Drummer reacts to "Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)" (Live) by David Bowie

[@joeyblowey123456]

The more you listen to Bowie, the more you learn he never ever stayed still.

[@mjs734]

Guitarist is Reeves Gabrels. Played a massive part in Bowie's career throughout the 90's. The two tours he did in the mid 90's promoting his Outside and Earthling albums produced some magnificent live performances. As a drummer you might appreciate this live version of Hallo Spaceboy with the Foo Fighters at his 50th Birthday gig. 3 drummers all going for it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6O3gn-khMxnkJY

[@kristinemckee9279]

God I love David Bowie…

[@L33Reacts]

Me too!! I love his music. One of my favorites on the channel 😊

[@julianbarber4708]

David was the epitome of a self created person.....extraordinary.

[@josephpisano6040]

He was a versatile performer. A man who was an actor, singer, painter, mime, and his own stage designer.

[@jesusalvarez2911]

Bowie was like 20 artist in one.......each album was a New Bowie and a New person.......The real mutant in Music History........and Always in a High, High Level.......The Rock Chamaleon and one of the more charismatic person Who walk the Earth

[@antoniocarlin5026]

Favourite David Bowie Album ...ever!! Robert Fripp plays here ...1980!

[@cdronk]

David Bowie started off in theater and he brought those concepts into rock music. He creates characters for his albums much like an actor would with every new play.

[@bobwoolerOriGinal]

Yes, he got into mime, which became influential to his stage performances, in 1968/69, although by then he had already released several singles and an album.

[@chardywork]

This 1980 track is from his first album after the Berlin trilogy (Low, Heroes, Lodger); but he was still working with Robert Fripp, who I think was responsible for much of the manic guitar in his work at that time. You're right about Bowie's lack of ego: he does come across as genuinely likeable and modest in interviews.

[@farmersteve661]

Like so many of his albums … you need to listen to the entire studio LP of “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps “ (1980). I saw him front row center for his “Sound and Vision” tour in 1990 . I will never forget it you know ? 🎸🔥🤯

[@marcribe6483]

I love this phase (78-80) that gave us "Lodger" and "Scary Monsters".

[@mattleppard1964]

This is from the Earthling tour I think? 1995 or 1996. It’s the industrial look and jacket from the Earthling era

[@mattleppard1964]

Yes yes yes. Original has Fripp on lead ❤

[@janewells5970]

True! Here the phenomenal Reeves Gabriel who played with David for decades and with Tin Machine blows me away! GAIL ANN DORSEY on bass!

[@mattleppard1964]

@@janewells5970 Reeves is excellent. I’m a big big fan of Tin Machine (there aren’t many of us!). Gail is brilliant too ❤️ I hope Lee does some stuff from Earthling 😎 Also The Heart’s Filthy Lesson from this tour. So good ❤️❤️❤️

[@janewells5970]

@@mattleppard1964 me too! Love The Hearts filthy lesson! And so much more!

[@GP-mw8ce]

She’s silly in the street and she don’t socialise I love the little girl and I love her till the day she dies

[@mattleppard1964]

@@janewells5970 With Bowie it’s all good😎

[@abstraktboombap2156]

Bowie has done just about everything while remaining Bowie.

[@carrerlluna66]

I think Reeves is playing a Parker Fly and putting it through a Whammy pedal among other noise makers. Gorgeous Gail Ann Dorsey is a monster on that bass and sings strong too.

[@250278]

That is one of my favorite Bowie´s eras: Earthling and 1. Outside are two of his greatest works (although this song is from Scary Monsters). Anyway, if you like this particular sound (industrial and heavier) you could check I'm Deranged, Hallo Spaceboy (but not the Pet Shop Boys version, please!) or The Motel from 1. Ouside or Little Wonder, Looking for Satellites and Dead man Walking from Earthling. You won't regret it. You may also want to check Tin Machine, Bowie was the lead singer on that band and Reeves Gabrels (who also plays guitar on this song) was the guitarist. However, please continue with the Diamond Dogs reactions.

