I dunno..here's a ramble tamble....Bowie is just on a different level really to any musician I can think of that has died to this point... because it was far more than just the music...Elvis Presley (who I am not an especially huge fan of) comes closest when you think of the effect on popular culture that David Bowie had...He really was an artist of the highest order..even his death turned into performance art of the highest order.. or do we think he didn't script his final album to be released when it was (one has to imagine he knew full well he would be dead either shortly before or after its release).. or the lyrics insert which is all black...or the lyrics themselves which reflect mortality and a summing up....or his current single which is called Lazarus (back from the dead).. I have not even seen the video but I can imagine...
I love Motorhead and the Specials as much as the next guy but David Bowie is in a very unique place probably by himself....Even a guy like Bob Dylan (my number one) simply does not have the impact of a David Bowie on the world's of fashion, video, movies, sexuality, the very concept of "creativity", etc etc...
Anything one says about Bowie is going to fall short of taking the full measure of the man and his impact I'm afraid. When I said Bowie was God I was only half joking...... ...Of course many people, most people, do not realize the impact he "indirectly" had on their lives...it was comical watching CNN and Carol Costello (I think that was her name - I really like her btw- was on) with some resident CNN guy pretending to know about art/culture.. and he asks her what her favorite song of Bowie's was and she chimes in with "Space Odyssey" and he volunteers "Heroes from the 1980s" and I paraphrase "MTV Videos"..but whether you ever even listened to his music much less liked it or paid attention to it or knew who he was I think its hard not to recognize that he had an impact on your life....which is why his absence after the heart attack was such a bummer.. because you knew there was this empty void and he would not/could not fill it...and nobody else could either... which made it so awesome when he comes back with the Next Day and now this album.. and you just hoped against hope even though logic told you there was no way , you just hoped you could see him one time.. one more time and say thanks and give him the ovation and be in his presence (now that maybe you had aged and learned to appreciate him even more...no way would I be late to his concert at the Capitol Ballrom now you said) but instead he said thank you to you, left you one final parting gift and the next day he was gone...
like I said..a ramble tamble
