Diamond Dogs Tour

Diamond Dogs Tour
Diamond Dogs Tour

Bowie performing at the Charlotte Park Center in Charlotte, North Carolina on July 5, 1974
Tour 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:

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

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

Notes

  1. ^ "David Bowie Opens Up - A Little" by Scott Isler, Musician Magazine, August 1987, pp 60-73
  2. ^ a b Kamp, Thomas (1985), David Bowie: The Wild-Eyed Boy 1964-1984 (1st ed.), O'Sullivan, Woodside & Co. 
  3. ^ Steve Morse, In Fashion Magazine, July/August 1987: p.151

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