デヴィッド・ボウイさんのインスタグラム写真 - (デヴィッド・ボウイInstagram)「BOWIE ON THE TONIGHT SHOW 40 YEARS AGO THIS EVENING “I never did anything out of the blue…” 40 years ago this very evening, David Bowie’s brilliant performance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson at NBC Studios, Burbank, was broadcast. Bowie performed Life On Mars? and Ashes To Ashes with a one-off band. In the absence of Dennis Davis and George Murray, Carlos Alomar cobbled a band of young musicians together in New York, which comprised the following: Vocals = David Bowie - Guitar & Keyboards = Carlos Alomar - Guitar = George Edward (G.E.) Smith - Bass = John Kumnick - Drums = Steve Goulding - Keyboards = Gordon Grody The Tonight Show performance was Bowie’s only ‘live’ appearance in 1980, and the only time Scary Monsters material was performed in the year the album was released. Waiting for the Carson taping to begin, David chatted with fans and signed a few autographs for some of the lucky attendees. Carson introduced Bowie with a plug for the new album and his upcoming New York run in The Elephant Man. Over the loud cheering, a bemused Carson quipped: “He'd better be good after this!”. Our montage shows images from the performance on The Tonight Show and the top mono shot is from the soundcheck. Bowie looked magnificent in an obvious tribute to James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause. The performance no doubt helped fuel rumours of a Scary Monsters Tour which appeared as the cover story of the 20th of September 1980 edition of Musicians Only magazine in the UK, proclaiming a “BOWIE ‘MONSTER’ TOUR” scheduled for March through May, 1981. The news item also mentioned that Fashion had been performed on the show, but no other evidence of that has come to light. It seems the Scary Monsters Tour may have been something Bowie was seriously considering, as he also mentioned the possibility in a transatlantic call to Radio One following the success of Ashes To Ashes. In what may have been a bit of mischief making, he also posited the notion of using The Spiders From Mars as his band for the shows! It’s kind of hard imagining The Spiders’ renditions of Ashes to Ashes, Fashion and Teenage Wildlife. #Bowie1980 #BowieAshesToAshes #BowieScaryMonsters」9月6日 7時36分