Well I stood stoned-like at midnight…
Also, as promised yesterday, here’s an exclusive excerpt from the book set during the final days of The Diamond Dogs Tour, and it’s a great sample of Geoff‘s wit that is apparent throughout the pages of FROM STATION to STATION…
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“Towards the end of the tour, before I went on stage I foolishly smoked half a joint offered to me by drummer Dennis Davis. Bad mistake. It wiped me out. Given the complexity of some of the dance and mime routines this wasn’t a good thing. One part of the show required Gui and me to beat David up until he collapsed. We would then pick him up and carry him over our heads with extended arms, a quite dangerous thing to get wrong. I was stoned but I managed not to do anything stupid. In fact, I managed nothing at all. As Gui single-handedly gave David a going over, I stood and watched in a daze. As he attempted to carry David off stage I absent-mindedly strolled after them.
On another occasion, again towards the end of the tour, we were singing ‘Changes’ for the purposes of a sound-check. When we reached the chorus David stopped the band, walked over to Gui and me, and asked us to sing our part. We duly obliged. David doubled up with laughter. For two-and-a-half months we had been singing ‘turn and face the strain’ instead of ‘turn and face the strange’. From then on, every time we performed that song David would stick his arse out towards us and make like he was trying to squeeze one out, which would make us both laugh and fluff the line even worse.”
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There you go, even Halloween Jack had a sense of humour. I think I have a picture of the exact moment Geoff is talking about. If I find it, I’ll scan it and stick it on the MBs.