~ Transcript ~

BOWIE CHAT DURING 10/8/1997 SHOW
(from what I could decipher):

"Ok we are going to try all kinds of things tonight, so ummm, be scared"
...Dead Man Walking acoustic

"thank you very much"
...Quicksand starts out acoustic, last verse breaks in with full band, squealing Reeves guitar, crowd goes wild

"thank you, this song uh, this song, I think I wrote it in 1969, we've done that a few times, I'm sure, it's called....oh interestingly enough...uh remember that other song that I was playing like when we came on? it went {DMW riff}, well you see, I was doing a recording session around 1967/68, and we had a session guitar player on the record called Jimmy Page, he was a new guy to the scene...true story...true story...and I said to him 'Jimmy have you got any old riffs that you are not using'...this is, I didn't make this up, this is true...he was about 16 years old at the time, he was the youngest session guitarist in London...this was long before all that other stuff happened....so he said 'yeah I've got this one, I don't use it much' {plays DMW riff} - and I said 'I'll take it for ya'..so I took it from him and uh, I've used it, oh I found it invaluable, I've used it alot, you know, when I need to have a riff in a song I'll think, 'oh I'll take that one from Jimmy that he gave me out the box'...so this is the first song that I wrote with that riff"...{slow DMW riff--- becomes The Supermen}

no chat, Always Crashing In The Same Car starts right after The Supermen

no chat, Waiting for the Man starts

WFM ends - "that's right, well that's my dear ole Lou, Lou Reed. uh, This one's very leftfield, when I was a kid I used to do songs like this french student that I liked...coz he was Belgium, he was kind of, you know...do you want my (guitarpick?)"...(audience - "YEAH")
{throws out pick}
"feeding frenzy haha!... "his name is Jacques Brel, this is one I used to as you can tell, sort of REM isn't it? sort of REM thing, it's a musicstand version of this song, well I hope you like it, well let's see, it's called My Death"....

{sings end of My Death} "for in front of that door..." ("ME!" audience member screams before he sings "there is...")
My Death ends - "thank you, Mike Garson on keyboards"...
"well that's the end of the dance session we have"

Jean Genie opening with "drifting" slow, jazzy beat - Bowie sings - "I've been drifting, drifted like a simple(?) open sea, I've been drifting towards you, like a simple(?) open sea, won't somebody help me....won't somebody rescue me"....then "POOR LITTLE GREENIE"...etc.

"thank you"
Strangers When We Meet starts
Strangers When We Meet ends
"well that's a, there's a song from the Outside album ..."

"well you know, you know you have to .... these days, years ago maybe...."
I'm Afraid Of Americans - Trent Reznor version

no chat, Seven Years In Tibet starts

Seven Years In Tibet ends - "thank you that was a song off the Earthling album, called Seven Years in Tibet, which of course was a film which deals with the life story of Brad Pitt" (Zachary does drum beat)...

"LOST THE WILL TO LIVE!? HAVE YOU GOT A FEW MINUTES?"

Fashion starts
Fashion ends -
"before we go on, we'd like to introduce you to the real wonderful members of the band...", To Reeves: "Is this like a, have you got your Apron, saw that ...uh Steve is it? ah, far better known as Reeves Gabrels not a bad (?) for summertime, what's that terrible sound? it's not you, shit what did you eat!? bad very dreadful, oh well..."
"Garson on keyboards"
"Zachary on, that's a drumkit right? Zachary Alford on drums...uh we've got to stop this sound eh, it's really really bad, do you hear it Mike? See we got a little world in here, so that we can hear what we are doing...."
"AND, ah ah...it's not this..."
(addresses audience) - "IS IT YOU - is it one of you? When I go out here, it stops, when I come back here, it starts again...I'm just gonna battle through.... this is a song called.. HAVE YOU GOT A FEW MINUTES? (audience "YEAH") Can't remember if I asked you.."
"Oh I know what I need to do before we go any further, you're not in a rush are you? believe it, nor are we, we are probably here til about Saturday...I kid you not, I kid you not...hello, are you going to sing as well..hello? {to stagehand trying to fix the buzz}... it's a, I forgot that we are being sponsored on this tour, this is the product...it's called Singer's Saving Grace, k? It's a product made by the Chemical Brothers, Chemical Brothers Pharmaceutical Company, a Swiss based company, it contains johnconckuroo rootoff(?), umm mexican mushrooms, some strange initial ending in E, and apparently......it doesn't help the throat but who gives a fuck....why they put tops on these things I don't know..."
{takes a swig} "OOOOOOH MY SOUL"
"Anyway, we lost our buzz, the buzz is gone....this is a song called Looking For Satellites"

