[kj] OT. Bowie Dead

[Phil Tofield]

I saw Bowie live 3 times, Serious Dance tour, Glass Spider tour and Sound &
Vision tour. Not many celebrity deaths can bring me to tears, but this one
sure did.

RIP Thin White Duke

On 11 January 2016 at 18:51, T.B. <planetary at socal.rr.com> wrote:

> This one's really a gut punch, even more so than Lemmy's passing a week
> ago.
>
> Bowie was one of the first artists I got into in the mid 70's, his voice
> was
> immediately distinctive no matter what new genre he was mining.  I wore out
> the vinyl and 8 track of "ChangesOneBowie" (which is still one of the
> greatest "Best Of's" anyone has ever put out) in just a few year's time.
> The coolest thing was even though near the end of the 70's he was moving
> into increasingly off kilter musical styles, he was still compelling.  I
> saw
> Bowie three times live, US Festival and Anaheim Stadium Serious Moonlight
> tour shows in '83 and his last tour for the Reality album in '04 at the
> relatively intimate Wiltern Theater.  For whatever reasons, I couldn't and
> still can't get into his previous couple albums "Reality" and "The Next
> Day"
> but picked up "Black Star" on CD last Friday and was blown away.  What an
> amazing final act.
>
> Another thing, it appears just announced over the weekend tribute concert
> dedicated to the Bowie's musical legacy with Bowie's longtime collaborator
> Tony Visconti in charge of the house band at New York's Carnegie Hall on
> March 31st will now be a memorial concert.  Announced performers The Roots,
> Cyndi Lauper, the Mountain Goats, Heart's Ann Wilson, Jakob Dylan and Perry
> Farrel will also perform. Undoubtedly more high(er) profile performers will
> be added and the scale and scope will increase dramatically.
>
> T.B.
>
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