Bowie Tribute

[stuartbert two hats]

Just now, Keithy said:

You, yes you, youngster! Stop having a good time in a non-approved manner by an older person. You attention seeking youngster. 

You don't recognise my idols. YOU ARE EVERYTHING THAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD!

[Keithy]

2 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

You don't recognise my idols. YOU ARE EVERYTHING THAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD!

hahaha, quite true 

[The Nal]

26 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

He should be a modern pop culture titan. That he choses not to be is a disappointment. 

He doesn't choose anything. He just does. And wherever he ends up is where he ends up. He couldn't give a fiddlers if hes a pop icon or not. I doubt he even gives it a moments thought actually.

14 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

Maybe a listening session or two Mardy. You organise it, I'm there.

Doesn't work like that with him unfortunately. Its a slow burning and very personal experience. Unique to each person. You're not going to listen to a record and suddenly become a Dylan fan.

[Wooderson]

5 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Doesn't work like that with him unfortunately. Its a slow burning and very personal experience. Unique to each person. You're not going to listen to a record and suddenly become a Dylan fan.

Is there a rulebook youre supposed to familiarise yourself with prior to listening to this punter? Hint of bullshite off your post there mate, realise he means the world to you an' all, but you'd tell me to grow a pair if I posted that.

[Mardy]

3 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

Is there a rulebook youre supposed to familiarise yourself with prior to listening to this punter? Hint of bullshite off your post there mate, realise he means the world to you an' all, but you'd tell me to grow a pair if I posted that.

Currently on my way to work contemplating exactly this. Which record do you use to convert someone? How do you get people into Dylan, Young, Waits, Bowie, Beatles etc with one album? My brain is fizzing with this. Great stuff

[Wooderson]

Think I've 6/7 of his records downstairs and a couple oddballs like Dylan and the Dead...

But for the sake of argument...

Freewheelin' / Another Side / All Back Home all pretty much instantly enjoyable records.

Revisited / Blonde / Tracks all knockdownclassics to anyone with ears, more to 'em but no need to over complicate things.

[Wooderson]

1 minute ago, Mardy said:

Currently on my way to work contemplating exactly this. Which record do you use to convert someone? How do you get people into Dylan, Young, Waits, Bowie, Beatles etc with one album? My brain is fizzing with this. Great stuff

He's a "tier 1" (yuck terminology) standard artist.

He's not some obscure neojazz mousemat eater with trypophobia that only appears every 6th Easter Tuesday to cryw*nk the grange hill theme into a bullet mic.

[The Nal]

29 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

Is there a rulebook youre supposed to familiarise yourself with prior to listening to this punter? Hint of bullshite off your post there mate, realise he means the world to you an' all, but you'd tell me to grow a pair if I posted that.

No just saying you won't "get him" on one album. Its not like where you can sit someone down to listen to the first 5 minutes of Station to Station, or Ziggy or Hunky Dory and you know they'll be turned on.

23 minutes ago, Mardy said:

Currently on my way to work contemplating exactly this. Which record do you use to convert someone? How do you get people into Dylan, Young, Waits, Bowie, Beatles etc with one album? My brain is fizzing with this. Great stuff

Very difficult with Dylan and Waits. 

Neil Young - Harvest, every time.

Did you start on The White Album with The Beatles? Ballsie.

21 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

Think I've 6/7 of his records downstairs and a couple oddballs like Dylan and the Dead...

But for the sake of argument...

Freewheelin' / Another Side / All Back Home all pretty much instantly enjoyable records.

Revisited / Blonde / Tracks all knockdownclassics to anyone with ears, more to 'em but no need to over complicate things.

"Bob Dylan - The Instantly Enjoyable Years. Now available on remastered 180gm vinyl, 3 x CD boxset" etc

He never really had a "Beard Years" sadly, so this will have to do.

Edited February 19, 2016 by The Nal

[Tranquility of Solitude]

19 minutes ago, Mardy said:

Which record do you use to convert someone? How do you get people into Dylan, Young, Waits, Bowie, Beatles etc with one album?

Anything - Blood on the Tracks springs to mind - as long as it's continuous on a loop until they submit.

[The Nal]

2 minutes ago, Tranquility of Solitude said:

Anything - Blood on the Tracks springs to mind - as long as it's continuous on a loop until they submit.

Blood on the Tapes FTW!

