@ReevesGabrels That is fantastic. Thanks for sharing! I've seen the whole performance and it's great. I especially appreciate your solo on "Alladin Sane."
For anyone else who, like me, can't watch it because they have Facebook blocked, here's the video for "Heroes" on Vimeo:
And here's all the other songs on YouTube:
David Bowie - Heroes [The Bridge School Benefit - 20.10.1996]
David Bowie, The Next Day, 2013 on ISO Records / Columbia
Bowie’s penultimate release, coming three years before Blackstar and a decade after Reality. Produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti, and recorded at The Magic Shop in New York City in 2011-2012.
Musicians include Earl Slick, Gerry Leonard, Sterling Campbell, Zack Alford, and Gail Ann Dorsey.
I love the cover, which starts with the cover of Heroes as though someone just put a post-it note over an existing cover.
My copy via Crossroads Records in Portland OR, was released as a 2xLP with a CD included containing the same 17 tracks.
#2010s #2013 #Columbia #CrossroadsRecords #DavidBowie #EarlSlick #GailAnnDorsey #GerryLeonard #ISORecords #SterlingCampbell #TonyVisconti #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #ZackAlford
Wow, what a final album. So much to say about Blackstar, recorded more or less in secret in New York with Tony Visconti and some local jazz musicians, and released two days before his death. My copy, like many I've seen in the used market, has a tear in the die cut cover which is
For today's #TuneTuesday which is #AllAboutTheBass, here is Bowie with the fabulous Gail-Ann Dorsey.
Omg, past me would be on a plane in a heartbeat to see this - #DavidBowie’s Blackstar reimagined for a 65-piece orchestra, with the fantastic #GailAnnDorsey, #DonnyMcCaslin and [edit: almost] the rest of the original Blackstar band, plus #JohnCameronMitchell! Like, wtf, dream event.
https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2023-2024/23blackstar