8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Yeah but getting Dylan to play his back catalogue is like pulling teeth.
RIP David Bowie
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Yeah but getting Dylan to play his back catalogue is like pulling teeth.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
RIP David Bowie.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
We did a Bowie tribute night in leeds last night.
We cobbled the whole thing together in 48 hours - rustling up a bunch of musicians and singers and getting lucky that a local music pub had just had its Saturday night band cancelled.
Despite extremely limited rehearsal at best and most people never having played the songs with each other before - or at all - it was a storming night.
We printed out a bunch of lyric sheets and shouted chords to each other. The place was packed and musical fluffs and lyric fails were all part of the experience as the audience carried the night - roaring along with life on mars, starman, space oddity, changes and and a massive "wham bam - thankyou ma'am!" in the middle of suffergette city. Someone even did "laughing gnome" (with my brother gamely playing the part of the gnome).
It was an extraordinary and deeply moving evening - and it drove home just how much Bowie meant to the people in the room - and also just how many fantastic songs the man recorded.
A real coming together and celebration of alternative culture as epitomised by bowie - he belongs to us - not the cunts like cameron.
A beautiful, exuberant and - fuck it - sacred experience. Thanks Mr Bowie.
We cobbled the whole thing together in 48 hours - rustling up a bunch of musicians and singers and getting lucky that a local music pub had just had its Saturday night band cancelled.
Despite extremely limited rehearsal at best and most people never having played the songs with each other before - or at all - it was a storming night.
We printed out a bunch of lyric sheets and shouted chords to each other. The place was packed and musical fluffs and lyric fails were all part of the experience as the audience carried the night - roaring along with life on mars, starman, space oddity, changes and and a massive "wham bam - thankyou ma'am!" in the middle of suffergette city. Someone even did "laughing gnome" (with my brother gamely playing the part of the gnome).
It was an extraordinary and deeply moving evening - and it drove home just how much Bowie meant to the people in the room - and also just how many fantastic songs the man recorded.
A real coming together and celebration of alternative culture as epitomised by bowie - he belongs to us - not the cunts like cameron.
A beautiful, exuberant and - fuck it - sacred experience. Thanks Mr Bowie.
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Eh? All he does is whine and strum
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
That sounds like an ace night.
I've heard lots of stories of impromptu gigs & stations winging out great tributes.
Yesterday I listened to a interview he gave with Dave Fanning for rte in the 90s, it was long rambling fascinating and Bowie was really generous
cantsin
Well-Known Member
from the Indie today :
His body was secretly cremated in New York without any friends or his relatives present - a final wish of Bowie's. He reportedly wanted "to go without any fuss".
not a word to anyone about his illness, drops the album... then that....stylish exit, no question
His body was secretly cremated in New York without any friends or his relatives present - a final wish of Bowie's. He reportedly wanted "to go without any fuss".
not a word to anyone about his illness, drops the album... then that....stylish exit, no question
No. Really no. But that's a discussion for another thread in another time.
I wish I'd been there. Good on you! Bollocks. But not an argument to be had on this thread.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
As people have pointed out, it's not secret it's private
rayco
New Member
I am a Japanese Bowie fan living in Tokyo. That sounds really great. I wish I would have been there.
I was so shocked to hear the news and could not say anything.
The news was spread online very quickly and there were a huge number of tweets about it in Japan too.
and it was covered in every major news programmes, but just briefly.
I still cannot watch his videos or listen to his music, but i really wished I could have gone to Brixton to sing along with all those people.
I don't have anyone to share these feeling other than some online forums and my family (I read quite a few Japanese people saying the same thing on forums) so I have been looking for and reading articles on Bowie, and found here last night.
I love Britain and always want to go back there, but I felt that most strongly this time.
story
Changing the facts
Welcome to Urban, rayco .
You're experience of being lonesome in this grief is something that I'm hearing from friends all over the world. I've derived such comfort from the tributes and shared sorrows here in Brixton that I can't really imagine how I'd manage if I was without it.
So I'm sending to you the same comfort and support that I'm sending to my friends in other lands who are mourning for Bowie alone.
