DoonTheSlope Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 As the title says Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McTeeko Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 David Bowie's no deid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoonTheSlope Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 David Bowie's deid. FTFY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Legend. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robroysboy Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Will always remember him for his " stay together " plea during the referendum. Was meant to see him at T in the park, but he pulled out after a freak accident - got a lippy pop stuck in his eye apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekfaejapan Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Very sad news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northernscum Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 David Bowie's no deid. Apparently so....http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/486713/David-Bowie-dies-Facebook-page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilser Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Confirmed on BBC news - very sad news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parklife Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Was meant to see him at T in the park, but he pulled out after a freak accident - got a lippy pop stuck in his eye apparently.I think Jim McLean attacked him with a hammer. That's why he had to pull out. Fantastic musician. Very sad news. I never even knew he was unwell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottincarlisle Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 (edited) . I never even knew he was unwell. 18 month battle with cancer. RIP Edited January 11, 2016 by scottincarlisle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northernscum Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I think Jim McLean attacked him with a hammer. That's why he had to pull out. Fantastic musician. Very sad news. I never even knew he was unwell I don't think very many people did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Bloody hell!!! This was a TAMBer who cried wolf thread for me, had to check the Beeb first. Was just digging Lazarus on the radio through the night, a real return to form but now a poignant swan song. Absolute legend RIP Mr Jones :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Bloody hell!!! This was a TAMBer who cried wolf thread for me, had to check the Beeb first. Was just digging Lazarus on the radio through the night, a real return to form but now a poignant swan song. Absolute legend RIP Mr Jones :( Same. The first time i looked BBC weren't reporting it, so just assumed it was the "old joke". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_burger Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Sad news. In music terms, he was a real legend. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnyTJS Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 At his best he was incredible, and he was at his best far more often than most. Apart from Dylan I can't think of another living rock musician who's as important, and growing up he was more important than Dylan to me. Guess I will be getting Blackstar on vinyl now - I'd more or less talked myself out of it. 'We can be heroes ...' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheres the pies Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 canny believe that the great music legend has died rip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelhumper Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Grim. Never got the chance to see him. Knew he was ill but still terrible news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Will always remember him for his " stay together " plea during the referendum. Oh, off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Was never really that big a Bowie fan growing up. Liked the odd track but he didn't really resonate with me. When I was 19 he was playing the Barras and my mate who is a massive fan wanted to go so I went along with him. Bowie opened the gig just him on the stage with an acoustic guitar, smoke machine and a spotlight doing a song I'd never heard before in my life - Quicksand. It is genuinely one of those moments in your life when everything round about you seems to stop and I was completely transfixed. He was just mesmermising and I couldn't believe I'd never heard such an amazing song before. I know I loved that gig but the only thing I can remember about is Quicksand at the start and it's a song that has stayed with me to this day and is right up there among my favourite songs by any artist. The closing refrain of "Knowledge comes with deaths release" seems particularly poignant today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Bowie opened the gig just him on the stage with an acoustic guitar, smoke machine and a spotlight doing a song I'd never heard before in my life - Quicksand. It is genuinely one of those moments in your life when everything round about you seems to stop and I was completely transfixed. Taking the thread off topic for a second. I saw Rancid at the Barrowlands about 10-12 years ago and Lars Frederiksen started the show in the same manner, solo, accoustic, and a cover of Billy Braggs "To Have and To Have Not" which he'd covered with his other band "Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards". Same as you, I was transfixed. Not comparing oor Lars to Bowie of course, just the events are similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalgety Bay TA Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Oh, ###### off Exactly. One of Britain's most talented and successful musicians and someone "remembers" him for something he said in the run up to the Referendum. Some people really are wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParisInAKilt Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I remember him from Christiane F. the grim 80's German film about the Berlin drug scene. Think he did the music in it as well. Not a fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Saw him at the SECC in 1995, probably at the nadir of his career post Tin Machine. Morrissey had been supporting him but had left the tour for some reason, they were offering full refunds before the gig and the queue was huge. I got to the front and the woman said "You actually want to BUY a ticket?" I mind some of the comments in the paper the next day "I like David Bowie but he's not worth £25". Hard to believe now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 (edited) Never really was much of a Bowie fan growing up (the Pet Shop Boys remix of Spaceboy in the 90's was probably my introduction to him) but knew of his mainstream work which I found so-so (Rebel Rebel was one of the first riffs I learnt to play on Guitar).... then got into his back catalogue when got into Placebo who covered a number of his songs live and as B-sides and then started working with him, where I think his early 80's phase was probably my favorite. Rip Goblin King Edited January 11, 2016 by wanderer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 and then started working with him, You worked with David Bowie? sake. My claim to fame is that I once worked with one of the Devines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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