"Blue, blue, electric blue
That's the colour of my room
Where I will live
Blue, blue"
But it's "Waiting FOR the gift of sound and vision". :)
Thanks to @Mags_in_London for the photos.
Robert played a blue Schecter guitar with these Bowie lyrics on it, early in the set tonight. It might have been during A Night Like This? Reason for it tonight? MSG was the venue for the Bowie 50th Birthday Concert.
If anyone has photos, please let me know.
A couple of videos of Robert playing it on 'A Night Like This' here & here.
Purple for Prince
ReplyDeleteBlue for Bowie
Black for BLemmy?
Yes it is "waiting for the gift of sound and vision"
ReplyDelete.. of another possible charity (DON'T BREAK THIS ONE ! ',-7 )trust auction great prospector that Robert sure is
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ReplyDelete'Low' influenced Robert to write 'Seventeen Seconds'. Both albums have had a major impact on music and have inspired loads of bands. 'Sound+Vision' would be a great song for The Cure to cover!
ReplyDeleteThe blue guitar is incredibly endearing...especially given that RS and Bowie were good friends. The purple guitar in honor of Prince was a nice gesture, but this seems to hit home on a more personal level. Maybe both guitars could be auctioned off together? In the photo it looks more like teal than blue. Side note: Purple and teal are a great color combo...and related to each other on the color wheel. Maybe next time a red guitar could be used to pay homage to another musical legend? (Red plus blue = purple). Then all three could be auctioned together!
ReplyDeleteForgot to ask...was there also a blue cable (Reeves) or a blue tambourine (Jason)?
DeleteYeah someone messed up. The lyrics are wrong. Its the thought that counts though.
ReplyDeleteWhoops. I wonder if Smith messed up the lyrics or if it was Schecter? Probably the latter.
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