Drummer reacts to "Lady Stardust" / "Star" / "Hang On To Yourself" by David Bowie
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- We continue on through "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust" with the first three songs off side 2... and wow. This man really does surround himself with the best. Mick and Woody are just fantastic on these three tracks. So is Bowie of course but, they kinda stole the show for me. Such a damn good record.
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The great Mick Ronson
Mick Ronson was a brilliant musician. He was the best part of any track he played on. He also basically did all the arrangements. The whole band was classic and tight as hell.
he really is brilliant... everywhere i've heard him he has been a stand out, each time.
All over The Man Who Sold the World also, just amazing. It would be hard to say which was the better album, both are amazing but Mick's work on Width Of a Circle or She Shook Me Cold tips it for me. What a genius.
@@L33ReactsAbout 1990 I saw that Mick Ronson was playing with Ian Hunter at a cowboy bar in Northside of Fort Worth that night, so I went, alone, paid at the door. I was so glad I did. It was a very comfortable atmosphere, and after the show the musicians didn’t disappear; they hung out talking to everyone and drinking longnecks of beer. Classic.
P.S. Happy late birthday
@@kavimontanaro7976Width Of A Circle is epic genius. No one but Bowie and Ronson could have come up with that, and nobody sounds like Mick Ronson on the guitar.
Top 10 albums for me. I listen to it end to end. Lyrics are amazing, guitars, drums, sax, and those rock-god vocals. Immense album
Immense is a great word for it. There is so much to it.
I can hardly wait… Ziggy and suffragette city up next!!!!
Rock n roll shmuacide. Can't wait for that one either:)
@@L33Reacts the best...
@@L33Reactsthe live version of (R&R S) is very cool too!
I still say you should hear "The Laughing Gnome" from 1967. If only to highlight how much David Bowie and his music evolved in such a short period of time. 😊 Interestingly, this song became a hit in the UK when reissued in 1973 to exploit Bowie's breakthrough success with Ziggy Stardust.
If you ever go through another Bowie album, I hope it will be "Hunky Dory". This album was released immediately prior to Ziggy Stardust. Bowie had been varying his persona so much since the mid 60s, that RCA offered little promotion for Hunky Dory and its lead single "Changes", wary that Bowie would transform his image once again shortly after. So, despite very positive press reviews, Hunky Dory initially sold poorly and failed to chart. Once again, after the commercial breakthrough of the Ziggy Stardust album in 1972, Hunky Dory garnered renewed interest and was awarded the success it truly deserved. 😊
Just put my suggestion on "the list". That list gets bigger and bigger everyday, but is bound to make for some awesome personal listening experiences in the future! 😀
i will for sure add it to the list, thank you stephen. sounds like a grand ol' time. bowie is the best.
@@L33Reacts Hunky Dory has been my thought too for you to do next!
This album, along with "Hunky Dory" will be with me forever. Superb Bowie music in both.
Bowie started every Ziggy show with Hang On To Yourself. Great way to kick off the show.
Lady Stardust is my favorite as well, and an amazing song on its own. Love this album, I remember listening to it when it first came out and being blown away. And it's still amazing today, a sign of great art, it's timeless.
I love it too! I can't wait to finish it! I've been waiting for the last track for ages it feels like
@@L33Reacts Actually it's the last two tracks. Suffragette City is breathtaking and Rock and Roll Suicide is dramatic like a Broadway show finale. Such a perfect way to end the album!
Hello again! I did a duet request for Lady Stardust and a T. Rex song. Didn't realize Lee was already doing all of Ziggy lol!
@@lauraallen55 I love love love Lady Stardust!!! What T.Rex song did you request, I don't think I've mentioned how much I love T.Rex, Mark Bolen was so great!
Bowie singing about another of my favorites Marc Bolan of T-rex. Worth checking out T-rex for sure
I actually made a request for two songs together: Lady Stardust and Bang a Gong (Get it On) for that reason. Didn't realize he was already doing Ziggy lol! So T. Rex will be coming imminently. :)
@@lauraallen55 I always find myself shedding a tear for Marc when I hear Bowie's Everyone Says 'Hi'. There are many theories about who this song is about, but whatever the truth is the fact it was released on the 25th anniversary of Marc's death always reminds me of him.
@@PaulMDove2 I read something about that one wherein David was quoted as saying it was about loss, and that when he wrote it he had been thinking about his father whom he'd lost so long before as well as close friends he'd lost. It being released on the anniversary of Marc's death could possibly be coincidental, but I don't think it was.
It is a sad one. I feel it when I listen, too. Elton John's Empty Garden about John Lennon has the same effect on me. :(
Ziggy played guitar
I also requested Lady Stardust before I realized you were already doing the Ziggy album lol! I paired it with the T. Rex song (you haven't done yet) because it's about the lead singer of T. Rex: Marc Bolan. He was the original 'glam' rocker, even before Bowie. Yeah, Mick and Woody were great as always! Mick did piano on this one.
An album that should be part of your rock collection! Thanks
This channel is great for exploring the lesser known song of artists we all think we know
Bowie is always so good ... what a talent
This was a cosmic rockunroll whirlwind that threw all the best people upside down and never brought them back to mama.
This music represents such a nostalgic overtone to those of us in our prime back then.❤
Always loved Lady Stardust. Very emotional piece.
