Comments on: Crash Course for the Ravers: David Bowie Tribute at the Moore http://thesunbreak.com/2010/03/26/crash-course-for-the-ravers-david-bowie-tribute-at-the-moore/ Curious Georges in a conversation with Seattle Wed, 18 Feb 2015 07:17:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: Didn'tlikethesingers http://thesunbreak.com/2010/03/26/crash-course-for-the-ravers-david-bowie-tribute-at-the-moore/#comment-1170 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:57:00 +0000 /2010/03/25/crash-course-for-the-ravers-david-bowie-tribute-at-the-moore#comment-1170 The idea was nice, the orchestra wasn’t bad – but the singers were embarrassingly amateurish. High schoolers doing karaoke, trying to sound like Bowie – just makes you cringe.

]]> By: bilco http://thesunbreak.com/2010/03/26/crash-course-for-the-ravers-david-bowie-tribute-at-the-moore/#comment-1169 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:33:00 +0000 /2010/03/25/crash-course-for-the-ravers-david-bowie-tribute-at-the-moore#comment-1169 I’ll take no back seat to any Bowie fan – I remember waiting for a school bus in high school (circa 1972), with a huge fight, a virtual donnybrook around whether it was ‘Baugh-ie’, ‘Bo-ie’, or ‘Boo-ie’.

The scheeching on Man Who Sold the World is just horrid. When the LP came out, I’d just read the classic SF short on which it was based. Oddly, I couldn’t find it on the Net, but it was one of those weird, jokey SF short stories that were abundant in the 50s and 60s. The big ‘joke’ of this one was similar to the selling the Brooklyn Bridge bit – some aliens land and some character tries to make money by selling the rights to the planet. Then the aliens decide to collect.

Bowie is an artist worthy of a serious symphonic production – this clip says ‘wait til it happens’.

Oh, and given that they cover Hunky, Ziggy and Diamond, the Thin White Duke won’t make an appearance.

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