"with a seven-month tour called the ""It's My Life Tour"". All songs written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels except where noted. ""Hammerhead"", a short instrumental, is an unlisted track and an edit from the longer vocal version that was issued as the B-side for the single release of ""You Belong in Rock 'n' Roll"". Album Tin Machine II Tin Machine II is the second and final studio album by Anglo-American rock group Tin Machine, originally released by Victory Music in 1991. After this album and the supporting tour, Tin Machine dissolved as frontman David Bowie resumed his solo career."
"release, ""iSelect"" (2008). In support of this album, Bowie embarked on the Glass Spider Tour, a world tour that was at that point the biggest, most theatrical and most elaborate tour he had undertaken in his career. The tour, like the album it supported, was commercially successful but critically panned. The critical failure of the album and tour were factors that led Bowie to look for a new way to motivate himself creatively, leading him to create the band Tin Machine in 1989 and to retire his back catalogue from live performances following his 1990 Sound+Vision Tour. Bowie did not"
"Tin Machine Tour The Tin Machine Tour was a concert tour headlined by Anglo-American hard rock band Tin Machine. The tour commenced on 14 June 1989, following a performance of ""Heaven's in Here"" at the ""International Music Awards"" in New York City on 31 May 1989. It comprised 12 performances in six countries (USA, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom) in venues with a capacity of 2,000 or less. Joined onstage by Kevin Armstrong, Tin Machine performed the entirety of their eponymous debut album with the exception of ""Video Crime,"" augmented with cover version of songs from Bob Dylan and"
"the band's name ""reflects the sound of the band,"" and Bowie stated that he and his band members joined up ""to make the kind of music that we enjoyed listening to"" and to rejuvenate himself artistically. The band recorded two studio albums and one live album before dissolving in 1992, when Bowie returned to his solo career. By the end of 2012, they had sold two million albums. Bowie would later credit his time with Tin Machine as instrumental in revitalising his career in the 1990s. The album ""Never Let Me Down"" (1987) and subsequent Glass Spider Tour had left"
"Machine sounds as if it was made by people working together, not by a producer with a computer."" On November 23, 1991, Tin Machine appeared on ""Saturday Night Live"", which was hosted by then child actor Macaulay Culkin. Tin Machine recorded three albums and did two tours before it broke up in 1992. Bowie later stated that his memories of Tony and Hunt Sales' contribution to ""Lust for Life"" led him to invite them to join Tin Machine. Throughout the 1990s, Sales recorded and produced and was a member of the short-lived all-star band The Cheap Dates, which included actor"
"in low critical standing. Bowie decided to return to making music for himself, and, having been put in touch with Reeves Gabrels through his publicist for the Glass Spider Tour, Bowie formed his band Tin Machine in 1989 and retired his back catalogue of songs from live performance with his Sound+Vision Tour in 1990. Peter Frampton played two natural-finish maple body Pensa-Suhr Strat types, hand-made by New York-based John Suhr. For the song ""Zeroes"", he used a Coral electric sitar, given to him in the late 70s and previously owned by Jimi Hendrix. Carlos Alomar played on six Kramer American"
"Pretty Hate Machine Tour Series Pretty Hate Machine Tour Series was a series of concert tours in support of Nine Inch Nails' debut album ""Pretty Hate Machine"". The series took place over much of North America and Europe from 1989 to 1991. During this time, the band's line-up mainly consisted of Trent Reznor on vocals and guitars, Richard Patrick on back-up vocals and guitars, Chris Vrenna on drums, and a hired musician usually to play keyboards. The series consisted of eight tours, spanning Skinny Puppy's VIVIsectVI tour to a tour of Europe for the band. Serving as the opening band"
"stating ""I'm content. ... I'm deriving a great deal of fulfillment from working with Tin Machine"", and band-mate Gabrels agreed, saying ""we're doing exactly what we wanted to do."" During press performances for songs on the album, Gabrels played his guitar with a vibrator and for a performance on BBC's ""Top of the Pops"", who banned the use of the vibrator, he mimed playing his guitar with a chocolate éclair. From 5 October 1991 to 17 February 1992, the group undertook a larger tour, known as the It's My Life Tour. The band was joined on this tour by guitarist"
