David Bowie

[Ryan]

David Slowie [at performing live]

[botley]

Happy 38th birthday, Low!

[botley]

David Slowie [at performing live]

I read this and I wonder, I really do.

[Ryan]

I read this and I wonder, I really do.

I've never seen him live, so that's a bummer.

[thevoid99]

That bummed me even more as I've wanted to see him live for so many years and have blown it several times. I really hope he would do one more tour but slow things down so he can take his time for the sake of his health.

[fillow]

Discovered this today

[thevoid99]

That was not one of Bowie's great moments. I didn't like the hair he had back then. Plus, I don't drink Pepsi. I'm a Coke/Sprite guy.

[botley]

That was not one of Bowie's great moments. I didn't like the hair he had back then. Plus, I don't drink Pepsi. I'm a Coke/Sprite guy.

LOL that was a pretty bad haircut, yeah... circa '87? Even the dorky slicked-back Weird Science look from the same ad is better. I like seeing Tina dance with Bowie, though, and their re-cut version of "Modern Love" is cheesy fun.

[seasonsinthesky]

what about heathen?

i fucking LOVED that record. The first song with the strange, strange guitar part, the grooviness of I Would Be Your Slave (or whatever it's called,) and the way the bits of futuristic sound mixed with traditional style...i found it fairly unique. Someone said Neo-classicist, or something like that...that's a good way of describing it.

I'm still waiting for Outside 2: Contamination, goddamnit. Outside was the Bowie album that hooked me...i was sixteen and OBSESSED.


Bowie blows my mind because he created music that my father loved and my grandfather couldn't stand, (Ziggy,) and decades later, was creating music that i loved and my father couldn't stand (outside, earthling.)

Is there a good album or bootleg of bowie remixes, BTW?

i really wish he hadn't abandoned (to whatever degree) the Outside approach/aesthetic – heretical as it may be, it's the only Bowie record with no songs i dislike!

i guess that's unfair, though, since i am obsessed with the Dissonance tour, and that was why i got into Bowie at all.

no proper remix compilations but a bunch of bonus discs of more recent albums have a lot of remix material; try the jungle mix of "I'm Deranged," the Basquiat mix of "A Small Plot of Land," and definitely the '90s rework of "The Man Who Sold the World" (from the Strangers When We Meet single/Dissonance bootlegs too, i guess) if you haven't heard them!

[botley]

The Dissonance version of "Andy Warhol">>>>>>>>>

[Shadaloo]

Oh my god please be true

[thevoid99]

Oh my god please be true

Wait... that was from 2013.

[Shadaloo]

Fuck. It popped up on my FB feed and I went slightly insane.

Well, I'm just hoping plans are still in progress.

[onthewall2983]

New song to accompany director Johan Renck's mini-series The Last Panthers

[Jinsai]

I just watched this live video from 78 in Japan, and I think everyone needs to see this.
I'm floored.

[allegro]

I just watched this live video from 78 in Japan, and I think everyone needs to see this.
I'm floored.

That's the same tour as "Stage" (live album). Same set list, backdrop, players.

I could do without Belew's massacre of Fripp's guitar part in "Heroes" but I love all the Ziggy stuff and that was an over-the-top treatment of "Warzawa" at the time. And I think I had that same hair in 1978 LOL.

[Jinsai]

ah, I thought Belew was amazing in that video. The only low point for me is the unfortunate mix at the beginning of Soul Love
Especially the solo at the beginning of Station To Station... that's just amazing.

[henryeatscereal]

I own that "Bowie on Japan" bootleg on DVD, it's a good concert (shame about the quality, though...)

[allegro]

ah, I thought Belew was amazing in that video. The only low point for me is the unfortunate mix at the beginning of Soul Love
Especially the solo at the beginning of Station To Station... that's just amazing.

I like the solo in the beginning of Station to Station but that's pretty much the same solo from the record (Earl Slick), so ...

