This is the best version ever of this song because Last Exit To Brooklyn was set in New York an Lou is closer into that which gives this version more energy
"that thing" (as you call her) is Gail Ann Dorsey. She is one of the best touring bass players who has worked with lots of huge acts. Nothing too flash .. she can riff out but she is tight in the pocket. She can also sing. I saw Bowie in France a few years ago from the side of the stage and she was ripping it up! Respect!
I love when bowie, despite the fact it was his own audience, in the matter of deffending his all time friend and master lou said them "KING OF NEW YORK HIMSELF, MISTER LOU REED"
GREAT collaboration of Bowie's pure enchantment and Lou Reed's sheer power -- but I always wondered, whatever is this "bibberty-bobberty hat" of which The Gentleman sings? What sort of hat would that be?
This was Bowie's 50th Birthday Celebration! Now its January 8th 2009! (uh oh!) Thinking about the chorus for a minute...I know what Satin is, I can probably figure out what a frock coat is....what is "tat?"
yeah, I know it is done in a VU style, but I don't think Bowie ever has said it was written about Lou. I've never actually heard anyone else say they thought Lou was the guy he is singing about. I've always thought he could be, I was just wondering if anyone else had had that thought.
Originally this song was done with only Bowie on 12-string acoustic guitar and Mick Ronson on electric guitar. I see there is some dude here playing the electric part which makes me wonder what the hell is Lou Reed is playing? LOL.. is it even audible?
Lou Reed, a former heroin user, looks great. Cheek Marin won a knowledge contest on TV's Jeopardy. Hugh Hefner, not an advocate of temperance, looks great at 84 and his 24-year-old wife looks even better! Mick Jagger can still wow stadium sized audiences in his mid-Sixties. Maybe we should just say yes. Maybe Oscar Wilde was correct. "The best way to resist temtation is to yield to it, After all, it's not temtation at all but oportunity."
@rakuencallisto That's cool, if your ear thinks it sounds the same then that's good...enjoy. But as a guitar player of many years, I can assure you that it doesn't sound like the record. I think I gave my reasons in my previous comment. Read the other comments on here slagging it off...it's not just me.
I agree with you... never rated Reeves Gabrel, thought he just made a load of screeching noise. To think he played with Bowie for so many years.... just shows how lazy Bowie can be. Ronson RIP.
Too bad Lou couldn't bother to memorize one freakin' verse! I thought he wouldn't sing at all, and then he's got to sneak peaks at the music stand! Should have followed it up with "Vicious."
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guauuuuuu que espectacular bowie y lou reed primera vez que veo esto, es emocionante este estio de cancion, que hermoso ritmo .....BOWIE FOREVER.
Two great musicians playing a great song. Fantastic.
Oh my god!!! I love this video! Bowie and lou reed!!! They are gods!!!
wow I think seeing them both in the same video was so awesome it sent chills down my spine. very amazing.
David Bowie is so bad ass!! This song is awesome!!
RIP Lou Reed and David Bowie
I love bowie since 1972.
I love Lou and Dave These guys are legends
My favorite Bowie song.
Davids 60th birthday ... nice to see the 2 boys get back together and rockit !!
two legends together!!!!!!!
Reunited! what a shame, why can't the greatest live forever.
I think thats the first time Ive ever seen Lou Reed smile on stage : )
Great to see and a great version too!
=) :D B)
DB rocks!Love to see him and Lou and the band performing this great song and having so much fun together
This is the best version ever of this song because Last Exit To Brooklyn was set in New York an Lou is closer into that which gives this version more energy
ah yes, vhs, takes me back
Heaven is a rocking!
i have a bippity bobbity hat! holy shit this is great. never knew they ever performed together. good stuff, thanks youtube
"that thing" (as you call her) is Gail Ann Dorsey. She is one of the best touring bass players who has worked with lots of huge acts. Nothing too flash .. she can riff out but she is tight in the pocket. She can also sing. I saw Bowie in France a few years ago from the side of the stage and she was ripping it up! Respect!
Reed is an ornery guy!!! Gotta love him!
amazingggggggg
Love it
I love how Lou Reed's verse sounded like it could have been a VU or a Lou Reed song. That's nice.
R.I. P. Mr. Reed.
Next to Cher, I can't imagine anyone else who hadn't aged in ~30 years like David Bowie.
great!°
Fabulous! Never saw this viddy before... thanks to Syd8965 for the share.
R.I.P Lou
this is when Bowie was in his bad-ass-Nine-Inch-Nails phase. One of my favorite eras.
it was Bowie's 50th birthday...it was Bowie's party!!
I love when bowie, despite the fact it was his own audience, in the matter of deffending his all time friend and master lou said them "KING OF NEW YORK HIMSELF, MISTER LOU REED"
Bowie was a genius songwriter. Too bad it had to end.
YEAAA
Last Exit to Brooklyn The Smiths Albun The Queen Is Dead is the title of one of the chapters also
Great version with 2 greats.
This version is called "Quiet Bitch".
@IanRoantree Lou Reed doesn't get pissed off because he just flat out don't give a fuck. He's just THAT cool.
