Camping at Swanzey Lake Camping Area with DL and Dusty.
Sunday, August 19, 1990
Final day at Hampton Beach, ready for the Triathlon.
Weather really bottomed out overnight, temperatures dipped and rain was constant.
The 1/2-mile swim was downgraded to 1/4-mile out of safety concerns. I have never been so cold in all my life as I was in these waters for this portion of the triathlon.
Prior to the start, about a half-dozen guys assembled together as outcasts, myself included. We were the only participants without wetsuits.
I always thought that the point was to swim, not scuba dive. I would have appreciated the extra warmth provided by the suit today, but I am proud to handle the extremes without it.
The waves coming in were so strong and high that for each couple feet progress made, the tide would push you back almost as much. At one point, I looked around, and saw only my "friends" without wetsuits bringing up the rear, just treading water, looking as though we were all gonna start crying. The kayaks were sitting right there, ready for us to quit. None of us did.
Getting back to shore was a feeling of great accomplishment, but the swim took so much energy out of me that I don't even remember what the rest of the event was like, other than I just wanted it to be over. I knew I would never again enter an ocean triathlon. Open water was fun, this was not. It was dangerous.
I ended up finishing the 1/4-mile swim, 20-mile bike and 10km run in 2:10:24. I was glad it was over.
Saturday, August 18, 1990
Friday, August 17, 1990
Sunday, August 5, 1990
Greenfield Triathlon in Greenfield, MA.
1000 yard swim
30.50 mile bike
7.0 mile run
Completed the event in 2:32:47.
The swim was interesting, as it was in the Green River, and the water depth wasn't very deep for much of the leg (I recall my belly scraping the sand on the bottom of the river bed).
The bike was long, with a steep uphill over each of the four-laps.
Run went well.
Saturday, July 28, 1990
Tuesday, July 17, 1990
Saturday, July 7, 1990
Saratoga Performing Arts Center w/ CoolCat, TM, DL for Bowie's "Sound and Vision Tour".
Setlist:
01. Space Oddity
02. Rebel Rebel
03. Changes
04. Ashes To Ashes
05. Life On Mars
06. Pretty Pink Rose
07. Stay
08. Blue Jean
09. Let’s Dance
10. Ziggy Stardust
11. China Girl
12. Station To Station
13. Young Americans
14. Suffragette City
15. Fame
16. “Heroes”
17. White Light – White Heat
18. Baby What You Want Me To Do – The Jean Genie
19. Waiting For The Man
20. Gloria
David Bowie was in concert at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center on July 7, 1990. The following is a review published after the concert in the Times Union by Michael Eck:
It was the most breathlessly awaited show of the summer.
And like the best things in life it was worth waiting for. Make no mistake about it, David Bowie’s phenomenal retrospective concert Saturday night at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center was one of the best things in life – the kind of performance that could breathe life into a tired soul.
Bowie, his band, and his art, transcended.
The multi-media show – which Bowie claims will be the last live public performances of his past material – has been hailed and written about for months now, but no amount of pre-press could prepare fans for what they experienced on Saturday.
Bowie has always been one of rock’s true artists, merging the conceits of music, theater, literature and visuals into a pulsating, fascinating body of work.
On this “Sound and Vision” tour he has even outdone himself.
Multiple screens and video effects worked integrally with onstage action. While his band, led by guitarist extraordinaire Adrian Belew, thundered behind him Bowie, ever the cracked actor, sang duets with his own 20-foot projected image, danced with an androgynous look-alike, and cast a mighty shadow throughout the amphitheater.
MTV be damned, Bowie has brought the first completely successful merger of video and stage together.
With some artists the music is the bottom line. With Bowie the vision has always gone hand in hand with the sound.
Anyhow, the sound Saturday night was louder than the beating of a thousand hearts. It must be a strange place for Bowie to be right now – giddy with the excitement of casting off old characters, but also realizing he is singing these songs for the last time.
His projected face as he closed his set with “Heroes” said all that in the flicker of an eye.
He finished with a rocking blast of encores that segued his own “Jean Genie” with the Velvet Undergound’s “White Light, White Heat” and “Waiting for My Man” and Van Morrison’s “Gloria.”
“Station to Station,” introduced and capped off with simply wicked solos from Belew, was rock ‘n’ roll on its purest edge – so striking that it will forever remain the image I carry of Bowie in my mind.
In the past year or so the Who got back together to rehash their past, the Stones patched it up and followed suit, McCartney dragged out the Beatles catalog … Saturday night Bowie took his past in his hands and gloriously threw it all away while we watched.
Those other tours were history shaking with age, Saturday’s was history shaking with life. It was simply one of the greatest spectacles I have ever witnessed.
Thank you David.
We’ll be with you as you “turn and face the strange.”
Stay in touch.
David Bowie Tour band 1990 – Sound+Vision Tour
Bowie specifically chose a smaller band for the tour, saying in a contemporary interview that “It’s a much smaller sound. It’s not quite as orchestrated as any of the other tours. The plus of that is that there is a certain kind of drive and tightness that you get with that embryonic line-up, where everybody is totally reliant on the other two or three guys, so everybody gives a lot more”
• David Bowie – vocals, guitar, saxophone
• Adrian Belew – guitar, backing vocals, music director
• Erdal Kızılçay – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Rick Fox – keyboards, backing vocals
• Michael Hodges – drums
Tuesday, July 3, 1990
Sunday, July 1, 1990
Saturday, June 30, 1990
Saturday, June 16, 1990
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