Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)

Subject: David Bowie RIP
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 02:20 AM

Breaking news on BBC. He has died at the age of 69 from cancer.

Not much to say really except feel rather shocked. He affected me musically all my life.

Bye Starman.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,allan conn
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 02:38 AM

Yes Starman was the first single I ever bought aged 12 and Blackstar is the newest album I have aged 55. Been a big fan, couple of 80s albums aside,for over 4 decades.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Kampervan
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 02:40 AM

Goodbye David. You'll be sadly missed.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 02:55 AM

RIP

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 02:56 AM

Just heard the news as well. Very sad and a great loss to the world of music.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 03:09 AM

RIP

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 03:22 AM

RIP David, definately an original.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,Hilo
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 03:43 AM

Oh what sad news. I unable always loved his music. I am very deeply saddened by this news.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 04:29 AM

Mick Ronson & David Bowie - both gone now - together the greatest influence on my life of music.

essential listening... Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane - absolutely...

now click buy now on the new remastered "Pin Ups" & "Man Who Sold The World" CDs...


... that's why I play guitar...

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 04:30 AM

My wife used to see him a lot in folk clubs around London and Essex in the mid/late 60s. As she'd say: "I knew him when he was still Davie Jones".


His first single (it bombed): Liza Jane

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: My guru always said
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 04:47 AM

David Bowie made such a difference, he has left a legacy of breaking the boundaries. RIP Bowie

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 04:50 AM

"Jesus Christ to Major Tom:
Your mission's over, come on home."


He will be missed.


R.I.P.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 05:16 AM

Very unlikely that he would have been listening to that particular call. Who could forget Dancing In The Street with Jagger?

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Janie
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 05:40 AM

Very sad news. Only got to see him perform live once - Diamond Dogs tour in the 1970's. One of the 3 best shows I have ever attended.

Rest in Peace.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 05:51 AM

Biggest regret...???
my mum wouldn't advance me several weeks pocket money and let me skive off a day's grammar school
to travel to see Bowie at Taunton Odeon.

The only time I ever did get to see him was at Wembley for the Glass Spider Tour...

not his finest moment...

But then again, maybe it's time to give that LP a fresh new listen... ?????

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Johnny J
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 06:27 AM

Very sad news.

His talent was enduring and he was the master of re-invention.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,Allan Conn
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 06:28 AM

I saw him during the Serious Moonlight tour (ie Let's Dance was just out) then again later during the Sound+Vision tour when he played lots of his old hits etc.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 06:32 AM

Almost forgot his other talents until son #3 said we need to watch Labyrinth tonight! We have the DVD so time slot is booked.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: JHW
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 07:08 AM

Planet Earth is blue

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 07:51 AM

Hunky Dory - one of my all time favourite albums. Very sad. RIP Mr. Bowie

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 07:58 AM

Awww. This is the kind of news you first think must be a hoax. But not this morning. RIP, Man Who Fell to Earth.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,Clive Pownceby
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 08:07 AM

I echo all the previous thoughts on this post and should be interested to learn about his 'Folk' days. He was involved with the running of a Club - where and when was that? Any memories out there?

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Felipa
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 09:38 AM

I've just read a long Bowie obit in Guardian newspaper (UK)
It does mention Bowie starting a folk club (and i think he must have been a neighbour of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger at one point, or maybe they lived in the same town at different times). But he doesnt seem to ever have been a folk music performer.

I was amazed at how productive Bowie has been for most of his adult life - and even when he had various personal difficulties in his life. I hadnt realised just how many acting roles he had taken on either.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,Allan Conn
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 10:08 AM

He wasn't a folk singer in the sense that he sang folk or traditional songs. He was along with the likes of very early Marc Bolan a singer songwriter doing some acoustic based music. Some people regarded that as being folky! However people want, or don't want, to label the Space Oddity album etc matters not really. Some great songs on it!

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: akenaton
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 10:20 AM

Sad news, but amazed at the blanket news coverage.

The world in flames and this sad little event makes the top news story on every outlet, umpteen soundbites about how David "changed peoples lives".....Mr MacColl got hardly a mention and his work changed a lot of lives......his "First time ever I saw your face" was real songwriting.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 10:41 AM

Oh do have a little sense, akenaton.

