| Quotes from US critics of David's Earthling Tour Last night at the Supper Club, BOWIE treated a few hundred fans, lucky enough to snag tickets for this intimate concert, to nearly two hours of music that saw him play plenty of old songs, and some young ones from this year's album release, "Earthling"....Of the new material, the man's version of "I'm Afraid of Americans" was clearly the evening's showstopper. In that number, the jungle beat was thick and mesmerizing as BOWIE leaned into the crowd... - THE NEW YORK POST Dan Aquilante 10/14/97 "BOWIE is close to being a few steps ahead of his contemporaries (and progeny) once again. Further greatness lies just around the corner." THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER (CA) Ben Wener 9/15/97 "DAVID BOWIE'S sold-out performance Sunday night could be described in one word: unbelievable. But it was much more than that: It was intimate. It was electronic. It was colorful, psychedelic and alive. In short, it was quintessential BOWIE, the rocker who paved the way for so much of the superb showmanship that is today a part of live rock `n' roll." - ADDICTED TO NOISE J. Tayloe Emery 9/9/97 "His excellent two-hour set mixed beloved classics with more adventurous new songs." - SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS Brad Kava 9/10/97 "DAVID BOWIE is suddenly hip yet again...he proved during his eclectic two-hour, 22-song set, rock music has come full circle once more, and rediscovered BOWIE...Instead of meandering aimlessly through a predictable set of greatest hits, BOWIE instead built historical bridges that united rock's past and future...Forget that 'rock's elder statesman' stuff. By the time BOWIE concluded by leading a sing-along coda to 'All The Young Dudes,' it was apparent that musically, he fits in as much now as ever. Smiling, dancing and laughing the entire evening, BOWIE's clearly at his peak when he tries to please himself." - CONTRA COSTA TIMES (Walnut Creek, CA--outside San Francisco) Dave McCoy 9/11/97 "At 50, BOWIE rocks harder than guys half his age. He continues to stretch in all musical directions, effortlessly incorporating techno, dance and rock riffs into his music. A commanding presence onstage, BOWIE worked the crowd through a handful of numbers from his latest release, Earthling...The show's highlight was a powerful version of the BOWIE-Queen collaboration `Under Pressure,' which nearly stopped the show." - HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Marc Pollack 9/12-14/97 BOWIE's concert Tuesday night at the Warfield is right up there with the top shows of the year. The chameleon can rock. BOWIE could sell out much larger venues such as the Shoreline Amphitheatre without a moment's notice. Seeing him at the Warfield, with its 3,300-person capacity, may be a once-in-a-lifetime treat. - SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER Craig Marine 9/11/97 "He kicked it into high gear with an opening fusillade of old favorites--'Quicksand,' the Velvet Underground's `Waiting For The Man,' `Jean Genie,' `Panic In Detroit'--but he then reversed direction and built the heart of the set around his newest music. That's something that few of his contemporaries are willing to do during a summer touring season increasingly given over to nostalgia...His artistic reinvigoration was reflected in the performance, whose sonic force, richness and dynamism captured the complexity and inventiveness of the new material--which brings Bowie's preoccupation's with technology, alienation and spiritual fragmentation to bear on `90s culture--and enlarged it to a grand scale." - LOS ANGELES TIMES Richard Cromelin 9/12/97 DAVID BOWIE, science-fiction fan, transported himself into an alternate reality on Monday night at the Supper Club, emerging as the leader of a dance band at the edge of time. Pop's master of artifice pulled a grand illusion by mixing his classics with material from his...new album 'Earthling' and refusing to make the slightest distinctions....Though rambunctious reworkings of older songs prevailed, several highlights were newer, including "Little Wonder," from "Earthling," which stood up next to the innovations that once made Mr. BOWIE the first electronically charged rock star. -THE NEW YORK TIMES Ann Powers 10/15/97
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