DAVID BOWIE - ALADDIN SANE (Diamond Dogs Tour)
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- Опубліковано 2 лют 2008
- Souled out and Space-Faced, David wows America in 1974. Visionary theatrics and mesmerizing vocals ensure that Ziggy is still very much in the building, we didn't lose him after all (phew)!.
Amateur fan footage from the Diamond Dogs Tour '74.
David Bowie moon-walked long before Michael Jackson.
+Michael DeTorrice
Yeah, he was doing it long before..when he was a mime artist.
The "moonwalk" has been done since the 40's (probably earlier than that, but that is as old as I've seen). Bowie was trained in mime and hence his amazing movements.
At 1:30-1:42 , David does the leg-kick thing that Michael started doing during the 80s, too. When asked about his dance/performance influences, Michael attributed it to ...Fred Astaire. *side-eye*
this tour better be released one day or im gonna scream. cmon. everything about the diamond dogs tour is so alluring and extravagant and i cant believe official footage has never been released........
I feel the very same, I wish they could release more, I'm sure they have it all.
Moonage Daydream
Bowie said he had no footage of his tours he's not released, and he thought it was a great shame
david is not just an amazing musician but a brilliant showman aswell!
He looked so unhealthy here, I am so grateful he got clean and sober and lived another 40+ years! we were all blessed by his great artistry.
@BowieGirley Yes Michael Jackson himself admitted he adapted it from a stationary version of the walk he saw David Bowie perform during his Diamond Dogs tour (itself borrowed from mime artist Marcel Marceau and practiced by several other artists, including James Brown and Shalamar's Jefferey Daniel). But nobody did it like Michael.
God i wish i saw this tour
He was the greatest performer and artist I ever known,and his music will live on forever.
R.I.P. Our Thin White Duke!
I see a lot of moves Micheal Jackson also had .... except David Bowie was doing them waaaaaay before in the early 1970's???
Oh,how I wish someone professionally captured one of these concerts and released it on a DVD. David Live is probably one of my favorite live albums.
Amazing, I was 5 yrs old at this time, and he was doing it! Hes always been a mega star.
pure performance genius.
we'll love a lad insane :)
Either way, regardless on who exactly invented or started this type of dancing, you can't deny David Bowie's performances-especially during this time & era (as Ziggy) were one of the greatest that the world has ever seen. I do think MJ was inspired by him as well. David has said, "I am not out there (onstage/artist) to be normal-that's not what I do." I think MJ was truly inspired by that. As he was not out there to be normal (in public). The male-female look, make-up etc.-as well as Prince!
I know that MJ did the moonwalk the best (from what I've seen anyway) But Davids long legs and thin frame makes it look so extremely beautiful! :D
Wow! He's athletic for what's basically an underfed junkie at that time.
3:58 A short cover of Genesis's 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' (1974).
aladdin sane was written in 1973 before the lamb lies down on Broadway
Ratelzwatel ... It's credited within Aladdin Sane as 'on broadway' as written by Lieber/Stoller/Weil/Mann. The Drifters had the original hit in '63, Genesis doffed they're caps to it a year later, then George Benson 😲 peace.
OMG! i didn't know he was the first person to start the moonwalk!
wow, i'm in complete awe...
Wow, thank-you for posting - I'd never seen much before of this phase of his live career - different and he didn't repeat it... a trait of a master artist.
Living legend!
well l have had a good cry and l feel a lot better in othrer words have a good cry then let go
I was at the last show of the Philly concerts. I went thinking it was the Spiders, and saw this surprise. Guitarist Earl Slick rocked also. I have a whole piece of painted building wall that he ripped down from the set.
What would I give to see the whole of that gig! But I wasn't even born, and I live so far from Philly...
Bowie comes in fuzzy on my tevee screen with this but the audio is clear and clean. He sings about Fame. Not so much in this song but he did say about it loud and clear. This song is mellower. Bowie didn't invent all of this himself. He was a very social party person though I never met him personally. Billy Joel and Elton John can dig Bowie. Also don't forget Debbie Harry with Blondie and the Wilson sisters in Heart. Tom Petty and Bob Dylan should listen into this too.
Thanks for this one, as you can imagine I like it, OK he doesn't sing the chorus as good as the record, but hell this is the DD tour, his peak, and the peak of all rock music, he's at his other-worldly 70s best.
It just hit me, that is the "moonwalk" in reverse. Great of you guys to notice.
Was mike garson on this tour. Can hardly hear him in the mix and this song was really a showcase for his mad majick
Moonwalk? More like Marswalk!
i wish i was that girl he kissed!
I never realized this.. that M has always been such a fan of Bowie's. It makes sense that his artistic genius would appeal to her artistic aesthetics.. thanks for the comments regarding this, guys!
he rules!
I love the audience.
Beautiful diamond dogs! Please someone can say me if there one dvd on this tour?
whoah ur right!
che spettacolo grande diamond dogs tour
This is great. It drives me crazy that the extensive 'Diamond Dogs/Philly Dogs' era footage hasn't come out on DVD in all this time. Ditto the 1980 Floor Show. Guess that's what we're doing here...
It's walking in place, which is a variation of the moonwalk. Anyway, these are all old mime techniques and stretch back probably to who knows when. Either way, cool is cool. Two of the coolest people on the planet looked at that technique and independently thought, "There's something in this." What a shock.
+Tim Collins Stop trying to spin shit. That was the moonwalk, ie "Moving backward while remaining in place". David did it first, and this is coming from someone who is also a Michael Jackson fan. It's okay to be honest sometiimes.
He's not moving backward...
Wow
Very nice work - I 'd like to see more shots of the band, though, esp piano.
I Think this Live Song is better than the original... LOVE IT!
