E-minor7 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Godspeed ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullmental Alpinist Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Wow. I was just reading this article last night about Zachary Alford his drummer: Zachary Alford Rolling Stone Interview. The end of an era.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capmaster Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 The end of an era.... Indeed. :( This is the day 70's glam rock died. R.I.P., David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 One of the greats....A real one off. Here's a gentle humorous tribute to his Ziggy persona from The Flight of The Conchords a few years ago.Not being disrespectful to anyone i hope. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zV4pJ8MwM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pesh Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Very sad news to hear this morning. Cancer sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Yes sad news - RIP David Bowie. BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 See these tears so blue; an ageless heart that can never mend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58 Relic Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Sad Sad Day , The tracks The Prettiest Star and Drive in Saturday will always be the soundtrack to my School days and the main reason I'm here playing the guitar today .Rest in Peace and a big Thank You Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Bbc 6 music are playing pretty much nothing but bowie all day. Sad news , but what a legacy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jannusguy2 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Very sad to learn of this. I guess he was trying to tell us he was leaving in the Lazarus video from the new recording. I feel extremely fortunate to have seen him in concert several times and even to have met him once. I will play some of his songs today and I will smile for the memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassetman Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I grew up with his music. He will be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Saddened by this terrible news, Bowie was an amazing talent, gone too soon. cancer does suck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andoni Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Check ignition and may God's love be with you....... R.I.P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Bowie could make you scratch your head and laugh at times, but he was always both original and entertaining. One of my favorite things was the cover of Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street", with Jagger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G4jnaznUoQ And in a similar vein (and just for our Australian friends here): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA I think that's the Blues King doing the turkey trot at his local part-way through.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Truly a great and very innovative artist, and he certainly knew how to market himself into whatever genre he chose. So many of these incredibly talented people die far too early due to "burning the candle at both ends against the middle."........ RIP, David Bowie. Your music, which at first I disliked (along with your persona)eventually won me over as I matured and began to appreciate the real human being behind the on-stage personas. I'm lucky enough to have walked this earth at the same time you, Cash, Charles, Cline, and other greats did. Thanks for sharing all of that talent. I was kind of shocked when I first saw this on TV, many years ago. I believe this is was when I really started seeing "David Bowie" for who he was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I was kind of shocked when I first saw this on TV, many years ago. I believe this is was when I really started seeing "David Bowie" for who he was. I read somewhere that Bowie told them there was no way he was going to do that song. But he did. He moved between genres without batting an eye; a profession entertainer in the best sense of the term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullmental Alpinist Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yISNT2wUmwA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Jones Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 I grew up with Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Became a huge Mic Ronson fan based on his guitar work on that record. My favorite Bowie tune to perform is "Rock and Roll Suicide". Gets a great reaction from the old rock and rollers.. RIP Starman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 J45nick, here's some background on Bowie and Crosby singing together (I assume it has some truth to it) from People Magazine. I heard, like you, that originally Bowie didn't want to do it and that Cosby didn't think it would work either. Afterwards, they both were glad they did it. I think it was a pretty real "slice of life" moment for both of them. http://www.people.com/article/david-bowie-bing-crosby-christmas-little-drummer-boy?xid=rss-topheadlines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 And in a similar vein (and just for our Australian friends here): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA I think that's the Blues King doing the turkey trot at his local part-way through.......... Thanks Nick. I don't think it was me Turkey Trotting though anything could have been possible in 1983 approx., when I had a much wilder version of the Trot that combined with a bourbon or 7, could clear a crowded dance floor.....especially to Lets Dance or Jean Genie. I saw the Lets Dance tour show here. We walked in a football stadium in a group and were complaining because our seats were right up near the fence at the top and back, and was partial to doing my err..Turkey Trot at the front next to a PA with good view of all the goings on. Stevie Ray Vaughn played the solo on the single but didn't want to tour so Carlos Alamar did the tour. 83 was the era of the huge event at a stadium with all the huge sound systems and huge stage props and real hard work for all with not a computer generated anything in sight. I had just seen Pink Floyd at a huge tennis stadium and all the tricks with quadraphonic monster PA and big creatures flying around and bed crashing from the back down over the heads of the fans and in to the PA speaker etc.etc.... Bowie put the money into mainly..lights, lights and even brighter lights, except at the end of Space Oddity this huge floating Earth that had been bobbing gently around over the stage and front rows, started to expand...and expand.....and went KABOOM as it exploded after the crescendo at the end of the song and the best place was at the top of the stadium where we were because, let me tell you, I don't think it was meant to explode........what a show! I have seen lots of shows but that is among the best rock nights. BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 My band in college covered Putting Out the Fire (Cat People). And of course one of the first of his songs I learned on the guitar as a teen was Space Oddity. For those who care, a lot of his music translates really well acoustically. I watched him to do Heroes after 9/11 at the NYC concert, sitting Indian style and playing a casio as accompaniment. It was marvelous. Google it. I threw this together on the iphone just a little while ago. I really liked David Bowie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYvkU7KzRzo& Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Although I have never been a David Bowie fan (I am more a three chords and a cloud of dust kinda guy)it is still hard to imagine him not around. RIP David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 I was kind of shocked when I first saw this on TV, many years ago. So was I and presumably many others. Younger readers must remember 1977 was still the time where rock music belonged to the youth and wasn't yet embraced by so called grown ups - hardly at all (rather funny/strange/interesting to think back on today). To see these 2 artists blend appeared like some bridge, which could only be created in a slightly otherworldly X-mas spirit - and even in that setting seemed far out. A stellar performance never the less - really really good, , , from both sides of the gab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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