"UK tour. The Spiders were a 1960s garage rock band, featuring Vincent Furnier (later known as Alice Cooper) on lead vocals. They consisted of Furnier, Dennis Dunaway, Glen Buxton, John Tatum, John Speer and Michael Bruce. Formed by Furnier and Dunaway, both high school friends at Cortez High School in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1964, they would later evolve into the band Alice Cooper, which, in turn, Vincent Furnier would eventually take to be his stage name. In 1964, 16-year-old Furnier was eager to participate in the local annual Letterman's talent show, so he gathered four fellow cross-country teammates to form"
"Cosmic Tour The Cosmic Tour was an eight-month world tour by American rock band The B-52's, which took place from July 1989 until September 1990. This tour was the group's first after the death of their original guitarist, Ricky Wilson. Drummer Keith Strickland switched to guitar for the tour, with Zack Alford serving as the touring drummer. Sara Lee served as bassist and Pat Irwin as keyboardist and extra guitarist. This was also the first tour in which the group hired a backing band, meaning the group's members, especially Kate Pierson, had more opportunity to move around on stage, and"
"done."" In 1991, while preparing for his second tour with Tin Machine, Bowie reflected on the Glass Spider Tour's theatrics and presentation, suggesting that many tours and acts that followed benefited from this tour: In the late 2000s, the tour began to be re-examined by critics, and the tone of the coverage began to change. In 2009, an article in the BBC News singled out the Glass Spider Tour's innovative set and marriage of music and theatre as an inspiration to later acts, including Britney Spears, Madonna, U2 and others. Stage designer Willie Williams said the Glass Spider Tour was"
"to one of his favorite bands at the time, the Pixies, for inspiration. The Sales brothers heckled Bowie into greater spontaneity, with most songs recorded in one take, and lyrics left unpolished, thus giving the band a ragged, punk rock edge. In contemporary interviews, the band claimed their musical influences were Gene Krupa, Charlie Mingus, Jimi Hendrix, Glenn Branca, Mountain, Cream, and the Jeff Beck Group. The group chose the name Tin Machine after one of the songs they had written. Tony Sales joked that, as all four members were divorced when the band formed, originally the band was going"
"other artists performed concerts, including Britney Spears, Madonna, and U2. Bowie shelved his solo career in 1989, retreating to the relative anonymity of band membership for the first time since the early 1970s. A hard-rocking quartet, Tin Machine came into being after Bowie began to work experimentally with guitarist Reeves Gabrels. The line-up was completed by Tony and Hunt Sales, whom Bowie had known since the late 1970s for their contribution, on bass and drums respectively, to Iggy Pop's 1977 album ""Lust for Life"". Although he intended Tin Machine to operate as a democracy, Bowie dominated, both in songwriting and"
"It's My Life Tour The Tin Machine It's My Life Tour opened on 5 October 1991 after two warm-up shows, one press show and three trade-industry shows. The concert tour itinerary took in twelve countries and sixty-nine performances, a larger outing than the low-key Tin Machine Tour of 1989. The band purposefully booked intimate venues of a few thousand seats or less so that they could focus on the music without any theatrical trappings, a stark change from Bowie's previous Glass Spider and Sound+Vision tours. Bowie also wanted to avoid playing larger venues and arenas lest his fans show up"
"Ups"" (1973), ""Never Let Me Down"" (1987), the albums produced with the band Tin Machine (""Tin Machine"" (1989) and ""Tin Machine II"" (1991)) and ""Black Tie White Noise"" (1993). A notable inclusion on the tour were the tracks from ""The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"" (1972), usually performed as the final encores. ""Ziggy Stardust"" was nearly always the finale of each concert. The inclusion of tracks from ""Let's Dance"" (1983) and ""Tonight"" (1984) was also notable, considering a fan tendency to reject the albums as ""too commercial"", seeing the return of the singles ""Modern"
"artistic director for this tour. Bowie's previous Glass Spider Tour and two most recent albums (""Tonight"" (1984) and ""Never Let Me Down"" (1987)) had all been critically dismissed, and Bowie was looking for a way to rejuvenate himself artistically. To this end, Bowie wanted to avoid having to play his old hits live forever, and used the release of the Sound + Vision box set as the impetus for a tour, despite having no new material recorded. Bowie took a break from his band Tin Machine for ""Sound+Vision"", telling the band he was contractually obligated to do the tour. He"
