David Bowie R.I.P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwOQ5UQJ1dQ

"Anyway Anywhere Anyhow" is him doing his Iggy Pop isn't it? lovely!

I never truly understood that joke about "the living will envy the dead" until I saw Lady Gaga's "tribute" to Bowie on the Grammys last night. Holy fuck, that was awful. I know everything on the Grammys is aimed at 65-year-olds, but this was a special kind of clueless Vegas horror.

it would have been better if they had played 1 or 2 songs in full instead of an awkwardly slapped-together medley

B-b-but better is not always better.

yeah the mistake was shoving all of those songs in there, too cheesy, awful. should have done 2 and been done with it.

she should've restaged "Sweet Thing/Candidate" like on the 1974 tour.

The mistake was: no Laughing Gnome, no credibility.
Unless I blinked and missed it.

Gawd that was wretched.

OK, the door is open for the Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn and Bono tribute band..

This was like what a David Bowie Super Bowl halftime show would've been, if Bowie had been asked, and if he was an idiot.

Not sure where this came from but it's kinda interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEr3t1FggFI

Weirdly, posted on the same day by a different YT username:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tJlv-9-PVg

If she would have just done the Vegas arrangement of Heroes it would have been almost passable in a fun but terrible way. That was just terrible without being fun.

Bowie's live performances (that I've watched) seem to be about wit and charisma just as much as the music, whereas the 2 minutes of the Gaga thing I was able to stand, seemed like a grim, joyless slog through as many references and snippets as possible. Kind of antithetical to the idea of a "tribute".

I dunno, impossible task?

On the other hand, if she'd have just done a version of "Suffragette City", that might have worked.

I'll give her a pass after the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

Ned shared this via Facebook yesterday and it was a nuanced and intelligent read, so I thought I'd put it here. This topic has been, if not bugging me, then floating at the periphery of my consciousness. Since the Saville furor broke I've been waiting for 'pop' 'stars' (rather than DJs and TV presenters) to start being named, shamed, and charged in the same way, but it hasn't happened. And it hasn't happened because it's incredibly complicated.

http://jezebel.com/what-should-we-say-about-david-bowie-and-lori-maddox-1754533894

That was very good

yeah i really like that piece. i like how deep it goes in expressing how much the 70's *was* another planet without letting Bowie off the hook

For Bowie, the same idea has started to foment—that this encounter with Maddox (and the others it implies) should be, as with Cosby, his major legacy.

LOL. Internet culture.

i don't doubt that this happened, but i can't help but feel a little uneasy when a writer flatly states "the facts are not debatable" and then writes something like "this encounter with maddox (and the others it implies)."

that said, i do appreciate the measured, thoughtful tone of the article. i ran across a couple of other thinkpieces about this that came out right after bowie's death that were, uh, not so thoughtful or measured.

i like how deep it goes in expressing how much the 70's *was* another planet without letting Bowie off the hook

yep, I grew up in 70's commune culture and attitudes towards sex were frequently skewed in the direction of permissiveness, sometimes by consensus.

'David, I watched the movie and I got to be honest, it's not my thing.' He said, 'I'm not made for these times. So thanks, but I think I'm gonna sit this one out.'"
Grohl says that after thanking Bowie, he quickly received another reply: "Alright, well that's settled then. Now, fuck off." Unsure whether he was joking, Grohl messaged back to say he'd see Bowie in 16 years at his next big birthday concert. Grohl recalls, "He immediately sends one back and says, 'Don't hold your breath. ... No more birthdays, I've run out of them.' But then he wrote, 'But that was a really fun night, wasn't it.'"

http://pitchfork.com/news/63625-david-bowie-rejected-a-dave-grohl-collaboration-saying-im-not-made-for-these-times/

Bowie also sent Bono a list of reasons he hadn't enjoyed Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark

1. It sucked.
2. See #1.

follow up query- how many such emails did Bono receive?

Bowie also sent Bono a list of reasons he hadn't enjoyed Achtung Baby

Bowie also sent Bono a list of reasons he hadn't enjoyed The Lego Movie

Bowie also sent Bono a list of reasons he hadn't enjoyed Bono.

A list? Several leather bound volumes more like.

Bowie also sent Bono a list of reasons he hadn't enjoyed Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Bowie also sent Bono a list of reasons he hadn't enjoyed: Coldplay

JOE THE LION FUCKING HELL

In my dreams, instead of releasing Let's Dance and Tonight, Bowie, started a band with Fripp and Eno called Paddy & the Super Creeps that released three critically acclaimed albums from 1981-84 and was remembered fondly for a world tour in which Bowie mimed the servicing of Fripp as the guitarist played the solo to "Fashion" seated on his stool while Eno conducted an orchestra composed entirely of naked Japanese women.

https://youtu.be/PCW6fy_60_k?list=PL9nh5ZtODfm4Ks3YejSehsD4sEfJvbaDq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCW6fy_60_k

hehe, wish there was a "Don't Look Back" movie w Bowie

Well, there is this..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUeU4p_Lk-g

added to watchlist!

In my dreams, instead of releasing Let's Dance and Tonight, Bowie, started a band with Fripp and Eno called Paddy & the Super Creeps that released three critically acclaimed albums from 1981-84 and was remembered fondly for a world tour in which Bowie mimed the servicing of Fripp as the guitarist played the solo to "Fashion" seated on his stool while Eno conducted an orchestra composed entirely of naked Japanese women.

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excellent dream nonsense. must try to make music that sounds like this.

Scott Walker lives. Let this dream be modified slightly and brought to life.

Bono :‑O

fan around 28:37 in that Actor-vid is perfect

Dude: He's... he's from his own universe
Journalist: What universe is that?
Dude: Bowie universe.
Journalist: Are you into the Bowie universe?
Dude: He's the center, I was drawn to it.
Journalist: How were you drawn to it?
Dude: I'm from Phoenix and I just... came.

I'd love it if Bowie just continuously emailed lists of things he didn't like to Bono - never replying to anything else.

http://i.imgur.com/xZzfEZ6.jpg

lol

don't think this was posted before, but in the latest Artforum there are remembrances from Tony Oursler and Greil Marcus. The Oursler one is online: https://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201603&id=58102

And now to add to the loss, Dennis Davis, his mid to late seventies/early eighties drummer, has passed. He was in treatment for some time so not unexpected, but no less hard. A post from Tony Visconti:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209289299932162&set=a.1164806282971.25527.1312292203&type=3

RIP :(

Very sad; he was integral to Bowie's best rhythm section imo