Bowie Tribute

[russycarps]

7 hours ago, themuel said:

I'm not saying he isn't, he's never been my favourite but he is clearly a massive influence on so many people. 

I don't think public reaction will be huge in the same way when he goes though.  I think it's more that Bowie was such an enigma and caught everyone's imagination in one way or another which made it so big, people almost forgot he was human and had to do something so mundane as die.  

I just can't see the outpouring being so universal with Dylan  

I agree. News channels certainly won't clear their schedules all day to report it.

Plus he's 74 now so at an age where death isn't so shocking

[Wooderson]

Bowie's passing was so unexpected. I'm still to listen to all of Blackstar through since he died. Too raw.

[GlastoEls]

13 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

Bowie's passing was so unexpected. I'm still to listen to all of Blackstar through since he died. Too raw.

Understandable but it's really terrific for whenever you do!

[Woffy]

5 hours ago, Mardy said:

Not through choice really, pre-internet, living in a small town, it was more a case of the only record available in the shop by that artist. Ragged Glory was a new release, so there was one of 'em in Our Price. I'd heard the name 'Neil Young', but knew nothing else about him, so I bought it.

 

it's only when typing that out that i realise how much the world has changed since then.

This and your previous post reminds me of the moment that I can first remember hearing a record.

I must've only been 5 and we'd just moved south from Cumbria to Hamphire, so I recall the house being in disarray and there being unpacked stuff everywhere.

In the study (we had a 'study'! Basically a little room downstairs no-one knew what the fuck to do with) my mum's shitty record player was dumped on the floor next to a stack of LPs. (Stacked! Silly woman).

On the top was the soundtrack to Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. To this day I have no idea why she owned it and don't really want to know, lest it spoil the magic of the moment (and the memory of it that followed).

To this day I've no idea how I knew how to work a record player, but I could load Manic Miner on the Spectrum 48k so It couldn't have been too hard to suss.

I remember the crackle.

It was odd but electric and static sounding and knot in the stomach exciting.

Track 1 kinda passed me by. I recall fucking about and shutting the study door so my little sister didn't come in a ruin things. This moment had already acquired for itself a certain secrecy; it was mine...although I couldn't possibly understand why, at that age.

And then...

And then Raindrops Keep Fallin'On My Head came on.

I remember the moment of crackle and silence beforehand and after.

And in between my brain being flooded by the music and words and voice.

And my entire world shifted, rotated, barely perceptibly, an iota out of kilter. And I knew then I was hooked and nothing would be quite the same again.

It was secret and personal and mine.

That was my 'in'.

Our Price provided me with many, many other moments like that; buying a record just 'cos the sleeve artwork looked great (MBV - Loveless), for example, not having a clue what it might sound like, then getting home, all excited and having that secret moment of putting the record on and listening to it.

The world has changed. And those moments are more infrequent. But finding that 'in' is a mini-quest that'll never bore me.

And the oddities we find and love despite popular or cool opinion are truly what defines 'guilty pleasures'.

I may have idealised this memory.

I may have embellished it over time.

I may not have sobered up yet from last night.

But hey fuckity ho.

 

Edited February 20, 2016 by Woffy

[The Nal]

19 hours ago, tevaburger said:

and for you Nal...Thom Yorke? the inspiration behind the all the genre-changing from your faves?

If they play, head tilted back during High and Dry, remembering when I was 17 and daddy didn't buy me a car, tears streaming down my face and piss dribbling down my legs. 

[Wooderson]

5 minutes of solid chuckles after reading that post Nal.

[Robster86]

Can always trust in these guys (sorry if someone else already posted) - 

 

[Brave Sir Robin]

On 2/20/2016 at 1:06 AM, themuel said:

I'm not saying he isn't, he's never been my favourite but he is clearly a massive influence on so many people. 

I don't think public reaction will be huge in the same way when he goes though.  I think it's more that Bowie was such an enigma and caught everyone's imagination in one way or another which made it so big, people almost forgot he was human and had to do something so mundane as die.  

I just can't see the outpouring being so universal with Dylan  

While Dylan has long been my all time favourite artist, by a country mile, I have to agree. As Russy notes, he's 74. People have kinda been expecting it for a while, which wasn't the case with Bowie. Other relevant points, first, that he's been widely revered pretty much constantly since the mid-60s (the all-star tribute concerts started as long ago as 1992!); and secondly that it's been years since he put out anything great. Bowie having shown that he was still a tremendous artistic force really made it feel more of a loss. If Dylan had snuffed it shortly after 98's superb Time Out of Mind or '01's Love and Theft, it would have seemed much more upsetting. There'll be tons of coverage and tributes, for sure, but I don't think it'll be quite of the same intensity.

[angelin]

How many acts over the whole weekend will do a Bowie song do you reckon?

[Guest]

On 20/02/2016 at 10:17 AM, Woffy said:

This and your previous post reminds me of the moment that I can first remember hearing a record.

I must've only been 5 and we'd just moved south from Cumbria to Hamphire, so I recall the house being in disarray and there being unpacked stuff everywhere.

In the study (we had a 'study'! Basically a little room downstairs no-one knew what the fuck to do with) my mum's shitty record player was dumped on the floor next to a stack of LPs. (Stacked! Silly woman).

