David Bowie R.I.P

you guys don't think it sucks to take a legendary 3 1/2 minute performance and cut it down to 1 minute so that Fred Armisen can talk in front of it?

i see that all the time. Fred Armisen talks all the time. David Bowie and Klaus Nomi only did mainstream TV once. show the whole damn clip.

B-b-b-but doesn't he say "I'm just keeding!" afterwards?

it is amazing that Bowie snuck in some puppet dick in the "Boys Keep Swinging" performance. makes up for censoring the line "other boys check you out"

yeah that bbc five years doc was great

carlos alomar was awesome and fripp was p. funny

Fripp looks like Colin Newman.

maybe bowie should have made tin machine with wire instead

Yeah!

Love hearing Carlos talk about Bowie. He's one of the great sideman collaborators, like um, Bernie Worrell and Bruce Langhorne. Ugh

i believe 60 seconds is the maximum amount of time a SNL viewer looks up from his/her phone during the show.

Can't stand Fred Armisen.

Uh - sorry...

Yeah "Five Years" is excellent. Love Fripp's Pop vs. Rock N' Roll explanation. :)

A friend of mine organized this (a choir of 500 people singing "Space Oddity") and I didn't expect to be moved but I was very very moved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKg1_fKO1sY&feature=youtu.be

I'm drunk and just transitioned from "Rebel Rebel" to the Gin Blossoms *types "copyshrug.com" into address bar*

also idk if they followed thru on my suggestion or not, but my college radio station did a 6-hour(!) Bowie tribute; when pressed I requested "The Man Who Sold the World" -> "All Along the Watchtower" -> "Song for Bob Dylan"

In the Dutch TV interview linked above, he describes himself as an artist who "tries to capture the rate of change." What a great line.

Acoustic version of "Heroes" came up on shuffle while were driving home tonight and I bawled my eyes out

guess I'm not done crying after all :/

Sorry. I finally listened to "Life on Mars?" today after holding off and got a little verklempt myself.

Question: why does "Rebel Rebel" seem to be the goto tribute cover song? Easier chords (never tried to learn)? Distinctive opening riff after which who cares what you play or sing until the first stop?

why do you think it is?

What do you mean by "why?"?

"Rebel Rebel" seems kind of like the definitive Glam song that's actually about GLAM--and yes, THAT RIFF. It's one of the 5 or 6 Bowie Classic Rock Radio Staples in the US that still get regular airings (The others being "Space Oddity", "Fame", "Golden Years", "Let's Dance", and "Young Americans", the last of which has really taken off in the last 5-10 years).

xp what events led you to believe that 'rebel rebel' is the goto tribute song? i myself have not seen that song referenced

Is there another classic rock song that sounds very similar to Rebel Rebel? I keep thinking there is but I am drawing a blank on what it might be.

Or that has a riff similar to that riff?

i don't know, "Substitute"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eswQl-hcvU0

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

xp what events led you to believe that 'rebel rebel' is the goto tribute song? i myself have not seen that song referenced

You know come to think of it, "Rebel Rebel" is a glam song but at the same time it has a lot in common with a repetitive garage rock staple like "Gloria."

And it draws a line back through that to the fifties, if only through the title.

definitely one of the easier bowie songs to cover and I'm sure that helps -- easy chords, easy vocal melody, repetitive

4/4 Stomp Beat...similar to "Satisfaction" and a bunch of Motown songs.

Right, that too

Chord progression is kind of "So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star."

I could just about imagine the Boss working up a Thunder Road/Life on Mars? medley, but some of the crowd might get restless and leave, missing the rest of the 3 hour and 45 minute show.

hey whoa no springsteen shade in here

tbh i think the rebel rebel lyrics are kinda anthemic in their way, individuality, flying yr freak flag, 'ludes etc

hey whoa no springsteen shade in here

Trying to predict how many more such performances of "Rebel Rebel" we should expect. Wouldn't mind a Patti Smith version.

Also Troggs - "I Can't Control Myself"

Second part of the verses

Has that drum beat

I need a Tom Petty version in my life

And the chords

i think he might be quoting "White Light/White Heat" meter-wise a bit

> that buxton show is terrific, is there some easy way to do an mp3 rip of it? hope they keep it up

Available at https://archive.org/details/AdamBuxtonOnDavidBowie31stMarch2013

Spotify search of that song seems to only be showing me Bowie plus the Seu Jorge cover from The Life Aquatic. Loved those versions within the movie but they left me kind of cold when the CD surfaced a little later.

Portuguese lyrics are quite freely translated. Lots of phrasebook greeting stuff that even I can understand.

Ah, no Mick Ronson or other flashy guitar player to duplicate on the original track as further evidence.

btw did Morrissey ever kiss and make up w/ him?

A few more things before I test pattern out of here:

There is a funny story out there about Bowie teaching "Rebel Rebel" to John McEnroe.

Wayne County claims that Bowie got the idea for the song from a Wayne County song, but I don't hear it.

"Rebel Rebel" sounding like "Satisfaction" has always been its main appeal to me

+ the lyrics