David Bowie - Heroes (Paris, 2002l

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. Excellent Version

This song is in my top 3 David tunes.
Was that Earl Slick to David's left? I looked at the YouTube description but there was nothing there about the players.

[highplainsdem]

2. Yes, that's Earl Slick. Just found a 2004 interview he did for Vintage Guitar that you might enjoy:

https://www.vintageguitar.com/34728/earl-slick-2/

This is my favorite Bowie song, and my favorite performance of it. David's enjoying himself so much, so beautifully relaxed, and the vocal is perfect.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Good Article

BTW: I've got that exact Dan Armstrong guitar he's got on the article's picture!

[highplainsdem]

4. How cool, that you have the same guitar! I thought you'd find the info on gear interesting, but didn't

realize you'd see a guitar matching one of yours, especially when they only show six of his guitars. Do you know of any other famous guitarists who play that Dan Armstrong guitar?

[ProfessorGAC]

5. A Few, Yes

Rick Derringer used one, Joe Walsh, Mike Campbell from the Heartbreakers, and a few others.
Geezer Butler from Sabbath used the bass version. Pretty sure there's a picture of him playing it on the inside jacket of their Vol 4 LP.
I have it set for high action for slide. The pickups can be swapped in and out in a few seconds. I only have the standard humbucker & single coil options, but the high action requires the humbucker as there is no way to adjust the distance between the strings and the pickup.
I play it very little. It's more a low cost collector's item at this point.