{"id":16931,"date":"2020-12-14T15:43:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=16931"},"modified":"2020-12-14T15:43:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:43:21","slug":"a-bit-more-bowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/14\/a-bit-more-bowie\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit More Bowie&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: Mike Garson<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Bob,<\/p>\n<p>I received your Bowie analysis from so many people.<\/p>\n<p>They didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know I subscribe to your newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>You see I know VERY little about Rock n roll and continuously learn much from you.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up in a Jewish home in Brooklyn and many families had pianos. Thus peer pressure but I took to it playing only classical piano from 7-14 then getting the jazz bug at 14 after hearing Brubeck Andre Previn Bill Evans Coltrane miles etc.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow bowie got my name and I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know who he was. He liked my playing so I occasionally became the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n<p>I was hired for 8 weeks and somehow lasted 20 albums and around 1000 concerts. (more than any other musician)<br \/>\nGo figure.<\/p>\n<p>Between every tour all I did was a few jazz gigs and compose classical music. (Over 5000 works of which maybe 300 are worthwhile. Nobody really cares but I LOVE COMPOSING. (A few classical pianist perform my works around the world.<\/p>\n<p>This January 8 is David&#8217;s birthday and 5 years since his passing. I was scheduled to be on tour but obviously due to Covid I will hopefully wait until 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m putting on a live 24 hour streaming concert.<\/p>\n<p>I located 37 alumni who will all contribute and 30 singers from Ian Hunter to Duran Duran, billy Corgan, Peter Frampton, trent Reznor etc.<\/p>\n<p>All these artists were so deeply affected by David.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also found some new generation young talent.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit risky as there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only one David but he was a great songwriter so singers should sing his songs like Sinatra sang gershwin porter hammerstein.<\/p>\n<p>The big problem is gershwin wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a performer so comparison becomes a problem.<\/p>\n<p>All I can do is hope I&#8217;ve chosen singer each with their OWN VOICE.<\/p>\n<p>At the least it will be a nice distraction as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m recording arranging and mixing 15 hours a day as it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a massive project.<\/p>\n<p>I DO LOVE MUSIC SO ZERO COMPLAINTS ESPECIALLY WITH THE BACKDROP WE ARE SEEING VIRUS WISE AND POLITICALLY. (I think the rvirus is also mental and spiritual.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly In England when I was playing with David in 1973 in the major newspaper at the time David was quoted as saying MIKE IS THE BEST ROCK PIANIST IN THE WORLD BECAUSE HE DOESN&#8217;T PLAY ROCK.<\/p>\n<p>David was also 1\/5 Jewish he told me!!<\/p>\n<p>All the best<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>From: Randall Wixen<\/p>\n<p>Re: Arnold Corns Pseudonym<\/p>\n<p>Did you ever hear these versions?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oi5R0ulokHE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jnqLJXDXz_w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Great stuff on Bowie.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say that Blackstar was that jazzy. Just guys known for a certain electronica-leaning segment of jazz. Guiliana happens to be a great rock drummer (we both played on matt Cameron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s solo record). Lindner is from outer space genius. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all kinda come out of jazz world a bit. McCaslin really added the jazz element with the saxophone stuff.<\/p>\n<p>We used to cover \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t easy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with tedeschi trucks band. Always one of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway hope shows happen next summer with the Crowes. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see what happens. Stay healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Lefebvre<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>David Bowie &#8211; Lady Grinning Soul | &#8220;The Runaways&#8221; stage scene HQ: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uP2fZdErF84\u00c2\u00a0from the Runaways movie few years back<\/p>\n<p>George Drakoulias<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Hunky Dory and Ziggy were life changing for me. I was working at a record store when Ziggy came out (yes I was far too young to actually have a job but I was Eddie Rosenblatt&#8217;s kid so they made an exception) we played it instore nonstop for weeks. I saw the Ziggy tour and was blown away, that sealed the deal for me, I was a Bowie fan for life.<\/p>\n<p>The instrumental fade of Moonage Daydream for me is the highlight of the Ziggy album. Yes Mick Ronson&#8217;s guitar part is unmatched anywhere but the string arrangement takes the song to a whole other level. I think that Radiohead based their career on the last 90 seconds of the song.<\/p>\n<p>For me you missed it with Station to Station and Low, they were also ground breaking and brilliantly executed. I still listen to those albums on a regular basis. Carlos Alomar&#8217;s guitar work is stellar, listen to him on Station to Station and Stay. Blackstar was a truly special album and a great coda to his recording career.