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This Fantastic Voyage: Hikaru Davis and Tony Visconti on Drummer Dennis Davis

There’s a new post from Hikaru Davis on his dad, dummer Dennis Davis’s, contribution to Bowie’s music from the later 1970s to Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps). Edited by Nacho Productions, some of the highlights include the surprisingly firm introductory riff that Davis provides for Lodger’s opening number, “Fantastic Voyage.” The song itself seems disaffected, ranging […]

Watching Lawrence of Arabia, Another Man Who Fell to Earth

Yesterday I watched for the first time in 30 years David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.

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 […]

“Space Oddity”: The Dark Side of the Moon [Race]

Saturday, July 20, 2019, the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s walk on the moon, I thought how very odd that NASA and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts paid tribute to the new “Space Oddity,” video premiering it at the Center in Washington DC and in Times Square (no […]

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 […]