[@ednicholson7839]

You gotta check out Bowie’s performance of The Jean Genie from the Midnight Special tv show in the early 70s. Otherworldly. Even for a late night show I’m sure the audience wasn’t quite prepared for it. It still feels totally out there. Also the Scary Monsters album is one of Bowie’s underrated. Two great songs and music videos from that album are Ashes to Ashes and Fashion.

[@-R.Gray-]

Reeves played guitar in the Bowie-fronted band Tin Machine (1988), after the albums with Adrian Belew, who also ended up playing Parker Fly guitars, before the company folded.

[@daadoctor]

One of the many great traits of Bowie is that every LP he added a new personality and dimension to his music.

[@leeshort1258]

Nice comments, Lee. Reeves Gabrels also did some fine work with Bowie in the band Tin Machine.

[@vicprovost2561]

YES, Tin Machine were killer, great side project, worth looking for on You Tube.

[@jraben1065]

For more LIVE Bowie, check out video's from the "Hammersmith Odeon" (1973) with amazing footage. The greatest moment in "Theatrical Rock" as Bowie transformed into "Ziggy Stardust", singing as an "Alien" that is "impersonating a human". Bowie seems simultaneously powerful and vulnerable, disturbing and seductive. Among the best videos from "Hammersmith" are the title "Ziggy Stardust", and "Moonage Daydream" with the amazing guitar by Mick Ronson. Also, the video of "Rock N Roll Suicide" is the final song ever performed by Bowie as "Ziggy and The Spiders From Mars".

[@carrerlluna66]

Ned from Spain saying oh yeah that's a great concert film by DA Pennebaker. Love all the songs you mentioned by we're both crazy for Mick Ronsons blistering solo on Width of a Circle including his "battle " with bassist Trevor Boulder !

[@jraben1065]

Hi @Carrerlluna, I've heard of "Width of a Circle",,,,,. Mick Ronson is amazing, and I love a good "battle". I'll go check it out, thanks for the recommendation!@@carrerlluna66

[@jraben1065]

Hi Carrerlluna, that version of "Width of a Circle" was a great recommendation. Was the video also from the Pennebaker film? If so, I must have seen it years ago, but it's hard to remember. Seeing it now felt fresh . I loved the "battle" on stage, it felt like the "Spiders From Mars" were fighting after Ziggy left the stage. Besides the amazing guitar and bass, the drums were also awesome. Thanks for suggesting this video, had a great time watching it!@@carrerlluna66

[@carrerlluna66]

My pleasure. When I first saw the documentary decades ago it was pretty shredded and the sound was awful. When it got a remastering it was like a whole other film. Glad you enjoyed it. @@jraben1065

[@John-et9yl]

Enjoy listening to this stuff for the first time

[@brianvernon249]

Station to Station to Scary monsters and super creeps is my personal favorite 5 albums.

[@L33Reacts]

I can't wait to hear more... I've only scratched the surface of Bowie 😊

[@robertjewell9727]

Time for a Scary Monsters full album listen, eh?

[@janewells5970]

Agreed 👍

[@cablebrain9691]

He has been called a chameleon.

[@suz5862]

A description Bowie hated for good reason. Chameleon are the masters of camouflage. Bowie was always out there. He never blended in.

[@cablebrain9691]

@@suz5862 I agree. I assume it was only meant in the sense that he was always changing.

[@suz5862]

Yes but it was nonetheless a stupid metaphor.

[@cablebrain9691]

@@suz5862 It doesn’t much matter now, he’s dead.

[@suz5862]

Really? I had no idea 😐

[@rayname908]

One of my favorite Bowie songs. David had an online poll for fans to pick songs they wanted for the tour with Nine Inch Nails. He was shocked this flop single was a top pick with NIN fans.

