For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: David Bowie and Stevie Ray and the Tour That Wasn't

• Stevie played the solo and fills for "China Girl", but the opening riff was played by Nile Rogers. Stevie would have been paid scale to go on tour with Bowie which he wasn't willing to do since he had a record in the can that was getting a lot of buzz.

• Cheesy part of the mess were the music videos subsequently released. Stevie didn't appear so Bowie was shown playing the fake lead guitar on China Girl. Disgustingly arrogant.

• pretty sick rehearsals. I love hearing the material from the Berlin trilogy as well as Scary Monsters. Stevie puts a pretty nice spin on some stuff that was already pleasantly weird and original to begin with. the horns sound a bit cheesy and dated sometimes but thats cool. Breaking Glass and What in the World are the highlights for me so far. I've only made it through Vol. 1 though.

• I haven't listened yet, but i'm looking forward to it. I remember when SRV decided to leave Bowie to pursue his solo career, there was actually quite a bit of controversy because people, at least in the music magazines of the time, viewed it as arrogant and Vaughn turning his back on the guy who had put his name on the map. I was fortunate enough to meet Vaughn once and even though it was at a time when he was still drinking, he couldn't have been nicer. Anyway, thanks for the link Robert, this should be some good stuff.

• thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU! for this one Robert. Amazing hearing these versions...

• @Cujo - (comment retracted) On second thought, your post speaks for itself. No need to state the obvious.

• I can't believe there's not a lossless copy around. At least warn people it's in lossy format.

• Big SRV fan and of all the albums Lets Dance still holds up, the style of play is unique and that China Girl intro is timeless. So cool to hear there's more stuff out there!

• You don't need a rapidshare account, just click free user and wait, they make you wait 15 minutes after downloading an item to go onto the next one as well.

• Yeah, Stevie did the Texan thang and fliped off the "man", in this case Bowie. But there is another side to the story. Stevie was on the verge of being fired because of his love for cocaine at the time and the fact that his wife was being a major bitch. She was causing all types of problems and so was the blow. The reality is that his days were numbered in the band. But Stevie did clean up later on and stayed that way to the end. To me that's a lot cooler then telling Bowie to "F" off two days before getting canned.

• True story: The word was out among us Bowie nuts that he was rehearsing at Las Calinas for the tour. I believe some time in early March a Stevie Ray Vaughan show was announced at I believe Cardi's, but it might have been the Bijou. In the write up it said, "with Very special guest." I convinced my friends that this was a warm up for the tour and that Bowie was the special guest. We all bought tickets. Days before the show, the news broke that Stevie wasn't going on the road with Bowie, and within a couple of days the show was canceled. Would have been cool.

• RW, not to be picky, but can I open/listen to these files without opening a RapidShare account? Would love to hear it...

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