Bowiesongs

i guess i don’t get why you’re so fixated on this. Bowie and Eno apparently wrote the song—the chords, the melodies, the lyrics, i.e “composition”. Fripp comes in and plays over it. does he contribute to the song? of course yes. Does he deserve songwriting royalties? I fucking don’t know. but he was a professional and knew, when he came to the session, that unless he offered some composition he’d previously written or if he’d suggested changing the chords in a way that would completely alter the song, that he was being paid to play lead guitar on it and that was it. Why isn’t Bill Bruford credited on “One More Red Nightmare?”

in DB’s case, he seems to have played somewhat fair after the Ziggy period---Davis and Murray evidently wrote much of “Breaking Glass,” as they’re credited; Alomar has a good share of credits, and Gabrels was basically a co-composer for years (with the noted-by-RG exception of “Hallo Spaceboy”)

thanks! not really: whatever works best for you.

if so, the error didn’t originate with me: it’s called “Olympic” in a 2012 Mojo interview with Alomar:  http://www.trynka.net/archive/Low.html.  perhaps a mishearing during the interview. & it sounds like CA says “Olympic” in a WNYC interview from 2010 too but again, they’re similar sounding words.

good christ, what a question. but possibly true. Outside is up there for parallels, too. “Company” has the same despairing sense of broken connection as Low but it’s the former is more public a work---SS’ Young Americans, I guess.

we thought about it but it just didn’t work as two volumes, both in terms of sales and in narrative. starting with Idiot/Low and ending with Blackstar was, in retrospect, the only way it could have been done. I think it was worth the relatively minor edits to old blog entries get everything into one (long) volume.

this 2011 interview explains it:  he met DB’s tour manager at a party in early January 1976 and got recruited on the spot. it’s possible he and DB knew each other from the 60s, as they were both Marquee Club regulars     http://music-illuminati.com/interview-tony-kaye/

thanks so much. this is *the only thing* i ever wanted from that site---to give people a launching point to go elsewhere.

early ‘80s, pre-bleach blonding for Mr Lawrence/Let’s Dance  (think “Fashion” video). that goes beyond the usual “yeah, he’s a good looking dude” to “dang”

either at some point the estate will shift into “Beatles Anthology” dylan Bootleg Series mode and we’ll hear tons of this sort of thing, or most Bowie outtakes/demos will never be heard in our lifetimes

of course!  and another thing will start up in 2019.

a bit but the thing is no one ever talked about him, in any interview. and he’s dead, so it wasn’t like i could get his side of the story. he’s always just the guy in the room, who DB liked/relied on for a long while–he’s the counterpart to Erdal Kizilcay, who certainly was more colorful a presence. i was told some interesting gossip about how/why they fell out in the mid-90s but I didn’t feel was verified enough to put in the book.

no; (a couple); got a sentence

again w/the chapter ends---man, to be honest those were just garbage entries i put up to buy time to write other stuff. my picks for best songs were rather arbitrary, reflecting how i felt that week, honestly. i obviously gave up on doing them after the 90s entries.