re (b): One of the great things about rock and roll is that many classic songs are based around obvious things you can do with the fingering of a guitar in standard tuning. The fiddley D thing is one. Also the Neil Young thing with the E minor plus some noodles added with your ring finger. Anyone can be a rock star with very little rehearsing!
Nice. E minor is an awesome chord that way-- well, while I'm here, I'll just add some extra notes, and hey hey my my, I sound pretty cool.
if you do not want this I want nothing to do with you
What does this mean? I knew Bauhaus before I knew Bowie and I like them a lot -- but I always get th'impression other people will look down on me for this musical taste. So my first reaction is to think Oh cool, somebody else I respect likes Bauhaus!1 but then fear sets in, I think maybe you're pulling my leg and setting me up to be belittled.
(And I will certainly look at the post and the video this evening, when I have multimedea capabilities.)
I learned to pick out the guitar part of "Redemption Song" in about five minutes on Saturday. It was awesome! Next up: "Stairway to Heaven"!
(Don't make fun of me; when I was an undergraduate, it was all about turntables and sampling machines.)
Clown: I think you can be secure.
It's supposed to be ridiculous! Jesus. Do people actually think glam was in earnest?
Hunky Dory is his best, though, for my money.
The Bauhaus cover is a little to faithful to the original - it would have been more fun if they'd really punked it up.
That, and that dude (Peter Murlhy?)'s pant are up way too high.
"With god-given ass" should be a Mineshaft motto, though.
Not only did Bauhaus totally rule, and make a better version of Ziggy Stardust (no offense to the brilliant Bowie), but Bauhaus sans Peter Murphy also kicked total ass with Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets. That said, anytime Bauhaus is brought up I am compelled to mention Joy Division, whose debut album was released the same year as that of Bauhaus.
Also featuring that D-major pinky thing -- "Patience" by G&R.
I stand by my contention that Ziggy Stardust is one of the great albums of all time.
In fact my entire interest in David Bowie stems from wondering, "I wonder what else he's done other than Ziggy Stardust."
Hunky Dory is very good, but Ziggy Stardust is rediculously good.
Hm. Well it's nice to know some other people enjoy Bauhaus music in a non-sarcastic way. Next stop, Donovan. Oh wait, people here have already copped to digging his music. Jeez -- what other shameful rock 'n roll secrets have I got?... I think I like Journey, but it's been so long since I heard their music that I can't remember if I still would. Santana? Doobie Bros?
What with all this Bauhauserie, pretty soon I'm going to have to step out for a clove.
Aha! Got it -- the Alan Parsons Project!
when I have multimedea capabilities
Everyone, if Clownaes gives you a robe this evening, DO NOT PUT IT ON.
For some reason, this seems an appropriate tangent for the conversation at hand.
I looked into the void, and 15 stared back at me.
20 -- The game never ends, when your whole world depends on the turn of a friendly card.
(The Alan Parsons Project has in common with Bauhaus, that I have seen both groups on reunion tours.)
17 -- I don't, in particular I think the opening 5 tracks of Low are a very strong sequence of songs.
But my Bowie Mix which is mostly pulled from Bowie at the Beeb, is a reasonable reflection of the Bowie that I am most likely to listen to.
5- JM, I'm not making fun of you, and I applaud your accomplishments, but please no, not Stairway. It's beyond cliche. Surely there must be something else you'd enjoy learning instead?
On guitar-related note, a strong argument could be made that this is the greatest air guitar performance in history. Simply brilliant.
While anyone who gets the CDs I offered to make (playlist final, album art pending) will confirm that I am a fan of the driving drums and the fuzzed-out guitar, this is so not anywhere as good as the original.
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sweet jesus what an erudite bunch of slackers. Caliban the other day, euripides today.
Jaco Pastorius made me go out and buy a bass. Not that I ever learned to do anything with it. It was his playing on Joni Mitchell's Hejira that did it, esp. Refuge of the Road. First time I listened to it I couldn't even figure out what the hell instrument made those sounds--a pipe organ? An elephant matriarch, musing on the lost decades? Or maybe just an especially pensive and philosophical right-whale?
It made me sad later to learn that his life was screwed up. An incredible talent.
Which is not to knock anything off Bowie, who rocks. Also, the Editors rocks.
23 - He does some cool Jacques Brel covers on that.
Bauhaus was great, and the whole "Ziggy is ridiciulous" thing is about both what Joe D says--duh, it's supposed to be over the top--and also, like so many other cheesy things, it wasn't cheesy the first time it was done.
I kinda feel this way about clear sunny days with big puffy clouds. Especially if the sun slants through the clouds so that you can see the rays. "What a tacky sky; it looks like a Baroque painting. But where are the cherubs?"
5/24 -- a great guitar solo to pick out, pretty easy and fun, is the opening bars of Syd Barrett's "Baby Lemonade" (which I think is Gilmour playing but not sure.)
"What a tacky sky; it looks like a Baroque painting. But where are the cherubs?"
This sort of reaction can be avoided by eschewing art.
tablature for 29 and lyrics.
Maybe I'm too young, but "well hung"? "Snow-white tan"?
27 -- indeed. As far as covers go I think his cover of "Cactus" by the pixies (on Heathen) is also very good.
The other thread is reminding me of the obvious -- I can always feel embarrassed and small about liking the Doors. And Castaneda too, probably.
"Ziggy Stardust" is fucking amazing, and only a fat ugly Nazi would whine about how the lyrics are too weird.
My favorite Bowie album is Scary Monsters.
My opinion of Bowie is totally colored by The Venture Brothers, which is to say: Bowie is awesome.
I think it's important to remember that whatever else you might say about it, glam rock helped bring down Communism.
Also featuring the noodling on D-major, James Taylor's "Country Road."
please note that 24 Features someone who
1. bills himself as a "professional air guitarist"
2. is wearing some inexplicable hello kitty bikini top.
John Lennon's "Woman" as well. Perhaps there ought to be a Dnoodle or Dndl notation.
42: Inexplicable? Hello Kitty rocks!
It's not that Hello Kitty is inexplicable... it's that the top itself is inexplicable. As in, cannot be explicated. The best I could come up with was, "the decapitated head of Hello Kitty, strapped to his chest," but even that doesn't do it justice.
I'm torn between Low and Heroes for "favorite Bowie album," but Ziggy does rock. Also Lodger and Scary Monsters. And Man Who Sold the World. And Diamond Dogs.
Damn he recorded a lot of great albums.
A Hello Kitty breastplate is beyond awesome, people.
The costume could only be completed by a set of Powerpuff Girl greaves.
Pretty much the entire rock guitar canon is based around a couple of easy to finger shapes. There's the fiddly D thing already mentioned, the E minor pentatonic box at the 12th fret [every rock/blues-rock guitar solo, ever], the other A minor pentatonic box thing around the 8th fret [everyone who ever wanted to sound like BB King], the overdriven open-E chord + G riff, and the 'palm-muted pedal tone on the E or A string, plus root-5 diads' [all metal from about 1981 onwards].
The 12th fret E-minor pentatonic box plus the ability to make artificial harmonic squeals == rock, pretty much.
That said, all those clichés still sound great when played right.
Bowie always chose great guitar players, whether it was Mick Ronson on the early 70s stuff or Earl Slick and Carlos Alomar doing all that great spazzed-out funk stuff on the mid/late-70s tracks, or even the little snippets of Stevie Ray Vaughan in the early 80s.