David Bowie Passed Away

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FyreWulff said:
considering her post is a positive support of Bowie's efforts, yes?

People are misreading the fuck out of that post, including the person that screencapped it.
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Erasing Bowie's identification as a bisexual (relegating him to "ally" status instead of a representative), referring to his "flaws," shrugging at his his genderfluid performing with "cis", going down the litany of his privileges, and referring to him as "just another musician who makes fun music" is not positive support of the man, IMO. It was a weasel-worded compliment that amounted to "well, this white person did at least one thing that was good," and leaves it at that. All of the responses to her, from her own friends, were basically schooling her on how weird that post was. My favorite was a trans guy friend of hers saying "Let us have our bittersweet moment, then continue to shame us for not being gay black women."
 
I like the idea of lightning bolted avatars as a tribute, the black ribbon is Iwata's thing.

The Harmonix devs shared this on reddit, they said David Bowie was a big Amplitude fan and had them do a mock-up FreQ of him:

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Sky Saw said:
That seems fake as hell to me.
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You think David Bowie's ex-wife would agree to that charade on the day that she finds out David died? I don't know the lady so she might be a completely soulless and evil person but I find it unlikely that she'd do that.
 
cj_iwakura said:
I like the idea of lightning bolted avatars as a tribute, the black ribbon is Iwata's thing.

The Harmonix devs shared this on reddit, they said David Bowie was a big Amplitude fan and had them do a mock-up FreQ of him:
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Would make a lot more sense and give a more personal touch towards David Bowie.
 
"Bowie had already finished Blackstar by November. But even before then, Visconti noticed the tone of some of the lyrics and told him, "You canny bastard. You're writing a farewell album." Bowie simply laughed in response."
 
I don't think there are many things as surreal and as heartbreaking as immersing yourself in the new album by your hero, and seeing a news story that he's gone soon after. I still can't really place it yet. All I can say is that he's always made me very happy to be alive.
 
 
Stumbled across Madonna's tribute cover of Rebel Rebel at her recent concert.

(F-bombs dropping liberally so be warned)

...speechy at the start and end...

She seemed genuinely upset at his passing, and his influence is all over her career.

Any other performers doing similar tributes at their shows?
 
Joe Elliot from Def Leppard has had some great stories to tell about David Bowie, especially since David was a huge inspiration for Joe and many others to get into music.

On Monday morning I got a text that said: ‘Have you heard?’ Those are the three most hated words in my life. I’m used to them now. I know what they mean. So I looked at my emails: ‘David Bowie dead.’ I thought it was a hoax. Then I turned on the TV news and there it was, confirmed by Duncan, his son.

It was already a bad couple of weeks in January. We’ve had the thirtieth anniversary of Phil Lynott’s death, and the twenty-fifth anniversary of Steve Clark dying. Lemmy’s gone, and now Bowie.

As I’ve been saying for a lot years, for people of our generation, we’ve got a lot of this ahead. When you think about McCartney, or Mick and Keith, they’re not going to be around forever.

David Bowie was an absolute idol to me when I was a kid. Without him, I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing. He was a big part of what made me want to be in a band.

The first time I heard a Bowie song was Space Oddity in ’69. I was nine. The song didn’t really resonate with me then. It was three years later when I really found Bowie – or should I say Bowie found me? July 6, 1972: that infamous Top Of The Pops performance, Bowie doing Starman. I felt like I’d seen something I’d never seen before. I was mesmerised by his image.

More to read and watch at the source
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The effect David Bowie had on music wasn't constrained just to one decade or a couple years like most artists. His reinvention over the years plus those he inspired changing the course of music over the decades is something else.

There will never be someone like David Bowie again but atleast his legacy will live on.
 
Cranster said:
The effect David Bowie had on music wasn't constrained just to one decade or a couple years like most artists. His reinvention over the years plus those he inspired changing the course of music over the decades is something else.

There will never be someone like David Bowie again but atleast his legacy will live on.
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It's not just music, but he is embedded in contemporary history in a way other comparable artists are not. When you think of Bowie, you think of 60/70s London, 70/80s Berlin, 80/90s New York, Thatcherite orientalism and the end of Empire (China Girl, Mr Lawrence), queer politics, musical experimentalism (Brian eno), science fiction (the man who fell to earth), the rise of the autodidactic individual, just to name a very few cultural nodes.

And some of those nodes feed into earlier cultural heritage, such as the science fantasy aspect is very 50s (like lyrics about ray guns) and the autodidactism and outsider nature feeds into 50s and 60s beat literature, jazz, Colin Wilson and so on.

