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Post by Johnkenn on Jan 11, 2016 10:44:33 GMT -6
David has been and always will be a jewel in the crown of our shared creative consciousness. You are loved Brother, you are loved. Welcome iamasound!
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Post by Martin John Butler on Jan 11, 2016 12:17:54 GMT -6
Just saw this post, so I'll remove my post and join in here.
The impact David Bowie had on me and all the musicians I knew is incalculable. I'm deeply saddened, but grateful for everything he did through his art for people everywhere. I had many personal connections to him. I knew or worked with some of the musicians he'd worked with, and once, a long time back, the first time we met, we chatted for more than three hours after a show during his Diamond Dogs tour. He'd heard of Pandora, my NYC band at that time, and we had much in common. To be so acknowledged and accepted in such a way was a gift that emboldened me for a lifetime. I don't think he'll rest in peace for very long, though he surely has earned it. I'm sure he'll be working on something magnificent to bring to the heaven's, where they'll be glad he's come back for a little while to share his light and love.
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Post by Ward on Jan 11, 2016 12:54:32 GMT -6
Thx Donr, never heard or seen that before, very touching and evocative. To me, that is the essence of Bowie< a creative person who was uncompromising in the pursuit of his artistic vision; truly gifted and an original ! That was the single, released before The Next Day album came out. I heard it on iTunes, bought it, then the album. I thought, 'man, this guy hasn't lost a step.' Neither have you, my friend! Watching and listening to you perform a year ago, I was taken back in time to when I was 8 years old idolizing you. You sing and play the same as then if not better... and you've hardly aged!! All that time in Florida... I guess you found Ponce De Leon's secret spring!
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Post by swurveman on Jan 11, 2016 17:51:34 GMT -6
RIP David. What a star. He had the versatility to go from the understated Major Tom personality in songs like "Space Oddity", to the balls out rocking"Suffragette City" stuff. A major voice of my youth. Incredibly versatile. Not many people earn the label "one of A kind", but David Bowie certainly did.
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Post by carymiller on Jan 11, 2016 18:14:30 GMT -6
Absolutely one of my favorite artists of all time. It's funny I had one of his songs stuck in my head the last several days prior to this...and I absolutely loved "Black Star".
(If you haven't seen the video for that song...there is absolutely a ton of imagery dealing with mortality and identity in that song/short film. I believe yotonic posted it on the first pagee of this thread.)
I loved him dearly for never, ever selling out. He always chose to do what lit a fire in his belly over milking fads. He always pushed boundaries creatively rather than recycling tired ideas and formulaic music. Most importantly, he always had something to SAY. The most rare of musical commodities these days.
I've been listening to his records...Low, Earthling, 1.Outside, Heathen, Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), etc....all day, and I realize, I'm truly sad about this one. Very few celebrity figures ever move me emotionally to my core when they die, but he was many, many things...to so many generations.
I just showed my Girlfriend's children Labrynth a few weeks ago...and explained to them that "The Goblin King" was a real life musical genius their mom loves to death (she's a Bowie super-fan like me.)
Today I had to tell them the king is dead, but his music was so fresh...so timeless, that I'm not sure you can put a date on any of it. Everything he ever made sounds like the future.
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Post by rowmat on Jan 11, 2016 18:22:49 GMT -6
"Look up here I'm in heaven I've got scars that can't be seen I've got drama, can't be stolen Everybody knows me now..."
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Post by mrholmes on Jan 11, 2016 18:32:32 GMT -6
I did listen to the new Album today, fantastic as always, but its totaly coloured to face the death.
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Post by WKG on Jan 11, 2016 18:34:46 GMT -6
Such a creative wind that blew through his life.
He was one of the few that had the courage to let it take him wherever it wanted to go.
RIP.
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Post by kidvybes on Jan 11, 2016 19:48:11 GMT -6
...one small example of his undeniable integrity...("scared to death by Prince")...