MacColl didn't die today. Maybe that has something to do with it...

And if you can't recognise the hugely greater influence that Bowie had on music in general, then you are incredibly misinformed or stupid. Perhaps both?

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 10:53 AM

Hunky dory is one o my all time favourite albums. David Bowie was one of the most influential artists of his time. Had far more influence than McColl simply because he Reached a much wider audience.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,John from Kemsing
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 11:07 AM

Clive Pownceby,
             Regarding the early days we were booked( "Four Square Circle") with him at "The Three Tuns", Beckenham. We also had a meeting in the garden with Angie when, to the best of my recollection, she was interested in setting up a "peoples theatre".

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Stu
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 11:42 AM

I'm nearly fifty and have never lived a Bowie-free life, and the world is a less interesting place for his passing. His influence is extensive, and his cultural influence can't be underestimated. Not only that, he wrote great songs.

RIP.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,Clive Pownceby
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 11:58 AM

John from Kemsing, thanks for that reply. Beckenham Three Tuns does ring a bell and that's a nice memory to have. Was that where the Arts Lab. was?
btw, Brian Matthews on last Saturday's BBC Radio Sounds Of the Sixties played 'The Laughing Gnome' - those were the days eh?

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: olddude
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 12:20 PM

Sad actually, he was very gifted. I even remember when he sang little drummer boy with bing Crosby on a Xmas show. He was terrific rip

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 12:47 PM

He was why I first called into a radio station to make a request.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 12:53 PM

By sheer coincidence, I was digging out some papers earlier looking for words to a song for a friend and came across a set of notes for a local radio show where I was asked my top ten albums of all time.

Notwithstanding such a list can change daily...

1. Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - Bowie

4. Aladdin Sane -Bowie

The rest included One Night Stand by Therapy, Nic Jones's Penguin Eggs and mainly folk, other than Sabbath Bloody Sabbath of course...

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 01:06 PM

go on Ake.. go down to Brixton and stand in front of that mural, and proclaim
"well actually I think Bowies's no where near as important as MacColl !!!"

go on.. dare you...

I'd have a good laugh at the ensuing news coverage...

That might cheer us all up...

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 02:31 PM

I'll volunteer a cheap train fare for him. Never let it be said I don't help the desperate.

How odd, saying there is more important news or that someone completely different was better?

The eulogies on this thread to one of my heroes have been heartening to read. So sad to see a film of scum on the lake of remembrance.



Ziggy played guitar
Jamming with Weird and Gilly
And the spiders from Mars!

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,MikeL2
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 02:38 PM

Hi

RIP David.

I was actually a great lover of his work but recognize that I am in a minority.

I recognized his talent and his ability to be creative and innovative.
He had huge impact on the music scene and I respect him for that.

My condolences go out to his family and friends.

Sadly MikeL2

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,MikeL2
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 02:41 PM

Hi

My previous message should have said NOT

Doh

MikeL2

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 02:53 PM

The odd word does wander on Mudcat Mike.

For instance Ziggy was jamming GOOD with Weird and Gilly....

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 03:31 PM

Wow. I don't remember Song For Bob Dylan. Must have a listen.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 03:44 PM

googled: the gig my mum wouldn't let me go to was Friday 15 June 1973..

so I was 14 and my pocket money either 25p or 40p a week [can't remember when it was raised].

The ticket price may have been as much as £1.50 !!!!!

The search turned up something really touchingly nostalgic
considering how monumentally special an event this gig was for me & all my schoolmates...
Btw.. I wasn't one of the boys who got sent to the headmaster's office for getting a neon red dyed Bowie haircut....

Please forgive this lengthy copy n paste from www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk....

"MUSIC legend David Bowie, who has died aged 69 from cancer, performed two concerts in the former Odeon, on Corporation Street, Taunton, on June 15, 1973.

Julie Booth - who was only 14 at the time - was among the audience.

Here's her story of the best day of her life.



"My best friend Nicola and I couldn't believe our luck - our idol David Bowie was in Taunton and we were going to see him.

"We had tickets for the second performance. I was going to stay at Nicola's that night and her parents were going to pick us up after the concert.



"It was fantastic, better than we ever imagined.

