Ah, looks like he is in Paris, that's why he wasn't around on Tuesday, never mind.
― Poxy's Dilemma (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 January 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
Highly doubt they would do some kind of tour like that.
― Poxy's Dilemma (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 January 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
hahaha
http://www.alternativenation.net/david-bowie-turned-down-producing-red-hot-chili-peppers/
“We asked him to produce By the Way, as we were writing By the Way, and then we asked him again for our next record, which was Stadium Arcadium. He said no to us 2 or 3 times, but his mate [Brian] Eno, who we’ve also been asking our entire career to produce a record for us, has said no 8 times.”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 29 January 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
Bowie and eno otm
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 29 January 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
You've got to have standards.
Nice Bono essay. Dude is great at eulogies and rock hall inducting: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/bono-remembers-david-bowie-he-is-my-idea-of-a-rock-star-20160127
I'd like to consider myself David's friend, but I'm more of a fan. He came and visited us when we were mixing Achtung Baby — and, of course, he had introduced us to Berlin and to Hansa Studios. We had a playful sort of banter — he would really go there in conversations, and we would even occasionally hurt each other's feelings. He took his daughter to a matinee to see Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and he sent me the reasons he didn't like it. And everything he said was really helpful, because it was in the early days of the show.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 January 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
There were later days of the show?
― Mark G, Friday, 29 January 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link
"After we incorporated David's ideas ... well, the rest is history. Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark became the global phenomenon we all know and love today."
― tylerw, Friday, 29 January 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
lol
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link
"After we incorporated David's ideas, we decided to fasten the safety harnesses of the aerial stunt performers."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
"After we incorporated David's ideas, we decided to turn Spider-Man into a non-linear Gothic Drama Hyper-Cycle."
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
I find the idea of Bowie or Eno working with RHCP fucking hilarious.
― Turrican, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
Does anyone here rate the Philip Glass symphonies? At the time, I found the whole idea rather pompous. But having listened to them the last few days, I find a bunch of the themes to be quite interestingly treated. While something like "Warsawa" or "Sense of Doubt" is maybe a bit predictable or obvious in that they employ big dramatic gestures, Glass absolutely nails the atmosphere of "Subterraneans." "Sons of the Silent Age" is probably the biggest surprise, with Glass's treatment transforming the melody into this really lilting, lovely thing that the original didn't suggest at all.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
I reviewed the Heroes Symphony in grad school; I've never been inspired to relisten, not since Philip Glass became a film menace.
OTM re "Subterraneans."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link
wow that's really nice
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
We had a playful sort of banter — he would really go there in conversations, and we would even occasionally hurt each other's feelings
Why do I get the feeling this "playful" banter largely went one way?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
lol oops - many xposts re bono tribute
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
Alfred glass has been a 'film menace' for over 30 years including some of his finest work?
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link
especially his film work
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link
Per my above comment re. Glass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwL4uLPNmuA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWYlfSZu9vo&app=desktop
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 29 January 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
I sincerely hope this thread never falls off the main page.
― Davey D, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link
Same here.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:19 (eight years ago) link
You all know this track he did with Dave Grohl and Black Francis...pretty great imo...
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oQEQKXwg7pk
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Friday, 29 January 2016 20:22 (eight years ago) link
Hmmmmm
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/a-david-bowie-biography-coming-from-paul-morley
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
Not familiar with his work, I'm afraid.
― We Built This City On Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 January 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link
Must buy
I actually got a little sad when a new answer wasn't in my iPhone app the other day.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
Oh, I see.
― We Built This City On Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 January 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
MTV posted some restored & uncut interviews a couple weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zri74q3HDDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQi8nUM8AU
― flappy bird, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:16 (eight years ago) link
man he looks sexy in that last clip
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link
eyeliner was an unfortunate choice in the first one
― flappy bird, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
MTV has done this a lot with old interviews lately (they put up the full Kurt Cobain tinsel interview from December 1993), i really appreciate the restoration but also especially how it's completely unedited. six minutes into that Bowie & Reznor clip, Bowie points out that Kurt Loder was trying to make an edit point.
― flappy bird, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
I've been thinking a Bowie guitarist poll would be fun. Trying to think of them all: Ronson, Slick, Fripp, Alomar, Frampton, Gabrels, SRV, Belew, Nile Rogers, Bowie himself... who else?
― Darin, Saturday, 30 January 2016 00:52 (eight years ago) link
The guy who plays on low
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 30 January 2016 01:23 (eight years ago) link
Ricky GardinerBen MonderStacy HeydonPage Hamilton (!)
― Davey D, Saturday, 30 January 2016 01:26 (eight years ago) link
Tim Renwick
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 January 2016 01:29 (eight years ago) link
There's no Keith buried somewhere in "Rebel Rebel', right?
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 30 January 2016 01:57 (eight years ago) link
That's all Bowie, innit?
― We Built This City On Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 January 2016 02:00 (eight years ago) link
Guitar-wise at least
― We Built This City On Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 January 2016 02:08 (eight years ago) link
Oh, plus the ubiquitous Alan Parker.
― We Built This City On Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 January 2016 03:09 (eight years ago) link
Marc Bolan
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 January 2016 03:28 (eight years ago) link
...which reminds me that this hasn't been posted yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDxUAWIkiOg
Had not known 'til recently that this was from the very last episode of "Marc", filmed about a week before Bolan was killed, and originally aired a couple weeks after that.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 January 2016 03:32 (eight years ago) link
Erdal Kızılçayxx-post
― willem, Saturday, 30 January 2016 03:38 (eight years ago) link
xpost so good! and the episode also has Generation X's first tv appearance :D
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 January 2016 03:42 (eight years ago) link
Pete Townshend (on two songs, one in 1980, one in 2002).
xxxp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 30 January 2016 04:04 (eight years ago) link
bowie and his band doing a pretty great velvets impression on heroes there, until bowie actually starts singing of course
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 30 January 2016 09:32 (eight years ago) link
That's Monder doing the Bill Nelson / Fripp muted noodling in I Can't Give Everything Away, right? I love that. Reminds me of Gone To Earth-era Sylvian.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 30 January 2016 10:55 (eight years ago) link
xxxxp
Chuck Hammer (synth guitar on Ashes to Ashes and Teenage Wildlife).
― Vast Halo, Saturday, 30 January 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link
David Torn (sort of a super-digital ambient Fripp) played on the last few.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 January 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link
Jimmy Page on these two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUXj2aZPXrA
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 30 January 2016 14:00 (eight years ago) link
I'm the latter.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 30 January 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
Torn, Fripp and Frisell definitely travel in similar session circles. All three have played with David Sylvian, sequentially: Fripp on "Gone to Earth," Torn on "Secrets of the Beehive," and Frisell (with Ribot) on "Dead Bees on a Cake." There's a cadre of avant ambient guys who always seem to play this role. Fripp, Torn, Frisell, Michael Brook ...
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 January 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link