"Gerard Corben Gerard ""Ged"" Corben was the lead guitarist of The Lime Spiders, between 1985 and 2016. The band released three studio albums.The band toured the USA, UK, Europe and widely through Australia. In 1987, he and his brother David ""d"" Corben (bass guitar) formed The Cruel Sea with Danny Rumour on guitar & Lucky Jim Elliott on drums. They both played with the band from its inception before Tex Perkins joined, ""d"" leaving in 1989. Ged stayed on until 1992, leaving to concentrate on The Lime Spiders. He appears on four studio tracks with the band on their first"
"tour ran over 2 hours with around 26 songs, the video release clocks in at under 2 hours and includes only about 20 songs. A 2007 Special Edition re-release includes a CD of the entire show as performed in Montreal, Canada on 30 August 1987, but does not change the video release. The tour and concert film were named after the track ""Glass Spider"" from the album. The film was released on VHS in 1988 by MPI Home Video in the US and Video Collection International in the UK. In some regions, it was released on two video cassettes of"
"Device. Anton Fig and Jim Lowell toured with Link Wray and appeared on his live album ""Live At The Paradiso"", recorded in 1979. Fig became a session drummer for several different bands throughout the rest of the 1980s, and later went on to play in Paul Shaffer's band on ""Late Night with David Letterman"". Spider (American band) Spider was an American rock band from New York that formed in 1977 and disbanded in 1984. They released two studio albums through Dreamland Records in the early 1980s, and scored a few moderate hit singles in the United States. Two songs from"
"gave their songs more accuracy to the studio versions in concert. Due to the band's growth in popularity at this time, the tour venues grew from theaters to large arenas and stadiums. This set list is from the show on August 17, 1990: This setlist of from the show on November 21, 1989: Cosmic Tour The Cosmic Tour was an eight-month world tour by American rock band The B-52's, which took place from July 1989 until September 1990. This tour was the group's first after the death of their original guitarist, Ricky Wilson. Drummer Keith Strickland switched to guitar for"
"Owen Wright and drummer Chris Gohde were involved in a band called Mistrust in 1984; this band also included former Culprit singer Jeff L’Heureux. They recorded one album called ""Spin the World"", which was released on CD in 2009 by Heart of Steel Records. This band did an extensive amount of touring before they broke up in 1988. Meanwhile, Nick Pollock played guitar in a glam metal band called Alice N' Chains, a precursor to Alice in Chains that also included Layne Staley on vocals. The band recorded two demos and toured throughout the Seattle area for roughly one year"
"Turing Machine (band) Turing Machine is an instrumental rock band formed in New York City in 1998 by Justin Chearno and Scott DeSimon, late of DC's noise-rockers Pitchblende and Gerhardt 'Jerry' Fuchs, who had moved to New York to play with Bitch Magnet guitarist Jon Fine's new band, Vineland. Their music has been described as ""Angular instrumental indie rock,"" that has ""influences as vast as vintage prog, Krautrock and post-punk."" On November 7, 2009, drummer Fuchs died in an elevator shaft accident. The last of Fuchs' studio work with Turing Machine was included posthumously in the 2012 album, What Is"
"in 1989 and then joined the Grateful Dead in 1990. Gary Cambra joined on keyboards and guitar in 1989. He and Roger Steen took over most of the lead vocal duties after Killingsworth left in early 1990. In 1993, Fee Waybill rejoined the band. This lineup toured Europe and released two albums, a compilation and the 1996 album ""Genius of America"". David Medd joined in 1996 to play keyboards alongside Cambra. In 2001, the band released a live CD, ""The Tubes World Tour 2001"", and continued to tour. The band has toured the United States each year with a line-up"
"the band ""screaming at the world"", and Tony Sales, bassist for the band, described the band's approach to the music they created by saying: As the band finished the album, Bowie was sure the band would continue. He said, ""There'll be another two albums at least. Oh, yes, this will go for a while. While we're all enjoying playing with each other so much, why not?"" The band played a handful of shows in support of the album, informally called the ""Tin Machine Tour"" in mid-1989. At the time of release, ""Tin Machine"" met with some success, winning generally positive"
"The Machine (band) The Machine is one of the oldest U.S. Pink Floyd tribute bands. Formed in 1988 by Tahrah Cohen and Joe Pascarell, the band has performed many shows around the world. ""Spin"" magazine noted that The Machine ""sounds exactly like Pink Floyd"" The Machine began as a cover band who played gigs local to the Rockland County, NY area and did not play Pink Floyd Music exclusively. In 1989 they were approached by a talent agent and it was suggested that they perform full-time. They seemed to garner such a delighted response from their audiences that the band's"
