Comments on: David Bowie at the Hammersmith Odeon July 2nd 1973

By: John

John — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:27:57 +0000

I saw Bowie at St Georges Hall in Bradford 1st June 1973. We were in the circle and I recall commenting that I could hear canned screeching being played in the build up to Bowie coming on stage to heighten the frenzy, which for this 17 year old dude was not appreciated! I remember the many Bowie costume changes, two burly guys would come on stage and pull a layer of Bowies outfit off, all velcroed, revealing another costume underneath, the lighting would change and you were straight into the next number! Bowie had an amazing stage presence. I don’t recall it sounding poor. Me and my mate Steve had a great night – Bowie in Bradford – really small venue ! I still have the programme.

By: David Hey

David Hey — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:23:01 +0000

Great article, enjoyed reading it – Wish I could have been there though! I ended up working security at Hammersmith in the early eighties.

By: terence

terence — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:10:34 +0000

Nothing to do with me……!

By: sean

sean — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:18:59 +0000

I was born on Monday July 2nd 1973!

By: Terence Ruffle

Terence Ruffle — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:11:50 +0000

I’m currently putting the finishing touches to a piece about the Legacy edition of Raw Power.
I reminded myself that Bowie loved the Velvet Underground(and every one must’ve heard his tale of meeting Doug Yule, who he thought was Lou Reed!) and had recorded “I’m waiting for the Man” perhaps as early as 1967, which has always been a staple of his shows along with “White Light/White Heat” for his whole career.
Ken Pitt went to New York in 1966, to meet with Warhol with a view to handling the Velvets in Europe. Andy gave him an acetate of the first Velvets album which Ken gave to David on his return to England.
Rock’n'Roll was about to take an interesting diversion……and surely came full circle with “Transformer”.
Does anybody know if the Yardbirds really did cover “I’m waiting for the Man”?

By: Terence Ruffle

Terence Ruffle — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:17:19 +0000

Here’s a link to an excellent Bowie site, bowiewonderworld, which has just posted my article:
http://www.bowiewonderworld.com/cols/archivist.htm#terenceruffle

By: colin murray

colin murray — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:06:00 +0000

Hi Tel
I hope you had a nice birthday. I checked out your site it’s cool I think you should also promote your own original material, as I said on the dog tother day.
I be in SX over the weekend of Oct 10th, hope to catch up then.
Colin

By: terence

terence — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:29:08 +0000

Coffer // Jan 30, 2009 at 2:31 pm

Thanks for reminding me about the St John’s ambulance man. What he had to say about hundreds of pairs of wet knickers being thrown at their idols by teeny boppers still amuses me – if only their children knew what tbey got up to when they were teenagers. Still, I’d rather that than being gobbed at by a room of punks.

I loved that gig which, as I remember it, was Traffic’s farewell and the culmination of a wonderful weekend of Rock ‘n’ Roll – we’d seen the The Who at Charlton the day before (I also recall Robin Trower, Lou Reed and Lindisfarne playing).

It showed the enormous friendliness and generosity of rock audiences, from the couple of Who fans who shared their cider and vodka with us to the other delights being shared by about three rows of seats in the Rainbow.

By: terence

terence — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:27:43 +0000

paul sullivan // Jun 8, 2008 at 3:56 pm

Have you read Jon Inghams book about the pistols? He covers that pre punk period in some detail, Biba and Mainman and that whole glam thing which Hil would have been aware of I’m sure. The old Oxfam shop has a lot to answer for.

paul sullivan // Jun 8, 2008 at 3:57 pm

explains the chiffon blouse i suppose.