(TV) Verlaine on Bowie's "Kingdom Come" - new information?

["Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

MOJO has an all-David Bowie special issue right now (with a
contribution from our own Cliff McLenehan!). One of the articles
is about the recording of SCARY MONSTERS, on which Verlaine's
"Kingdom Come" appears.

Interestingly, the article states that Bowie had originally
hired Adrian Belew to play all of the lead guitar parts on SCARY
MONSTER, but after paying him, Bowie never called him to show up
for the sessions (Belew had played on Bowie's previous LP and
tour). Instead, according to Belew, Bowie first tried to use Tom
Verlaine to play *all* lead guitar parts - not just on "Kingdom
Come", as I had previously thought. 

In other words, Verlaine could have been the guitarist on "Ashes
to Ashes" and "Fashion".

(Bowie ultimately wound-up with Chuck Hammer on lead guitar,
with Robert Fripp appearing on a few tracks as well).

For more information on this topic (and why Verlaine didn't
end-up playing on any of SCARY MONSTERS), see: 
http://www.obbard.com/tvlist-archive/0005/msg00085.html

The MOJO issue is quite good, and that's coming from someone who
has read an awful lot of Bowie-related material. The only major
oversight is that the omit what is *by far* the best book ever
written on Bowie's music from their list of "Essential Bowie
books":
http://www.algonet.se/~bassman/books/ilr.html

--Phil


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