quoted 2 lines boomer Bowie fans + sixteen year olds with pigtails on E = a mighty> boomer Bowie fans + sixteen year olds with pigtails on E = a mighty
> interesting evening
Well, I'm a "boomer [ex-]Bowie fan" (*looks up at milk crate with 26 Bowie
albums in it, albeit none released after 1984*) who sees 16 year olds with
pigtails on E almost every weekend at raves, no big deal :-)
I dunno about the DB thing, though. On the one hand, being a former massive
Bowie fanatic, I keep an eye out on what he's doing. I certainly give him
serious props for keeping his eyes and ears open at this stage of the game;
I'm sorry, but people like Neil Young and Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones
might be out there still trodding the boards, but I haven't got the vaguest
interest in anything they're doing nowadays, just the same ol' same ol' Rock
thing which is so beyond dead it's ridiculous. At least David's trying to
do *something* on the contemporary tip. On the other hand, if you saw him do
"Little Wonder" at that VH-1 Fashion Awards thing, you saw exactly what Gonzi
was talking about - interludes of hey-this-sounds-pretty-cool Jungle
percussion-based music crashed together with utter guitar wank rubbish
courtesy of Uncle Feste... erm, I mean Reeves Gabrels and the regular human
percussionist doing non-Jungle percussion things. It was like oil and water.
I'm all for hybrids, but I wish they were all like the hybrid I'm listening
to right at this moment - "Dead Cities".
- Greg
(Who is frightened by the fact that he almost agreed with Gonzi
in public)