Oh no love! You're not alone
No matter what or who you've been
No matter when or where you've seen
All the knives seem to lacerate your brain
I've had my share, I'll help you with the pain
You're not alone! Gimme your hands.....
rayco
New Member
Thank you very much, Story.
As I read the lines, the song was played in my head with the voice of Bowie and I cried.
I will post these lines on a Japanese forum with your words (I will translate them into Japanese).
I didn't know that Bowie was a fan of Syd Barrett. Good!
Huge fan! His thoughts (from Uncut, in 2006 after Syd's death, here)
David Bowie: “I can’t tell you how sad I feel. Syd was a major inspiration for me. The few times I saw him perform in London at UFO and the Marquee clubs during the ’60s will forever be etched in my mind. He was so charismatic and such a startlingly original songwriter. Also, along with Anthony Newley, he was the first guy I’d heard to sing pop or rock with a British accent. His impact on my thinking was enormous. A major regret is that I never got to know him. A diamond indeed.”
Syd Barrett's 'Arnold Layne' 'See Emily Play' 'Lucifer Sam' and 'Matilda Mother' - sound like classic Bowie songs - he never ripped them off, but after Syd stopped writing, David Bowie took over the baton and no one else could.
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My Mam has always looked like David Bowie's twin, the stork like limbs, extreme thinness, skyscraper cheekbones, long tombstoney teeth, blondness, eyes set wide apart with one pupil slightly off centre, deathly white skin....the smile unnervingly beautiful. The face is the same.
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Saw Henry Rollins on his 'Charmingly Obstinate' tour tonight in Vicar Street, Dublin ...thought he was gonna talk politics...but he spent most of the evening telling stories of loving (and also meeting!) David Bowie ....and Lemmy.....I've always been a fan of Rollins, what an amazing storyteller.. .
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oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
Of course covered superbly on Pin Ups
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
and about as pleasant.
rayco
New Member
These are some of the pictures taken by Mr Sukita, the photographer who took the cover photo for Heroes.
Bowie loved Kyoto and often visited there and rumor says that he had a house there in the 80's.
I want to share a nice story from the times when Bowie stayed in Kyoto.
* Bowie was at a cafe, and a female high school student asked him questions about her English homework without knowing the person she was talking to was David Bowie. And Bowie kindly answered these questions.
Also, during the shooting of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Bowie asked Takeshi Kitano, 'Please teach me the spirit of zen'. Takeshi said, 'Why don't you sit on the beach and try practice zen'. Bowie did what he was told, and said to Takeshi, 'I think I understand it now'.
I think that he was just a nice and kind, sincere man, when he was not Bowie.
Bowie loved Kyoto and often visited there and rumor says that he had a house there in the 80's.
I want to share a nice story from the times when Bowie stayed in Kyoto.
* Bowie was at a cafe, and a female high school student asked him questions about her English homework without knowing the person she was talking to was David Bowie. And Bowie kindly answered these questions.
Also, during the shooting of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Bowie asked Takeshi Kitano, 'Please teach me the spirit of zen'. Takeshi said, 'Why don't you sit on the beach and try practice zen'. Bowie did what he was told, and said to Takeshi, 'I think I understand it now'.
I think that he was just a nice and kind, sincere man, when he was not Bowie.
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terrythomas
An absolute shower
This thread is wonderful. It feels a little like discovering Bowie all over again. He felt like part of my dna growing up but I never dug really deep (no internet then obviously) and now I am getting a whole new additional appreciation. Revisiting songs, being introduced to new ones and hearing others stories and analysis, I'm so enjoying it.
bi0boy
Power User
Ah,bi0boy, I was listening to the album Space Oddity, the song is Letter to Hermione.
His first love, who also inspired Life on Mars and the possible reason why he was wearing a Song of Norway shirt in the video for Where Are We Now. She left him to appear in the 1970 film.
Hermione Farthingale is her name.
His first love, who also inspired Life on Mars and the possible reason why he was wearing a Song of Norway shirt in the video for Where Are We Now. She left him to appear in the 1970 film.
Hermione Farthingale is her name.