@atochajewelry I do believe it is. Props to David Bowie!
straight up moonwalkin in place here!! =)
Quite the cool footage collection, interesting how camp the version, too. 5*****'s
not just the moonwalk but also the foot-flip on 1:35
He's doing the "funky chicken" w/ Kabuki influences.
Yeah ole Mike Garson is playing with him TODAY as well. He came back into the picture with the 'Outside album & tuor and has been playing with him, on and off, since. Songs like Aladin Sane and Time dont sound the same without him.
@BowieGirley Not the first musician, but the first ROCK musician.
Bowie "The Great Creator" muito antes de M. Jackson. (1974)
I wish Bowie would put out a video of this tour! What CD is this from? It is not David Live..... Excellent job on this.
he even got the kick goin on too! woo! i wonder who did it first, michael or david. b/c mike always talked about how he was influenced by other artists.
@BowieGirley Love Bowie but you have to credit Cab Calloway with the first moonwalk back in the 1930's.
Is the audio from the film or is the audio from something else? This isn't from David Live and I would love to get it...Great clips!
the claay dude
Was that the "Moon Walk" before Micheal ever did it? Someone with respect please reply.
Excellent quality sound, much better than any of my bootlegs, where is it from ?
@Karmaleonika1 you mean in the backing vocals? :)
It has nothing to do w/Genesis (Peter Gabriel era). Though that was clever on your behalf. HINT: Search R&B (it's Bowie's Philly Dogs Tour, man)
He was always ahead of his time.. just completely fantastic. When I think of the praise Madonna gets for constantly reinventing herself (I agree), I think she pales in comparison to Bowie. I am a long-time Madonna fan but he is more amazing than she is.
walking in place (miming) is NOT moon walking
anyhow they are BOTH phenomenal artist
hey he's doing the moonwalk way before MJ, lol
before Michael yes, but the move was done by a Bill Bailey i think it's the name, in the 50's and Cab Calloway later, then a Shalamar dancer taught it to Michael..since David does it on the same spot, (although it's great!) does not qualify like walking, but Michael was not open about him NOT being the starter although he did admitted in his book that "the dance was out there on the streets, not giving credit to the inventors of th dance as his steps were all from the Godfather Of Soul..James Br
I'm very sad
Moonwalk was done by black performers like Sammy Davis and James Brown way before this! It's black origin street dance. Jackson is seen doing something similar to the moonwalk in his 1969 Motown Audition tape at the age of 9. Way before David Bowie.
Yeah, Bowie wasn't the first musician to do the moonwalk, but he was probably one of the first white rock musicians to do it.
uhh you're wrong lol Cab Calloway and Bill Bailey started this
Ughh! I know! XD That was THE sexiest moonwalk I've ever seen. I literally squealed aloud and made other assorted cutesy sounds.
@BowieGirley Not the first, don't forget Cab Calloway.... or even Billy Thorpe.... MJ was way way way behind
Garson never did receive his waranted share of recognition as musical colaborator, mainly because Mick Ronson got all the atention and adulation. Well thats not suprising since, in rock, keyboardists dont tend to get the same kinde of adulation that guitarists do ( I beleive it has something to do with the phallus aspect ), but still it should be noted that Bowie realy has done some great keyboard songs and had some fantastic keyboard players, like Garson and Rick Wakeman too.
Well, this is not a moonwalk. Nonetheless, Michael never said he invented it, on his book he says that the moonwalk was all over the streets, he just mastered it and made it better.
+SayonaraMJ That IS the moonwalk, which is basically standing IN PLACE but moving like you're walking. It's not rocket-science, and you're really embarassing yourself by saying otherwise. AND David did the kick thing that Michael does in this performance too, and then he spun a couple times. Michael stole all his signature moves from David. To David's credit, he had the class to not publicly embarass Michael by calling him to the carpet about it. I would have though.
+SnotRockets55 Michael actually took a lot from Alice Cooper too. His Welcome To My Nightmare concert film is full of stuff MJ lifted for Thriller, even down to Vincent Price. At the end of it, a fan even refers to Alice as "The King of Pop".
+SnotRockets55 how is it stealing when he himself said he didnt invented it .. he just enhanced it and perfect it
That is like moonwalk. but bowie's moowalk is mime version. MJ's dance version. both they didn't invent it.
@BowieGirley Nah, his the first ever rock musician to do it lol.
something he picked up off Lindsay Kemp when he worked with him...
no, i think James Brown first musician to perform moonwalk
was he particularly skinny at this time? he looks even more skinny than usual
@ROMEORAUNCH
Chuck Never did it.
Nope cab calloway
@sallyfieldrequired This wasn't even when he was as skinniest.
@sallyfieldrequired David weighed in around 85-90 lbs, thanks to appetite supression, a side effect of rampant cocaine use! I keep replaying the awesome first 15 seconds because he looks like a praying mantis dancing!
No he wasn't. Check out Moonwalk Origins
no way ,studio version is far better ,thats my opinion.
To MyCatStellaBella, yes he is doing the "moonwalk" is'nt he? Michael Jackson also basicaly riped off his androgynous look from Bowie too. But Bowie, at least, had real natural God-given androgynousnes without alot of fake plastic surgery ( though he may have wore a bit of make up, just to ENHANCE it, now and again, but thats all ).
Daivd Bowie was the first to do the "Moon Walk" not Michael Jackson.
0:11- 0:29 and 2:11 - 3:05
That has to some of THE worst followspot operator work i have ever seen.
COMPLETELY ruins the effect of character that drove this show Bowie was doing.
Besides being so awfully distracting. Hope whoever was running the followspot that night see's this and is embarrassed.
Other than all that ..... great old 8mm footage of a time that seems so long ago.