughan - Las Colinas
Dallas KLBJ
04-26-1983
Austin, TX
David Bowie with Stevie Ray Vaughan, in a broadcast performance in April 1983 just prior to Bowie's Serious Moonlight Tour, to promote his new album Let's Dance. Recorded at the Las Colinas soundstage in Dallas with a small audience, and broadcast on KLBJ FM, Austin.
SRV was supposed to join Bowie on tour, but the deal was scuttled at the last minute for various reasons. This is the only known broadcast recording of Bowie and SRV together, less than 2 weeks after Let's Dance was released. SRV's Texas Flood album with Double Trouble would be released less than 2 months later, in June that year.
1 Star - 03:24
2 Heroes - 05:06
3 What In The World - 03:56
4 Look Back In Anger - 03:02
5 Joe The Lion - 03:02
6 Wild Is The Wind - 05:01
7 Golden Years - 04:16
8 Fashion - 03:23
9 Lets Dance - 05:23
10 Red Sails - 03:56
11 Breaking Glass - 03:09
12 Life On Mars - 03:53
13 Sorrow - 02:47
14 Cat People (Putting Out Fire) - 04:20
15 China Girl - 05:36
16 Scary Monsters (Super Creeps) - 03:54
17 Rebel Rebel - 02:26
18 I Can't Explain - 02:41
19 White Light White Heat - 04:40
Breathtaking stuff and such an insight into DB's ability to see in a creative way and latch on to new things, new people, new styles and boy do we miss him!
UPDATE:
The Boss at Voodoo Wagon and FBS took me at face value and found the second half of his posting and this is well worth pursuing.
Setlist Disc 2
20 Station to Station - 09:01
21 Cracked Actor - 03:15
22 Ashes to Ashes - 03:54
23 Space Oddity - 04:39
24 Young Americans - 05:34
25 Soul Love - 03:34
26 Hang on to Yourself - 03:04
27 Fame - 04:07
28 TVC15 - 04:33
29 Stay - 06:43
30 Jean Genie - 06:09
31 Modern Love - 05:05
32 Imagine (December 08, 1983 Hong Kong Coliseum,
- Kowloon, Hong Kong) - 04:56
I haven't checked but this means the Voodoo Wagon version has one more track but I take it is the addition of 'Imagine' from Hong Kong! Again the quality is STAGGERING! If you download anything this weekend and any particular version make it this one!
CAT PEOPLE! - Let's Dance Album version (with SRV)
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Big O still list a double 31 track version David & Stevie Ray Big O here
Let’s Dance Rehearsals [Star Spangled Music SSM003, 2CD]
Los Colinas Soundstage, Dallas, Texas; April 27, 1983. Very good soundboard.Thanks to all at The Traders’ Den.
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Kstyle, at Dime says:
Years ago I talked a few times to a few folks around the SRV camp who claimed to know about the Bowie deal, and yes, he was offered 300 bucks per show, not terrible at the time for a backup player, but hardly real money for a guy already making a name for himself. The original thought was that it would get his name out there and be good for DT in the long run, but then it was a longass tour and Tommy and Chris would be sol during it as far as gigs and wages.
So when Stevie’s handlers (love that term, yeah they handle money and that’s about it) tried to push for more, they were told take it or leave it, the boy is no star and many guitarists would love to do this tour, so Stevie wisely bailed. As for him not wanting to wear costumes, ever see the ridiculous crap he wore around the mid-80s? Feather boa tails on his hat, Queeny kimonos, etc, so playing dressup with Davey was not the dealbreaker.
Bowie is the real culprit, let’s be honest. He asked Stevie to play on the album and tour, but wouldn’t man up and pay him real money. But then again, as is clear on these cool tapes, SRV’s style only really fit on a quarter of the tunes or so. Not a lot of wailing on many Bowie songs, and Stevie obviously wasn’t too into standing around playing triad horn fills and bubble parts while waiting for a solo every three tunes.
Oh well, at least we got these tapes out of it. And to whomever said you can’t hear SRV on these tapes, he takes at least a half dozen very SRV-ish solos, just listen closely.
But let’s be honest: it was never a very good fit in the first place.(sic?) Just Bowie looking for some blues cred at the time. Think of all the great tapes we’d have missed if Stevie did the tour!
Maybe even no El Mocambo!
Sacrilege!!
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