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Diamond Dogs Tour
Bowie performing at the Charlotte Park Center in Charlotte, North Carolina on July 5, 1974Tour by David Bowie Associated album Diamond Dogs Start date 14 June 1974 End date 2 December 1974 Legs 3 Shows 73 David Bowie tour chronology Ziggy Stardust Tour
(1972-73)Diamond Dogs Tour
(1974)Isolar - 1976 Tour
(1976)The Diamond Dogs Tour was a concert tour by David Bowie in North America in 1974 to promote the studio album Diamond Dogs. The end of the tour was also called The Soul Tour, which included some songs from the forthcoming album Young Americans.
Bowie later recalled how he had gotten fed up with the theatricality of the tour early on (before changing it into the 'Soul Tour'): "I was in a bad state of mind to have attempted that. It was pretty exciting, but I was so blocked [laughs], so stoned during the entire thing that I'm amazed I lasted with it even that one trip across America before I ditched it."[1]
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Tour details
Two months of rehearsals were required to get the tour ready, in part due to the elaborate set & props required for the show (reported to cost $275,000 in 1974 money). Originally the tour was planned to appear in a city for 5 nights before moving on, but that plan was abandoned early on. The tour started in June 1974 in Montreal, Canada as the "Diamond Dogs Tour." The tour took the month of August 1974 off, during which time Bowie began recording his follow-up studio album, Young Americans. On 10 October 1974, after the tour had resumed, Bowie abandoned the extravagent theatrical set and re-branded the tour "The Soul Tour," which would continue through the end of the North American leg in December.[2]
Set design
The set for the theatrical "Diamond Dogs" tour included a movable catwalk (which collapsed once during the tour with Bowie on it), streetlamps and elaborate props. For the song "Big Brother," Bowie sang from inside a multi-mirrored glass "asylum," only to emerge during the song "Time" from a giant hand. For "Space Oddity" Bowie climbed onto a cherry picker, which lifted him out and over the audience. The show in Tampa, FL, was performed without any of the stage props because the truck driver driving those components was delayed after being stung by a bee.[2]
In 1987, while preparing for the Glass Spider Tour (which picked up theatrically where the Diamond Dogs Tour left off), Bowie recalled about the extraordinary nature of the set he used during the Diamond Dogs tour:
“ We had four skyscrapers on stage, with bridges that went backwards and forward and would go up and down. The whole things was built on a city pretext. I had dancers working with me and it was choreographed and was a real fantastic musical event. I thoroughly enjoyed working like that.[3] ” The band
June–July:
- David Bowie - vocals
- Earl Slick - guitar
- Michael Kamen - electric piano, moog synthesizer, oboe
- Mike Garson - piano, mellotron
- David Sanborn - alto saxophone, flute
- Richard Grando - baritone saxophone, flute
- Herbie Flowers - bass
- Tony Newman - drums
- Pablo Rosario - percussion
- Gui Andrisano - backing vocals
- Warren Peace - backing vocals
September:
- David Bowie - vocals
- Earl Slick - guitar
- Carlos Alomar - rhythm guitar
- Mike Garson - piano, mellotron
- David Sanborn - alto saxophone, flute
- Richard Grando - baritone saxophone, flute
- Doug Rauch - bass
- Greg Errico - drums
- Pablo Rosario - percussion
- Gui Andrisano - backing vocals
- Warren Peace - backing vocals
- Ava Cherry - backing vocals
- Robin Clark - backing vocals
- Anthony Hinton - backing vocals
- Diane Sumler - backing vocals
- Luther Vandross - backing vocals
"The Soul/Philly Dogs Tour" - October–December:
- David Bowie - vocals
- Earl Slick - lead guitar
- Carlos Alomar - rhythm guitar
- Mike Garson - piano, mellotron
- David Sanborn - alto saxophone, flute
- Emir Kasan - bass
- Dennis Davis - drums
- Pablo Rosario - percussion
- Warren Peace - backing vocals
- Ava Cherry - backing vocals
- Robin Clark - backing vocals
- Anthony Hinton - backing vocals
- Diane Sumler - backing vocals
- Luther Vandross - backing vocals
Tour dates
