RIP David Bowie.

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I would really like to buy one of these... very accurate.
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The Lazarus Cast Recording is surprisingly good. I didn't really like the idea of having familiar Bowie-songs done by others, a sort of Best Of by other artists. But it makes the songs sound fresh and new again, as the instrumentation is also really different. It's also nice to have both male and female voices, in duet often, which makes them also different.
With the male voices you're still strongly reminded of Bowie. So much of his personality is in his music and lyrics already, that his voice almost seems just the finishing touch.
I especially like Sophia Anne Caruso of the female singers.

Too bad there's no way to see the musical itself. It seems only performed live, I don't think there is a recording.
 

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As it turns out, it was just announced the musical comes to Amsterdam next year. The director for the original production, Ivo van Hove, is Dutch, so perhaps ours is the only other country it comes to besides the US and Britain...
It gets a new cast and will be in Dutch, with the songs remaining English.

Lazarus in Amsterdam next year - David Bowie Latest News

There is very little known about the story. They wanted to keep it a total surprise for those who came, and it seems to be pretty much love-or-hate.
It is connected to the sci-fi film The Man Who Fell To Earth starring Bowie, which I liked, but isn't a huge favourite. But whether it's a sequel, or a retelling or something else, I don't know.
Maybe anyone here has seen it?
 

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The Lazarus Cast Recording is surprisingly good. I didn't really like the idea of having familiar Bowie-songs done by others, a sort of Best Of by other artists. But it makes the songs sound fresh and new again, as the instrumentation is also really different. It's also nice to have both male and female voices, in duet often, which makes them also different.
With the male voices you're still strongly reminded of Bowie. So much of his personality is in his music and lyrics already, that his voice almost seems just the finishing touch.
I especially like Sophia Anne Caruso of the female singers.

Too bad there's no way to see the musical itself. It seems only performed live, I don't think there is a recording.
I am almost all the way through a Dexter re-run and I accidentally found out the other day that Michael was in the Lazarus stage show! (I know, welcome to the future, Flakers, you dolt.)
David Bowie is my all time favourite vocalist ever, I just adore him and miss him so very much... well, I was so chuffed to find Michael C Hall playing this role... and he sings! I'm embarrassed to say that I did not know this! My respect and enjoyment in his work has raised up enormously.
(Yes, I must have been living under a rock to not know any of this. :a11: )

I had a little look around online and saw him performing at The Cutting Room in NYC... aside from screwing up some lines, :biggrin2: I thought he absolutely killed Heroes, one of my favourites.


As it turns out, it was just announced the musical comes to Amsterdam next year. The director for the original production, Ivo van Hove, is Dutch, so perhaps ours is the only other country it comes to besides the US and Britain...
It gets a new cast and will be in Dutch, with the songs remaining English.

Lazarus in Amsterdam next year - David Bowie Latest News

There is very little known about the story. They wanted to keep it a total surprise for those who came, and it seems to be pretty much love-or-hate.
It is connected to the sci-fi film The Man Who Fell To Earth starring Bowie, which I liked, but isn't a huge favourite. But whether it's a sequel, or a retelling or something else, I don't know.
Maybe anyone here has seen it?
If you do go, please come tell us all about it, I would love to attend, but that is so unlikely, in which case I'd love to hear it first-hand from someone who has been.
 

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If you do go, please come tell us all about it, I would love to attend, but that is so unlikely, in which case I'd love to hear it first-hand from someone who has been.

I haven't watched Dexter, so I don't know him.
It's only next year at the earliest. I'm certainly interested, but will have to see what prices are. I go to pop concerts from time to time, but not much to the theatre. Although I have seen some artists play in a theatre and it is a MUCH better sound than any club or concert hall. I saw 10 CC and Alan Parsons Project live in a theatre, and it is like you're in a studio with them, it is just perfect.

I saw Bowie perform at a rockfestival in Belgium, just after the release of Earthling - I don't think it was a tour so much as separate festival performances. It started really late at 23.30 and should end at 1.00, but he said 'I think we can stretch it a bit,' and played til 1.30. He started with Quicksand acoustically on guitar and then the full band came on later in the song, which gave an impressive effect. He didn't play characters like Ziggy Stardust on stage anymore later, but there was still something more theatrical about his performance compared to other artists - it's hard to say what that is, apart that the music itself is probably theatrical - or maybe his voice is more theatrical than other artists - probably the latter.
 

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I haven't watched Dexter, so I don't know him.
It's only next year at the earliest. I'm certainly interested, but will have to see what prices are. I go to pop concerts from time to time, but not much to the theatre. Although I have seen some artists play in a theatre and it is a MUCH better sound than any club or concert hall. I saw 10 CC and Alan Parsons Project live in a theatre, and it is like you're in a studio with them, it is just perfect.