 

[Mardy]

So, clear memories of all of these introductions:

 

first at waits I heard: nighthawks

first Beatles : white

first grateful dead: without a net

first young: ragged glory

first Dylan: freewheeling

[Wooderson]

5 minutes ago, The Nal said:

"Bob Dylan - The Instantly Enjoyable Years. Now available on remastered 180gm vinyl, 3 x CD boxset" etc

He never really had a "Beard Years" sadly, so this will have to do.

Theyre the records I own. Sorry I don't have the cool ones you own.

[The Nal]

6 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

Theyre the records I own. Sorry I don't have the cool ones you own.

Theyre all on Spotify chief get tucked in! John Wesley Harding, Times a Changin, New Morning, Nashville Skyline, Love and Theft, Shadows in the Night all worth an effort aside from what you listed above. 

[eFestivals]

just spotted this, and I knew I just had to post it here by the time I'd got to number 2.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/feb/19/david-bowie-dave-grohl-coldplay-10-things-turned-down

[tevaburger]

9 hours ago, russycarps said:

Yep.There is not another musician it will ever happen for. I cant see thousands of people strolling around in sgt pepper costumes or wearing giant thumbs up when macca pops his clogs for example.

am picturing Russy walking around worthy farm with muscle t-shirt, blue jeans, and USA red baseball cap sticking out of back pocket the year after the Boss dies, in tribute to his love for and many efests posts on his '09 saturday nite at Glasto

8 hours ago, The Nal said:

Neil Young has released 10 albums in the last 10 years. Lots of genres covered. McCartney has released 8 albums in the same period. Rock, classical, electronic etc. Dylan has released 5 albums in the period, including a Sinatra covers album, with another due this year and has toured almost non stop since 1991. 

I could go on and on. 

I'm all for giving Bowie the respect he deserves but not to the point where we basically draw a line under an era of music. The above statement is simply not true. "The last of his generation to inspire"?! Granted the list gets shorter every year, but, nah. Not having that.

 

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

[russycarps]

Fuck imagine watching this while tripping off your tits. 5 years is superb. And bowie was a big fan of the band so none of you are allowed to criticise it.

 

 

[stuartbert two hats]

20 minutes ago, russycarps said:

Fuck imagine watching this while tripping off your tits. 5 years is superb. And bowie was a big fan of the band so none of you are allowed to criticise it.

 

 

Are these actually good rather than all of their other rubbish covers?

[sadimmock]

For a moment I got a bit excited and wondered if they had recovered the 1971 footage. That would be a bit special. 

[russycarps]

50 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Are these actually good rather than all of their other rubbish covers?

I liked it, five years and major Tom particularly, but you need to be there for a lips gig really.

Fair play to them for doing an 8 song tribute though, must have taken a lot of effort to put it together 

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

I've always liked this cover. Think Bowie would have approved.

 

[Peaceman]

I agree - that Flaming lips set must have taken some work to put together. Good stuff.

Could they not just put Coldplay on earlier and finish the whole Festival by showing the Bowie set on the Pyramid screens?

 

[brandycoke]

1 hour ago, russycarps said:

Fuck imagine watching this while tripping off your tits. 5 years is superb. And bowie was a big fan of the band so none of you are allowed to criticise it.

 

 

Although the audio quality is not the best, you can still hear that these are not just thrown together half arsed versions.

Sound like they've put a lot of work into this , and they've done justice to them all.

 

[Martin Ashford]

8 hours ago, Mardy said:

He is. Wait for the fuss when he shuffles off this mortal coil. It'll be fucking mental, I'm sure.

 

Obviously I can only speak for myself, but Dylan outshines everyone else.

I don't think he really 'chooses' anything. He follows his muse, wherver it takes him, like Waits, Young etc. And like all of them, is to be celebrated, whatever path they walk.

I've been thinking for a few years about this and I'm dreading it. I know I'm going to be hit very hard. Dylan is the BIG ONE. There is nobody more significant. He was a massive influence on Bowie, Mc Cartney, Young, Springsteen, Joni, etc, etc. Hendrix revolutionised the sound of the guitar and instrumentation but it was Dylan who changed the face of songwriting forever. When he goes its going to be off the scale.

[themuel]

16 minutes ago, Martin Ashford said:

I've been thinking for a few years about this and I'm dreading it. I know I'm going to be hit very hard. Dylan is the BIG ONE. There is nobody more significant. He was a massive influence on Bowie, Mc Cartney, Young, Springsteen, Joni, etc, etc. Hendrix revolutionised the sound of the guitar and instrumentation but it was Dylan who changed the face of songwriting forever. When he goes its going to be off the scale.

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  

[Mardy]

6 hours ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

I'm shocked you like ragged glory. Bizarre place to start too. 

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.