You have to look at “Hunky Dory” next…it is Bowies best album and was the release just before Ziggy Stardust. It is a treasure chest of really great songs..I would like to suggest “Changes”, “Oh you Pretty Things”, “Life On Mars”, “Andy Warhol”, “The Queen Bitch” and finally my 2 particular favourites from the album “Quicksand” and “The Bewlay Brothers”. This was the album of a long hot summer just after I had finished my A levels and before I started University…lasted from June to October , we partied non stop, Played music (this was the newly found album by me and my friends)…and we had just found ‘weed’. Magical times for a young lad in his late teens…just about to become an ‘responsible adult’….(eventually……)……oh by the way, I am still waiting to become that adult and I have now retired and am drawing my pension 😂😂😂😂😂 !!!!!!!
No such thing as Bowie's best album
There are at least 10 that vie for that title
@@brianmmacu and of those 10…this is MY number 1. The music. The time.The joy. My youth. You are permitted to have different ones…..as am I.
Nr. 3 of my favourite albums. Station to station, diamond dogs and then hunky dory.
"The Fall" is the next cut, Lee - you're right. The closest we get to a straight-out story, and a probably common development of a band wherein one member becomes the "special man". I love it.
Man-Cosmic gas! Peace & Love.
The thing you're hearing that makes you think of the Beach Boys on " Hang onto Yourself" is the bass guitar sliding from one fret to the next likebthe Beach Boys do on " Surfin' Safari." Possibly?
That's probably what it was. It sounded very familiar.
My fav side. The last song is life giving.
Absolutely- literally saved mine ❤
@@edwardmeradith2419 mine too!
David Bowie‘s last album is called Black Star.
That's very true. I didn't put that together till now. That's rough. 😪
A couple of my faves off this album, the last two. An embarrassment of riches, obv., but there you have it.
😏🤙🏼🎶🎸❤️✨️🕊
Yeah, this album is an embarrassment of riches! Each song has been great so far 👌
Interesting that you said that Ziggy was the closest character to the real David Bowie cause I've always thought that as well! He did go through a rise & a fall kind of during that 18 month period of tours. He got famous really quickly & his manager was booking shows non stop. He would sometimes do 2 shows a day. By the US leg of the tour he was already exhausted & started to go a bit crazy so he just said to his manager that he wants to be done with it. So he abruptly just ended it one night which is what was filmed for the Ziggy Stardust Concert Film.The only other people that knew of that plan were Mick Ronson & Bowie's hairstylist/costumer who eventually became Micks wife. The other band members had no idea! So really he manifested his rise & fall as a character & band lol
Got here late. Was watching the Starliner not blow up. Great album.
Good stuff 👏👏
"Just watch me now..."
Live versions:
1. Hang On To Youself is considered a template for what became punk: This early version brings that vibe: czcams.com/video/dDtLmzYikmA/video.htmlfeature=shared
2. Lady Stardust: Chris Cornell did a great live version. Look it up
You are doing these perfect ! 🎸 Keeping the songs LP by LP is almost crucial to so many Bowie LP’s . Everything up to and including “Scary Monsters” (1980) . Those songs all belong together . “Space Oddity” (1969) … Then go WAY back and check out all the early “David Jones” / Bowie stuff that led up to that LP . GREAT JOB ! 🎸😎🎥
Bowie did have a fall, he had serious drug problems and very well might not have survived. He said somewhere that a lot of this era was missing from his memory. Also he lost a lot of money in this period, he became so big so fast and had a rough ride for a while. But he came out the other end in one piece and I'm so grateful for it. I'm not certain but I think by the late 70s he had things under control.
I love the versions of these songs on the Stage album.
Two pieces that I enjoy the drumming is Trapeze, “Black Cloud” and The Commodore, “Cebu”! Thanks
Bowie's own rise and fall sort of mirrored Ziggy's in a way when he began to regret that he wasn't a Rock and Roll star but had instead created his own genre(s). In the late 80s he maybe thought he was losing himself and decided to return to rock and he formed the band Tin Machine.
They were never critically acclaimed but, in my opinion, this was the period that sowed the seeds of a lot of what followed. Specifically, in relation to his desire to return to rock, is the Tin Machine track You Belong in Rock n' Roll.
My own favourites are Under the God, I Can't Read, Baby Can Dance and of course the eponymous track Tin Machine (a favourite on the juke box in my local pub at the time it was released).
Paul....loved Baby Universal off the first Tin Machine album...rockin song!
Ziggy Stardust is Jimmy Hendrix, this is a tribute to Hendrix "ziggy played guitar he played it left hand but made it to far"
A friend and I used to pogo to Star, Hang Onto Yourself, and Suffragette City at her parents’ house in high school (they had a killer Bang & Olufsen system).
Listen to this on vinyl it will change your perspective
David pushed one "Star" song to the next album - "The Prettiest Star". Marc Bolan connections again.
Check the Ziggy Stardub lp by Easy Star All-Stars. You might also like their Dub Side Of The Moon.
Bowie's "competition" was a flaming homosexual calling himself, "Jobriath", a stylish pianist, and the first rock personality to "come out", so he didn't rise to the level of appreciation his music deserved. His band was remarkable, as was Jobriath's music. Two albums and a ton of tragedy, but one of a kind, and brilliant. His second album, Creatures of the Street, is, imo, the better of the two albums, and worth a listen, Lee.
I much prefer it when you don't play the video as it just distracts from the listening experience.