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Re: David Bowie

#26 Post by Pandemonium » Fri Jan 11, 2013 7:54 pm

Matz wrote:yeah Heathen is a good album. But I mean Bowie doesn't really have any weak or embarrassing albums does he, the bar is pretty fuckin high on all of them. It's very impressive. Listening to the new song reminded me what a cool vibrato he's got too, it's so powerful and expressive
I guess it's all subjective, but I consider Tonight, Black Tie White Noise and Never Let Me Down to be pretty weak.

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Re: David Bowie

#27 Post by lollapaloser » Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:57 am

I read a book a few months ago, breaks down all Bowie's music in the 70's. Good read for Bowie nerds like myself.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Sold- ... 0062024655

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Re: David Bowie

#28 Post by Matz » Sat Jan 12, 2013 10:22 am

lollapaloser wrote:I read a book a few months ago, breaks down all Bowie's music in the 70's. Good read for Bowie nerds like myself.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Sold- ... 0062024655
I just checked out his discography and what he put out in the seventies, turns out he pretty much had a classic album out every year! that's evil

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Re: David Bowie

#29 Post by thoreau » Mon Jan 14, 2013 5:48 am

Not that this is a surprise (just posting it for those who haven't seen it), but Tony Visconti says there a still no plans to tour again:

http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/68126

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Re: David Bowie

#30 Post by Romeo » Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:33 am

:cona:
I really wish he would do a small tour. I did see him on the last thank goodness.

(and serious moonlight & glass spiders)

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Re: David Bowie

#31 Post by Artemis » Tue Sep 09, 2014 8:41 pm

This is great. :lol:


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Re: David Bowie

#32 Post by Romeo » Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:34 pm

does anyone have Showtime??? Have you seen this documentary???
It. Is. Awsome!



http://flavorwire.com/newswire/david-bo ... n-showtime

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Re: David Bowie

#33 Post by Larry B. » Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:55 pm

Image

David Bowie as Tilda Swinton and Tilda Swinton as David Bowie.

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#34 Post by tubro » Sun Sep 21, 2014 6:31 am

i did see that and it is astonishingly fantastic. eno and visconti and alomar are interviewed in depth about five amazing mini-eras in db's career. plus shorter but interesting and sometimes hysterical interviews with many other involved parties.

when the next day came out, i was amazed to find that the director of that first video was the husband of an old friend of mine. i called her up and said she must have been in on the big secret. she said she was actually 'in' the big secret. she's the woman whose face appears next to david's in the video. she told me at the time that she and her husband hang out with david a lot and that he did intend to do a some shows but probably not a tour. but that was a while ago and nothing has come of it. i'd go. i agree with those who said that heathen was very good but black tie and never let me go were sort of weak links. but the shows were always incredible. last one i saw was in a club in the bronx. first was at the garden on the 'stage' tour in 78. (wait. did i see the thin white duke tour? i honestly don't recall.) both were great along with many in between.
Romeo wrote:does anyone have Showtime??? Have you seen this documentary???
It. Is. Awsome!



http://flavorwire.com/newswire/david-bo ... n-showtime

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Re: David Bowie

#35 Post by Pandemonium » Sun Oct 12, 2014 9:23 am

Bowie goes full tilt jazz. This is the new song "Sue" that I believe is going to be included on his upcoming revamped greatest hits box set "Sound and Vision:"

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... GodUgnO7lY[/youtube]

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Re: David Bowie

#36 Post by Matz » Sun Oct 12, 2014 11:41 am

deep music! :cool:

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#37 Post by Larry B. » Sun Oct 12, 2014 2:04 pm

Pandemonium wrote:Bowie goes full tilt jazz. This is the new song "Sue" that I believe is going to be included on his upcoming revamped greatest hits box set "Sound and Vision:"

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... GodUgnO7lY[/youtube]
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Re: David Bowie

#38 Post by Pandemonium » Mon Nov 09, 2015 9:39 pm

New Bowie album "Blackstar" out on 1/8/16:

http://imablackstar.com/

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Re: David Bowie

#39 Post by Artemis » Fri Nov 27, 2015 8:05 pm

Pandemonium wrote:New Bowie album "Blackstar" out on 1/8/16:

http://imablackstar.com/
I just watched the first episode of the show that "Blackstar" is the theme for - The Last Panthers. I enjoyed the first episode and will definitely watch the next one.
The Last Panthers is a European crime drama television series created by Jack Thorne and directed by Johan Renck.[1] It is based on real events inspired by the notorious Balkan jewel thieves the Pink Panthers. The six-part series is set to premier on Canal+ on 26 October 2015 in France, on Sky Atlantic on 12 November 2015 in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany and Austria, and in the US in spring 2016 on SundanceTV.



