david bowie

Ned Raggett discusses his new memoir Unleash The Lawyers on "The Today Show" next week.

Now all we have to do is figure out which ILXor is Lou Reed...

http://k.7w7.us/li/mpr/mpr/shrink_80_80/p/2/000/060/2d9/03c1a55.jpg

Lou's not that misanthropic.

You ain't got the looks,
you're not the person that you used to be...
And there are people on the street
that would... go for me.
And I say
no no no no no-ooooo
scarfy face

There's a better than good chance Courtney Love and Rod Stewart have no idea what's up with David Bowie and are merely parrotting the same rumors us plebes hear.

Yes, and in any case there is a lot of room between "not physically up to performing pop concerts" and "at death's door".

kinda awesome that Rod Stewart and Courtney Love lurk in secret celebrity websites

ILX is a secret celebrity website?

Can't wait to hear Bowie explain that Rod Stewart can't tour the U.S. without an Aviva-mandated stomach pump.

There was some travel article about Woodstock and upstate New York, maybe in the NY Times, that talked about Bowie living and hanging out there, and how you can see him having coffee in the morning in the town's coffeehouse, etc.

At the end of the day, I wasn't expecting a follow-up to Reality to happen, and whatever anyone's opinion of The Next Day, it's great to know that at least it exists and he felt like making another record. Whatever his reasons for not touring, I don't think I was expecting him to tour it to begin with. I mean, at the stage he's at now, he's got nothing to prove to anyone. I'm quite happy for him to spend his time anyway he sees fit, and with advancing age and especially after his heart attack scare, he's going to want to spend the time that he has doing what the hell pleases him. He's done enough.

I know I'm the guy who said he shouldn't have recorded TND in the first place, but, still, he's seventy and is a carbon-based breathing Superfund site of toxic chemicals. Leave him be with his kid, Iman, and espressos overlooking Battery Park.

Alfred otm. He doesn't need the money, and he's never been the sort that needs validation from an audience.

Bowie also didn't tour behind:

Young Americans
Low
Lodger
Scary Monsters
Tonight
Black Tie White Noise

Because he was deathly ill, duh.

He doesn't need the money, and he's never been the sort that needs validation a lollipop from an audience.

he's never been the sort that needs validation from an audience.

Dunno about that, not sure if you get to become a legendary rock star without craving validation. It seems likely he's fine with the extraordinary amount of validation he's already received over the course of the last four decades, however.

Probably just doesn't want to deal with the shit from the misses, 'last time you went and gave yourself a heart attack...', etc.

And people labelling it the 'Seriously Ill Moonlight' tour

The Megan Draper theory is he's already dead.

I'm no genius, or doctor, or genius doctor, but I'd guess the heart issues had less to do with touring and more to do with a career of ... extracurriculars.

Yeah nobody is saying touring CAUSED his health issues, just that now that he has those issues, touring might be too physically taxing.

He could perform sitting on a throne.

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTiCzlz2onbSrr5PP-dZRzjEHAFWerYXpBIiTlsLa1KQxZf9G7AwQ

Well that's been a busy year. Anyway, looking back now, Simon Price found this unaired interview in three parts from 1977 with the man. As he put it: “The poor bastard. His huge brain, assailed by Pepe Le Punk at every turn.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-gjeeB4wuI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqqwz2s7ong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sofdCU79X1M

Ha, Bowie keeps taking the conversation in interesting directions but the guy doesn't even notice. He just wants to get on to the next dumb question.

This period is my absolute favourite Bowie look. I love his hair. So beautiful.

You should see my fifth-grade yearbook.

Why? What's in it?

That haircut x 70

Interesting, in the beginning of part II he mentions that he's about to go to NY to work on Robert Fripp's album (which I can only assume is Exposure, an album that does not feature DB)... I wonder what the story was there.

Sid c. 1973:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZKw9oTIYAAoalR.jpg

whoa that pic is awesome!

I've heard the story a few different ways/times. Fripp was doing a series of records either with different vocalists, or one vocalist each. Peter Gabriel's second album, Daryl Hall's Sacred Songs and eventually the LPs Exposure and God Save The Queen/Under Heavy Manners. The latter had David Byrne on vocals but he replaced someone else. Or Exposure was supposed to be all Darryl Hall but Hall's label freaked and he was replaced with Peter Hammill? I don't know the story, but it's not hard to imagine Bowie getting mixed up with all that.

It underscores what a weird album Exposure is.

Just in case someone hasn't heard it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=089SH63fiSw

Iirc, Fripp wanted Hall to be King Crimson's singer!

this one is even more frippy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epLXwup4bpA

Anyway, just saw a VERY expensive Louis Vuiton ad w/ Bowie performing "Id Rather Be High"

Which features the Venetian Mix of said song.
Thanks for the links to that '77 interview, I've seen a short clip of it before, the interviewer is embarrassing. And thanks a LOT for that fantastic Sid Vicious photo!

Happy Birthday!

I always play this for the class on Jan. 8:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa6bI_95G9I

And then I try to come up with some kind of explanation of him. Even though I don't have one. (Also played Velvet Goldmine's opening credits this morning.)

Nice choice, that. I'd REALLY love some sort of Criterion release of VG at this point.

New Box Series Launch: http://www.davidbowie.com/news/five-years-1969-1973-box-set-due-september-54571

No Lightning Frightening or Sweet Head?

No cover of "Growing Up" either.

Or "London, Bye, Ta-Ta".

So 25+ years later and nobody has bested the Ryko reissue program

Yeah, his catalogue has passed over to Parlophone now

Are these going to be remastered or will the Steve Hoffman forum members die in terror

6 Original Studio Albums:
David Bowie AKA Space Oddity*
The Man Who Sold The World*
Hunky Dory*
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
Aladdin Sane
PinUps*

*New 2015 Remasters.

as lovely as these will be i think i am happy with my ryko editions and replica jap sleeve remasters.

this review seems a bit "old school":

Still, they cut loose on the album's most brilliant jewel, "Queen Bitch", a furiously rocking theatrical miniature (Bowie-the-character-actor has rarely chewed the scenery harder) that out-Velvet Undergrounds the Velvet Underground.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21066-five-years-1969-1973/

glad it's finally established - for a new generation - that Hunky and Ziggy are timeless classics