tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post5765338279726665687..comments2023-05-22T10:42:54.046-04:00Comments on 6th or 7th: Happy birthday, David Bowie!Ethanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498712279382078624noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-18943059357987626052011-01-09T10:56:10.827-05:002011-01-09T10:56:10.827-05:00bonobo--yeah, I'd love to thank him as well. I...bonobo--yeah, I'd love to thank him as well. I came along later, but it sounds like he's played a similar role for me as he did for you.<br /><br />davidly--ah, yes, home taping is killing music. I think my favorite lyrics in C30 are "Hit it pause it record it and play/Turn it rewind it and rub it away." I love the impermanence there, not of objects but of the commodities stored on them--we'll use them as long as they're useful to us, like.Ethanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07498712279382078624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-84172816531662503422011-01-08T20:38:58.822-05:002011-01-08T20:38:58.822-05:00Yeah, it was a cassette only single, which would h...Yeah, it was a cassette only single, which would have been perfect for Your Cassette Pet, but was not to be. The label wasn't comfortable promoting a song which promoted tape-sharing. File under <i>bye-bye EMI</i>.davidlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04754707934311038544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-18771774524351746742011-01-08T17:59:40.016-05:002011-01-08T17:59:40.016-05:00Wow. Love the Candidate. Never heard that before a...Wow. Love the Candidate. Never heard that before and I have been a fan since Ziggy Stardust, which came out when I was in high school. I am not a celebrity worshipper but I would love to meet David Bowie if only to say thanks. Incredibly liberating figure in my life. I wish I had followed the road he'd opened up for me more determinedly.<br /><br />Just celebrated his birthday watching a collection of interviews he's done over the years on British television. Alway amazed at how smart, reflective and funny he is.bonobonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-26169809597354407672011-01-08T13:37:03.095-05:002011-01-08T13:37:03.095-05:00Oops, forgot to say--I've got Your Cassette Pe...Oops, forgot to say--I've got <i>Your Cassette Pet</i> and love it. "Sexy Eiffel Towers," yeah! I know and love the song "C30 C60 C90 Go" but don't have it...I actually don't know where it comes from. Was it a single or was it on something? I should track that down.Ethanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07498712279382078624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-28669827010107694672011-01-08T13:03:25.622-05:002011-01-08T13:03:25.622-05:00BDR, you're welcome and thanks also.
davidly,...BDR, you're welcome and thanks also.<br /><br />davidly, that's a great story, I hadn't heard that before. It reminds me in turn of the story of the recording of "Wild Is the Wind" on <i>Station to Station</i>...they recorded three takes of it, but what ended up being used on the record is the first, uninterrupted, unedited take. Which is just simply unbelievable.<br /><br />I also swear there's a bit in Hugo Wilcken's <i>33 1/3</i> book on <i>Low</i> about one of the songs ("Warszawa," maybe?) having some absurdly huge number of vocal tracks that Bowie laid down offhandedly in like an hour, but I can't find it right now.Ethanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07498712279382078624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-28742102694130462072011-01-08T10:32:46.444-05:002011-01-08T10:32:46.444-05:00The Oxford Town legerdemain you reference reminds ...The Oxford Town legerdemain you reference reminds me of an anecdote Eno wrote in his diary that he published from that time.<br /><br />He basically details a day in the studio during which DB has the engineer record him doing the vocal parts to a theretofore non-existent song - starting with the most minimal part and continuing in <i>call and response</i> fashion, one section after the other, in a matter of minutes -, which left his collaborator in awe. Remarkable considering how familiar they already were with one another.<br /><br />While you're on BWW: You got "C30, C60, C90, Go" or the concurrent "Your Cassette Pet"? I missed those the first time around, but have stumbled across them recently and like their flavor.davidlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04754707934311038544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-21687762561607098182011-01-08T10:31:25.818-05:002011-01-08T10:31:25.818-05:00Excellent. Thanks!Excellent. Thanks!BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.com