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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1422379362' post='2671923'] For me that pretty much sums up everything that is wrong with Bowie post "Lets Dance". The arrangements are almost as important as the songs themselves, and to loose that in order to give all the musicians something to do lessens the impact of the song IMO. Every superfluous muss twiddle in that arrangement distracts from the pure simplicity of the original riff. Nasty. [/quote] I hear what you're saying, but he hasn't messed with it that much. It does give it a different feel, but I can still put most of the run variations in. There are two different bridge type sections one of which is quite laid back compared to the other one and this version only gives the opportunity to play one of them, so I went for the busier line. It's all good to my ears, but accept it may not be to yours.

[quote name='lonestar' timestamp='1422377823' post='2671888'] Excellent If you ever need a dep... [/quote] You're the first on my list [quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1422377840' post='2671889'] HA!!! good luck with that one [/quote] I don't hear that much to be concerned about there.... [url="http://youtu.be/-ef_D-Et7c8"]http://youtu.be/-ef_D-Et7c8[/url]

[quote name='merello' timestamp='1422376361' post='2671864'] Look on YT for him live at the BBC or a modern gig. [/quote] A lot of the arrangements we are doing are from the BBC gig in 2000 (i.e. Ashes, I'm Afraid of Americans, The Man Who Sold The World). It also helps vocally working from these recordings as he dropped the key of quite a few of songs. I spent a little while nailing the structure and subtle differences in the run downs to Rebel Rebel to be told we were doing this version which I think is terrific. [url="http://youtu.be/7HyWXftUiWc"]http://youtu.be/7HyWXftUiWc[/url]

So, after a call this morning, we're now up to fifteen.... 1. China Girl 2. Let's Dance 3. The Jean Genie 4. Rebel Rebel 5. Starman 6. Changes 7. Suffragette City 8. Rock & Roll Suicide 9. All The Young Dudes 10. The Stars (Are Out Tonight) 11. The Man Who Sold The World 12. I'm Afraid of Americans 13. Ziggy Stardust 14. Sound and Vision 15. Ashes to Ashes Best I get off the computer and learn some songs then....

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1422360283' post='2671526'] Shouldn't that really be in the Mott The Hoople set, anyway? [/quote] Probably, but since he wrote it and did it live, I think we can get away with it

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1422356769' post='2671469'] How about a leftfield choice, "All the Young Dudes"? [/quote] Er, that's in the first ten already.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1422355247' post='2671446'] Here's the set list of the band that Roland Rock used to be in; [url="http://www.rebelrebelband.co.uk/Set%20List%20&%20Tracks.htm"]http://www.rebelrebe...0&%20Tracks.htm[/url] And since it came up on google here's the list from a USA based tribute of the same name!; [url="http://www.rebelrebeltribute.com/set-list.php"]http://www.rebelrebe...om/set-list.php[/url] Might give you some idea of what's doable and is accepted by the public in a working band. [/quote] Thanks for that. I'll have a look later.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1422354733' post='2671437'] Unless your singer is actually David Bowie.... Of course if you really want to be eclectic in your choices you need to play at least one Tin Machine track! [/quote] Well, funny you should mention that, 'cos here he is back in the day.... [url="http://youtu.be/jp7ZqJg3NWM"]http://youtu.be/jp7ZqJg3NWM[/url] We WILL be doing Under The God at some point!

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1422349567' post='2671359'] Certainly while you are building up a following, you'll need to play things that the non-Bowie fans will be familiar with. That probably means including stuff like Dancing In The Street. How good are your vocalists? I'd love to have a crack at Under Pressure, but we don't have anyone who can sing the Bowie part. [/quote] I refuse to play Dancing In The Street as I'm completely sick of it. I think it's been in the set of just about every band I've been in. Just can't do it anymore. We did Under Pressure at the aforementioned charity gig, so that will make an appearance at some point. We had other vocalists in to assist when we did it, so it may take some re-jigging.

[quote name='vsmith1' timestamp='1422348608' post='2671343'] Hmm...Gail Ann Dorsey lays down some mean bass for Bowie - I hope it goes well for you. [/quote] She sure does. Absolutely love her playing. I swapped from playing my Jazz, which I used at the 1st rehearsal, to my Stingray which I used last night and it's going to have to be the Stingray from now on. It's just got that sound!

