One of my favorite performances of ‘Heroes’ was during Glass Spider.  Now, a lot of critics panned the tour.  I am however, biased.  I was there.  It was what I expected of Bowie.  A little glam, some bizarre choreography, and great tunes performed to perfection.  It was his second “happy” tour, featuring a lot of his recent hits at the time.  However, he threw in some staples, and, some off-beat stuff such as Sons of the Silent Age.  However, the song that got me absolutely over the edge was the same song that always got me pumped:

 
Immediately after ‘Heroes’ was over, and I was still enthralled with the entire effect of the sound and vision, my date asked me when he was going to perform White Wedding or Rebel Yell.  That was her last concert with me.

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One of the main reasons I decided to blog on Bowie was not so much just Bowie himself, but the rather curious world he created around him.  From pretty much the beginning, he just tended to, whether he meant to or not, attract the oddities.  Some became rather famous, some remained rather obscure.  This guy never became famous that I’m aware of.  In fact, I doubt he ever left the mental hospital:

Kinda makes me wonder why this guy and I have one thing in common?  I gotta admit tho, he recites Aladdin Sane better than I can.

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A little while back I mentioned that Bowie had decided to give Scarlett Johansson a little help with her new album. Well, it’s out now. Here’s Falling Down from it:

Quite frankly, I’m extremely impressed.  This is not at all what I expected!

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Now, it’s obvious who my favorite musician of all time is. However, one of my top five favoritest actors has always been Christopher Walken. So, imagine my shock to find Walken had done Bowie’s Fashion a while back. Well, don’t be as shocked as I was. He didn’t. Someone else did Walken doing Bowie. It’s just dang good!

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Been too long since I’ve done something here.  So, here’s what I stumbled on today:

I’ve always felt Under Pressure would be a blast to play in concert for just about anyone of any style.  These guys seem to feel the same way.  Fun version.  I like it.

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Most of Bowie’s most popular songs, and some of his lesser known songs, don’t quite resemble the originals.  Space Oddity has taken on several re-mixes and re-recordings.  But, it stayed pretty close to the original.  The song that always caught my attention when it came to do-overs is Moonage Daydream.  Now, this is purely an audio experience because I’m not sure there is any video footage of Bowie performing as Arnold Corns.  As such, in order to fully appreciate the scope of this transformation, you have to listen to the entire version of both to appreciate the conclusion I come to at the end of this post.  Ready?  For newbies, I’m quite certain you’re not expecting what you are about to hear.  This is the original version of Moonage Daydream, as recorded by David Bowie performing as Arnold Corns:

Now, once you’ve finished that one in its entirety, here’s what it became as Ziggy Stardust:

Finished? Now, the conclusion you’ve been waiting for:
It’s amazing what Mick Ronson can do to a song, huh?

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Unlike a lot of rockers over the last fifty years or so, Bowie just doesn’t seem to go away.  In fact, having been a Bowie fan since the early 70’s, I really can’t remember him being as popular as he is now.  His stuff just seems to get more and more popular as time goes by.  When Heroes was released in 1977, it didn’t do all that much in the charts.  The album was panned as an inferior imitation of Low, which it really was.  The song barely broke the top 100 and quickly faded.  Thirty years later, it just seems to pop up everywhere.   Today’s case in point, if you attended the Barack Obama rally featuring Arcade Fire, you would have been treated to this:

Now, that’s my idea of a political rally!

H/T to Goodnight to the rock and roll era.

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OK, so what does an aging rocker do when he’s tired of crowd surfing and trying to one-up teens screaming mindless words to over-abused way-too-distorted chords?  Why, hang out with the hottest Hollywood babe going, of course:

That’s what Bowie is doing these days.  Folks, he’s old enough to be her grandfather.  He was nailing models before she was even born.  Now, granted I don’t think his current model-wife would allow extra-marital flings at this point, he did the next best thing I would think.  He did what he does best.  He recorded an album with her.  Now, nothing Bowie’s ever done has screamed normal.  So, he teams up with the hottest Hollywood babe going and records a couple of songs originally recorded by Tom Waits:

Now, for those unfamiliar with Tom, he sings like a real man.  Gravelly baritone.  Nothing artistic or fancy about Tom, just ballads with simple music.  Nothing glam either.  In other words, nothing like a red-hot babe or a artsy glam-rock new-wave kinda guy.  Nothing.  So, to me, this is perfect.  I’d like to catch a tune or two from this album.  And, I will.
( Is it JUST a coincedence that Scarlett and Bowie were in Spongebob flicks as well? Gotta wonder. )

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