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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7619 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm so glad I saw him live. Even more glad it was a "secret" gig in front of 300 people in a Dublin rehearsal studio. Bowie was just a few feet away from me. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3595 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow. I thought we'd have Bowie forever. This is the last thing I expected to see when I logged onto the NYT before going to bed. I never really bonded with his most popular work but I adored his early recordings from the 1960s and have listened to them off and off since I first discovered them in the early 1970s. He had a great take on the short-lived mod era sound. And he brought theater music and pop music together at a very early time, and really he kept coming back to that formula over and over. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1240 Registered: 10-2006 |
Apart from having my first significant kiss to Rebel rebel, his music never really touched me in any important way, but I admired his questing adventurousness and intelligence, and without his guidance and help back when it counted it's possible Lou Reed and his VU heritage would never have come to occupy such a vital position in modern music. Ah, and how many Bowie cuts suddenly turned up at high school after Starman astonished us all on TOTP! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7622 Registered: 05-2005 |
That night I saw him in Dublin, Bowie played two VU covers (White Light/White Heat and Waiting for the Man). He also played Oh Superman and All The Young Dudes. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7623 Registered: 05-2005 |
Incredible video for Lazarus, released three days ago. https://t.co/xuqTph18iv | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1782 Registered: 08-2006 |
Wow. I saw Bowie back in the late 80s, I believe it was, on a tour that was meant to "retire" his old hits. Terrific show. I had no idea he had cancer and, what with all the publicity for his new record, news of his death is quite a shock. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7624 Registered: 05-2005 |
Watch the video, Rob. The entire album, and especially this video, can now be seen in a new light. He knew he was dying and wrote about it, but we didn't know. What a gift he has left us with. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1241 Registered: 10-2006 |
It was certainly a secret well-kept. And that video! He retained his knack for the unsettling theatrical coup right to the end! | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 296 Registered: 06-2005 |
A real shock this morning, had to do a double take when i checked my phone, it had been a Bowie weekend in our house with the new album looped on Sonos non stop (except to play the Santa Monica Bootleg for a bit of respite for the kids!) We had been at Dublin's first Bowie Fest at the weekend to celebrate his birthday and the release of Dark Star (a mesmerizing album & up with his very best, love the sax, what a band he has with him on it?) His musical director of the last 15 years up to Dark Star, Gerry leonard from Clontarf was special guest at the festival playing a set as Spooky Ghost and joined the excellent tribute band Rebel/Rebel for Be My Wife, Always Crashing In The Same Car & Heroes. Favourite Bowie moment was The Olympia Theatre, Dublin, 1997....he strolls on with a crisp white shirt, a pair of jeans & a 12 string acoustic guitar and plays "Quicksand" 20ft away....I'd have happily left at that stage...and when the drum & bass 2nd part of the show kicked in I almost wish I had!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3596 Registered: 03-2005 |
Awesome video and great song, Padraig. I can't say enough how much I love those people who show us how to die, whether Alain Bashung, Christopher Hitchens or now David Bowie. It sounds like the new album is a must-have. For an idea what he was doing at the start when he was an exceptional chancer on the London music scene, here he is 18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsuZycK3 zNc One short year later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-b57Y3s GZI Another year on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6t-_lWW W_o And I'll leave with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2XUN8_7 -yg For this young alienated gay lad in a dull central California agricultural business capital, Bowie's early records conjured up the essence of what I imagined London was all about. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7627 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster on David Bowie http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/ja n/12/he-was-like-a-god-how-david-bowie-l eft-his-mark-on-some-of-australias-fines t-musicians | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 298 Registered: 06-2005 |
Throwing a Bowie Celebration Party tonight..there are not too many artists where you add complete albums to a playlist but there is hardly a track you would leave off from 70-80 which is pretty rare. In footballing terms its a bit like my Beloved Invincibles 03/04 and won't be repeated. Artists don't get long supported long enough to grow and develop or simply cannot afford to do sustain what Bowie was doing between 64-69, honing his craft and playing clubs every other night. Then most don't have the phenomenal work ethic and unshakable belief and ulimately the talent and imagination that would transpire....quite the run! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7637 Registered: 05-2005 |
This is a very funny story about interviewing Bowie. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/musi c/disgrace-oddity--how-i-tried-to-help-d avid-bowie-become-cool-again-20160116-gm 6yas.html | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3598 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's a great essay Padraig. I like to think that maybe Bowie picked out a bit of the sense in the otherwise silly encounter. Ditch the corporate sponsorship indeed. |