David Bowie - Let's Dance

This is a music video for the title track of Bowie's album "Let's Dance" released in 1983, and digitally re-mastered in 1999.
This is a great album by Bowie, it experiments with many different genres of music, it has a lot of funk influences, but also draws on more traditional rock and blues, and of course also the pop sound of the times.
The album is also famous for helping blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan getting discovered. Bowie had heard Stevie's 1982 Montreux performance, and was impressed. They met up backstage and chatted, and it turned out they were in to some of the same weird things musically. Bowie admired Stevies sound, and hired him to play lead guitar on his next album which was "Let's Dance".
Stevie only plays lead guitar, the rhythm guitar on the album is Nile Rodgers. And Stevie's lead playing is very toned down, and not a huge part of the album, but still helps increase the sound and the experience.
The album cut of the song Let's Dance is 7:37, much shorter than what is used in the music video which I assume is also the radio edit of the song. They still left in all of Stevie's parts however which shows how much his lead playing helped the album.
Stevie was also offered a spot in David's live band that was going to tour for the album, but he turned it down, and went onto recording his first solo record with Double Trouble "Texas Flood", and got the massive career in the 80's.
It's a great song, and a pretty good looking music video for the times. Stevie isn't in the video, and Bowie pretends to play a Stratocaster looking guitar while wearing white gloves, perhaps a nod to Stevie and the fact that no one could play like him, who knows? Or maybe just David being odd.

Enjoy ; )

Hideaway & Rude Mood - Stevie Ray Vaughan

This is a performance from the concert Stevie played at Montreux in Switzerland in 1982. He performs a medley consisting of Hideaway and Rude Mood. He starts off with Freddie King's classic Hideaway, then gets into Rude Mood, a take off on the famous Lightnin' Hopkins song "Hopkin's Skyhop", and towards the end gets back into Hideaway.
It's a famous concert, because Stevie was booed heavily on stage, not so much during this performance which was early in  his set, but later. It's also famous because David Bowie spotted Stevie at the gig, and hired him for his classic song "Let's Dance".
Stevie was booed, but later reutrned in 1985 and rocked the house, guess they just couldn't handle Stevie at that point. It was a shame that he was booed off, and that audience clearly had no taste what so ever!!

Enjoy ; )