David Bootie

I had the pleasure of catching Bowie's REALITY tour stop in Minneapolis this evening. It proved to be a well-balanced mix of old and new tunes with a few covers thrown for variety (Velvet Underground's WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' PABLO PICASSO, and The Pixies' CACTUS); a mixture that reflected the diversity of age groups represented by the audience in attendence.

Holy Crap, there were more kids there than I ever would have expected (which, I must add, is a good sign that he still has appeal to the younger generation...which bodes well that not ALL kids are listening to only what they are spoon-fed by Top Forty radio). One of my favorite moments of the evening came not from Bowie per se but the reaction of a gaggle of pre-teen gals to a line from his classic, Ziggy Stardust:

Bowie belts out the line, 'with God Given Ass,' and this quartet before me shriek with gleeful and early-on-set-hormonal abandon...a collective shrilling I cannot describe in any better terms. It wasn't the line (from the same song), 'well-hung with snow-white tan' that they reacted to...it was the Ass Line.

Hmm.

What does THAT mean?

A general preference for the derriere? A specific preference for HIS backside?

So...er...Great show.

T
(although for a 57 year old he is in good form...ahem...vocally, too)