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 11, 2016 20:15:14 GMT -6
a couple thoughts regarding some posts:
- worked on Isley Brothers song Harvest for the World today. there's a dude on youtube that has a great lesson video. also a video of a band of young and older musicians playing it that really cooks.
- the woman who cut my hair today (the few making custer's last stand, so to speak, circling the wagons around my bald pate, said that David Bowie was in her favorite movie of all time: (Labyrinth). I mentioned to her about Ziggy Stardust album, and that if I could only have 10 albums (maybe even top 5 material), it would be on the list.
- I also told her that I had read about Bowie. one of the kinds of music he liked was Soul and US black artists. (something about Philadelphia, maybe in the 70's. its in the wiki article.) so much great music has been written and recorded by black artists. the influence which they have contributed with Blues and Jazz is immeasurably large. music is the great uniter. it unites people across all boundaries, racial, financial status, all..... I am so glad that I am a musician. it is the source of so much joy for me. one of the things I like so much about the Ziggy Stardust album, is the beautiful melodies. some of them so simple. I think its so easy to not realize, that some of the very best stuff is really very simple pretty melodies. Hendrix played the solo of May This Be Love on the B string. just that 1 string!!!
I don't feel all that sad that David Bowie died. I think that he has a real soul. I think we all do. I think wherever he is right now, he is very happy.
none of us are booked for a permanent engagement on this Earth. temporary. ephemeral. we're born, we do stuff, and we die. ground rules of life. I'm just being realistic. live and love and laugh now. and make some music.
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Post by tonycamphd on Jan 11, 2016 20:23:53 GMT -6
...one small example of his undeniable integrity...("scared to death by Prince")... "I understand your point haha", that tiny little man just sat there and waxed on pathetic to a guy who's using his own balls as a seat cushion for lack of a better option, the world lost a great today.
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Post by geoff738 on Jan 11, 2016 21:41:26 GMT -6
"Look up here I'm in heaven I've got scars that can't be seen I've got drama, can't be stolen Everybody knows me now..." Wow. Just wow. Anybody who can watch that and not be incredibly moved I fear my not be alive. Geoff
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Post by EmRR on Jan 11, 2016 22:59:36 GMT -6
I walked with a friend down 3 miles of railroad tracks to get to a midnight movie showing (the one and only time it appeared locally) of Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture when it came out in '83. I was too young to drive yet. It was the event of the month, for sure, and I don't see many parents allowing that trip today.
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Post by tonycamphd on Jan 12, 2016 0:00:59 GMT -6
I listened to Blackstar the album, man.... friggin rocking it hard! a totally interesting, and refreshing piece of work....., great players performing their no BS, hard core, unapologetic ART, the sonics and mixing are also really really great!! What a killer marriage of old school ballz out musicianship, utilizing the advantages of modern recording, i'm seriously impressed on all fronts, I all but guarantee he posthumously wins multiple grammy's for this, well, at least he should.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2016 2:55:35 GMT -6
Art, this is the word that describes what Bowie was for music, stage presence and even movie acting. Sometimes you thought that he would have lost his mind if he would just go one step further in becoming the roles he created and played for us on stage. His music was around me since i was a teenager, i guess there was no album i did'nt hear, it was just totally natural to listen to the new Bowie album. Each time. Bowie is one of the artists, and i mean artist in the most honest meaning of the word, who was there, wherever people made modern music, no matter which style, if you wanted to be a sincere musician, there was no getting around him. He was kind of an indicator of cultural development thru the decades while beeing absolutely unique. And he was always entertaining in the best sense, intelligent, emotional, sincere and still always having a good portion of humor. When he was so deeply connected to Germany and Berlin, he took us by storm, and he was most probably the only musician ever who played in a grey most elegant suit and outfit with a really cool and razor sharp artsy rock sound in front of poppers, punks, rockers, alternative people, the most heterogeneous audience ever. "Heroes" became probably the most ingenious hymn that everybody could connect to at it's time and that made him most popular in Germany. The continuous inspiration due to continious changes, that he gave us, will be missed from now on. Rest in peace and thank you for the music, David Bowie.