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Re: David Bowie

#40 Post by Pandemonium » Thu Jan 07, 2016 9:20 pm

The new album is excellent:


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Re: David Bowie

#41 Post by Matov » Thu Jan 07, 2016 9:31 pm

It is.

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#42 Post by lollapaloser » Sat Jan 09, 2016 5:38 am

I got it yesterday and listened to it twice in a row, I love it.

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Re: David Bowie

#43 Post by janesbiggestfan » Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:52 am

Oh so now he is dead. This time for realz.... rip.
never was my favorite but there is a level of influence and creative force that one cannot deny regardless of personal taste

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Re: David Bowie

#44 Post by creep » Mon Jan 11, 2016 4:40 am

i was going to mention that i was surprised that an album came out because there were so many rumors of him being really sick.

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Re: David Bowie

#45 Post by SR » Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:58 am

I'm not the guy who gets affected by the passing of people i have never known. Bowies passing hurt. As his friend said, 'it's time to cry".

Live At The Philidelpia Tower is the best live album of all time.

He was the voice I was introduced to music with

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Re: David Bowie

#46 Post by Romeo » Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:45 am

I'm so glad I did go to the final tour (though we didn't know at the time he would stop touring)



I was at this show with my friend Kathy

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Re: David Bowie

#47 Post by Pandemonium » Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:49 am

This one's really a gut punch, even more so than Lemmy's passing a week ago.

Bowie was one of the first artists I got into in the mid 70's, his voice was immediately distinctive no matter what new genre he was mining. I wore out the vinyl and 8 track of "ChangesOneBowie" (which is still one of the greatest "Best Of's" anyone has ever put out) in just a few year's time. The coolest thing was even though near the end of the 70's he was moving into increasingly off kilter musical styles, he was still compelling. I saw Bowie three times live, US Festival and Anaheim Stadium Serious Moonlight tour shows in '83 and his last tour for the Reality album in '04 at the relatively intimate Wiltern Theater. For whatever reasons, I couldn't and still can't get into his previous couple albums "Reality" and "The Next Day" but picked up "Black Star" on CD last Friday and as previously mentioned, was blown away. What an amazing final act.

Another thing, it appears just announced over the weekend tribute concert dedicated to the Bowie's musical legacy with Bowie's longtime collaborator Tony Visconti in charge of the house band at New York's Carnegie Hall on March 31st will now be a memorial concert. Along with already announced performers The Roots, Cyndi Lauper, the Mountain Goats, Heart's Ann Wilson, Jakob Dylan, Perry Farrel will also perform. Undoubtedly more high(er) profile performers will be added and the scale and scope will increase dramatically.

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Re: David Bowie

#48 Post by perkana » Thu Jan 14, 2016 5:50 pm

I finally got time to listen to this 2 hour interview with David Bowie. It's 2 hours long and it has 26 days left to listen (it's the BBC).
Ken Bruce hosts a biography of Bowie drawn entirely from BBC archive interviews and sessions
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06z19rx
There's also a documentary that I can't watch because it's only for the UK, but if you can, here's the link:
David Bowie: Five Years
An intimate portrait of five key years in David Bowie's career. Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive, this film looks at how Bowie continually evolved, from Ziggy Stardust to the soul star of Young Americans and the 'Thin White Duke'. It explores his regeneration in Berlin with the critically-acclaimed album Heroes, his triumph with Scary Monsters and his global success with Let's Dance. With interviews with his closest collaborators, this film investigates how Bowie has become an icon of our times
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0214tj1

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Re: David Bowie

#49 Post by Larry B. » Fri Jan 15, 2016 5:41 am

That "Five Years" documentary was really good, I watched on Netflix in Chile last year. Some of the live footage was really, really impressive. I could fell the "danger" in Bowie's performance, absolutely incredible.

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#50 Post by perkana » Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:28 am

A friend told me it was on Film & Arts on the day he died. Maybe it's time for me to get Netflix or buy an IP thingy that lets me watch BBC videos.

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