"When the concert was over we ran outside to the back of the building hoping to get a glimpse of him, unaware that the band had left before we even got out of the main doors.

"There was a huge crowd and Nicola and I were standing apart from the rest.

"A coach pulled up and a girl stuck her head put of the door and asked us if we wanted to meet David and the band. Did we?!!

"'Yes'," we screamed. 'No!' shouted Nicola's mother, who unbeknown to us had come up behind us and heard everything.

"The bus pulled off, Nicola went mad at her mother, I was shell-shocked.

"The argument with Nicola and her mum ended with her mum saying, 'Well you ask your father, he'll say the same'.

"We ran like hell to the car park where Nicola's dad was waiting. He'd seen nothing of what had gone on.

"We yelled at him, 'Can we meet David/?' 'Well, yes but….'

"We didn't want to hear any more, we were running hell for leather after the bus. We caught it up banged on the door, it opened and we leapt on!

"The bus was full of Bowie fans, it drove to the County Hotel - (now Marks & Spencer in East Street) - and we were all shown into a function room.

"We were told David and the band would be down after they'd eaten.

"We were so excited, we couldn't believe it, it was like a dream.

"Another message came down, David and the band would be down in ten minutes. We were beside ourselves, then disaster struck!

"Off in the distance we could hear a woman's angry voice - 'I don't care who he is, my daughter and her friend are in there. My daughter is 15 and her friend is only 14 and what's more, I'm responsible for both of them!'

"The colour drained from our faces, I went cold, it was Nicola's mum, she'd followed us.

"She burst into the room with the hotel manager running behind her. She sat down next to us telling everyone she wasn't leaving without us.

"We weren't leaving without seeing David. So she stayed.

"Just then a noise at the door alerted us to the arrival of David and the band.

"The whole room fell silent. All the Bowie fans were tongue-tied; we all just sat and stared - all except Nicolas mum.

"She started to talk to David Bowie, it seemed they both came from the same area of London, and they both knew some of the same people, they chatted for ages and ages!

"Then it was autograph time and we were out of the door and into the storm that was Nicola's mum!

"We suffered a severe tongue-lashing and Nicola was grounded for ages, but we both agreed it was worth it, after all, it was the best day of our lives!

"Oh yes, Nicolas mum enjoyed it too. She spent the next few weeks telling everyone she had met David Bowie!

"I often wonder if David Bowie ever remembered the day he met Nicola's mum." "

My mum is 83, all she'd talk about on the phone today ws how sad the news was about David Bowie..
I didn't remind her of how strict she was and how badly she spoiled my entire summer of 73....

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: voyager
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 03:54 PM

For all the 'space travel' of David Bowie's life and music, astronomers should find a planet or comet or asteroid to name after "The White Duke". Saw him on tour with Ziggy Stardust (early 70s) jamming and prancing with Mick Ronson.

David - You have always been out of this world
(What a T-RIP)
voyager

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 04:02 PM

RIP and thanks. A body of true art for the books. Too young... too young... as many are.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 06:29 PM

My deepest sympathy to his family and friends.

The emperor will now have to get himself another new suit of clothes.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,mauvepink
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 06:47 PM

Ground control to Major Tom
RIP for a job well done

The heavens now have a new Voyager x

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: gillymor
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 08:06 PM

A restless genius, he was the Miles Davis of rock (or maybe Miles was the David Bowie of jazz). RIP

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 09:33 PM

David Bowie, Lazarus. The album Blackstar was released two days before his death.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Janie
Date: 11 Jan 16 - 09:37 PM

Well said, Voyager.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: mayomick
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 09:35 AM

anyone who has ever written "ACAB" on a wall got it from Bowie. "Nanas" he sang on the record but we all sang "bastards".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_t5qgv04jk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_t5qgv04jk

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: Jason Xion Wang
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 01:01 PM

He did a very good acoustic cover of Jacques Brel's "Amsterdam" which I was just listening to - would you call that "folk music"? I think that's also the first David Bowie song I've ever listened to.

Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 01:11 PM

He based one of his very early singles on a jolly
member of Mudcat....

All I can say is that tonight at a folk club, I'll be singing Ziggy Stardust... Folk like it.