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dates, it didn’t quite gel. For Gabrels, the experience
was frustrating: ‘I would have had one less Hunt
Sales vocal on the record,’ but David seemed
unconcerned. For him, playing and touring with Tin
Machine allowed him to act like a ‘normal bloke’,
says Eric Schermerhorn. ‘He’d be blown away by the
most mundane things. One time in Minneapolis
walking into a pawn shop, with loads of used radios
and beat boxes, he bought a used boom box for
$65. He was, “This is great!” It was like he’d never
done that stuff.’
Travelling with a band – as opposed to with a
bunch of employees, as on the Sound + Vision tour
– brought out a side of him often hidden under The
Dame’s snootiness. He was surprisingly open, trying
to round up his bandmates for trips to local junk
stores or museums – mates to keep him company
and share the view; he was often emotional,
especially after the occasional raid on his hotel
minibar, and for a man who’d been so ruthless with
himself, and his musicians, there were odd,
nostalgic notes. His bandmates noticed how he
seemed to keep and catalogue everything:
drumsticks, clothing, guitar picks. The collecting
demonstrated his odd relationship with his own past:
often he’d be reluctant to talk about old works, yet
once he started you often couldn’t stop him – then
he’d reveal how many old features on himself he’d
read, how many errors he wanted to correct.
Much of the apparent contradiction was explained
by the fact he was still a record nerd, who treasured
the albums he’d bought thirty years ago from