I don't like some of the musical arrangements for "Stage" because it just seems too "Vegas" to me. Although it IS the late-70s and that is reflected a bit. And I guess I'm just an Earl Slick kind of girl.

Now, compare that to, say, this (Earl Sllck, Earl Slick, Earl Slick):




Yes, Bowie's voice is affected by WAY TOO MUCH COKE but it's still less Vegas.

[allegro]

I saw this tour in Detroit at the Joe, I remember most of my friends getting LIMOS it was such a big fucking deal hahahahahahahahahhaaaa



Another tour with my boy Earl Slick! (And Carlos Alomar!)

[allegro]

Speaking of Bowie and Slick

[botley]

Earl Slick is the goddamn man. This is the tour where I saw him play in Bowie's band:

[thevoid99]

Earl is just fucking great. I think he was one of the few guitarists that Bowie has had that was as good as Mick Ronson. For me, Ronson was Bowie's best guitarist. As for the rhythm section, it's Dennis Davis and George Murray though Mick Woodmansey and Trevor Bolder is just a close second.

[allegro]

Earl Slick is the goddamn man. This is the tour where I saw him play in Bowie's band

I saw that tour, too! (Reality) We had, like, SEVENTH ROW at the Rosemont Theater, holy crap.

Like I've said in here, before, the only Bowie tour I saw but DIDN'T like was this one. It was just, um, weird. (And it had Peter Frampton instead of Earl Slick, LOL)

[allegro]

People may not realize that Carlos Alomar helped Iggy and Bowie cowrite this song (from Iggy's The Idiot, natch, but Bowie also performed it live during his "Station to Station" tour):



(Alomar also played guitar on Iggy's Bowie-produced albums, The Idiot and Lust for Life)

[thevoid99]

And that song was later re-made by Bowie as "Red Money" from Lodger. I'm sure Alomar came up with the riffs in those songs. He also came up with the riffs in "Fame" which is why he got writing credit on that. Alomar is one of my favorite personnel from Bowie's camp as I think of him as probably the most important collaborator for Bowie aside from the Spiders of Mars, Tony Visconti, Ken Scott, and Brian Eno.

[frankie teardrop]

sister midnight >>>>>> red money, imo, glad that DB embraced the original over his butchering of it (i otherwise like lodger a lot). the idiot is a pretty amazing record in its own right. so is lust for life, if you can disassociate the rhythm section from tin machine.

alomar is my favorite bowie guitarist, personally. while he isn't terribly flashy or iconic as slick or fripp or ronson (or even gabrels), he was a solid backbone and innovative in his own right. i love what bowie did with his entire young americans backing band, pushing them to art-damaged extremes for the rest of the decade to better and better results, yet still keeping that funk.

as for slick, he rules too- only got to see him as part of the small, more intimate tour for heathen when he played each of the five boroughs... lots of cool stuff on the set (annoyingly, we did not get 'belway brothers' or 'look back in anger' at our show), though i would have also liked to have seen the reality tour as well for a couple of other great cuts. i think i only missed it since i was living in woodstock (very close to slick's homeground, speaking of) for the summer after college and couldn't get down to NYC. i moved here in september, but by that time, bowie had retired from stage...

[thevoid99]

This is one of my favorite Bowie videos ever from a live show in 1978 in Dallas in one of my favorite tracks from Low:

[allegro]

sister midnight >>>>>> red money, imo, glad that DB embraced the original over his butchering of it (i otherwise like lodger a lot). the idiot is a pretty amazing record in its own right.

I prefer Lust for Life over The Idiot, it's probably one of my fave records of all time.

According to Wikipedia, I guess Carlos Alomar wrote this iconic intro riff?



And the intro riff to this?

[Piko]

I prefer Lust for Life over The Idiot, it's probably one of my fave records of all time.

According to Wikipedia, I guess Carlos Alomar wrote this iconic intro riff?



And the intro riff to this?

Lust for Life all the way!