I saw Bowie perform at a rockfestival in Belgium, just after the release of Earthling - I don't think it was a tour so much as separate festival performances. It started really late at 23.30 and should end at 1.00, but he said 'I think we can stretch it a bit,' and played til 1.30. He started with Quicksand acoustically on guitar and then the full band came on later in the song, which gave an impressive effect. He didn't play characters like Ziggy Stardust on stage anymore later, but there was still something more theatrical about his performance compared to other artists - it's hard to say what that is, apart that the music itself is probably theatrical - or maybe his voice is more theatrical than other artists - probably the latter.
When you see little snippets of Michael acting/singing in the stage show and if you watch some Dexter, it will just blow your mind. Polar opposites.

Oh, I hope you can go, I think it would be an amazing experience.

The rock festival sounds fantastic! And I agree, his performances are very theatrical, they always have been and yes, a lot of that is his voice... his sound is so distinctive, I don't know anybody else that sounds this way naturally--unless of course they're emulating him. He has always seemed to get inside his music, even when he wasn't necessarily being one of his personas.
David was my first concert, I saw him in Auckland NZ on his Glass Spider Tour and he had about another half hour encore that night too. He was just wonderful.
 

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I have Glass Spider on dvd and it's a good quality image - not what you see with so many concerts from the '70s and '80s which have that blurry video-look.
I love that show. Never Let Me Down, the album, is quite underrated, I always loved it. It has Peter Frampton! There is a fun clip on Youtube where David is walking with Peter Frampton through a city center (in Spain I believe), and they are besieged by fans. It's filmed for MTV I believe.

I think his voice has a kind of drama in it of itself and then he sometimes has these spoken intros on top of that, like the way Diamond Dogs starts or Glass Spider, the song.
 

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I have Glass Spider on dvd and it's a good quality image - not what you see with so many concerts from the '70s and '80s which have that blurry video-look.
I love that show. Never Let Me Down, the album, is quite underrated, I always loved it. It has Peter Frampton! There is a fun clip on Youtube where David is walking with Peter Frampton through a city center (in Spain I believe), and they are besieged by fans. It's filmed for MTV I believe.

I think his voice has a kind of drama in it of itself and then he sometimes has these spoken intros on top of that, like the way Diamond Dogs starts or Glass Spider, the song.
I love Never Let me Down too... and play it often.
Peter Frampton is fantastic, I will look for that clip when I get some time tomorrow, thanks for that! :smile:
(I also love his speaking voice... I used to watch his movies over and over, ahhh, I miss him so. Did you ever see his movie Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence?)
 

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Yes, I saw Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence often. The Hunger too.

I liked him as Tesla in The Prestige also.
There's a tv-movie called Baal which seems to be good, but it is one of those unfindable things.

I don't know how many theatrical roles he did, but he did a play that had to do with The Elephant Man I believe. Anyway, theatre is even harder to find as it is not always filmed.
 

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Yes, I saw Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence often. The Hunger too.

I liked him as Tesla in The Prestige also.
There's a tv-movie called Baal which seems to be good, but it is one of those unfindable things.

I don't know how many theatrical roles he did, but he did a play that had to do with The Elephant Man I believe. Anyway, theatre is even harder to find as it is not always filmed.
I've seen The Hunger as well, but didn't see Baal. I have seen little bits of him performing in The Elephant man, would loved to have seen him do the play. I don't remember seeing The Prestige, I'll have to look for it.
 

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The... "Sometimes I think my head is so big, because it is so full of dreams!" quote is the quote of my teens... it was a private joke between my aunt and I, whenever a sentence started with "sometimes I think... I would have to drop into my Elephant Man persona and finish the quote.
 

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The... "Sometimes I think my head is so big, because it is so full of dreams!" quote is the quote of my teens... it was a private joke between my aunt and I, whenever a sentence started with "sometimes I think... I would have to drop into my Elephant Man persona and finish the quote.
For a minute I was thinking that we must have had the very same exact experience as teens! :laugh: But then I realised that this is part of a message I'd posted earlier about David and the Elephant Man quote... :biggrin2:

nalaa if you're having some trouble with quoting a post that you'd like to reply to, please don't hesitate to ask, we're all happy here to offer help when needed. :smile:
 

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Yes, I saw Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence often. The Hunger too.

I liked him as Tesla in The Prestige also.
There's a tv-movie called Baal which seems to be good, but it is one of those unfindable things.

I don't know how many theatrical roles he did, but he did a play that had to do with The Elephant Man I believe. Anyway, theatre is even harder to find as it is not always filmed.
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence was shot mostly around Auckland, NZ. It's a wonderful and very unusual film, as well as haunting. It is hard to watch at times. All the leads are great, but Bowie makes it. The Hunger is wonderful, arty and atmospheric. Love the scene where Bowie ages two hundred years in an afternoon. A much underrated film. Made by Ridley Scott's brother.
 

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HBO is airing a documentary on Bowie's last five years on Jan. 8. It's not entirely clear if they are just recycling a lot of already available material or if Bowie himself participated in any way before his death. Most likely the former which would not be as exciting but interesting news.