More Bowie Carnegie Pictures And Reviews

But he put the blame on me and Ray…

Here are a couple more pictures courtesy of Tony Visconti from the backstage area at the Tibet House Benefit at Carnegie Hall last Friday. The seated chap is non other than legendary Kink, Ray Davies. You will remember that David covered a version of The Kinks’ classic ‘Where Have All The Good Times Gone’ on his 1973 Pin Ups album. In fact he thought so much of the song that it was the only track whose lyrics were reproduced on the insert for the album.

Of course their association goes back even further than 1973, almost forty years in fact, to the December 1964 Gerry And The Pacemakers Tour of Northern England on which, along with Marianne Faithful and Gene Pitney, both The Kinks and The Manish Boys were support acts. They worked together again as recently as 1986 when they both starred in the film ‘Absolute Beginners’.

David also started his performance on Friday by blowing a brief tribute to Ray (ooooer missus) on the harmonica Lexi had slipped into his pocket. Anyway, enjoy the pix, please excuse the shakey quality of these shots, but would you have a steady hand in the presence of these two Rock Gods?

While we’re on the subject, LAUNCH, the music bit of YAHOO! has posted a review of Friday night, from which, the following excerpts and some pictures from David’s performance courtesy of Rolling Stone and Statia Molewski:

“Bowie later emerged onstage sporting a Station To Station haircut and offered a sensitive new ballad titled “I Would be Your Slave” before–in the true vision, style, and audacity that only Bowie possesses–he delivered a stunning interpretation of “Space Oddity,” complete with Glass on piano, Yauch on bass, and an octet of strings that included Martha Mooke and the Kronos Quartet. To top it off, all this was expertly conducted and arranged by Tony Visconti.”

YAHOO! also had mention of this offering from Chocolate Genius which sounds like it really was something, (Anybody out there got a copy? The whole show will do if it’s easier…hint, hint!)

“The Tibet House benefit has long been a launch pad for relatively unknown artists, and this evening was no exception, as Chocolate Genius began the show with a breathtaking acoustic version of Bowie’s ‘Soul Love’.”

As last year, Patti Smith closed the show with her own ‘People Have The Power’, helped along by the cast of the evening, including David. I’ll leave you with this thought from Patti, just to remind us what the whole thing was about once more:

“I hope that people will use a night like this and think again of some of the most beautiful aspects of the Buddhist traditions of compassion and nonviolence, and use one’s full intellect and think things through.”