http://uproxx.com/music/david-bowie-dead-at-69/ (http://uproxx.com/music/david-bowie-dead-at-69/)
The stars look very different today
RIP
:(
:( I bought my first new car in 1983, a Datsun Sentra. The Bowie album Let's Dance was the first cassette played.
^Stevie Ray Vaughn played on that record.
I remember when my older brother bought the Diamond Dogs album back in 74. Great artist...RIP.
:'(
SCREW CANCER. again
Thank you for the thing you left us
People used to say the 70s sucked. I always point to Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke and they stfu.
The 70s are now a closed tome. Freddie and Bowie were ascendant then. A few others, but those were our superstars.
Bowie wrote songs for others... Queen, Mott the Hoople... he jammed with anyone.
That was my teenage years that just died.
Ashes to Ashes. RIP Ziggy
http://www.space.com/31571-david-bowie-tribute-astronauts-scientists.html (http://www.space.com/31571-david-bowie-tribute-astronauts-scientists.html)
[clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] That was make the beast with two backsing Bad Ass!!
Tiz's post kinda got to me in a way. I'd call it perspective.
I've seen lot's of them die...Bowie is just one.
No one gets out alive...make your time count.
It makes the video I posted on his birthday even more bizarre.
Soooo...
don't take this wrong. the world has lost a great one.
David was the Rocketman...but Elton wrote the song?
Just sayin'
One of my favorite Bowie songs is Pretty Pink Rose (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDWPyVCT0X4) he did with Adrian Belew.
Quote from: ducpainter on January 11, 2016, 05:43:22 PM
Soooo...
don't take this wrong. the world has lost a great one.
David was the Rocketman...but Elton wrote the song?
Just sayin'
Not sure if this is what you're driving at, but it seems that most VIP Tweeters, etc., in their "first to tweet" frenzy, usually don't bother to check facts and likely weren't actively involved when it all happened, anyway.
'Rocketman' was just one song, anyway, that was released five years after Bowie's Space Oddity and, besides, Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics and EJ wrote the music. I don't think Elton John ever referred to himself as the rocketman - as the song was, I believe, inspired by how 'ordinary' space/moon travel had become by then...but there was nothing ordinary about either Bowie or Elton John.
For me, Bowie was an acquired taste - not so much the music but the edgy characters he put on the stage, and I'll admit I never warmed to the Ziggy stuff. But, then again, Bowie was just a kid (20 years old) when his real success began. Space Oddity was released just two years after Sargent Pepper and three years after Pet Sounds...quite a contrast in styles.
I enjoyed Bowie's mid-1970s work much more.
FWIW - the band whose popularity I'll never understand is Kiss..... [evil]
David Bowie was a great musician and vocalist, but an even better performance artist.
I wasn't really 'driving' at anything OT. It was just an observation.
I'm with you. I never really warmed up to either of the on stage personas o9f Bowie or Elton John until either they, or I, got older.
http://youtu.be/XXq5VvYAI1Q (http://youtu.be/XXq5VvYAI1Q)
Quote from: ducpainter on January 12, 2016, 03:18:57 AM
I wasn't really 'driving' at anything OT. It was just an observation.
I'm with you. I never really warmed up to either of the on stage personas o9f Bowie or Elton John until either they, or I, got older.
I was listening exclusively to the Doors until about my junior year in high school when I discovered Bowie -- I had heard him before, but that was when someone really sat me down and got me thru Ziggy Stardust and Man Who Sold the World and Diamond Dogs etc...
So much chemistry with Low.
I was a weird amalgam of Jim Morrison and Ziggy Stardust thru college. Helped my sex life immensely.