GREAT collaboration of Bowie's pure enchantment and Lou Reed's sheer power -- but I always wondered, whatever is this "bibberty-bobberty hat" of which The Gentleman sings? What sort of hat would that be?
I am FREAKED! is it me? my audio is way low! I completly want to hear this! If nobody else has a problem, please let me know? thank you
gods
...if only i was there
R I p Lou
"there is a god, two in fact!"
totally agree
This was Bowie's 50th Birthday Celebration!
Now its January 8th 2009! (uh oh!)
Thinking about the chorus for a minute...I know what Satin is, I can probably figure out what a frock coat is....what is "tat?"
yeah, I know it is done in a VU style, but I don't think Bowie ever has said it was written about Lou. I've never actually heard anyone else say they thought Lou was the guy he is singing about. I've always thought he could be, I was just wondering if anyone else had had that thought.
Anyone else ever had the feel Lou is the "him" in this song?
Originally this song was done with only Bowie on 12-string acoustic guitar and Mick Ronson on electric guitar. I see there is some dude here playing the electric part which makes me wonder what the hell is Lou Reed is playing? LOL.. is it even audible?
Alright, that means we can both perve ;)
My my Mr.Reed... what a mighty tight shirt you have on there. A lil' Queer dontchayathink?
lol i love you too
@dave17186
It's reeves indeed... You can see him at 1'30 :)
What is the name of the DVD this is off of?
Lou Reed, a former heroin user, looks great. Cheek Marin won a knowledge contest on TV's Jeopardy. Hugh Hefner, not an advocate of temperance, looks great at 84 and his 24-year-old wife looks even better! Mick Jagger can still wow stadium sized audiences in his mid-Sixties. Maybe we should just say yes. Maybe Oscar Wilde was correct. "The best way to resist temtation is to yield to it, After all, it's not temtation at all but oportunity."
why you dont put the sound on ? uh
I was thinking this song referenced Georgette from Last Exit To Brooklyn ?
@annodlund IT"S HIS BIRTHDAY
being on stage with King Bowie is a bit daunting, dont ya think, even if you are Lou Reed
@Billcruxley Can you get me some of the good stuff?
why was this spammed?
i want a video tombstone lol
ZOMG I've gone deaf!!! Wait... uh... what happened to the audio?
HAHA Bowie starts cracking up when Reed begins to sing....
That's funny! We Americans sometimes forget how different we are from the Brits
there is a god, two in fact!
Why the boos at the start, and why the disrespectful look by Reed at the other guitarist?
you bloody lou reed fans take yourselves far too seriously. reality check-he made Metal Machine Music after all.
david bowie is so funny. did you see the face he made at the beginning?
@IanRoantree hes just always pissd now cuz hes sober
Bowie was very generous ... Loo Reed had no voice to accompany Bowie ... he had to adapt this duet ... very nice of him
@DickAllen4HOF
Hahaha, well-played.
LOL! Can't win can I?
what's up woth the audio? nice vid, otherwise.
You need a tubebender for that song
i got the same shit
WHITE Hot!!! Royalty!!
I know its clearly inspired by the velvets, but has Bowie ever actually said its about lou?
ask bruce if he is a lou fan...ill bet he is...
lou reed has the best jew fro ever
His voice always sounds raspy. he's sixty-somethen
Amazing Lou Reed looks like a middle aged man with a back problem. Bowie on the other hand, this could be him in 1972!!
He's LOU f'ing Reed. Who cares what he looks like?
Hes had orange hair a lot of his career hahaha
check the sound on my version~great vid!
@rakuencallisto
That's cool, if your ear thinks it sounds the same then that's good...enjoy. But as a guitar player of many years, I can assure you that it doesn't sound like the record. I think I gave my reasons in my previous comment. Read the other comments on here slagging it off...it's not just me.
sound is shit on this ??
tat is an old word for lace (try a dictionary) Satin and tat = satin and lace. Simple really.
I agree with you... never rated Reeves Gabrel, thought he just made a load of screeching noise. To think he played with Bowie for so many years.... just shows how lazy Bowie can be. Ronson RIP.
Bowie and Reed were just different people. Lou drank and shot heroin for many years. Maybe he was sober this night.
Lou Reed always looks pissed off.
not exactly, I'm a girl :P
middle earth hobbit!
Too bad Lou couldn't bother to memorize one freakin' verse! I thought he wouldn't sing at all, and then he's got to sneak peaks at the music stand! Should have followed it up with "Vicious."
Doesn't Bowie look quite ambitious compared to Lou Reed who looks quite shy
not the same without mick trev and woody good but just dunt sound the same
wow - if looks could kill Bowie would be dead. He's prob thinking all those years ago...well who would have known..lol
I know what you mean. The lead player went way overboard with the OD...much too muddy for the 70's classic rock sound.
Apparently nothing, being that I am gay.
Two legends on stage, but Andy Warhol was right: Lou Reed is too boring on the microphone.
Lou Reed was completly in another place, he was awfull. Case to say: "ohh god, I could better than that"
David Bowie is a verrrry attractice man, but his "orange hair period" is my least favourite look on him.
reality check - you sound like my 10-year-old girl - "oooo, he's ugly". He made a lot of good albums too. And Bowie made some hideous ones.
My favorite line is "the aspect ratio is all wrong"