Serious Moonlight
When David Bowie releasedLet's Dancein 1983, there  were fans who felt Ziggy Stardust had sold out, but it was--of course--just another  in a long line of stage personae for the Thin White Duke.  Unfortunately, it wasn't his most interesting.  This video, from the Vancouver stop on  the Serious Moonlight tour, seems a little dull. Aside from a prop or two, some nifty costumes for his band (inspired by a Singapore street  scene), and singing one song inside a tube of plastic, there's little of the visual imagination seen from Bowie in the past.  On the other hand, the band  is tight (although Earl Slick's I'm-a-guitar-god moves grow tiresome), the lighting is cool, and Bowie pulls out material from throughout his career (there  are only three songs from his then-latest albumLet's Dance).  Best  of all, he seems to be having fun, and without all the makeup and outrageousness, David Bowie the person comes through more.  Maybe it's just another stage persona, but he seems like a pretty nice bloke.--Geof Miller