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