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1422342670' post='2671289'] I was in a Bowie tribute for a few years before my current band - great fun. The Ziggy album is an entity in itself; there are many people who only go to see the Ziggy stuff. As such, we ended up playing a few gigs where the first set was the Ziggy album in its entirety. This was a huge hit for those particular fans, who knew every word and every note which came next. Other ones which went down really well were Life on Mars, Let's Dance, Modern Love, Heroes etc. Funny that you all knew China Girl - i didn't know it and never warmed to it :-( My personal favourites to play were Hang on to Yourself, Fame and Boys Keep Swinging Good memories, and some great gigs [/quote] We learnt China Girl last year for a charity gig which is where we the seeds of all this were born. The studio version is a little antiseptic, but we're playing more along the lines of this version.... [url="http://youtu.be/NEl6BBLwSa0"]http://youtu.be/NEl6BBLwSa0[/url] I think the singer has done the whole of Ziggy before. I'm not saying never, but that could be a little way off yet. Strange you should say Modern Love as I don't think that ever came over very well when Bowie did it live. Love the song though. I wouldn't mind having a crack at Cat People as well.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1422320972' post='2671240'] There's nothing from Station to Station, Low, Heroes or Lodger - that's quite a big ommission. [/quote] Just made a new page on the spreadsheet in our Dropbox showing a chart of the spread of songs. Six of the ten we have are from Diamond Dogs or older. Nothing between Diamond Dogs and Let's Dance (6 albums) and nothing between Let's Dance and The Next Day (8 albums). [quote name='KK Jale' timestamp='1422325291' post='2671253'] Currently springing to mind: Sorrow, Lady Grinning Soul, Teenage Wildlife... [/quote] Now there's an interesting trio of songs.

[quote name='Mr Arkadin' timestamp='1422319048' post='2671232'] Nice you're doing one slightly newer track, but there's nothing after Diamond Dogs all the way to Scary Monsters. Some of my fave albums are in there, although I would find it hard to pick tracks as I prefer the lesser known tracks, like I would do Beauty and the Beast rather than "Heroes" but how many people even know that track? [/quote] Mmm, I had to be quite strong about getting Stars in there. I wasn't particularly bothered that it was that track, but I wanted something from The Next Day in there as I thought it would be different bearing in mind Bowie himself hasn't toured it. [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1422319291' post='2671233'] Moonage Daydream Sound And Vision Ziggy Stardust TVC15 Fashion Golden Years [/quote] Moonage Daydream is quite high up the list of to do's, but I love your other choices as well. [quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1422319447' post='2671234'] The list could be very long, but I'll just put in a vote for 'Space Oddity'. [/quote] Yes, the list of stuff we want to do is huge, but I think we need to get a nice balance with this truncated set. Love Space Oddity though. [quote name='peteb' timestamp='1422319522' post='2671235'] More songs from Hunky Dory! [/quote] That's another issue, even if we did one song from every album we would still have to miss some albums out for the first gig. At least Hunky Dory is represented already. [quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1422320972' post='2671240'] There's nothing from Station to Station, Low, Heroes or Lodger - that's quite a big ommission. [/quote] As above really. The guitarist is working on Station to Station (the song), but that's going to be a work in progress I think. Stay has been mentioned quite early on. Golden Years will almost certainly get done at some stage as will Wild Is The Wind. I'm not sure about the other two though. I almost don't want to do Heroes (the song) as it's just too obvious. Is that wrong? There is some great stuff on Lodger and that will come soon enough. Everything seems to draw us back towards Ziggy. Three songs from that album are already in. Moonage Daydream has been mentioned more than once between us and the drummer is fairly insistent on doing Five Years. What to do!

