David Bowie RIP

by **semper occultus** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:01 pm

......just returned to his own planet....

by **JackRiddler** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:40 pm

A personal obituary for the Major and the minor:

If you are reading what I put here, as opposed to all those who are not, then you belong to a group I shall for the moment define as we. I think today 99% of us are mourning David Bowie. Does it feel like the end of the Seventies, or the beginning of how those who share a particular feeling of Seventies, and then Eighties, and then Nineties, shall now see all this begin to pass from living memory, as even 1929 and the one-and-only World War II have almost done? Do you remember your President Nixon? Time, he flexes like a whore, falls wanking to the floor, his trick is you and me boy.

If I'm not crying today, then because out of the firmament of rock and pop and living artists and authors who have played regular gigs in my emotional sky and read themselves into my nerves, Bowie's was the only one whose necessary death I'd begun to mourn already years ago. Couldn't help it. I also thought selfish reasons why he should live; he is but 19 years older than I and his launch injects the first atom into my own clock left as a mobile thinking piece of zig-zagging stardust mixed into meat. That is how it is on orbiting rock number three, where humans give their imaginary space to odd beings they have never met and cannot know, but persistently love in their dreams.

Now he's a star man waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us but he thinks he'd blow our minds. Here now as my offering among the millions is a link to one of his products of a certain two years that, according to the legend, Bowie forgot in West Berlin, only to have it found again on the cassette that for years my brother and I would start playing as we took to bed. As eine kleine Nachtmusik, "Low" delivered what he had presaged in the lines to Starman a couple of years earlier:

Then the loud sound did seem to fade
Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase
That weren't no D.J. that was hazy cosmic jive

click this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsELFp6s-lo
now share your Bowie

by **Bruce Dazzling** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:53 pm

Where have all Papa's heroes gone?

by **vince** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:00 pm

I often go on The Steve Hoffman Music Forum. We have lively conversations about 'the death of 'rock'';
If it can, should we care, etc., etc.
I've often sided on it's death, since rock (pop, and 'other') just don't seem to want to 'progress' any more.
Discarding it's past, searching for a future, and not giving a damn if 'the people' don't like it!
The artists I love DID THAT!
And, the fact that most of today's musical artist don't, is why I don't listen anymore.
So, now..... I state that the REASON I loved 'rock' died today!

by **semper occultus** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:01 pm

.....one of the most thrilling and haunting pop songs ever written....that does more in 3 minutes than lesser musicians were able to do on triple albums....

...there's a YT comment like "....80's music was so great..." which sums up Bowie...its a 1971 song & the video was done in 1973....

.....kudos to Mick Ronson for the arrangments, Rick Wakeman tickling the ivories....and the studio phone that started ringing on the fade out that they just decided to leave on the track......

by **norton ash** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:47 pm

Time takes a cigarette

by **MacCruiskeen** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 3:03 pm

by **brekin** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 3:23 pm

Speechless, thought it was another clever-fail thread heading.

Wow, as others JR, et al, noted this really is the end of an era. Bowie was so seminal and also such a straddler of genres and forms. He was such a enigma living I can only imagine what will happen with him now dead.

Besides incredibly talented and courageous I also always thought that he definitely was on the ball with things. I remember a Iggy Pop interview and he talked about when he hung around with Bowie that he was always doing his homework about music, art, etc He was always researching. Iggy said that Bowie was listening to Tom Waits before anyone had even heard of him.