David Bowie passes away

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FYI - the Loft (channel 30) on SiriusXM is all Bowie.

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Karaoke night at the pub this week ended with everyone getting up on stage to sing Heroes. Was pretty cool.

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Link

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The Man Who Sold The World, a Tribute to David Bowie.

Another HUGE lost for music taken by cancer. Fundraiser in his honour is being held. Join us February 13th for your favourite Calgary bands playing their favourite Bowie songs with all of the proceeds going to cancer research.

FEATURING (in no particular order):
The Union Choir
Teenage Wildlife
Lucid44
Dillon Whitfield
Connor HD
Cat People (featuring members of Labcoast)
Geek Beet
The Blood Shoes (featuring Ryan Cole Eliason)
Moonlighters from Mars
Future Children (featuring members of the Sequicons)
Star City Lights
Astral Swans
SAVK
The Pygmies
Northwest Passages
Raleigh
Animal Teeth (Saskatoon)


Where: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club
109 7 Avenue S.W Calgary
When: Saturday February 13, 2016
Doors: 1:00pm
Admission: All proceeds go to cancer research. #### CANCER

https://www.facebook.com/events/1108...4873535203948/

[Itse]

Trent Reznor talks about his tour with Bowie in Rolling Stone. A good read.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...sober-20160126

At one of our first meetings, in rehearsals, we were talking about how the tour was going to go. I was faced with a strange predicament: At that moment in time, we'd sold more tickets than he did in North America. And there's no way on earth David Bowie is going to open for me. And on top of that, he said, "You know, I'm not going to play what anybody wants me to play. I just finished a strange new album. And we're going to play some select cuts from a lot of Berlin trilogy–type things, and the new album. That's not what people are going to want to see, but that's what I need to do. And you guys are going to blow us away every night." I remember thinking, "Wow. I'm witnessing firsthand the fearlessness that I've read about."

My way of dealing with life was to numb myself with drugs and alcohol, because it made me feel better and more equipped to deal with everything. My career was skyrocketing, but the scaffolding that was holding me up as a person was starting to collapse. I wasn't fully aware of how bad it was getting, but I knew, in my heart, that I was on an unsustainable, reckless, self-destructive path.

When I met David, he had been through that. And he was content. He was at peace with himself, with an incredible wife, clearly in love. There were a number of times where the two of us were alone, and he said some things that weren't scolding, but pieces of wisdom that stuck with me: "You know, there is a better way here, and it doesn't have to end in despair or in death, in the bottom."

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[Heavy Jack]

As have many artists of the past, from era's that specifically seemed to spawn great varieties of artists like David Bowie, we gained a massive amount of influence and creative inspiration from the late great David Bowie... to name just one of many. His passing came with little shock but still it was sad to see a true artist's artist like Bowie finally move on from a generation that still holds, in my honest opinion, quite a loud shout even though modern music seems to be taking a pretty firm grasp on general music listening (unfortunately or not depending on the listener) That said who doesn't like them some Fame or Let's Dance... some Born Under Punches... Some Dark Side of the Moon...

The crazy thing in all this is that the Bass player had already started self-recording a bunch of cover tunes to just play with the studio and continue to develop our sound overall via the studio and one of the covers happened to be a Bowie track that became somewhat of a amalgamation of Bowie imaginations/songs.

What came out of it in the weeks following Bowie's passing is what we feel to be a pretty solid tribute to a artist who will continue to serve as a great influence to us as have most bands/artists of the 50's/60's/70's/80's.

We hope you dig it

Are You Afraid Of Americans??

I'm Afraid Of Americans - A David Bowie Cover

Also check out the video

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I usually don't bump old threads but there is some bowie news.

https://canoe.com/entertainment/musi...et-for-release

David Bowie’s ‘lost’ 2001 album Toy is finally set to be released.

The late music legend’s collection of re-records and renditions of his early songs was originally planned to be released after 1999 LP Hours…, but a disagreement with his former label Virgin got in the way of fans hearing the gems.

The album – leaked online in 2011 – will be a part of the upcoming Era Five box set.

The Toy news comes after it was announced that the Space Oddity hitmaker’s estate landed a historical deal with Warner Music Group, which means the major label now owns the rights to the iconic singer’s entire back catalogue, bar the Rebel Rebel rocker’s pre-1968 recordings and a slew of other tracks.

Warner already owned the rights to Bowie’s music released between 1968 and 1999, following its acquisition of the Parlophone Label Group in 2013.

Bowie’s Sony-released records Heathen, Reality, The Next Day and Blackstar will have a home at Warner beginning in 2023.