David Bowie

helplessdancer

blessed to get this parting gift.    ain't that just like me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8

mickeyrat

https://blog.siriusxm.com/the-david-bowie-channel/

OffSheGoes35

mickeyrat said:

https://blog.siriusxm.com/the-david-bowie-channel/

Sweeeet! Thank you for posting that.

JH6056

Get_Right said:

I also caught Bowie on the serious moonlight tour. 15th row Hartford Civic Center 1983.  I always liked the hits but never could go deep on any of his records. That show was a top five performance for me. Caught him two times after that. Good shows, but not quite the grandeur of moonlight tour. The man was amazing. Certain things you remember forever.  Bowie kicking the globe into the crowd during space oddity, singing ashes to ashes in the plastic column rotating around the stage, and the balloons dropping from the ceiling during Modern Love are things I will never forget!  I still have the balloon around here somewhere.

Love this recap of your show that tour! I saw it too, and I don't have any memory of him in the plastic column for Ashes to Ashes, I need to look for pics of that and jog my memory.  But I remember it was an electric show!

brianlux

I never did see Bowie live.  Rats! 
But my brother saw him during the Ziggy Stardust tour (either 1971 or '73), front row seats.  Can you imagine?!  He said it was absolutely glorious.  No doubt!

JH6056

I may be more jealous of your brother than anyone else ever. Seriously? Front row seats to the tour & show I always say I'd go back to and attend if I had a time machine?  Tell your brother I'm mad at him for being so lucky!

Get_Right

JH6056 said:

Get_Right said:

I also caught Bowie on the serious moonlight tour. 15th row Hartford Civic Center 1983.  I always liked the hits but never could go deep on any of his records. That show was a top five performance for me. Caught him two times after that. Good shows, but not quite the grandeur of moonlight tour. The man was amazing. Certain things you remember forever.  Bowie kicking the globe into the crowd during space oddity, singing ashes to ashes in the plastic column rotating around the stage, and the balloons dropping from the ceiling during Modern Love are things I will never forget!  I still have the balloon around here somewhere.

Love this recap of your show that tour! I saw it too, and I don't have any memory of him in the plastic column for Ashes to Ashes, I need to look for pics of that and jog my memory.  But I remember it was an electric show!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFff3sJ6dG4

Crappy video but you get the idea.  Not much out there. I swear it was moving around the stage at the Hartford show 
Such a perfect blend of music and theater.

vito

Serious Moonlight 1983 and yes it was glorious 😎

brianlux

JH6056 said:

I may be more jealous of your brother than anyone else ever. Seriously? Front row seats to the tour & show I always say I'd go back to and attend if I had a time machine?  Tell your brother I'm mad at him for being so lucky!

LOL, sorry JH, it's a true story! 
Whenever I tell him how envious I am of his seeing that show he says, "Yeah but you got to see both Hendrix AND The Who in '68".
"Yeah, Bro.  Fair enough!"

vito

brianlux said:

JH6056 said:

I may be more jealous of your brother than anyone else ever. Seriously? Front row seats to the tour & show I always say I'd go back to and attend if I had a time machine?  Tell your brother I'm mad at him for being so lucky!

LOL, sorry JH, it's a true story! 
Whenever I tell him how envious I am of his seeing that show he says, "Yeah but you got to see both Hendrix AND The Who in '68".
"Yeah, Bro.  Fair enough!"

Forever jealous😎

brianlux

vito said:

brianlux said:

JH6056 said:

I may be more jealous of your brother than anyone else ever. Seriously? Front row seats to the tour & show I always say I'd go back to and attend if I had a time machine?  Tell your brother I'm mad at him for being so lucky!

LOL, sorry JH, it's a true story! 
Whenever I tell him how envious I am of his seeing that show he says, "Yeah but you got to see both Hendrix AND The Who in '68".
"Yeah, Bro.  Fair enough!"

Forever jealous😎

Well, understandable... buuuuuuuuut, look at that list of yours of P.J. shows! 

Eraserhead

Station to Station is my fave (both album and song). Apparently he'd done so much coke at the time, he had no memory of recording the album! And his lyrics - wow:

Once there were mountains on mountains
And once there were sunbirds to soar with
And once I could never be down

Best version of the song IMO is from his Glastonbury set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ8UDvvEgXM

And the Melvins do a worthy cover of it too.

mickeyrat

https://apnews.com/article/photography-united-kingdom-david-bowie-london-3a0203ba490e549fd8af700bed830b2e

 

Photography United Kingdom David Bowie London

V&A museum acquires Bowie’s archive, will put it on display

By JILL LAWLESS

Yesterday

LONDON (AP) — From Major Tom to Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, the many faces and inspirations of David Bowie are getting a permanent home in London.

Britain’s Victoria & Albert Museum announced Thursday that it has acquired Bowie’s archive of more than 80,000 items as a gift from the late musician’s estate. The trove of costumes, musical instruments, letters, lyrics, photos and more will be opened to the public at a new arts center dedicated to the chameleonlike pop icon.

The David Bowie Center for the Study of Performing Arts is due to open in 2025 as part of V&A East Storehouse, an offshoot of the U.K.’s national museum of art, design and performance that is being built in east London’s Olympic Park.

The V&A said the center will let fans and researchers gain insights into the creative process of Bowie, who died in 2016 at the age of 69.

Kate Bailey, the museum’s senior curator of theater and performance, said the archive was an “extraordinary” record of a creator whose “life was art.”

“Bowie’s a polymath, he’s multifaceted. He was inspired by all genres and disciplines,” she said. “He’s an artist who was working really in 360 -- drawing from literature, but also drawing from art history ... (and) the places that he’d been to.”

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The musician — born plain old David Jones in the London suburbs in 1947 — reinvented himself restlessly, creating and shedding personas as he moved through musical styles from folk-rock to glam to soul to electronica.

He created a series of larger-than-life stage characters, mining influences ranging from German Expressionist cinema to Japanese Kabuki theater. In turn he has influenced musicians, filmmakers, fashion designers and advertisers.

Some of the items in the archive formed part of “David Bowie Is,” a multimedia exhibition that toured the world after a sold-out run at the V&A in London in 2013.

Some items are iconic, such as a multicolored quilted jumpsuit designed by Freddie Burretti for Bowie’s alien rock star creation Ziggy Stardust, Kansai Yamamoto’s futuristic creations for the Aladdin Sane tour in 1973 or the Union Jack coat designed by Bowie and Alexander McQueen for the cover of 1997’s “Earthling” album.

Others are more personal, including letters, handwritten lyrics for songs including the anthem “Heroes,” and notebooks that Bowie kept throughout his life. The archives also contain more than 70,000 photographs, slides and images.

The museum secured the archive from the Bowie estate and also received a 10 million pound ($12 million) donation from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group to house and display it at V&A East, part of a new culture and technology quarter rising on the site of the 2012 London Olympics.

The David Bowie Estate said that “with David’s life’s work becoming part of the U.K.’s national collections, he takes his rightful place amongst many other cultural icons and artistic geniuses.”

V&A director Tristram Hunt called Bowie “one of the greatest musicians and performers of all time.”

“Bowie’s radical innovations across music, theatre, film, fashion, and style — from Berlin to Tokyo to London — continue to influence design and visual culture and inspire creatives from Janelle Monáe to Lady Gaga to Tilda Swinton and Raf Simons,” he said.