DAVID BOWIE/SIOUXSIE Aug 8,1987

This was my 2nd concert and my 1st at the artist who was already my all time favorite and who, to this day, has never relinquished that title. My memories of this concert are mostly vague. It was at a stadium and we were so far back that those on stage looked like little more than ants scurrying about. This, of course, was Bowie near the tail end of his most commercially successful period. A period that he would later admit left him adrift and confused. He would do his best to shed the commercial trappings with his next project, Tin Machine, but that's a story for another day. This particular concert I remember better from having seen it on VHS and DVD than from anything specific that day. I do remember being thrilled to hear "All The Madmen" as I had recently fallen in love with The Man Who Sold The World tape I owned yet didn't expect to hear anything from that album. Often, I've heard a song live that suddenly comes alive for me in a way it never had hearing it on record. For me, this concert made me aware of the beauty of "Sons of the Silent Age", a song I had never noticed before but fell in love with at this concert. I also remember how cool "Time" was and I'm pretty sure I only fully appreciated that song with this concert as well.

Another memory I have is that the showtime was 6pm and the opening act came out promptly and played for about an hour. Then the main act kept us all waiting fot 2 whole hours until it got dark after 9pm before he came out. I still wonder why the opening act was at 6 - why not 7? Oh well, who knows. Oh yeah, I guess I should mention this concert was part of our visit to my Grandmother and Rod's for a week or so that summer. Here's the setlist.....

DAVID BOWIE

THE GLASS SPIDER TOUR

Opening Act: SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES

Anaheim Stadium

ANAHEIM, CA

August 8, 1987

Set Lists

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES

1. Overground

2. Hall of Mirrors

3. Christine

4. Trust In Me

5. 92

6. Slow Drive

7. Swimming Horses

8. Take Me Back

9. This Wheel's On Fire

10. Spellbound

11. Israel

12. Cities in Dust

13. Hong Kong Garden

DAVID BOWIE

1.  Carlos Guitar Intro (Purple Haze)/Up The Hill Backwards (intro)

2. Glass Spider/Up The Hill Backwards (outro)

3. Day In Day Out

4. Bang Bang

5. Absolute Beginners

6. Loving the Alien

7. China Girl

8. Fashion

9. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

10. All The Madmen

11. Never Let Me Down

12. Big Brother/Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family

13. '87 and Cry

14. "Heroes"

15. Time Will Crawl

16. Young Americans

17. Beat Of Your Drum

18. The Jean Genie

19. Sons of the Silent Age

20. Dancing with the Big Boys

21. White Light, White Heat

22. Zeroes

23. Let's Dance

24. Fame

encore

25. Time

26. Blue Jean

27. Modern Love

DURAN DURAN/ERASURE July 31st, 1987 Shoreline

This is effectively my very 1st concert. The Erasure setlist might be slightly wrong. I remember some dudes in front of us were there for Erasure, going crazy while the majority of the venue didn't know them. I knew 5 of the songs as I was already a big Live 105 listener and they were very early supporters of Erasure. Speaking of Live 105, Steve Masters was MC of the show. Also, it's probable that the last 2 or 3 songs Duran performed were an encore but there's no notation of such so I'm not sure. Also of interest is how many songs they did from their then new album Notorious. This was their first tour after losing 2 original members - Andy and Roger. Warren was on guitar but not officially a member of the band yet. Both their off-shoot projects (Arcadia and Power Station) would be represented but then forgotten for over a decade in their live sets. As I said, this was my 1st concert. My 2nd concert would occur exactly one week later....

DURAN DURAN

THE STRANGE BEHAVIOUR TOUR

Opening Act: ERASURE

Shoreline Amphitheatre

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA

July 31, 1987

Set Lists:

ERASURE

1. Victim of Love

2. It Doesn't Have To Be

3. Reunion

4. Spiraling

5. Hideaway

6. Who Needs Love Like That

7. Oh L'amour

8. Sometimes

DURAN DURAN

1. A View to a Kill

2. Notorious

3. American Science

4. Union of the Snake

5. Vertigo (Do The Demolition)

6. New Religion

7. Meet El Presidente

8. Election Day

9. Some Like It Hot

10. The Chauffeur

11. Save a Prayer

12. Skin Trade

13. Hold Me

14. Is There Something I Should Know?

15. Hungry Like The Wolf

16. The Wild Boys

17. The Reflex

RETRO FUTURA 2018 SETLIST

This was an awesome concert of several 80s acts who were both retro (from the 80s) yet their sounds all were part of a wave of new music that had an undeniable influence on so many modern rock acts (that have now splintered into a gazillion different names but I still think of them all as just modern rock - which for me predates the term 'alternative' but now I'm off on a tangent so let's just get to the acts and the songs)

RETRO FUTURA 2018

The Mountain Winery

SARATOGA, CA

Sunday July 22, 2018

LIMAHL

1. Ooh to be Ahh

2. Hang On Now

3. The Never Ending Story

4. Too Shy

TONY LEWIS (of THE OUTFIELD)

1. Say It Isn't So

2. All The Love

3. Since You've Been Gone

4. Into the Light

5. Your Love

MODERN ENGLISH

1. Ink and Paper

2. Someone's Calling

3. Moonbeam

4. Hands Across the Sea

5. I Melt With You

BELINDA CARLISLE

1. Mad About You

2. Head Over Heels

3. I Get Weak

4. Circle in the Sand

5. Leave a Light On

6. Vacation

7. Our Lips Are Sealed

8. We Got the Beat

9. Heaven is a Place on Earth

ABC

1. How to Be a Millionaire

2. Viva Love

3. Poison Arrow

4. The Night You Murdered Love

5. All Of My Heart

6. Tears Are Not Enough

7. King Without a Crown

8. When Smokey Sings

9. Be Near Me

10. The Look of Love (Part 1)

PETER CETERA Set List

So I'm planning to eventually go through and post set-lists for all the concerts I've been to where I've kept such notes. I have a word/works documents somewhere with many many setlists. I just don't know where it is right now! Anyway, here's a show I went to a few weeks ago

PETER CETERA

City National Civic

SAN JOSE, CA

June 29, 2018 Friday

1. Save Me

2. Baby What A Big Surprise

3. One Good Woman

4. After All

5. (??) - unrecorded song written for his daughter

6. Love Me Tomorrow

7. Stay The Night

8. Glory of Love

9. Restless Heart

10. If You Leave Me Now

11. You're the Inspiration

12. Wishing You Were Here

Peter left the stage (to rest??) and his band played two Beatles songs: Oh! Darling & Come Together

13. The Next Time I Fall

14. Hard Habit to Break

15. Dialogue (Part I & II)

16. Hard To Say I'm Sorry/Get Away

encore

17. Feelin' Stronger Every Day

18. 25 or 6 to 4