“It’s Hartford’s filthy lesson” *
“How do you commit commercial suicide? Well, you do this: play songs from an album that hasn't been released yet, and complement it with obscure songs from the past that you've never done on stage.”
Thus spoke David Bowie to USA Today on the opening day of The Outside World Tour, hot on the heels of the release of The Hearts Filthy Lesson single and ahead of the release of the 1. Outside album.
Opening on 14th September 1995 at Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford, Connecticut, the ‘support’ act during the US leg of the tour was Nine Inch Nails, who segued their set with Bowie's to form a continuous show, with the crossover section performed by both artists and including three Bowie songs and two of NIN’s: Subterraneans, Scary Monsters, Reptile, Hallo Spaceboy and Hurt.
Bowie’s band comprised the following: David Bowie (vocals/saxophone), Peter Schwartz (keyboards), Reeves Gabrels (lead guitar), Gail Ann Dorsey (bass/vocals), Carlos Alomar (guitar), Zachary Alford (drums), Mike Garson (keyboards) and George Simms (backing vocals/keyboards).
As you know, Parlophone released a live recording from this first US leg of the tour: David Bowie Ouvre le Chien (Live Dallas 95) on 3rd July this year.
Were you at this opening show? If you were, please feel free to contribute your memories to the David Bowie Memory Map.
The image on the left in our montage is from Sam Beyer’s remarkable The Hearts Filthy Lesson video, while the photograph on the right was taken by Mark Allan at rehearsals in Hartford on this very day in 1995.
* Today's lyric quotation is a play on a lyric from The Hearts Filthy Lesson
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