Station to Station - David Bowie - Isolar tour 1976

The Station to Station Concert was beyond incredible. I was 16. Never seen anything so spectacular. The way he moved, his voice, his clothes, the connection he had with his band & the audience, his other worldly energy. I remember it like it was yesterday. I’m 60. I’m so grateful to have been alive at the same time as David Bowie. ❤️

Crazy what you can do while surviving on coke, milk, and red peppers

It could even be the official Station to Station video.

This song is an obvious masterpiece, but this video is also an artistic gem!

I was 23 and my cousin and friends we knew loved Ziggy Stardusr and the closest he was gonna tour to Louisville kentucky was Evansville indiana. So we bought our tickets and road tripped it to Evansville. We had seen seen the Ziggy Stardust Tour but when Bowie came out dressed in all white we knew this would be a nite to remember! He did the entire Station to Station Album and listening to those professional musicians was unforgettable. Belew on lead guitar and Alomar playing 2nd lead or rythym was awesome! The roadies wearing white suits and slicked back full makeup was a show in itself. I bought Station to Station the next day when i got back home. 6 songs on the Album. One of my top 5 Bowie Albums of All Time!

Damn, he was gorgeous! I loved that face so much I used to sit around drawing pictures of him when I was a kid lol.

Station to Station was created during the heavy coke years, The Thin White Duke was something to behold, no one holds a flame to David. Aaahhh David, we miss you RIP

for me Bowies best ever, listened to it regularly for about 40 years Never get boring <3

素晴らしいビデオに感謝します❤ station to stationは初めて買ったボウイのレコードです。 このビデオの車窓から見える景色は日本のようですがこれはボウイが見た景色なのでしょうな？ 日本を愛したボウイは日本での列車の旅をとても楽しんだのだろうと思うと嬉しいです💕

Best tribute of the Thin White Duke EVER!!!

The man is genius. We were so lucky to have him for the short time we did.

Every day I'm here on Youtube to listen to this masterpiece several times. These are some of the best spent minutes of my life. This song drives me to work, it motivates me. Thanks Bowie for everything

I was born in 1965. I grew up in a small town in Vermont. The closest I ever got to David Bowie in 1975 was when he came on The Cher Show. My first tour was Serious Moonlight. It wasn't fair. I wasn't fair. I didn't want to be at Serious Moonlight. I wanted to be at the Diamond Dogs tour, I wanted to be at Isolar, I wanted to see him in '77, '78 and '79. I should have been able to see him perform as Joseph/John Merrick on Broadway in The Elephant Man between July 1980 - January 1981. I missed everything. It missed it all. And even though I didn't know very much when I was 16 in '81, I knew enough to know I should have been born in 1957, or at least 1959. But at least there is this phenomenal documentary of Bowie's time as John Merrick https://youtu.be/F1fTtwGqdQw And at least there are so many precious videos of him between 1979 - 1980. But it's just not fair. I. should. have. been. there.

Thank God, I saw this tour at Madison Square Garden (NYC) in 76! Once in a lifetime, amazing experience!

"Drive like a demon from station to station" You're feeling more fabulous now that you watched this video...and David Bowie changed your life again

"I could fake it pretty good in rock 'n roll." Damn. He didn't realize just how uniquely brilliant he was, or just super humble?

David. So--Fucking--Beautiful. PASSIONATE & Intensely-original. That sums him up right there. He lived his Life full blast & with purpose. A TRUE Artist.

Hes fuckin attractive

This is the title track to David Bowie's 10th studio album. It is notable as the vehicle for Bowie's last great "character," The Thin White Duke, a well-dressed, cocaine-addled tortured soul with an interest in the occult. "Station to Station" is the only Bowie song that names the character ("The return of the Thin White Duke") - he would abandon the persona after the album. During the sessions for Station To Station, Bowie was heavily dependent on drugs, especially cocaine, and recalls almost nothing of the production. He once joked, "I know it was recorded in LA because I read it was." The only memory Bowie has of making the album is of ordering lead guitarist Earl Slick to play and repeat a Chuck Berry riff over the opening bars of this track. "I have only flashes of making it," a saner Bowie said much later. "I have serious problems about that year or two. I can't remember how I felt; I have no emotional geography." The song is in four movements and the lyrics reflect Bowie's preoccupations with the influential occultist Aleister Crowley, Hermetic Qabalah and Gnosticism. The title is a reference to the Stations of the Cross, a series of 14 images depicting the crucifixion of Jesus. The Station to Station era was a musically fertile time for Bowie, but he was battling demons in a rather literal sense, which is reflected in this song. The journalist Cameron Crowe claimed to have found evidence of black magic rituals when he interviewed Bowie, and Bowie says that when he was living in Berlin at this time, he saw objects move around rooms on their own. This song has some overt references to mysticism ("Kether" and "Malkuth" are found on the Kabbalah Tree of Life), and many lines that can be interpreted that way. For example, "Here am I, flashing no color" could represent the flashing complimentary colors in the Tattva belief that lead to a higher level of consciousness. Since Bowie can't recall writing the song, a variety of influences could be at play here. What force compelled the lyrics is the big mystery. The Station To Station album was recorded after Bowie completed shooting Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell To Earth, and the cover features a still from the movie. The line, "Making sure white stains" is a reference to Aleister Crowley's first book, White Stains. This is Bowie's longest studio recording, clocking in at 10 minutes and 11 seconds. For a full minute, sampled locomotives clatter from speaker to speaker and the coke-deranged singer makes his entrance at 3:17. Fall Out Boy paraphrased the lyric, "It's not the side effects of the cocaine, I'm thinking that it must be love," for a song title on their 2004 EP, My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue. (https://www.songfacts.com/)

Serious editing skills...this video is totally amazing