David Bowie R.I.P

Not familiar with his work, I'm afraid.

Must buy

I sincerely hope this thread never falls off the main page.

I actually got a little sad when a new answer wasn't in my iPhone app the other day.

Oh, I see.

MTV posted some restored & uncut interviews a couple weeks ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zri74q3HDDY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQi8nUM8AU

man he looks sexy in that last clip

eyeliner was an unfortunate choice in the first one

MTV has done this a lot with old interviews lately (they put up the full Kurt Cobain tinsel interview from December 1993), i really appreciate the restoration but also especially how it's completely unedited. six minutes into that Bowie & Reznor clip, Bowie points out that Kurt Loder was trying to make an edit point.

I've been thinking a Bowie guitarist poll would be fun. Trying to think of them all: Ronson, Slick, Fripp, Alomar, Frampton, Gabrels, SRV, Belew, Nile Rogers, Bowie himself... who else?

The guy who plays on low

Ricky Gardiner
Ben Monder
Stacy Heydon
Page Hamilton (!)

Tim Renwick

There's no Keith buried somewhere in "Rebel Rebel', right?

That's all Bowie, innit?

Guitar-wise at least

Oh, plus the ubiquitous Alan Parker.

Marc Bolan

...which reminds me that this hasn't been posted yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDxUAWIkiOg

Had not known 'til recently that this was from the very last episode of "Marc", filmed about a week before Bolan was killed, and originally aired a couple weeks after that.

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xpost so good! and the episode also has Generation X's first tv appearance :D

Pete Townshend (on two songs, one in 1980, one in 2002).

xxxp

bowie and his band doing a pretty great velvets impression on heroes there, until bowie actually starts singing of course

That's Monder doing the Bill Nelson / Fripp muted noodling in I Can't Give Everything Away, right? I love that. Reminds me of Gone To Earth-era Sylvian.

xxxxp

Chuck Hammer (synth guitar on Ashes to Ashes and Teenage Wildlife).

David Torn (sort of a super-digital ambient Fripp) played on the last few.

Jimmy Page on these two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUXj2aZPXrA

I'm the latter.

David Torn (sort of a super-digital ambient Fripp) played on the last few.

Torn, Fripp and Frisell definitely travel in similar session circles. All three have played with David Sylvian, sequentially: Fripp on "Gone to Earth," Torn on "Secrets of the Beehive," and Frisell (with Ribot) on "Dead Bees on a Cake." There's a cadre of avant ambient guys who always seem to play this role. Fripp, Torn, Frisell, Michael Brook ...

bowie and his band doing a pretty great velvets impression on heroes there

I thought maybe that was that final lineup of T. Rex playing there?

Never knew Bolan played "Debora" on TV a week before he died, wow.

What?

Sorry misread that as Desdemona.

My copy of the 3CD Nothing Has Changed arrived in today's mail. I really like the newest-to-oldest track listing.

(F)Rip(p) Torn

Torn, Fripp and Frisell definitely travel in similar session circles. All three have played with David Sylvian, sequentially: Fripp on "Gone to Earth," Torn on "Secrets of the Beehive," and Frisell (with Ribot) on "Dead Bees on a Cake." There's a cadre of avant ambient guys who always seem to play this role. Fripp, Torn, Frisell, Michael Brook ...

http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/images/artistes/biographies/1995_Pat_Metheny-016-bio-400.jpg

http://40.media.tumblr.com/a5d10c30a065dea6e2fe385c7353db01/tumblr_nnj68qQ9vQ1uu21xco1_1280.jpg

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Good new interview with Oursler

http://www.vulture.com/2016/02/tony-oursler-on-david-bowies-art-world-ties.html

Five Years gone from Hulu but seems to still be on YouTube.

Or is it? Seems to be scrambled. However there is something else called Sound & Vision of about the same length.

That Ferry and Bowie picture makes me happy. It's like FDR and Churchill meeting.

Five Years has gone off the net because of you.

Found it. Love him imitating Warhol's speaking voice.

http://artvod.com/music/david-bowie-five-years-documentary/

That Ferry and Bowie picture makes me happy. It's like FDR and Churchill meeting.

Considering the fact that, until three weeks ago, I wouldn't have described myself as a Bowie fan particularly, we know own 18 Bowie albums, comfortably more than any other individual artist. Even pre-demise we owned a dozen, and I think only Miles Davis and The Beatles could compete with that in terms of shelf-space.

now not know

Yeah, I believe I only ever once bought a "new" bowie issue once, it was the cassette single of "Let's Dance"..

but reckoning up I have eight CD albums, and about six LPs, which is a lot for an artist I wasn't that fussed about..

and a bunch of singles: Changes, Sorrow, the Baal EP, um..

Fascinating, I know..

I'm having the opposite response: the Nothing Has Changed 3CD compilation arrived this past weekend, and I have been slowly trudging through it and coming to the realization that I don't ever need to hear anything he did between Let's Dance and The Next Day again. I like Low and "Heroes" well enough, and Blackstar is amazing, but the pre-Berlin albums never did anything for me, and everything past the '80s falls somewhere between dull and actively awful.

you're missing out on outside

My current ranking from the classic period through '95 (as far as I've gotten in my recent voyage through his discography) would be:

Young Americans through Scary Monsters > Hunky Dory through Aladdin Sane > Diamond Dogs/Pin Ups >>> Man Who Sold The World > Outside > '80s soundtrack songs and 'Loving The Alien' and 'Blue Jean' > Let's Dance > '87-'93 (in roughly reverse chronological order) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Tonight