Because of this massive cross pollination of contemporary culture, I feel his death hits hard because it isn't just the death of a man, but of a whole cultural infrastructure that passes away with him into unliving memory.
 
thenexus6 said:
I still don't get how his death seems like it was planned so perfectly..

new album releases and is seemingly awesome, his death opens peoples eyes to hidden meaning in the lyrics and images in music video

sends basically a thank you and fair well email to Brian Eno last week

Last photos of him two days before death looking fly and looking in good health really

last accounthis official twitter followed was God before he died

I'm probably missing some things but seems weird man..
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He never lost control.
 
Lys Skygge said:
I'm surprised we haven't heard anything from Trent Reznor yet. David and Trent were somewhat close, especially in the 90's.
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Trent is usually a pretty private person, but I'm sure David's death has greatly affected him. His silence doesn't really mean anything because people deal with death differently and some are not so open to talk about it.

Also, been listening to Outside. What a great album, so experimental and trippy. I'm Deranged is great, probably my favorite song on the album.

https://youtu.be/-jdtMIpF56s
 
Macadinho94 said:
Rolling Stone interview with Tony Visconti, says Bowie thought he had a few more months and there was another album planned :(

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...album-thought-he-had-few-more-months-20160113
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Jesus that's heartbreaking, but it's also confusing. He planned another album about a week before his death, but at the same time before November Visconti looked at his lyrics and video for Lazarus and said it was a farewell album? Doesn't really add up. Unless Bowie for some reason thought he was improving before that week before he died and suddenly it went the opposite way.
 
NateDog said:
Jesus that's heartbreaking, but it's also confusing. He planned another album about a week before his death, but at the same time before November Visconti looked at his lyrics and video for Lazarus and said it was a farewell album? Doesn't really add up. Unless Bowie for some reason thought he was improving before that week before he died and suddenly it went the opposite way.
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It can be both. Bowie thought the end was near and made sure he completed an album and with death on his mind the album was what it was. But he figured, in his optimism, he could make something else. And maybe with him actually seeing the release be felt even more confident.

He clearly wasn't bedridden for the last month of his life. We have photos with him seeming quite energetic days before his death. If it's true he suffered a lot of heart attacks making Blackstar, maybe he finally had the fatal one the weekend he died.
 
VistraNorrez said:
It can be both. Bowie thought the end was near and made sure he completed an album and with death on his mind the album was what it was. But he figured, in his optimism, he could make something else. And maybe with him actually seeing the release be felt even more confident.

He clearly wasn't bedridden for the last month of his life. We have photos with him seeming quite energetic days before his death. If it's true he suffered a lot of heart attacks making Blackstar, maybe he finally had the fatal one the weekend he died.
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Or maybe the liver just gave up. In that case it can go downhill really fast in the end. I know, because I lost someone very close to something similar.
 
VistraNorrez said:
It can be both. Bowie thought the end was near and made sure he completed an album and with death on his mind the album was what it was. But he figured, in his optimism, he could make something else. And maybe with him actually seeing the release be felt even more confident.

He clearly wasn't bedridden for the last month of his life. We have photos with him seeming quite energetic days before his death. If it's true he suffered a lot of heart attacks making Blackstar, maybe he finally had the fatal one the weekend he died.
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Visconti said the six heart attacks thing wasn't true (or at least, insofar as he knows).

I think, as what happens with a lot of terminal cancer patients, he just went really quickly. He would've been fine for a while, then suddenly took a turn for the worse and was gone within days. Kinda makes the timing around his birthday/Blackstar release/death even more semi-miraculous, that he could hold on long enough to see that through.
 
VistraNorrez said:
It can be both. Bowie thought the end was near and made sure he completed an album and with death on his mind the album was what it was. But he figured, in his optimism, he could make something else. And maybe with him actually seeing the release be felt even more confident.

He clearly wasn't bedridden for the last month of his life. We have photos with him seeming quite energetic days before his death. If it's true he suffered a lot of heart attacks making Blackstar, maybe he finally had the fatal one the weekend he died.
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Do we actually know when those photos of him in the suit and hat are from though? Everyone's saying they were taken just days before (and by his wife which was proven untrue) but no-one has backed it up, I'm just curious.
 
NateDog said:
Do we actually know when those photos of him in the suit and hat are from though? Everyone's saying they were taken just days before (and by his wife which was proven untrue) but no-one has backed it up, I'm just curious.
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This article indicates they might have been from December when Lazarus was being shot. But no one seems to have any facts.

Nonetheless we know he was recording music very close to the end from what Visconti had said.
 
so1337 said:
I'm not usually into avatar fads but you don't get a reason to dress (your avatar) up like a real cool cat every day.

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Thanks for this. Just added it to my Avatar.

It's crazy how much David Bowies death has affected so many people. I don't think a single store I went into on the day of his death wasn't playing his music or Labyrinth on a screen. Celebrity deaths happen, and it's always sad...but it's not everyday a cultural icon passes.
 
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