<\/p>\n<p>Michael<\/p>\n<p>ps&#8230;.In the 80&#8217;s I had a meeting with Tony Visconti about producing a band I was working with in London. He was a true gentleman and was willing to answer questions I asked about some of the artists he had worked with. He said that most of those records (Bowie\/T-Rex among others) were recorded in the studio we were in at the time. I tried to hold it together as the fanboy inside of me was freaking the fuck out. I did ask him if I could touch the control board and he said yes of course.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Rosenblatt<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Subject: That time I\u00c2\u00a0crowdsurfed\u00c2\u00a0with David\u00c2\u00a0Bowie:<\/p>\n<p>October 13, 1997, I was a college freshman, and attended a David\u00c2\u00a0Bowie\u00c2\u00a0concert at The Supper Club with my best friend Brian Cancellieri (for whom I&#8217;m eternally grateful for many things, especially for bringing me to MSG for Bowie&#8217;s 50th bday concert earlier that year&#8230;a fine introduction to\u00c2\u00a0Bowie&#8230;and who poetically passed away FIVE YEARS before\u00c2\u00a0Bowie&#8230;both far too young&#8230;Oh Brian would have loved and dissected The Next Day and Blackstar&#8230;I still have all Brian&#8217;s bowie vinyl, including his signed Diamond Dogs.)<\/p>\n<p>On our way out of the club, Brian and I were gifted tickets\/recruited to a free\u00c2\u00a0Bowie\u00c2\u00a0show the very next night at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY. It was the series premiere of a new MTV program, Live From The 10 Spot. (Apparently The Rolling Stones were booked, but cancelled days earlier, and\u00c2\u00a0Bowie\u00c2\u00a0stepped in&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>October 14, 1997, Brian couldn&#8217;t make it to Port Chester, but I was happy to ditch night class, and I wrangled my concert mischief buddy Joe Letz to tag along. Matt Pinfield, the legendary bald-headed VJ, did a live audience interview outside before doors opened, and asked Joe if he liked\u00c2\u00a0Bowie. Joe told him &#8220;No, but I love Nine Inch Nails.&#8221; (Not entirely non-sequitur, as\u00c2\u00a0Bowie\u00c2\u00a0and NIN had toured together in &#8217;95.) Then Joe changed the subject, asking Matt if he liked chillin&#8217; in the massive Times Square Cup Noodle steaming billboard.<\/p>\n<p>We were right near the front of the line, and ended up quite close to the stage. Waiting for the lights to come down, we met some of the &#8220;Sigma Kids&#8221; who&#8217;d waited outside of Bowie&#8217;s Philly recording sessions.\u00c2\u00a0 They told us that one night Bowie actually invited them in to get their reactions to the tracks!<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the show, Joe, quite tall and determined, tried to hoist me up\u00c2\u00a0for a little crowdsurfing. The overwhelmingly older\u00c2\u00a0crowd\u00c2\u00a0didn&#8217;t seem so into it. We failed until the very last song, All the Young Dudes. I was finally airborne and so damn close to the stage.\u00c2\u00a0Bowie\u00c2\u00a0reached out, flashed one of his huge trademark grins and clasped MY hand! The contact only lasted a second, but it felt much longer, quite magical, as if i was at the center of it all. (You can relive it it in this video clip, broadcast live nationwide, around the 2:20 mark.\u00c2\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pDuLcohz5fU&amp;list=PLE9076154FD9EEFEE)<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of my crowdsurf, I kept reaching for The Thin White Duke, until my tiger-print shirt, skinny black pants, green socks, and I fell to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Bowman Simon<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Someone once told me about a hotel maid who collected whatever was left behind in celebrity hotel rooms. Legend had it she had scored Mickey Mantle&#8217;s fingernail clippings.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, I scored tickets to the intimate taping of bowie VH1 storytellers via BowieNet, his official online fanclub.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wKx_PH3M0ho\u00c2\u00a0(It was later released as a Live Album.)<\/p>\n<p>Bowie smoked all the way through, and after the taping i grabbed a cigarette butt out of his ashtray.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty sure\u00c2\u00a0 it was no longer filterless Gitannes he was smoking, but rather Marlboro Lights, smoked all the way down to the filter.\u00c2\u00a0 I saved the butt for a while. But one of the perils of traveling the world and stashing stuff at one&#8217;s parents&#8217; place is that moms throw stuff away indiscriminately, including bowie butts.<\/p>\n<p>P.P.S. mostly unrelated&#8230;smoking tangent? any thoughts on How To&#8230;With John Wilson on HBO?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 here&#8217;s a way before prime time clip of his, &#8220;How To Keep Smoking&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0https:\/\/vimeo.com\/86527457<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Mike Garson Thank you Bob, I received your Bowie analysis from so many people. They didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know I subscribe to your newsletter. I thought it was wonderful. You see I know VERY little about Rock n roll and continuously learn much from you. I grew up in a Jewish home in Brooklyn and many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-4p5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16932,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions\/16932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}