I've just returned from rehearsal #2 which went just as well as the first. The band came to an agreement that we would like to start playing live as soon as possible, even if it means playing a shorter set for a support slot of some kind. To that end we moved on to discuss set content for such a gig. The songs below are pretty much good to go and we're looking to expand them by another eight in preparation for our first outing. The Bowie catalogue is so huge and packed with such classics we're spolit for choice. We would like to maintain a balance between early and late material. With this in mind, are there any particular songs that a hardcore Bowie fan would expect a tribute band to play and would be disappointed if they weren't? Here's what we have so far: 1. China Girl (this went in because it was one everyone already knew) 2. Let's Dance (as above) 3. The Jean Genie 4. Rebel Rebel 5. Starman 6. Changes 7. Suffragette City 8. Rock & Roll Suicide 9. All The Young Dudes 10. The Stars (Are Out Tonight) Already in for next time are I'm Afraid of Americans and The Man Who Sold The World.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1418486237' post='2630609'] I don't wear it very often---I'm not really a sweater wearer---but it might get an outing at a gig at somepoint... [/quote] Looks good. Thanks for posting.

[quote name='Mr Arkadin' timestamp='1418381655' post='2629675'] Yes the Commercial Album was the one I got in some special edition. Think it was limited judging by current prices. Nice to see a John Oswald (plunderphonics) reference in this thread. Not for everyone. He had to destroy copies of DAB (see: MJ's Bad) because Michael Jackson's people were not too happy. Can't think why: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8xIWLG-F0Ag [/quote] That link is great. I'd never heard of Oswald or Plunderphonics before. The mind boggles at how hard it must have been to create back in the day. The end section is almost Vangelis like in its soundscape. I can see why MJ and his people didn't see the funny side, however it is the complete antidote to him. No one can argue that it's too weird either, because it's Michael Jackson we're talking about! Some great comments there.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1418379876' post='2629657'] My dad is really into The Residents and whilst I don't quite share his passion I do quite like them. Third Reich N Roll, The Commercial Album, and Meet The Residents are all good. Need to look out my Residents jumper, its a good antidote to all the Xmas jumpers doing the rounds! [/quote] I totally get that it's not everyone's cup of Darjeeling, but I'm sure there are going to be some little gems tucked away in their back catalogue somewhere. A Residents jumper sounds fantastic. Post a picture of you manage to find it. Thanks for the info.

[quote name='SlapbassSteve' timestamp='1418356933' post='2629529'] Definitely Commercial Album is a great place to start, followed by Duck Stab(Primus once covered Hello Skinny and Constantinople) and Third Reich(great for a spot of 'guess the song'). I love Gingerbread Man too, the full video on YouTube is excellent, as all of theirs are. My highlight has to be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTJJb1UqjuA [/quote] Thanks Steve. I will investigate those albums once I have familiarised myself with TRAR. I might have this all wrong, but I thought no one knew what the band members looked like. I would bet a large amount of money that the man playing the guitar in the link you posted is the same person singing Give It To Someone Else here.... http://youtu.be/0gWofXR46aw Yet his full face is on show, only from the side admittedly.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1418348972' post='2629509'] If it was down to one album then it would be Third Reich N Roll for me. Worth the price for Sunshine Of Your Love/Hey Jude/Sympathy For The Devils guitar and cheesy synth. Wonderful!!! [/quote] [b]Thank you,[/b] your Amazon order has been placed. We've sent you an e-mail confirmation. We've sent you an e-mail confirmation. [b]New[/b] [url="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/buy/spc/handlers/static-submit-decoupled.html/ref=ox_spc_place_order?ie=UTF8&hasWorkingJavascript=#"][color="#004b91"]Sign up[/color][/url] for delivery updates by text for this and future orders (UK +44 mobile numbers).

[quote name='linear' timestamp='1418352405' post='2629522'] God in 3 Persons is my fave by a long way, but probably best to preview that one on youtube before buying. Incidentally, if anyone has a CD copy of the instrumental version that they want to sell or are willing to rip for me, I'd be very grateful. I have it on vinyl, but am struggling to find a digital copy. [/quote] Two minutes on t'internet confirms your assumption that it is quite rare. I'll let you know if I stumble across a copy.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1418352260' post='2629520'] The Residents 'George & James' (American Composers Volume One) LP is good if you like your JB and Gershwin done a little differently. Here's a little James..... [url="http://youtu.be/kINqjKyQ43c?list=PL465ABDD21A242D3C"]http://youtu.be/kINq...65ABDD21A242D3C[/url] [/quote] Great stuff. The track that ignited the spark for me, which was one of those random You Tube recommendations, was "Give It To Someone Else". There are loads of live versions on You Tube, but I couldn't find the album track on there, which is nicely produced.