On the top was the soundtrack to Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. To this day I have no idea why she owned it and don't really want to know, lest it spoil the magic of the moment (and the memory of it that followed).

To this day I've no idea how I knew how to work a record player, but I could load Manic Miner on the Spectrum 48k so It couldn't have been too hard to suss.

I remember the crackle.

It was odd but electric and static sounding and knot in the stomach exciting.

Track 1 kinda passed me by. I recall fucking about and shutting the study door so my little sister didn't come in a ruin things. This moment had already acquired for itself a certain secrecy; it was mine...although I couldn't possibly understand why, at that age.

And then...

And then Raindrops Keep Fallin'On My Head came on.

I remember the moment of crackle and silence beforehand and after.

And in between my brain being flooded by the music and words and voice.

And my entire world shifted, rotated, barely perceptibly, an iota out of kilter. And I knew then I was hooked and nothing would be quite the same again.

It was secret and personal and mine.

That was my 'in'.

Our Price provided me with many, many other moments like that; buying a record just 'cos the sleeve artwork looked great (MBV - Loveless), for example, not having a clue what it might sound like, then getting home, all excited and having that secret moment of putting the record on and listening to it.

The world has changed. And those moments are more infrequent. But finding that 'in' is a mini-quest that'll never bore me.

And the oddities we find and love despite popular or cool opinion are truly what defines 'guilty pleasures'.

I may have idealised this memory.

I may have embellished it over time.

I may not have sobered up yet from last night.

But hey fuckity ho.

 

Great post Woffy. I spent many happy hours back in the day in our local record shop looking through the racks of LPs and listening what was playing. It's where I first heard Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells  - an artist who has stayed with me all my life since.

You did miss the bit when you take the record out of it's sleeve and feel the static pulling gently against you. The click of a CD case just isn't the same.

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, angelin said:

How many acts over the whole weekend will do a Bowie song do you reckon?

Loads I would expect but I sort of hope that none will.

[mungo57]

if Chris Martin feat. Coldplay even THINK of doing a Bowie cover I will be onstage with the Sledgehammer in seconds and I won't even be at their gig! I will just sense the great man rolling over in his grave and will be there in seconds ready to knock some skulls through. Turgid shite.

[The Nal]

 

[russycarps]

49 minutes ago, mungo57 said:

if Chris Martin feat. Coldplay even THINK of doing a Bowie cover I will be onstage with the Sledgehammer in seconds and I won't even be at their gig! I will just sense the great man rolling over in his grave and will be there in seconds ready to knock some skulls through. Turgid shite.

christ I've got a horrible image in my mind of chris martin singing five years in that dreadful tone of his now.

I was looking at a red hot chili peppers setlist earlier (dont ask me why!) and I see even those c**ts have added starman to their gigs!

[mungo57]

I am quite glad that the flaming lips' Bowie thing wasn't as fucking pish as their Sgt Peppers cover album praise be to the lawd!

[mungo57]

fuck it, here's another Space Oddity cover - can't remember if I have already posted it but here we go:

 

from the man himself, Steven Wilson from when I saw him at Hammersmith Apollo (not my vid by the way I take no credit for this)

[stuartbert two hats]

Just now, russycarps said:

christ I've got a horrible image in my mind of chris martin singing five years in that dreadful tone of his now.

I was looking at a red hot chili peppers setlist earlier (dont ask me why!) and I see even those c**ts have added starman to their gigs!

Urgh, he might do just it.  Or Heroes.  He's going kill Heroes isn't he "Come on Glastonbury", he'll shout. Grim.

[The Nal]

"Give me strength, reserve control,

Give me heart and give me soul,

Give me The Duke, give me Ziggy,

The best artist in historeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.........

*huge cheer*

Open up your eyes..........."

Edited February 22, 2016 by The Nal

[Gnomicide]

8 hours ago, russycarps said:

christ I've got a horrible image in my mind of chris martin singing five years in that dreadful tone of his now.

I was looking at a red hot chili peppers setlist earlier (dont ask me why!) and I see even those c**ts have added starman to their gigs!

 

[angelin]

I hope Adele doesn't sing Life on Mars or Polly J Queen Bitch. In fact they should ban all Bowie covers all weekend and just create a Bowie Tent in Williams Green or something. Have it showing films and playing his music. I went to a Bowie club night last week and the tickets sold out in ten minutes he was so loved I hope Glastonbury does him proud.

[addicted2noise]

I could imagine Chris Martin playing a few bars of Life on Mars before breaking into the Clocks or something, well meaning but a little cringey. 

[Sawdusty surfer]

There will be some kind of Bowie shrine venue in SL.

[Tr234]

1 hour ago, addicted2noise said:

I could imagine Chris Martin playing a few bars of Life on Mars before breaking into the Clocks or something, well meaning but a little cringey. 

I'd put money on that happening

[GlastoSimon]

Guys, if we don't go and watch Coldplay do a Bowie tribute, then technically it never happened.

If a tree falls etc.

[LeeGalvin]

7 hours ago, GlastoSimon said:

Guys, if we don't go and watch Coldplay do a Bowie tribute, then technically it never happened.

If a tree falls etc.

Yes! Ignorance is bliss.

And by that logic, Coldplay are NOT headlining this year. Great news!