David Bowie, Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles 5/26/1990

The first time I remember hearing David Bowie had to be around 1975, that's when I bought a 45 of Fame. I remember loving that song, not sure why....I just did. After that I remember hearing other Bowie songs on the radio, Golden Years, Young Americans, all from that time period. I had a friend who had won a copy of Station to Station from a radio station and I remember checking that out...but the only Bowie I owned for years was the 45 of Fame.

I believe the first time I saw Bowie on tv was on Saturday Night Live back in 1979. I remember because the outfits that he and the band were wearing were definitely unique.

I don't remember if Let's Dance was the first Bowie album I bought or not? If it wasn't, it would have been his greatest hits at the time ChangesOne. Regardless, I was becoming a big fan. When I was in college, my boss and friend at the tv station that I worked at sold all of his albums after becoming a born again Christian. I gladly took the Diamond Dogs and Pinup albums off of him. (Rest in Peace Fred) I also remember seeing a video of his Serious Moonlight tour while in college and thought that he and his band put on an amazing show.

So while I'm looking for the setlist for this show, I started to remember something about Bowie's Glass Spider Tour stopping in Anaheim. Did I go to that show? I don't have any ticket stub and I really don't remember it...so for the sake of my memory I hope that I didn't see it. But I did see him at Dodger Stadium on the Sound & Vision tour. I thought it was a great time to see him since he said that the tour would be the last time he played his old music. Like many others who have said something similar....he would not follow through on that promise. So here I am, really excited to see him, thrilled that Adrian Belew would be playing in his band too. The problem was first noticed during the opening act...Lenny Kravitz. It was my first concert at Dodger Stadium and we were sitting in the loge level facing the stage head on. There was a cement wall right behind us and the sound was bouncing off of it pretty badly. It didn't get any better during Bowie and although the setlist was amazing...the experience was definitely a disappointment because of the sound quality in the stadium. What's ironic is that I'm having to deal with the sound system in the same stadium 21 years later...and it still sounds like crap. At least there's some good quality clips on You Tube. These clips from Tokyo were captured less than two weeks before the Dodger Stadium show.