RIP, David Bowie

Over here on E Street, we’re feeling the great loss of David Bowie. David was a visionary artist and an early supporter of our music. Always changing and ahead of the curve, he was an artist whose excellence you aspired to. He will be sorely missed.
- Bruce Springsteen

 

Bowie knew that Vegetarians think they're better than everyone:

 

Yeah, but he knows nothing.

 

Yeah, but he knows nothing. (Sorry, I had to do it.)

EDIT: Dammit, Jake!

 

Sooooo0 . . . . how much play did the obit get in your papers today?

My shop gave it a full page inside (with 1A skybox).

 

I'd imagine most places gave it the full Phil Collins treatment.

 

"I'm a story teller, and a story writer, and I decided that I wanted to enact a lot of the material I was writing rather than perform it as myself, At this moment I am performing as myself, but I will continue in the future, after I have done what I have chosen at the moment, to return to writing stories and I will enact them again. I don't care what anyone says, I like doing it, and it is what I shall continue to do."

~ from an interview with Dick Cavett in 1974, just after finishing the "Diamond Dogs" tour.

Bowie would indeed perform as himself on his next record, "Young Americans", working with Nile Rodgers and Luther Vandross on a Philadelphia soul record. I found that take on his characters, from Ziggy to the Thin White Duke, very interesting, that he very deliberately donned the mantle as part of a story or play that he'd written the soundtrack for.

 

Apropos of nothing, but the opening intro to the Diamond Dogs album is some of the weirdest shit on record.

 

Gahhhhh.

 

No idea how I forgot this one, man, I love this song...