| Submitted by: Aki (aki@lodger.com) DISPATCH FROM AN ECSTATIC WOMAN IN A MEXICO CITY INTERNET CAFE OCT 24 1997 I had a rare chance to fly for free down to Mexico to see this show --advertised as "UN CONCIERTO TAN ECLECTICO COMO BOWIE MISMO"-- and it was completely worth the enormous effort! I flew into Mexico at 1:00 pm, met my friend Carlos, bought some flowers and picked up the tickets at the Stadium at 5:00 pm. Unfortunately, we couldn't get the really good seats and got stuck in the red zone (If you think American Ticketmaster is bad...) but we worked our way up to some nice seats right in front of the big screen to the left with a decent view of the stage. The security guards wouldn't let me pass with the flowers... A woman with a stunning Bowie doll dressed in the Union Jack outfit also had to leave it there (more on the doll later). There were two opening bands; Control Machete (a Mexican hip-hop band) played for a half-decent thirty minutes. A Mexican friend summed them up dismissively as "The Third-World Cypress Hill." Erasure played for an hour, during which I suffered all the torments of hell. They made me very sad. Then Bowie came on... He was dressed in a green shirt with gold bordering. Reeves had a kilt, and Gail Ann had this absolutely fantastic devil-horse outfit with horns and a tail. The editing of the images on the big screens was magnificent, I never thought I could enjoy a big stadium show so much... Bowie is the only performer I would ever enter a stadium for. I was going crazy! I had the luck of standing next to some fellow die-hard Bowie fans... Jorge and his friends. We were screaming and leaping around on top of our seats, with Jorge occasionally yelling "estas cabron, David!" (loose translation: "you're a bad motherfucker, David!") Bowie at one point mentioned that he'd had a wonderful time the last four days in Mexico. Then Jorge got so spastic during "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" that he broke his chair and fell right through to the floor! I don't want to complain about some of the large audience (more than 50,000 people, I believe) who just wanted to hear the stuff that he stopped playing on the Sound and Vision tour, so I'll just leave it at that. I'll say that my friend Carlos, who didn't know that much Bowie, really dug the concert. His favorite songs were "Little Wonder," "Hallo Spaceboy" and "The Man Who Sold The World." During "Little Wonder," the Bowie doll appeared on stage, and he danced and sang with it! "Waiting for the Man" was fantastic. "Moonage Daydream" and "O Superman" were other supernatural highlights. He played 24 songs and closed out with "All The Young Dudes," which totally kicked ass. I'm scraping the bottom of my bag of superlatives, so I need to close it out myself. Anyway, after seeing Bowie in Atlanta but missing the Ft. Lauderdale and DC shows, I just felt that going to Mexico was something I had to do, and although a lot of my friends think I'm crazy it was definitely worth it, even though I have to leave tomorrow. I also got to hang out with my friends and eat homemade huitlacoche tacos. Chilangos rule!
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