Bowie Glastonbury 2000

DrBob

Just watching this and Earl Slick is playing a s Peavey through a Line 6,
On The Pyramid stage.
At Glastonbury
And it doesn’t sound terrible..,
I feel like I know nothing anymore 

urban_winter

And Gail Ann Dorsey is beyond awesome on bass and the vocals on Under Pressure. Love it!

DrBob

That said the opening chords to Ziggy Stardust sounded a bit rough

DrBob

urban_winter said:

And Gail Ann Doresey is beyond awesome on bass and the vocals on Under Pressure. Love it!

Absolutely, my 12 yr old daughter now has a new hero

Philly_Q

Bowie's hair is fucking cool.

GuyR

DrBob said:

urban_winter said:

And Gail Ann Doresey is beyond awesome on bass and the vocals on Under Pressure. Love it!

Absolutely, my 12 yr old daughter now has a new hero

So do I. She is absolutely outstanding.

GuyR

GuyR said:

DrBob said:

urban_winter said:

And Gail Ann Doresey is beyond awesome on bass and the vocals on Under Pressure. Love it!

Absolutely, my 12 yr old daughter now has a new hero

So do I. She is absolutely outstanding.

She does look suspiciously like Tony Levin, though. I wonder if they have ever been seen in the same room

Stuckfast

That was the only Glastonbury I've ever actually been to. Bowie's set was great.

EricTheWeary

This is the full set, the BBC showed an abridged version a while ago which I enjoyed immensely ( and I wouldn’t say I’m a particular Bowie fan at all)so I’ll try to watch this at some point. 

I think Slick is playing through the Ampeg and Mark Plati is using the Line 6? Earl is/ was an Ampeg endorsee.

Funkfingers

“Heroes” sucks without Fripp’s lead guitar parts. The only remotely acceptable substitute would be Belew.

kossofffan

Best two hours of TV this year!

stratman3142

I really enjoyed it. Reminds me of what a great artist he was with so many classic songs.

BGG

Never been a fan of Bowie but absolutely loved this gig. 

fastonebaz

I saw a bit of Miley cyrus.  Well quite  alot actually since she wasn't wearing a bra under her see thru top.

DiscoStu

Philly_Q said:

Bowie's hair is fucking cool.

More Robert Plant than Robert Plant!

Romain

Bowie has always surrouded himself with great musicians, that band was great!

And he played Stay and Station to Station, that's enough to make me happy

soma1975

GuyR said:

DrBob said:

urban_winter said:

And Gail Ann Doresey is beyond awesome on bass and the vocals on Under Pressure. Love it!

Absolutely, my 12 yr old daughter now has a new hero

So do I. She is absolutely outstanding.

Saw her a few years back playing bass and doing backup vocals for Lenny Kravitz and she was just as incredible. 

YellowLedBetterMan

DrBob said:

Just watching this and Earl Slick is playing a s Peavey through a Line 6,
On The Pyramid stage.
At Glastonbury
And it doesn’t sound terrible..,
I feel like I know nothing anymore 

To be fair, it is a heavily customized Peavey, which was made just for him in some sort of endorsement deal. 

http://www.bowiewonderworld.com/chats/dbchatslick0700.htm

No idea how he gets a Line 6 to sound good though.

CloudNine

It was immense, could tell from the first moment he walked out that it was going to be something special. I have no idea how many people were at the main stage, but I doubt there has ever been a bigger crowd. It was a very chaotic out of control feeling festival, wall was down, totally overcrowded and in truth probably not a safe place to be, but I think that all added to the atmosphere of this set. Pretty sure the UK will never see a festival like that ever again.

LPManic

This Millenium era Bowie is peak Bowie for me.

Loved the hair. The long cost. The band. The set list. 

Great albums around this era as well - hours, Heathen, and Reality.

Also the Bowie at the Beeb CD that came out around this time with the Ronson songs for the John Peel sessions in the early 70s is amazing. I bought it in release and it had a bonus disc with the songs Bowie did at the BBC a few days after this Glastonbury show. Incredible performance and production.

Could gush all day about Bowie. 

Stuckfast

Yes I think that was probably the last year when many thousands of people snuck in without paying. The crowding on the site was pretty scary at times.