[@13terapyn]

Pretty sure this video was recorded from a concert tour he did with Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails. A tour for which Bowie was the opener, if you can believe that. At the time, Nine Inch Nails could have easily sold out stadiums but instead decided to do smaller venues. Not expecting to score tickets to one show. When tickets went on sale through some glitch in Ticketmaster's system, which shut down sales to almost every location, I was actually able to score tickets to both shows😢🎉. With no customary intermission between Acts, this song was used to seamlessly transition from Bowie TO NIN. INCREDIBLE!!

[@phoebeandtilly]

My two favorite Bowie songs - The Man Who Sold the World & Changes. Very different but very GREAT!!

[@andrewcole3736]

DB never repeated himself.

[@geoffreyb2391]

Reeves is now a member of The Cure

[@FaceBat]

You should hear the studio version. It has Robert Fripp on guitar (as do several other songs on Scary Monsters).

[@EdwardGregoryNYC]

I like this version better than the album version. Great pick.

[@carrerlluna66]

Ned from Spain stopping by Lee to mention the awesome Zack Alford on drums. On keys is Bowies main man Mike Garson, a massive talent. As you were saying Bowie has so many personas and phases. Even more incredible is that he started out around 1965 singing light pop tunes with a few Mod / psych ones as well. When he hooked up with Mick Ronson , Trevor Boulder and Mick Woodmansey in 1970-71 he took off and didn't stop until his death. Sorely missed. MORE BOWIE PLEEZ !!

[@L33Reacts]

Oh we got plenty of Bowie this month. I got a few requests of his to do this month.

[@carrerlluna66]

Great to hear that Lee and thanks for all your hard work. If you do any of the Hammersmith 73 check out skin beater Mick Woodmansey. Peace bro @@L33Reacts

[@josephpisano6040]

Keep diving into David Bowie brother, you will NOT regret it! I saw him twice and it was an awesome show in the true sense of the word.

[@vegdagol2843]

Scary Monsters is a NY album

[@rodneygriffin7666]

Bowie.

[@mana3735]

The album version with Robert Fripp's guitar has to be heard, really.

[@vicprovost2561]

I saw Robert twice with King Crimson, in 75 with the John Wetton/Bill Bruford version and then in the mid 90s with the double trio format, mind blowing, both times, Fripp melted my mind!

[@erolbulut2584]

My favorite Bowie album. '80 or '81

[@johnimhof6568]

Check out Arnold Layne and Comfortably Numb with David Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall 2006. Bowie is stunningly good.

[@vicprovost2561]

Yes, nice collaboration, giants on stage.

[@dmn23]

Reeves is no joke. I loved the Tin Machine stuff too.

[@vicprovost2561]

YES! 🎸

[@HareDeLune]

Daaaamn! Brother Lee hittin' it sharp as a friggin' TACK! 😎💪 Allegedly not knowing much if anything about Bowie's life, he manages to suss out from one performance his penchant for becoming other characters both on and off stage and his ability to act (He starred in at least one movie that I know of). In a word: Scary!

[@NZLatic]

My favourite Bowie album. Great pick!

[@VitruviusXXV]

I don't know what you mean by underrated as his albums sold in huge quantities. He's also considered massively influential in fashion as well as music.

[@user-sh6gz8ms6w]

nothing i can add would do justice.....

[@immoralreplicant1332]

To the left of the stage, in the wings & set back, is a safety gantry. Just over halfway up the ladder, is me. It was the sweet spot, at the perfect angle & distance between the front facing stacks & the monitors. The best sonic space available in that entire field...but only 3 people at a time could use it ! Also got a great view of the band from above & out across the crowd. One of the guys I was up there with said to me during a break between songs " Just think, we could've ended up in the factory like every fucker we went to school with " 🤣 Never a truer word ! Of course, the internet was barely an embryo back then, so I never imagined I'd be sat watching it again (from the front this time !) almost 30 years later. ( Phoenix Festival, Long Marston, England, 1996 for reference )

[@HT-io1eg]

Just contrast this with Station to Station, as if it were two different artists. Incredible

[@mana3735]

20 years apart, though. But yeah, I still get you.

