Re: 'Low' / RE: (TV) Oh fuck! David Bowie R.I.P.

[Ty Burr <tyburr@comcast.net>]

>Bowie's final statement is far more orchestrated as a cultural moment

Maurice, that’s exactly what I’ve been thinking, 
especially now that I’ve given “Blackstar” a 
closer listen and read today's NYTimes piece (http://nyti.ms/1TR4oLZ 
<http://nyti.ms/1TR4oLZ>). He orchestrated his leaving as a pop 
happening but in such a way that we wouldn’t realize it until 
after the fact. Which is pretty fucking brilliant. There’s a 
shortlist of artists who’ve made final works knowing they were 
dying: Warren Zevon, Robert Altman with “Prairie Home 
Companion” (which, believe me, is a movie about death), John 
Huston’s “The Dead,” Derek Jarman’s 
“Blue.” Bowie joins them.

T.


> On Jan 12, 2016, at 10:21 AM, Maurice Rickard <maurice@me.com> wrote:
> 
> The working-to-the-end part reminds me of something that happened a 
few 
> years ago, in another community I'm part of. A musician had received a 

> terminal diagnosis, and wanted to work on his last record.  Steve 
Albini 
> tells the story well: http://www.electricalaudio.com/johngrabski.html
> 
> Bowie's final statement is far more orchestrated as a cultural moment, 

> because that's the position he's occupied for decades: someone out 
ahead 
> of the rest of us, telling us where we're going. But the two are 
similar 
> in the choice of working until the end, and I find both men admirable 

> for that.
> 
> -M
> 
>> On Jan 12, 2016, at 8:15 AM, Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I've said for a while now tthat when I die, I want to go out like Joe
>> Strummer (walk the dog, sit by the fire, close my eyes and gone), but
>> Bowie has even raised the bar in death, so now I hope I go in a 
manner 
> 
>> half as classy as Bowie did.
> 
> Maurice Rickard
> http://mauricerickard.com | http://onezeromusic.com | 
> http://snwv.bandcamp.com
> 
> 
> 
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