End of Looking For Satellites - "where do we go from here"...

Fame slowly starts ..."well well well, if you ain't got the clothes, you ain't got the fame, coz you know everyone, fame is all about what you wear... no, it's not my writing?
"funny you should ask, thought I'd tell you something"...Fame starts (most wicked version ever!)
End of Fame: "whose been sleeping in my bed? just what's going on!" ...."what's my name? you talking to me? there's nobody else here to talk to"
"so what's your name!"

Voyeur starts
Voyeur ends
"yeah Reeves Gabrels on guitar, that was called Voyuer of Utter Destruction (as Beauty) and it's from the Outside album, IF you are taking notes."

Under Pressure starts
Under Pressure ends
"Duchess of Dorsey! Gail Ann Dorsey on vocals..."
"Here is Heart's Filthy Lesson..."

HFL starts
{I throw me George "Oh RaMOANa" panties}
HFL ends

no chat, Hallo Spaceboy starts
"I saw him up in the trees"..."I saw the lights up in the trees...it's my television"...
Hallo Spaceboy ends

no chat, a better than sex Scary Monsters starts {omg THO!}
Scary Monsters end

no chat, Little Wonder -
"take me away..on the TRAAAIN" "good time" "bad time" "HARD time"..so far away...
Little Wonder ends

"Don't forget what I said, this is merely a bathroom break...just be...happy - have you got a few minutes, HAVE YOU GOT A FEW MINUTES...see you in a minute, he's desperate" {Reeves bathroom break}


"What I didn't do is ask any of you your names, so put the lights on Cyril(?)
...ha lighting man has a (?)..."
"So after 3, all Christian names, 1, 2, 3 {audience yells their names}...I don't believe you did it, let's see if I got them all right - Christopher, Robin, Winnie, Margaret, where's Diana over there somewhere, where's Diana? are you serious? there is a Diana..uh do do do do dooo {Twilight Zone theme} so weird."
"hello Gary, how you doing? that's our lighting guy over there..."

"I'm serious about arranging transport, we're not going anywhere."
"Reeves Gabrels on guitar, Mike Garson on keyboards, Zachary Alford on drums and somebody's bus... Gail Ann Dorsey on vocals and bass guitar. Good evening everyone, it's nice to be back...this is a new song it's called The Last Thing You Should Do..."
The Last Thing You Should Do - sings "blue blue electric blue, that's the colour of my room" towards the end

no chat, Battle For Britain

no chat, V-2 Schneider

Telling Lies

White Light/White Heat - with panting start!

O Superman
"Gail Ann Dorsey on Laurie Anderson's O Superman"

"Well listen, listen you lot, we are not going anywhere, I mean..
we're just gonna do one more song and then what we will do? we're taking another bathroom break, 2nd bathroom break"
"Any of those who have to get trains and busses, it's probably getting that time coz we're just not going, so see you in a couple minutes..."

Moonage Daydream
"see you in a minute"
{2nd bathroom break}

"How are ya? very nice to be back. So if you're wondering what all this is about, a few weeks ago we did a show, I think 2 hours and 45 minutes, so we just promised ourselves, let's break the 3 hour barrier, you're the victims! Well if you please, this is the last set of the night, ok?"

Queen Bitch starts
Queen Bitch ends
"this (?) is just about shot{?}"
Outside starts
Outside ends
Stay {cut - the rest is unrecorded}





Cheers!
RaMOANa

Read My Bowie Story book - for the expanded, complete edition of 'Close Encounter With A Superman' (my first time meeting David Bowie).






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