[kj] OT. Bowie Dead

[Paul Wady]

I feel like I have suffered a personal bereavement.  
http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/heroes/
Heroes has climbed to number 11 so far.  I have visited the shrines, and they are as such, at the site of Key West and over from the Brixton underground station.  I left a laminated A4 tribute there.  It amazes me how I feel.  A part of me that all of us shared has gone I think?  
Back in 1979 a boy in the school year below mine took me back to his house, gave me a cuppa and sat me down in an armchair.  In front of me was a wall of albums and in the middle a huge reel to reel.  He proceeded spend hours playing me Bowie songs I had not heard before and talking all about them.  Brilliant.  His name was David Buckley and he has gone on to write books on Bowie and other bands.  But mainly about David.  
I can hear Bowie now on Blackstar, singing the last line on the album.  I CANT GIVE EVERYTHING AWAY.  But I think he did.  I am really grateful.  I saw him on the Serious Moonlight tour in 1983.  Perfect.  
No no.  Please no.  Not him.  

Paul.  





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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:11:15 +0000
From: phil.tofield at gmail.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] OT. Bowie Dead

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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