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| Two months of rehearsals were required to get the tour ready, in part due to the elaborate set & props required for the show (reported to cost $275,000 per set, or about $1,630,000 today). Originally the tour was planned to appear in a city for five nights before moving on to the next city, but that plan was abandoned early on. The tour started in June in Montreal and took the month of August off, during which time Bowie began recording his follow-up studio album, Young Americans. On 10 October 1974, after the tour had resumed, Bowie abandoned the extravagant theatrical set and re-branded the tour "The Soul Tour", which would continue through the end of the North American leg in December. The set for the theatrical Diamond Dogs tour was designed by Mark Ravitz and built to resemble a city (called "Hunger City"), weighed 6 tons and incorporated over 20,000 moving parts including a variety of props (such as street lamps, chairs, and catwalks). The props themselves weren't ready for use until a mere 6 days before the show opened, which led to a variety of technical problems during the tour: a movable catwalk collapsed once during the tour with Bowie on it. The set was at least partially based on work by German artist George Grosz. In 1990, while preparing for his Sound+Vision Tour, Bowie recalled the difficulties faced by the show, saying it "was good fun and dangerous, with the equipment breaking down and the bridges falling apart on stage. I kept getting stuck out over the audience's heads, on the hydraulic cherry picker, after the finish of 'Space Oddity.'" Other props worked as expected: for the song "Big Brother", Bowie sang while atop a multi-mirrored glass "asylum", emerging during the next song ("Time") sitting in the palm of a giant hand covered in small light bulbs. The show in Tampa, Florida, was performed without any of the stage props because the truck driver driving those components ended up in a highway ditch after being stung by a bee. In 1987, Bowie recalled about the extraordinary nature of the set he used during this tour, saying "We had four skyscrapers on stage, with bridges that went backwards and forward and would go up and down. The whole thing was built on a city pretext. I had dancers working with me and it was choreographed and was a real fantastic musical event. I thoroughly enjoyed working like that...It was pretty exciting, but I was so blocked, so stoned during the entire thing that I'm amazed I lasted with it even that one trip across America before I ditched it." |
Judas Priest Live in NYC 7/22/81 - ( New Window )
I always thought that was pretty cool.
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Beach Boys came out on stage all in white outfits
It was a great concert.
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Billed as "Shlitz Rocks America". David Johannson and The Clash warmed up. Great show. I think everyone in my neighborhood went.
I also remember hearing the Knickerbockers' practicing when I was in class at the time. Lies Lies was their only hit a Beatles style pop song that still holds up well today.
Two great bands. Regretfully I never saw Steve Marriott such a great singer. What a fall from grace for GFR. Bad decisions and greedy management screwed them up. They could have been legendary. Love there live album "Caught in the Act"
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I was 14. My sleep away camp took us
The smell of marijuana in the park was so aromatic most of us 14 year olds got a bit high
But aqualung and locomotive breath and bungle in the jungle are songs that are still carved out in my mind remembering that night
In 1972 when I saw Rare Earth, Gladys Knight and the Pips and Sly and the Family Stone at Madison Square Gatden. (:-)
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I always thought that was pretty cool.
I just checked, this entire concert is on youtube in the link below. Just watching the beginning made me mad. lol, I hated Van Hagar. and it's not that David Lee Roth was a good singer, but to me he and Eddie were Van Halen.
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@ The Garden State Arts Center
Hey, now! Iron Butterfly at the Expo '67, Montreal grounds... in '68. Forget the footage, ya remember the playlist?
AC/DC 1990 Brendan Byrne
I thought even way back then Brian Johnson's vocals were shot lol great show though
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In 1972 when I saw Rare Earth, Gladys Knight and the Pips and Sly and the Family Stone at Madison Square Gatden. (:-)
Thank you... I left my iPhone at home when I saw the Commodores, around '77 or '78... I'm senile already...
@ The Garden State Arts Center
Liteamorn --
I was at that show too. As I recall it (memory is 'hazy' 55 years ago), it was not a full house and we moved down from the lawn into section C.
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Didn't The Clash open for them at those shows?
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I was 13 years old! Link - ( New Window )
Didn't The Clash open for them at those shows?
Nevermind, my question was answered above.
This was part of an MTV production called Sounds of the Streets. The opening act was an acapella group 14 Karat Soul, followed by Run DMC, then Lou headlined, bonus Jim Carroll appearance to sing People Who Died.
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(Opening Act Humble Pie with an amazing Peter Frampton) Plenty of video/audio out there for this show. Grand Funk was at the top of the Rock & Roll charts at this point in their career!
Two great bands. Regretfully I never saw Steve Marriott such a great singer. What a fall from grace for GFR. Bad decisions and greedy management screwed them up. They could have been legendary. Love there live album "Caught in the Act"
Todd Rundgren convinced them to be more Pop to make more money. He's the one who fucked up their sound. Loved them before Rundgren,stopped listening after! Songs like "We're An American Band" were Todd Rundgren pop,not Grand Funk Rock & Roll!
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Didn't The Clash open for them at those shows?
Yeah, I have so little memory about the Clash though, except they opened with London Calling and played the hits from Combat Rock. Just too damned young, dammit!
Looking at the setlist now, and it was a ripper!
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