Will David Bowie tour in support of new album?

[runningshoes]

^^You seem optimistic RS, guess we'll have to wait and see how his new album does and whether or not that rekindles his desire to tour.

He should call Robert or Jimmy and offer to open for Led Zeppelin next year.

I'd go see him again, for sure....I agree though. I don't think he'd do a full blown tour, but something like McCartney.... six or seven cities, with a couple shows in each city. Hopefully he'd do New York or Philadelphia. I'd be there for sure.

 

[LG]

Huh

Actually Bowie is big with the Indie/Hipster crowd, NIN crowd and plenty others. I don't think Bowie will do more than a few shows. However, Bowie could sell just as well as any of the classic rock giants playing live today.
If he does play he will play NYC and I'll hopefully be there.

Last time I saw him he did a few songs in Central Park with Arcade Fire:

I would bet your favorite camera that there are more fans from our generation at a Bowie concert than younger ones like Cosmic.

 

[Aktivator]

I bet there would be a pretty mixed audience over every generation but yeah lots of 40-50 year olds.


Running shoes:


Yeah I saw the glass spider tour also amazing show. Although my favorite Bowie live show was in 78 with Adrian Belew on guitar a few songs from that night are on the album Stage. I saw Belew and Vai play with Zappa. Zappa always had a great band with him. His Halloween shows at the palladium were killer.

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

I always consider you as having "eclectic" taste in music Cosmic so you being a big fan of David's doesn't surprise me but I just don't see him appealing to a younger audience.

If he does tour and play big venues then you are right, if he does a smaller club style tour then I will be right.

Just nice to see David active again no matter what he decides to do.

I agree with Aktivator. Bowie really does have a large following in the indie scene. I don't think he'll be putting on show like Iron Maiden or anything but he'd be putting on good sized shows for sure. I'd even go as far as to bet my legendary potato soup recipe that if David does tour then there will be a very wide range of ages at those shows.

 

[runningshoes]

I bet there would be a pretty mixed audience over every generation but yeah lots of 40-50 year olds.


Running shoes:


Yeah I saw the glass spider tour also amazing show. Although my favorite Bowie live show was in 78 with Adrian Belew on guitar a few songs from that night are on the album Stage. I saw Belew and Vai play with Zappa. Zappa always had a great band with him. His Halloween shows at the palladium were killer.

I saw him in '81 with Vai in Buffalo. Frank released a video of the same show about ten days earlier in NYC. I was only 14 at the time and I remember my mother not letting me stay for the late show. I saw him again in '84 but by that time I had discovered drugs so I don't remember much, but fortunately he released Does Humor Really Belong in Music so I at least have a record from that tour.

 

[Powerage]

What works against the younger generation is the cost of tickets. That is the only reason that would stop people seeing Bowie and the other "dinosaurs".

Bowie hasn't toured since 2004. That's 9 years. Kids that were 10 then would be 19 going on 20 now. Don't underestimate the pull of acts like Bowie. At the moment the live sector is booming, or coming to the end of it's boom period. Festivals and concerts have never been more popular. Maybe this is UK only though.

 

[LG]

I agree with Aktivator. Bowie really does have a large following in the indie scene. I don't think he'll be putting on show like Iron Maiden or anything but he'd be putting on good sized shows for sure. I'd even go as far as to bet my legendary potato soup recipe that if David does tour then there will be a very wide range of ages at those shows.

I have no doubt there will be a good number of your contemporaries there Cosmic, but like every show from the dinosaurs the majority will be older people. Both because of the sentimental attachment to the old artists we grew up with, and the Exorbitant cost of ticket prices these days.

When you watch Paul McCartney's DVD of his show in the early 2000's(Can't remember the year.) most of the fans attending were my age or older with a smattering of younger people.

 

[TheSound]

The new Bowie album The Next Day sounds superb, I heard it on iTunes yesterday, where it is streaming ahead of its official release in a couple of weeks, talk about a comeback.

Though the album art is curious...he's using the same album cover picture as the Heroes album, but with 'The Next Day' stuck across it, really odd, and about as ugly and pointless an album cover as I've ever seen...here's the comparison....

 

[electric funeral]

Is that cover suppose to be a statement?

 

[TheSound]

Good question EF!

What goes on inside the mind of David Bowie over the past 40 years is probably one of the great unanswered questions in music, he's something of an enigma musically and a deeply brilliant and original thinker, so I'm guessing somebody will ask him what it means, though whether we will get an answer which we can understand is a different matter.

I don't see or hear much of a similarity between the Heroes album of the 70's and the new one, except he's gone back to using Tony Visconti as his producer (who did Heroes)

Btw, Bowie is adamant that he will never perform live again, though he's already "retired" a couple of times, first time as long ago as 1973, sometimes he kills off his particular persona from that moment, but not his actual music career.