[@thunderspike1892]

Check out Bowie, Reeves Gabrels, Hunt Sales and Tony Sales in Tin Machine. Songs like Under The God, Crack City and Tin Machine. Great band. Did two albums in 1989 and 1991. Also check out Bowie on Earthling. Dead Man Walking, I'm Afraid Of Americans and Telling Lies

[@kevind4850]

There's a video out there of Reeves and Bowie doing an acoustic version of "Dead Man Walking" that is amazing

[@yes_head]

Cool video. This performance is understandably harder rocking than the album version, which was recorded during the height of new wave. I think DB liked Reeves Gabrels cuz by this time his live set was spanning almost 30 years, and he needed someone who could cover everything from Mick Ronson's glam to Carlos Alomar's funk to Adrian Belew's exaggerated wackiness. BTW, the Parker Fly guitar that Reeves is playing is the same thing that Adrian Belew has been using for the last 20+ years.

[@L33Reacts]

I want to play that thing so damn bad lol

[@PanarchyInTheUK]

Amazing performance, haven't seen that before. There's a great film of a tour he did, nearer to the time he released the album, which is also incredible. I'm so lucky to have seen him perform live three times: early nineties, late nineties and early 2000s. I remember he did Hello Spaceboy at some short-lived festival in the midlands somewhere and it was absolutely fucking mental. The crowd was jumping as one, and the energy was electric.

[@pleasantvalleypickerca7681]

Love this live video. He's amazing as is his band.

[@IlanaEdits]

yay i'm happy you reacted to Scary Monsters! Definitely one of my favorites! Probably his most hard rock song. And Bowie always had the best musicians on stage with him throughout the years. keep em coming! 😁

[@SMHannon100]

Very astute reaction. He did take on different personas throughout this career, so in that sense he was always acting onstage as he followed his muse where it led him. If you followed his career from the early 70s to the end as I did, you were taken on an amazing journey into things you didn't know existed and would never have dreamed of.

[@anjav77]

Please react to 'Look Back in Anger' from David Bowie. It has great drums 🙂

[@nb1inheaven788]

... The best line up Bowie ever had ! Mike Ronson left Bowie and than came this one, great crazy sounds ! And Ann Lee Dorsey on the bass the last 20 years until Bowie's death ... They are playing very fast has they had the devil behind ... Best version of my favorit song (with "heart filthy lessonn," live version Loreley tour) ...

[@garygreen1782]

You forgot the drummer, drummer. Sterling Campbell 👍

[@ritagryphon222]

Nice reaction!

[@Joshualuv13]

That would not be an easy song to do live.. I imagine.

[@joeyblowey123456]

This live version does not stray very far from the original studio version.

[@mikemitton6447]

You should listen to Bowie cover The Beatles' Across the Universe!

[@shelleys9603]

Seems like most people really don't like that one, but I've always enjoyed it ❤

[@kristinemckee9279]

Who are your scary monsters and super creeps that keep you running scared?

[@strettoasino9006]

Very Punk~ish

[@kometryder8702]

It's the British flag.

[@murraymejka]

Im afraid the original from 1980 with Robert Fripp was better.

[@janewells5970]

Yes, but unfortunately, Mr. Fripp is very camera shy. We were trying to find a live recording and plus Reeves is an amazing guitar player. No shame in either performance.

[@a.k.1740]

I prefer the original 1980 studio version with Robert Fripp on guitar to this whole mess! I've never liked Reeves Gabrels' messy, wordy, flashy guitar playing.

[@nancymjohnson]

Nobody like Bowie

[@MrTrollerboy]

Not true, I like Bowie!

[@nancymjohnson]

@@MrTrollerboy lol. There is nobody like Bowie

[@alandoyle8880]

There will nobody like him ever again 😞

[@titovanzappa4629]

Love Bowie