Mostly now ,It's nostalgia for all those great shows I saw in Memphis back in the 1970's,of which the Bowie 1972 show was one of the most memorable. I feel sorry for kids in their 20's and younger .they've missed out on so much. The "Ziggy" was really so much different than those we had seen before. That hippie bullshit was pretty much shot dead in it's tracks then. I really didn't even have a good idea of what he looked like before I saw him live. There really weren't that many pictures of him in circulation. That orange hair and grey skin was definitely something we hadn't seen previously. I wasn't one of the most hardcore Bowie fans - a lot of them were really annoying total misfits who worshipped him to the nth degree.He was their damn god. They were kids who just couldn't get deal with the rest of society and not in a cool way either. I'm not just talking about eccentrics . They were real fuck-ups and would make you sick of Bowie by being around them. About every third word out of their mouths was "Bowie".
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Did I save other relics? I was just a teenage white kid who saved his ticket stubs and the reviews from the paper in a little scrapbook. I have that black &white bowie flyer somewhere. I ordered my tickets to the '72 show by mail and that thing was in the return envelope. Did you notice the ticket prices? $ 3.00 or $5.00 to see David Bowie seems incredible now. The Sex Pistols show in 1978 was only $3.50!
I don't even really have a playable copy of "Ziggy Stardust" now . My Ryko CD was stolen on a trip to California about 10 years ago. I don't think bowie make a great album after Scary Monsters and I really haven't kept up with his stuff in the past 20 years . I did see him get his star on Hollywood Blvd. in 1997 though. There were kids in Aladin Sane make-up that day so some things have not changed.
Robert
PS:Also I think I was at the premier of Elvis Meets the Beatles at the Last Place on Earth some years ago where you didn't even show the damn film .Boy, was I pissed!
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