Moby: "bowie Is Untouchable"

I’ll never touch you…

Rolling Stone today reports that David Bowie’s co-headliner on the Area: 2 Tour, Moby, is possibly just as excited to see David perform as many of you are…here’s what he said about the acts accompanying him on Area: 2: “These people are the best at what they do. Bowie is untouchable. Rhymes is untouchable. I get to stand on the side of the stage and watch them play.”

Obviously this won’t be the first time Moby will have seen a Bowie show, the following recollection places his first ever David Bowie concert as either the 1987 Glass Spider Tour or the 1990 Sound + Vision tour: “I remember the first time I saw David Bowie it was in Giants Stadium [in East Rutherford, New Jersey] in front of 80,000 people.”

Whether it was that show or somewhere else along the line that first did it for Moby, he makes it clear in an interview published on VH1.com that he feels David’s work is very important in the context of modern music:

“David Bowie is my favorite musician of the 20th century, I mean, he’s an amazing live performer, and I can’t think of a single musician from the 20th century who made as many remarkable albums as he did. Also, he influenced everybody. Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn’t exist.”

In an interview with Moby in this month’s Q magazine (May 2002) the diminutive Rednik look-a-like can think of just two people when pressed for names of friends he has made in celebrity circles: Star Wars actress Natalie Portman and David Bowie, “who lives across the street.”!

While we’re on the subject of Q…