On the Occasion of Dennis Davis’s 70th Birthday. Let All the Children Boogie

Were there more effective treatments and cures for cancer, Dennis Davis, Bowie’s drummer for the DAM rhythm section (Davis-Alomar-Murray) on the quintet of albums from Station to Station through Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) could have been celebrating his seventieth birthday today. Now what is left are memories and music. So we have a few of […]

The Drummer’s Son meets Sterling Campbell, Bowie’s Last Touring Drummer

When Sterling Campbell was a little older than Hikaru Davis, son of Dennis Davis (1974-1981 drummer for Bowie), the young drummer met Dennis Davis, who invited him to a David Bowie concert at Madison Square Garden. Thus began Sterling Campbell’s path to becoming Bowie’s drummer the for the last times Bowie toured with Heathen and Reality. […]

Carlos Alomar and Hikaru Davis: Tracing My Dad

The DAM trio (Dennis Davis, Carlos Alomar, and George Murray) who comprised Bowie’s rhythm section and had an immeasurable influence on his sound from Station to Station to Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) was born from Alomar’s friendship with Davis and Davis’s with George Murray. Read Alomar’s account on his blog, written the day Dennis […]

Hikaru Davis and George Murray, Bowie’s Bassist in the later 1970s

Links: Part 1. Part 2. Following up on my last post, I decided it was time to go to Dennis Davis’s son’s, Hikaru Davis’s, talk with George Murray, the bassist for the DAM trio (Davis-Alomar-Murray), who Tony Visconti described as locking in with Dennis. This is my take on one of the interviews Hikaru conducted […]

Tracing My Dad: Dennis Davis’s Son Talks with Tony Visconti

Last spring 2019, I found a video of Hikaru Davis, the young son of the late drummer Dennis Davis (died of cancer 2016), and was Tony Visconti.p the Davis was part of of the DAM trio (Davis-Alomar-Murray) during Bowie’s incredible 1975 to 1980 period. Wanting to know about the father he knew so briefly, Hikaru […]

David Bowie: The Golden Years by Roger Griffin

David Bowie: The Golden Years by Roger Griffin is a sensualist’s delight and a scholar’s treasure. Chronologically encyclopedic, it is the only book that covers each year of the 1970s in equal depth. At 12.5” by 10” and 464 pages, I’d estimate it weighs at least 5 pounds. You can see a video that shows […]

Resources: David Bowie Wonderworld

This may be the ultimate David Bowie fansite. Paul Kinder’s David Bowie Wonderworld must have thousands of pages. Every time I visit I discover a new corner and am filled with, well, wonder: just look at the complete contents page. What a gift the aptly named Kinder has provided the world for 15 years. He […]

Readings: The Ziggy Stardust Companion and Bowie Golden Years

When I was researching my posts on the ways Bowie traveled when he didn’t fly, two sites were indispensable: The Ziggy Stardust Companion and Bowie Golden Years. I’m humbled when I come across such thoroughly researched and valuable sites and grateful for their creators’ generosity. The Ziggy Stardust Companion Mike Harvey of Wellington, New Zealand, […]

Readings: Bowie Blogs

Given David Bowie’s longtime enthusiasm for the internet, it seems fitting that there are a number of highly intelligent, perceptive, provocative, and entertaining sites exploring his work and personas. Here are a few of my favorites. I know I will be adding more. Pushing Ahead of the Dame: An incredibly impressive, literate, thoroughly researched blog with a post […]

Readings: “Heroes”

Further reading on “Heroes” Pushing Ahead of the Dame’s posts on each of Bowie’s songs are consistently excellent, but the “Heroes” tribute is one of the very best of all. Thorough appreciation of the song “Heroes” from what the lyrics may mean to how the music works, and links to 18 versions. Patti Smith. Heroes: […]