Great song from a time when Bowie was still finding himself. A next level live version is from the Santa Monica '72 release when he was touring the States promoting the Ziggy Stardust album. Gives Mick Ronson a lot of room to stretch out and the band just EXPLODES!
This is from 1970 and is by far my favourite Bowie era, up until about Diamond Dogs. The guitarist is Mick Ronson, a great and under rated guitarist, born about 30 minutes from me. The bassist is Tony Visconti, more renown as a producer to many. The drummer is Mick Woodmansey and agree with Dan about the rhythm section The 2nd half of the song is about God disguised as the Devil and they fuck each other. Great start to the new year and great reaction guys 👍
You and I are on the same page about this Bowie era. From 1969 (The self-titled album, later Space Oddity) through 1973 Aladdin Sane and Pin Ups. Heroes is probably my favorite Bowie song with that Fripp guitar playing, but 69-73 is my favorite Bowie.
Tony Visconti's bass playing is superb - and its prominence in the mix is probably unconnected with the fact that the producer is... Tony Visconti. Oh, and as to the guitars, it's Bowie on acoustic and Mick Ronson on electric.
Can’t Believe this is being reacted to and won a Patreon Poll. Wonderful Song. A Must is “Moonage Daydream” with Bowie’s Absolutely Amazing Vocals & Eclectic Songwriting along with Mick Ronson on Piano Melotron String Arraignments and Ronson’s Other Worldly Guitar Solo 🎸
One of my top 5 Bowie songs and that's taken me 50 years to decide. If I stay here too long,I'll change my mind again.... too many gems to rate a top 5 Genius ,he was.
Love this old Bowie. Ronson has it sounding almost like Wishbone Ash! Check out the OGWT vids from the Spiders band, minus the makeup, doing Oh You Pretty Things and Queen Bitch off the next album and Five Years from Ziggy. And I know I'm in the minority here, but the 1st Tin Machine album is another overlooked gem with incredible guitar work from Reeves Gabrels.
That first Tin Machine album was great! In 1977, I saw Iggy Pop in concert with the Sales brothers on bass and drums. They went on to be with Bowie in Tin Machine twelve years later. Back to the Iggy concert, unannounced and playing piano at the back of the stage, back to the audience with flaming red hair, was David Bowie. Those of us in the know knew that Bowie produced Iggy's last two albums and figured it out. I respected Bowie for that. It wasn't his gig, and he didn't want to steal the spotlight from Iggy. Always the gentleman.
Which one? There's the version on the Ziggy movie soundtrack and the Stage album live version. I like the Stage version, perhaps just because the audio is better.
@@Royale_with_Cheeze There's a BBC one he did over here, 6 months or so before the album was released. It's raw and sound quality not great. It is on YT
David Bowie needed to change his name because The Monkees were already established and Davy Jones was already taken. He took the name Bowie from Jim Bowie, the American who created the Bowie knife.
When this first came out, I was in my second year of college, taking a Masterpieces of American Lit course. The first weeks of the class were devoted to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and I wrote a paper comparing this song to Leaves of Grass. Love the song, always holds a special place for me, thanks for giving it a listen!
I’d recommend just about anything from this album, Bowie was on fire on this one. Try she shook me cold, the title track, all the madmen, after all, you’ll dig early Bowie, shades of Ziggy already poking through!
Not bad for a 23 year old. There's an interesting BBC live recording from February 5, 1970 that has a bunch of songs from this, and his previous album, and the performance is great because the heavy production is gone.
