Saw David Bowie last night

[Quincy]

Does anyone believe Bowie's statement that he's officially retired?

Actually I do, or at least from touring, as he had a serious heart attack before a show in '04.

[king ubu]

It's quite amazing to me how many of you keep to have seen David Bowie last night... (last time I could've said that was after I'd seen that weird Oshima film with him).

[Quincy]

[medjuck]

I only saw him once. That was in the early / mid- 70's because I was curious. I was very underwelmed. I remember he did this shadow boxing routine that was really silly!

Unseen image from rock star's 1976 Rochester pot bust surfaces

I;m so old that I only saw him once and it was when he was doing Ziggy Stardust at the Rainbow in London. The opening act was Roxy Music and IIRC Eno was still part of the group. I liked it but I was more impressed by a one man version of Salome done Bowie's mentor Lindsey Kemp that I saw in Toronto a couple of years later.

[Pete C]

I saw him once, but he didn't sing, he pranced around and played viola:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/8980/thread/1085275736/1085317499/Bowie+and+Cale

[Rooster_Ties]

I 'like' 70's Bowie (mostly, though not fanatically), but I really LOVE Bowie in the 90's and 00's.

Seriously. Exepecially everything he's done in the last 20 years with Mike Garson on piano.

He's a way better singer since about 1995, than he ever was in the first half of his career.

Here's a good example of Mike Garson on piano with Bowie, live in 1997...

David Bowie - Battle For Britain

[.:.impossible]

I realize more and more how much I don't miss the 90s.

[umum_cypher]

The rap on Bowie has always been that he is a style-hopper, never really creating anything that is really HIS.

Bowie's always been a lightweight, though if you read much about him you see what a pseudo intellectual he also is, full of a grand sense of himself (see gary valentine's book, New York Rocker).

:rofl:

[JSngry]

I realize more and more how much I don't miss the 90s.

Wait until you realize how much you don't miss the 00s...

[Quincy]

I realize more and more how much I don't miss the 90s.

I don't miss the '90s but I liked a lot of the music. Flaming Lips, Pavement, The Orb, Johnny Cash American, Garcia/Grisman, Barbara Manning, Aphex Twin, The Yellow Shark, Porcupine Tree, Robyn Hitchcock, Phish, Robert Fripp, King Crimson, Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, Radiohead, Nirvana, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Yo La Tengo, Shane MacGowan (well, The Snake at least), Beth Orton, Wilco, Elliot Smith, Belle & Sebastian, Cat Power, Opeth, blur, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jordi Savall, Richard Thompson, California Guitar Trio, Greg Osby…Some I didn't discover until the '10s though.

[.:.impossible]

Yeah I know Quincy. Some great stuff actually came out of the 90s. The list is long.

Not to dog on rooster, but the Bowie clip he shared seemed to represent almost everything about the 90s that I'd managed to avoid and/or quickly forget! To each his own of course!

[Quincy]

Yeah I know Quincy. Some great stuff actually came out of the 90s. The list is long.

Not to dog on rooster, but the Bowie clip he shared seemed to represent almost everything about the 90s that I'd managed to avoid and/or quickly forget! To each his own of course!

Ah, I made the mistake of posting after a visit to the bar. I should have realized you weren't one of those people who thinks all music after the '80s (or some date) stinks. Er, in fact if I did the math regarding your probable age...nevermind. I hadn't looked at rooster's clip and now that I have, I get what you were saying.