It was apparently a tribute to Elvis Presley's TCB In A Flash logo, although I haven't double-checked the timing yet.
― YOLO Versus Powerball on the Moneygoround, Part One (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 January 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
Bettye LaVette's is my fave non-Bowie version of "It Ain't Easy" (recorded in '72, dunno if it was pre- or post-Ziggy, though)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUyNsb6721Y
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 23 January 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
https://yerdoingreat.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/elvis-n-bowie/
Please overlook dodgy spelling of the King's name at the beginning.
― YOLO Versus Powerball on the Moneygoround, Part One (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 January 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
Also be sure to click on Bowie's X-mas greeting in an Elvis voice.
― YOLO Versus Powerball on the Moneygoround, Part One (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 January 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
I can hear Elvis doing the "One of these days and it won't be long/I believe oh lord, I believe" rap
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 23 January 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link
does anybody fuck with the sales brothers after tin machine? this thread's not-quite-rehabilitative words about Tin machine as well as the news that Iggy and Josh Homme will be revisiting Lust for Life and Idiot tunes live (I gotta see that show) makes me wonder about 'em. Plus they were more or less Todd's ostensibly most rockin' rhythm section. Apparently Hunt lives and works in Austin and Tony is in LA? anybody know more?
― veronica moser, Saturday, 23 January 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
soupy is the only sales i fuck with.
― scott seward, Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
hunt sales isn't even on the good Paris album, i don't think. so i can't even say i like him on that...
― scott seward, Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
it's hard to make a bad little kid beat record but they managed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4FmuvTtPY
― scott seward, Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
and i think we can all agree with tony that summer time is the best time for making love when you are 10.
"heroes" track by track with visconti. the song. sorry if linked. missed it if it was.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g18sx?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_arts&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=scotland
― scott seward, Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:14 (eight years ago) link
soupy came out to introduce iggy's band when i saw them at the palladium. he said "on the count of three i want everybody to exhale. one...two...three."
<everybody exhales>
soupy staggers backward. he returns to the mic in a mock stupor and says "...okay...i am now stoned!"
hahahaha!
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
Soupy was hip. He had a late-night show in Detroit called Soup's On that featured like Miles Davis (six appearances), Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown. Joe Messina (Motown Funk Brothers) was in the house band.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
I think the Sales Bros. are my favorite part of "Lust For Life." Listen to the bass on the title track or "The Passenger," just killer.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 23 January 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
I love the Visconti track by track so much. Watched the Music Moguls doc (presented by Nile R) on BBC4 last night with the kids and really wanted an hour of the Visconti bit and - hey presto - turns out there is a much longer cut of that section and there it is.
Finally explains the three gated-mics approach for the "Heroes" vocal - they only had one track left after all that Fripp x 3, Eno x N, George+flange, Carlos, Dennis kit multi-mic'd, Bowie on chamberlin, piano, tamb and ARP. BUT - how did they then squeeze Tony and David's backing vox in? A spare bit of space on another track (piano out by then?), submix? It's not on the main vocal track (you'd never do that anyway), as we hear it solo'd and TV+DB harmonies aren't there.
I demand a further BBC4 documentary purely for this issue.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 23 January 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link
xpThey are a big part of why this album just radiates vitality. Recreating this exact atmosphere seems to me like one of the main reasons for Bowie to later try Tin Machine. Personal favourite Sales contribution on LFL still background vocal work on Turn Blue and Tonight, call & response part of Success is all-time.
― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Saturday, 23 January 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link
here's a pretty thorough Sound On Sound article about the making of "heroes": http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct04/articles/classictracks.htm
― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 23 January 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link
(features words from visconti)
I need to read visconti's book real soon
― major tom's cabin (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 23 January 2016 21:50 (eight years ago) link
Ooh, great - thanks!
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 23 January 2016 21:57 (eight years ago) link
Watching Hours-era interview on TFI Friday plus an interview on Jonathan Ross circa Reality and its worthwhile pointing out what a funny, warm, candid interviewee Bowie was, even if material at the time was mixed.
