« Close Encounter With A Superman October 8th 1997 » Although my encounter with David Bowie was brief (about 5 minutes), in many ways it was prophetic and profound for me. I should explain that before the concerts I attended (Philadelphia 10-3 and 10-4 and Fort Lauderdale 10-8), I awoke from a most vivid dream and the only one I had ever had about Bowie (at the time, since then I've had a few more), 3 days before the 10-3 concert. I sat straight up in bed at 6:30 a.m., smiling and actually woke up AMan (David) and told him I had the coolest dream EVER! The dream: - The group all went towards a large door that was locked and tried to enter the building, I went alone, more to the left, around more of the building and found a smaller door which was unlocked. I could hear David Bowie's voice and I opened the door which opened up to a small hallway that led to a larger room, looking like a warehouse with open beams on the ceiling. To the right of this small hallway was a small room where Bowie was talking on the phone - I walked straight past him so as not to interrupt, and into the warehouse-like room. I stood in front of a small wooden counter towards the center of the room and by this time, the rest of the group had entered the other larger door and were talking to Gail and others from the band. Bowie came down the hallway and went to the other side of the counter, joked around with some of us and finally said, "Right, I guess we should give them our autographs" and gave us all autographs on paper they had produced. That was basically the dream which freaked me out later, when - Frippertronic (Micke) told me 1 day later (10-1) he had a vivid Bowie dream! Frip's dream was almost identical to mine - from the windows, to the warehouse-like room, to the wooden counter Bowie stood behind! In his dream, he had gone through the larger door with the group. He even woke straight up from bed like I had and later in the day, told one of his mates about the dream because it was so vivid and detailed. Imagine the chill bumps I got when Frip told me the time he had the dream in Sweden (which is 6 hours ahead) was at 12:30!!! - the exact time I had my dream! I got more chill bumps when I arrived at the Electric Factory on 10-3 and saw the outside of the building (the windows on the side of the building were identical to the ones in my dream). I told Frip a bit more about the dream and that I had interpreted the dream as, 'I would need to find Bowie for myself' Continue to page 2