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 12, 2016 7:10:52 GMT -6
thank you smallbutfine. I just listened to Heroes in German for a minute and am now listening to the English version. and I love it. I did not like it years ago. I just read on wikipedia a little about the song. wow, so much I don't know. Bowie was a really great man. I had no clue. am linking the article. an interesting studio recording thing is the 3 microphone vocal recording thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Heroes%22_(David_Bowie_song)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2016 8:14:46 GMT -6
BTW, the book and the movie about "Christiane F." were bestsellers and a great success in german speaking countries and became a modern classic as a drug drama about teenage heroin (sic!) junkies living and dying around Bahnhof Zoo train station in berlin where they prostituted themselves to finance their addiction during the first wave of heroin in the end 70s and 80's in Germany after WW2. Bowie's "Heroes" can also be interpreted as resembling the rhythm and warm/cold athmosphere of the slow but euphoric heroin rush and Bowie was very popular in the drug scenes, too, at that time. One of the key scenes and absolute highlights in the movie is a live performance of the split version on stage in Berlin, where Christiane F. sniffed Heroin for the first time right thereafter... The song "Heroes" is working on so many levels, it's scaring.
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 12, 2016 8:37:45 GMT -6
very interesting.
not clear what this means: "the first wave of heroin in the end 70s and 80's in Germany after WW2."
WW2 ended in 1945, I thought.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2016 8:42:29 GMT -6
Another exciting innovation that Bowie made, was making a soundtrack with 6 completely new songs for an extremely innovative 3d computer game from the french developer studio Quantic Dream, that was far ahead of it's time and invented many new techniques of computer game programming and design. Bowie was highly impressed by the new interactive media possibilities, so he also cooperated and gave input on the game design and story. It had many cinematic moments, a metaphysical SF story - and Bowie was for sure the first rock star ever who had a cameo as a complete character in a computer game with his own face on a 3d avatar in game. Another piece of visionary modern art many do not know... 1999!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2016 8:45:02 GMT -6
very interesting. not clear what this means: "the first wave of heroin in the end 70s and 80's in Germany after WW2." WW2 ended in 1945, I thought. Sorry, strange sequence, sorry. It should have been "the first wave of heroin since WW2, that was in the late 70s and 80s. "(the wave, not the war....better?) ;-)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2016 9:02:35 GMT -6
PS: I just became aware - the game was about - an IMMORTAL soul, that is reincarnating every time the character dies - in another person. Wow.
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 12, 2016 9:20:51 GMT -6
ah, thanks smallbutfine. I should have realized thats what you meant.
how interesting it is to me, that I soooooo disliked Heroes when it came out. and now I really like it. I certainly have broadened my tastes humongously since then. yeah, and I have a whole nearly 40 more years of life experience loving and playing music from all genres. its me that changed.
awesome posts smallbutfine.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2016 9:37:56 GMT -6
Bowie is obviously not the kind of music where you like each and every song in the beginning. Just a few days ago i had a discussion with a music critic, who wrote about Blackstar: "I hate Bowie for that. And i am his greatest fanboy on earth. The album sounds good. Too good. No it is not good. It's trivial. But not really...no, it's not. I will write my final verdict in 6 months and won't listen to it until then. It is not the first album of him that i have this problem with..." He really wrote this essentially as his official critics to this album on a large music portal he writes for.... And i can understand that... You want to like everything that came from him. Even if you don't. And at another point in time you listen again and drop your jaw...
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Post by mobeach on Jan 12, 2016 10:24:23 GMT -6
I did listen to the new Album today, fantastic as always, but its totaly coloured to face the death. He knew it was coming while he was writing it. It's a dark world we're living in so one doesn't have to dig deep for inspiration.
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Post by warrenfirehouse on Jan 12, 2016 10:26:34 GMT -6
RIP Mr. Bowie. You will be missed dearly!
These two together were just beautiful. Love this.
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