David Bowie Webdream

Luke Slater over at TinMachine does a really neat survey of the guitars Bowie has used through the years.  He comes to the conclusion Bowie basically has two guitars.  One acoustic, one electric.  Luke then finishes up with a conclusion that loses me.  He thinks this is sad. Now, ya gotta remember that for the [...]

If you wanna see the evolution of David Bowie in its entirity, just watch all the videos of Space Oddity.  Or just do it here, I’ve got a bunch of them.  And, I’ll probably have a bunch more.  Never one of my favorite recordings, his live performances most often were much better than the studio.  [...]

Most people consider the RCA/Mick Rock video of a shock-red-haired androgynous Bowie as the original Space Oddity video.  A lot of sources will cite it as such.  However, about three years before that, while he was still David Jones, he actually prepared a demo for Space Oddity that is a hoot to me to this [...]

Bowie won a webby, that part I’ve already posted on here.  However, for some bizarre reason, winners are only allowed to say five words.  Here was Bowie’s: “I only get five words?”,”S***, that was five. Four more there. That’s three,” “Two,” and then exiting. Can’t see how you can get much better than that with [...]