Date City Country Venue 14 June 1974 Montreal, Quebec Canada Montreal Forum 15 June 1974 Ottawa, Ontario Ottawa Civic Centre 16 June 1974 Toronto, Ontario O'Keefe Centre (Two shows) 17 June 1974 Rochester, New York United States Rochester Community War Memorial 18 June 1974 Cleveland, Ohio Public Auditorium 19 June 1974 20 June 1974 Toledo, Ohio Toledo Sports Arena 22 June 1974 Detroit, Michigan Cobo Hall 24 June 1974 Dayton, Ohio Hara Arena 26 June 1974 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Syria Mosque 27 June 1974 28 June 1974 Charleston, West Virginia Charleston Civic Center 29 June 1974 Nashville, Tennessee Municipal Auditorium 30 June 1974 Memphis, Tennessee Mid-South Coliseum 1 July 1974 Atlanta, Georgia Fox Theater 2 July 1974 Tampa, Florida Curtis Hixon Hall 3 July 1974 Casselberry, Florida Seminole Jai-Alai Fronton 5 July 1974 Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte Park Center 6 July 1974 Greensboro, North Carolina Greensboro Coliseum 7 July 1974 Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk Scope 8 July 1974 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Tower Theater 9 July 1974 10 July 1974 11 July 1974 12 July 1974 13 July 1974 14 July 1974 New Haven, Connecticut New Haven Coliseum 16 July 1974 Boston, Massachusetts Music Hall 19 July 1974 New York City, New York Madison Square Garden 20 July 1974 2 September 1974 Los Angeles, California Universal Amphitheatre 3 September 1974 4 September 1974 5 September 1974 6 September 1974 7 September 1974 8 September 1974 11 September 1974 San Diego, California San Diego Sports Arena 13 September 1974 Tucson, Arizona Tucson Convention Center 14 September 1974 Phoenix, Arizona Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum 15 September 1974 Anaheim, California Anaheim Convention Center 16 September 1974 5 October 1974 Saint Paul, Minnesota Saint Paul Civic Center 8 October 1974 Indianapolis, Indiana Indiana Convention Center 11 October 1974 Madison, Wisconsin Dane County Coliseum 13 October 1974 Milwaukee, Wisconsin MECCA Arena 15 October 1974 Detroit, Michigan Michigan Palace Theater 16 October 1974 17 October 1974 19 October 1974 20 October 1974 22 October 1974 Chicago, Illinois Arie Crown Theater 23 October 1974 28 October 1974 New York City, New York Radio City Music Hall 29 October 1974 30 October 1974 31 October 1974 1 November 1974 2 November 1974 3 November 1974 6 November 1974 Cleveland, Ohio Public Auditorium 8 November 1974 Buffalo, New York War Memorial Auditorium 11 November 1974 Washington D.C. Capital Centre 14 November 1974 Boston, Massachusetts Music Hall 15 November 1974 16 November 1974 18 November 1974 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Spectrum 19 November 1974 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Civic Arena 25 November 1974 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Spectrum 28 November 1974 Memphis, Tennessee Mid-South Coliseum 30 November 1974 Nashville, Tennessee Municipal Auditorium 1 December 1974 Atlanta, Georgia The Omni The Songs
From Space Oddity
- "Space Oddity"
- "Memory of a Free Festival"
From The Man Who Sold the World
- "The Width of a Circle"
From Hunky Dory
- "Changes"
From The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
- "Moonage Daydream"
- "Suffragette City"
- "Rock 'N' Roll Suicide"
From Aladdin Sane
- "Watch That Man"
- "Aladdin Sane"
- "Drive-In Saturday"
- "Panic in Detroit"
- "Cracked Actor"
- "Time"
- "The Jean Genie"
From Pinups
- "Sorrow" (originally by The McCoys, written by Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer)
From Diamond Dogs
- "Diamond Dogs"
- "Sweet Thing"
- "Candidate"
- "Sweet Thing (Reprise)"
- "Rebel Rebel"
- "Rock 'N' Roll With Me"
- "1984"
- "Big Brother"
- "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family"
From Young Americans
- "Young Americans"
- "Win"
- "Somebody Up There Likes Me"
- "Can You Hear Me?"
Other songs
- "All the Young Dudes" (from All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople, written by Bowie)
- "Footstompin’" (by Andre Collins, written by Collins and Ande Rand)
- "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" (from Observations in Time by Ohio Players, written by Leroy Bonner, Joe Harris, Marshall Jones, Ralph Middlebrooks, Dutch Robinson, Clarence Satchell and Gary Webster)
- "It's Gonna Be Me" (outtake from Young Americans, bonus track from album's reissues)
- "John, I'm Only Dancing" (non-album single)
- "Knock On Wood" (single for David Live, originally from Knock on Wood by Eddie Floyd, written by Floyd and Steve Cropper)
Notes
Categories:- David Bowie concert tours
- 1974 concert tours
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