"""hoping I'd be doing old songs or something. We don't want that feeling at all."" The band rehearsed and warmed up for the tour in Dublin in August 1991. Joined onstage by guitarist Eric Schermerhorn, Tin Machine presented songs from the ""Tin Machine"" album and the ""Tin Machine II"" album, augmented with cover versions of songs from the Pixies, Neil Young and The Moody Blues. To start the show at some venues, an old TV was placed on stage, playing old sitcoms while the prelude to Wagner's ""Tristan and Isolde"" played over loudspeakers. Bowie claimed that the setlist for the"
"in 1989, accompanying Paul McCartney In 1989 David Bowie asked Armstrong to join Tin Machine as the fifth member after he played on the debut album recorded in Switzerland and the Bahamas. In 1992 he co-wrote the title track of David Bowie's ""Outside"" album, with Bowie. Armstrong was a co-songwriter (""Piccadilly Palare"", ""He Knows I'd Love To See Him"" and ""Oh Phoney"") and guitarist for Morrissey for the recordings that became the album ""Bona Drag"" produced by Clive Langer. In 1992 he produced the debut album by Nigerian artist Keziah Jones for Delabel France entitled ""Blufunk Is A Fact"". Later"
"My Sister's Machine My Sister's Machine was an American rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1989. Its members were Nick Pollock (lead vocals, guitar), Owen Wright (guitar), Chris Ivanovich (bass guitar), and Chris Gohde (drums). This band recorded and released two albums, ""Diva"" and ""Wallflower"", before they broke up in 1994. They reunited in 2010 to headline the Layne Staley Tribute and Benefit Concert that year as Pollock had previously played guitar in an early incarnation of Alice in Chains, the glam metal band Alice N' Chains that also included Staley. Before the formation of My Sister's Machine, guitarist"
"the bar closed at night, musicians would often go to a rehearsal space and jam. During this time, Melissa met guitarist Steve Durand, a fellow student at Concordia. Melissa, Steve, and drummer Jordon Zadorozny formed Tinker in 1993. As the band were gaining reputation in the local music scene, The Smashing Pumpkins returned to Montréal in 1993 for one date. The band initially planned on having an American band open for their shows, but Auf der Maur decided to ask frontman Billy Corgan whether Tinker could open for them in one of her letters. Corgan agreed and Tinker performed their"
"The opening acts for the tour were Squeeze, Jethro Tull and Daryl Hall & John Oates. Encore: Additional personnel Behind the Mask Tour The Behind the Mask Tour was a worldwide concert tour by the British-American pop rock group, Fleetwood Mac. The tour began on March 23, 1990 in Brisbane, Australia, and ended on December 7, 1990 in Inglewood, California. The band played 101 shows in 9 countries around the world. This would be the last tour of Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Rick Vito with the band; Nicks and Vito would leave the group in 1991 and 1993 respectively,"
"in decision-making. The band's album debut, ""Tin Machine"" (1989), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as ""a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of Neo-Nazis""; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, ""It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV ... in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book."" EMI complained of ""lyrics that preach"" as well as ""repetitive tunes"" and ""minimalist or no production"". The album nevertheless reached No. 3 and went gold in the UK. Tin Machine's first world tour was a commercial"
"Spider (American band) Spider was an American rock band from New York that formed in 1977 and disbanded in 1984. They released two studio albums through Dreamland Records in the early 1980s, and scored a few moderate hit singles in the United States. Two songs from their 1981 album ""Between the Lines"" - ""Change"" and ""Better Be Good to Me"" - were hits for John Waite and Tina Turner, respectively. In 1982 they changed the name to Shanghai and released their third and final album. Holly Knight went on to become a successful songwriter for various artists and later formed"
"Mars replaced David Haymes on keyboards for the tour. This began the band's notorious image of aggressive (and often dangerous) concerts in which band members would take out their anger on their instruments and through their music. Nine Inch Nails' fan base grew largely during this time. Trent Reznor – lead vocals/Backup Guitar <br> Richard Patrick – Lead guitar/Backup Vocals <br> Chris Vrenna – drums <br> Lee Mars – keyboards/Programming During the winter of late 1990 and early 1991, the band embarked on the second leg of their tour, entitled the ""Sin Tour"". The band played more clubs than in"