Billion dollar baby....

A busy day today...

Couldn't sleep - got up at 4:30 am and listened to Brad Mehldau's "Day Is Done" which arrived yesterday from e-bay while I was out karaoking and a-drinkin'...

Back to bed at 5:30 and didn't waken again till 8:30am...

Breakfast at Patisserie Florentin...

Back home to copy a CD for Dr Prog...

By this time the postie had arrived and delivered:-
The anti-pop device for the microphone
The Enchant CD "Tug of War"
The Addison Project CD "Mood Swings"

Back into town to the Record Fair to meet with Dr Prog...

Bought David Bowie's 2003 CD "Reality" which I already have with extra tracks - but this version contains a bonus DVD of the concert DB beamed to various cinemas around the world back on the day of the album's release. Anne and I attended and coincidentally ended up sitting right alongside Mr & Mrs Norman Lamont that night - Dr Prog was also in attendance...

Another DVD to watch with sister Pam. She, Anne and I are all big Bowie fans...

Back home and listening to Enchant and David Bowie...

Tonight I'm off to see Alice Cooper at the Glasgow SECC with my old chum Grant and his wife Heather. Anne's decided she's seen the Coop enough - this will be my twelfth Coopergig. I waited ten years from 1972 to 1982 to see him first...

It's always a great show...

I visit Grant and Heather's new house for the first time - we work out that this is actually the first time I've seen Grant since the last Coopergig we were at, coincidentally also at the SECC, and almost exactly three years ago, in November 2002 - hard to believe but we have been in touch via e-mail though...

They have three gorgeous husky dogs, Neo, Meadow and Logan- they are like big cats or silent wolves. They make no sounds at all...

We arrive at the concert at seven and at 7:30 Twisted Sister take to the stage. I wasn't that interested at first but their showmanship eventually won me over and I ended up enjoying it. Their singer, Dee Snyder, certainly knows how to work a huge hall...

Then it was time for the Coop...

He rattled through a variety of hits and tracks from his last couple of albums before any real theatrics were introduced. Of course he had to be killed (by guillotine) and resurrected to sing "School's Out"...

Then three encores later and he was gone...

The band, two guitars, bass and drums rocked and it was incredibly LOUD....

(I realise this is a rubbish review but you had to be there - snakes, money, blood, diamonds, huge balloons bouncing out over the audience, stabbings, throat ripping, straight jackets, swords, knives, evil, illusions, death and resurrection - and great, great songs!!)

Here's the set list:-

Department Of Youth
No More Mr Nice Guy
Dirty Diamonds
Billion Dollar Babies
Be My Lover
Lost In America
I Never Cry
Woman Of Mass Distraction
Eighteen
Between High School and Old School
Sunset Babies
Is It My Body
Go To Hell
Black Widow
Gimme
Feed My Frankenstein
Welcome To My Nightmare
The Awakening
Steven
Only Women Bleed
Ballad Of Dwight Fry
Killer
I Love The Dead
School's Out

Encores
Poison
Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills
Under My Wheels

Brilliant!! There's no one to touch him for spectacle and catchy rockin' tunes...

Back home just after midnight and stayed up with Anne watching Cameron Crowe's film "Almost Famous" which we saw in the cinema on its release....

A busy day today...