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 24 January 2016 03:52 (eight years ago) link
lol one of my first published reviews: https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/david-bowie-back-in-magnificent-form/
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 January 2016 05:56 (eight years ago) link
You lost a small plot of land.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 24 January 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
I woke up to this, shared by a friend, made my day already:
https://youtu.be/KeIDJLw5DB4
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Sunday, 24 January 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
This is making mine – Bowie on Johnny Carson in 1980 doing Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, with Carlos Alomar and GE Smith on guitar:
http://youtu.be/NkefglL9c4c
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 24 January 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
omg collardio that's priceless
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 January 2016 16:09 (eight years ago) link
When you're being interviewed by a Professional Yorkshireman like Michael Parkinson it pays to have a Yorkshire story up your sleeve, smart work from 't lad, Bowie.
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 January 2016 16:18 (eight years ago) link
At some point needed the aid of the Portuguese subtitles to follow.
― YOLO Versus Powerball on the Moneygoround, Part One (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 January 2016 16:25 (eight years ago) link
TCB lightning bolt jewelry started around 72, so guess there was time for Bowie to become aware of it and incorporate before Aladdin Sane.
― YOLO Versus Powerball on the Moneygoround, Part One (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 January 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
I could listen to Bowie speaking Northern for HOURS.
― jedi slimane (suzy), Sunday, 24 January 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
So James Redd went to see one of the Blackstar band members perform last Tuesday and talked to him a little bit. He told me how much he enjoyed working with and talking to both Bowie and Tony Visconti, that Bowie had, as we know, read tons of books and that he always had really interesting things to say about the many topics he had learned about, not as a show-off but in a more humble way. He recommended the Tony Visconti book., so I asked did Tony give you a copy before you started working on the project and he said no, he had already read it beforehand.
― YOLO Versus Powerball on the Moneygoround, Part One (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 January 2016 16:52 (eight years ago) link
― jedi slimane (suzy), Sunday, January 24, 2016 10:29 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
SAME
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Sunday, 24 January 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
that Life On Mars band performance is TIGHT!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 24 January 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link
Yeah Bowie speaking Northern is magic
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 January 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
Then how come he didn't do an Eric Burdon imo on that tape? If not Alan Price.
― YOLO Versus Powerball on the Moneygoround, Part One (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 January 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link
A gay friend of mine who grew up in Wakefield (Northern town) had me in hysterics with stories about his French class at school, alongside hard-lad miner's sons who could be reduced to tears because they kept saying FAR ME DOBBLE when asked to say formidable.
― jedi slimane (suzy), Sunday, 24 January 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
What about the running gag on Alan Partridge about the Geordie accent?
― YOLO Versus Powerball on the Moneygoround, Part One (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 January 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
XP I have just sent said friend the above link.
This may be the least of its problems, but Labyrinth is on UK television right now and WHO TOLD JENNIFER CONNELLY SHE COULD ACT?
― jedi slimane (suzy), Sunday, 24 January 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
Um...
― Hang Onto Your Selfie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 January 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, who cares if she can or not, eh boys ;)
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 January 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/194024/Screen-Shot-2014-10-22-at-12-28-52.jpg
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 24 January 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
Hahaha!
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 24 January 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link
she's good in labyrinth!
― flappy bird, Sunday, 24 January 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
Visconti breaks down Heroes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g18sx
― Number None, Sunday, 24 January 2016 23:06 (eight years ago) link
(xp) Pretty sure she's a better actor than, er, David Bowie.
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 January 2016 23:19 (eight years ago) link
how dare u
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 January 2016 23:27 (eight years ago) link
also she was like 14 at the time!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 24 January 2016 23:46 (eight years ago) link
LOL that explains the Big Lebowski joke, I've never seen Labyrinth!
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 January 2016 23:50 (eight years ago) link
good now everyone's confused
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 January 2016 00:08 (eight years ago) link
wait bowie's dead?
― broderik f (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2016 00:41 (eight years ago) link