Bowie performing 'Space Oddity'

Subject: Bowie performing 'Space Oddity'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 05:46 PM

From way back in 1972...

Ground Control to Major Tom....

Subject: RE: Bowie performing 'Space Oddity'
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 05:55 PM

Interesting - the usual YouTube buffering problems, Bowie looks really old, it is not the original recording, and he is not playing the guitar he used on the original recording, which was a Hagstrom BJ12 - the difference is both visible and audible.

Subject: RE: Bowie performing 'Space Oddity'
From: Jeri
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 06:31 PM

Definitely the right era (the red hair/shaved eyebrows period), if not the exact recording. I can't quite make out the type of guitar, and the sound isn't matched to the video.

From the comments ([sic]): "And even tho hes english it doesnt give him a excuse to have a mullet..." We didn't call those haircuts 'mullets', but the comment is still funny.

Subject: RE: Bowie performing 'Space Oddity'
From: Alba
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 06:31 PM

Damn dial up, can't watch YouTube! Doesn't even let me have sneeky peek on this one:>(..I saw Bowie perform several times... in the olden days...*grin*
Jude

Subject: RE: Bowie performing 'Space Oddity'
From: Jeri
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 07:19 PM

I've got dial-up too. Click on it, hit pause and go knit an afghan. When it's done, you can click 'play' and watch the whole thing.

Subject: RE: Bowie performing 'Space Oddity'
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 08:08 PM

Aw yes, the legend of Major Tom, Psychotic Astronaut......."Ground control to Major Tom, you really are fucked up.........."

What a POS

Spaw

Subject: RE: Bowie performing 'Space Oddity'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 08:24 PM

Here's a beautiful clip of Bowie in 1973 doing "Life On Mars?"

Life On Mars?

Subject: RE: Bowie performing 'Space Oddity'
From: GUEST,woodsie
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 09:15 PM

"Definitely the right era (the red hair/shaved eyebrows period)" said Jeri
But it is NOT the right era Space Oddity was 1969 and Bowie had blonde permed hair at that time. He did re-record a crap version in 1972 but it's not that either.

The original also features Kieth Christmas on acoustic guitar and Bowie playing a stylophone along with Paul Buckmaster's strings.

Subject: RE: Bowie performing 'Space Oddity'
From: GUEST,woodsie
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 09:18 PM

Listening again it IS the 1969 recording with a 1972 bowie miming over it!

Subject: RE: Bowie performing 'Space Oddity'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 09:19 PM

Right you are, woodsie.

Subject: RE: Bowie performing 'Space Oddity'
From: GUEST,woodsie
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 09:34 PM

Here is an even earlier version Space Oddity
This is before he permed his hair.

I saw him at the beckenham arts lab festival in 1969. I sat next to him on the grass and chatted about music. he was a nice bloke they were selling his brand new single "space oddity" at a discount 5/- (five shillings)

Subject: RE: Bowie performing 'Space Oddity'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 09:42 PM

Cool. I think he was the single most creative and innovative musician around in the late 60's-mid 70's. He did amazing stuff.

Subject: RE: Bowie performing 'Space Oddity'
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 10:33 PM

Sadly though, "Space Oddity" was none of the above but simply a tepid piece of chipmunk dung.

Spaw