Celebrating David Bowie

We went to see the Celebrating David Bowie Tour at the Fillmore in Silver Spring MD last night. We just returned from Costa Rica and had to hustle there as soon as we pulled into the driveway. We arrived fashionably late and missed the first few tunes.

It’s hard to believe that two years have passed since David Bowie’s death. His untimely passing was a huge shock, but his music and influence continue to reverberate throughout the culture at large, from his final mesmerizing Black star album to the flood of covers and tributes that have popped up since his death.

To honor Bowie’s memory, a collection of his former bandmates came together last year to form Celebrating David Bowie, a tour of rotating musicians playing homage to all eras of Bowie’s career. Spearheaded by longtime keyboardist Mike Garson, Bowie’s most frequent collaborator who performed over 1,000 concerts with The Thin White Duke, along with guitarists Adrian Belew and Gerry Leonard, and special guests including Fishbone’s Angelo Moore (various stops of the tour will also feature performances by Evan Rachel Wood, Sass Jordan, and Joe Sumner, among others) this iteration of the tour imagines what a Bowie live show would look like in 2018, with a setlist spanning his decades-long career.

Here is the Set List:

Bring Me the Disco King
Rebel Rebel
Moonage Daydream
Fame
Changes
Space Oddity
Quicksand
Stay
The Jean Genie
Five Years
Lady Grinning Soul
Station to Station
Ziggy Stardust
Time
Wild Is the Wind
All the Young Dudes
Suffragette City
Young Americans
Changes

Encore:
Loving the Alien
Life on Mars?
Aladdin Sane
Heroes