Music – This was my first experience with the legend David Bowie.Enjoy
Great Song. Thanks rdy. Bowie knows how to be "alienated".
Godd one SC.LMAO
Just watched 1997 movie last night, Lost Highway, David Bowie song 'I'm Deranged' in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvneYdxW2-4
creepy movie with songs also by Marilyn Manson and my fav, Rammstein!
He's also a pretty good actor!
my all time fav David Bowie song tho is Heroes
Good one rdy.I like heroes but my favorite(maybe because i played it for a long while,lol)is "suffragette city"..
Suffragette City:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSnSCw4yo8M
I couldn't find actual video for that song, but God I would love it! Ziggy Stardust is still his greatest album, IMO...
When David Bowie cut his cd "Let's Dance" it was Stevie Ray Vaughn who did the excellent guitar work on the album. Vaughn was supposed to get credit for this work but Bowie claimed it himself. I have no use for this no talent slime bucket.
I wasn't aware of that Wolfie.
Steve did the guitar work maybe, but it was David Bowie who wrote the song, and the lyrics.
So give credit, where credit's due.
Actually Wolfie. David, when he is telling a guitarist what he wants. He usually uses a saxaphone to show the guitarist what he wants. Those sax lines in the songs were written by Bowie. He also wrote the guitar lines too. Bowie is a real musician not someone who can play. He can write out pieces and also has arranged some string parts too.
Useful point, Mac. I saw Bowie do a solo accoustic version of "Major Tom" (a very complex song) eons ago, his command of his 12-string guitar was immaculate. He was no run-of-the-mill player by any means.
As for creditting others, I have no definite info, cannot comment, although Mick Ronson seemed to receive his due recognition from Bowie.
(Aside, my only beef with David Bowie is in the name choice for his daughter, er, Zoe?)
Odd comment Wolfie as "Let's Dance" really broke Stevie Ray into the national spotlight. "Texas Flood" really took off following that release almost simultaneously but I remember everyone talking about Stevie's guitar work on Let's Dance as much as Bowie's genius. It is definitely what turned me onto to SRV. Bowie offered to have him tour but Stevie chose to go off with Double Trouble. A good decision on his part. But Stevie eventually developed a wicked drinking problem fueled by the road that certainly affected his career. He had just found sobriety when he was killed in the chopper crash.
They are both geniuses in their own right. Why quibble?
Wolfie2007- fess up, is it really because Bowie is 'different' that you have no use for him? Bowie is one of the history greats and you know it!!!
Fess up to what? Oh yes, I remember back in the 60's one of his wives claimed to have found him in bed with Mick Jagger. I didn't care then and don't now, I think Mick is the greatest and his band the best. Ivers, as usual you assume too much.
David Bowie is a plagiarizing slime bucket and now you know it.
I have not read all the comments. Wanted to post something before I do. The tune, is mesmorizing, always has been. But there is a version that I think is much better than the studio production one. It is just too bad that I can not find it on YouTube. Well I have not gone through them all yet.
The piece he sent in to the record company. The demo, were just him and a friend of his. Bowie played the backing music on a Meletron. While his friend, David, played the guitar and sang the opening verses. Bowie sang out the calling of the numbers. Before launching into the rest of the song. This is Raw as you can get with a musician. Demo's are usually crummy and scratchy. But, Bowie was able to show engineering skills and producer skills with this demo.
The song was released on the 5 Disc Box Set: Sound and Vision. Bowie I feel is a genius and he has the albums and movies to prove it.
Very nicely said MacR !!! I quite agree. Unlike most "popular" modern bands who'd be totally screwed without a million dollar digital effects rack that makes them in tune, on time & co-ordinated !!
Right MacR & DM; if you have a good song and know how to play it right and bare-bones record it the right way, the song will push itself.
What a "million dollar digital effects rack" often does is cover up the technical and tonal limitations of the players and singers. A good song does not require a lot of effects if it is played with actual expertise on an instrument(One of Bowie's 'unrecognized talents' was on piano and another was in musical composition) and sang in key.
In addition to singing in key, icono, he seemed to be able to produce a variety of voices on a single song. The masterpiece "Little China Girl" (with excellent Ronson solo)is a good example. From subtlety to power and back again.
Within his various fields of endeavor, he could be termed a genius, I imagine.
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Don't forget to take your "protein pills."LOL
"& send me up a drink"....jokes Major Tom.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=F-f8OsHVAEc
You and HB must be on the same "wavelength."Good Post.I love outerspace(including the one I'm usually in).LMAO
Awww man! HB and his chubby fingers had beaten me to it!
Odds Bodkins!
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BB Major Tom...what a haunting song. Wasn't there a sequel of sorts?
"Ashes to Ashes" from Scary Monsters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r44OFO-MNPo