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That “not playing to the gallery” piece is something that, at one time, I really needed to hear. I still adhere to that excellent advice.

Hi Mike, I really enjoyed your video on David Bowie's 5 creative secrets. Do you think these could be adapted to a visual artist? Do you think David Bowie did the same processes for his paintings, drawings or did he do something different for some or all of these? If he did do something different based on your findings or other video's on David Bowie, do you know what these creative secrets would be? Tx.

Such a generous artist in so many ways, not least in this sharing of his creative process!💙🩵💙

Nice video man

William Burroughs invented the cut-up technique

Wow! Great video. Keep up the good work.

David is an example to creativity.. and flow ... ❤

"You didn't know what was going to be happening all the way through that concert." To me, that equals the excitement of Zeppelin. I've played free-jazz in a band where we did the same but with even less structure. Someone starts and the musical conversation begins. When all the musicians are on the same chemistry page, it's like nothing else. Frankly, I've never understood why bands try to replicate their studio album as though they are classical musicians. Here we are, with unlimited potential to be at our best creative edge - so why be safe? Take a chance!

It doesn't hurt if you're effing talented like Bowie either.

He’s way too self critical of his earlier quirky work. I think his formative years as an artist are phenomenal. The structure of the material is just as sophisticated as anything that followed even if it might be lyrically weaker. Kinks, Small Faces, Anthony Newly, did similar work. It’s jolly and fun. Nothing wrong with that.

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Enlightening, thanks ! 🐾

I remember Bowie's Anthony Newlay phase, his Bob Dylan phase (complete with curly perm), British Folk phase, his capitalising on the Moon Shot with Space Oddity, his Heavy/Prog Rock phase, so many different attempts to get noticed before finally getting off the ground (permanently) in '72 with Ziggy. All these were his previous attempts at stardom and if that wasn't "playing to the gallery", then I don't know what is. It's easy to give advice like that when you can basically release any old crap because you've already got a fan base which is sufficient to ensure enough sales. I've loved the vast majority of Bowie's work since early in the 70s , and I feel his rapid change in styles was originally bandwagon jumping which evolved into the restless-feet mentality we came to expect from him. Let's not forget that a short while earlier The Beatles had been the first musicians to evolve into something musically unrecognisable to how they had began. That went unnoticed by no-one, and especially not Bowie. Bowie's change in sound had a fair amount to do with the employment of different backing musicians, and as with the Spiders, when the riffs and fills had been exhausted, he moved on. "Play to the gallery" by all means and keep your fingers crossed, because most record companies only ever want a safe bet. I can't help but feel Bowie lifted this quote from Brian Eno who actually began with, and has stuck to, that very philosophy.

The method of cutting up words from a page and piecing them back together to make new poems is not from the 1960s, but from the Dadaist and early Surrealist ca. 1915-1930. It something you learn in art school, in an art history 101 class.

This reminded me of how pointless cover bands are. There are just too many. Just do your own thing musician peeps.

Interesting video! Good selection of clips, and well explained!

o god people can we just shut up about creativity

I can relate.

Bowie didn’t produce / write all his own music. He had help from a lot of other people - Gus Dudgeon, Tony Visconti, Brian Eno, Nile Rodgers, Georgio Moroder as some examples and a lot of other producers who usually have a team of studio musicians. Often what happens in the music business - big artists take credit for writing and publishing even when somebody else did a lot of it as the terms for being hired to do the work.

Putting together random elements like that is called Dadaism

Really appreciate your easygoing, non-hyped delivery style. Refreshing amidst today’s noisy, shrill, Adderrall-driven talking heads. 👍🏽

Well it's not entirely clear that "not playing to the gallery" is going to connect with audiences. Could be just the opposite. All sussessful pop artists know this and make commercial music. Bowie included. Doesn't mean it all has to sound the same, but needs to have a "hook" to be successful.

i love him more then my parents . that's the thing - paganism vs. judaism .

Let’s not forget the coke!

This was very interesting and I can relate to Bowie when he talks about music flowing out and I also remember when nothing would flow out and when I was so intimidated by songwriting. Once you've put in enough effort to try and write due to your passion for music, eventually it will feel effortless to write but I think the passion and curiosity is what gets you to that point. This video also led me to an interesting idea. What if I were to do the exact opposite of what Bowie suggests? To be an anarchist of all these rules. Could it still be a work of value from the perspective I come at the work rather than the process itself? With an awareness of the flaws of the methods you could willingly break all his rules. That honestly gives me energy because I get excited when I break rules haha At the end of the day even if you follow the blueprint of modern music and do all the cliché things, there'll still be your personality within it because you are the one observing mainstream music that then forms your own unique perspective and then even trying to emulate that will be unique so I find it an interesting journey to see where flipping Bowie's script takes you. I think that's how new genres or trends emerge... people just owning their own perspective and interpretation of music they like which then they do in their own way.

Great video. Even if some of those things have been clear to me, sometimes hearing it from a different angle, a different point of view, helps to anchor it a bit more.

Easy to say

Bowie Always ahead of the curve. Even if there was a trend that lasted for a few weeks, he would jump on it. Try to guess what was going and be there first or at least be the first person photographed or recorded doing it. This is impossible now days. To give you an example. When I was 13 years old, the punk rock from the UK took about three years before it got to the United States East Coast. It took another five years before it’s spread out to the West Coast and the heartland. This meant that whatever reaction to that music was simmering in the underground for decades before it eventually became grunge. That can’t happen anymore because everything it’s on Spotify instantaneously. There is no underground music that simmers and develops into its own genre before it is released to the general public.

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so, it all sounds the same = don't bother going to music school ...just plug in the recording gear and JAM!!! ...think Cyber Acoustic ANARCHY!!!

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Those who have 15 minutes of fame don't repeat themselves: they aren't given chance. Those who reinvent themselves all the time merely show lack of consistency. About 10% of Bowie's output was interesting, if that. Does he actually "say" anything in any of his songs? (perhaps speaking of meaning in so vacuous and ephemeral an artform is inappropriate). Madonna reinvented herself too, and all of her best work was in the 1980s. Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, The Doors are deeper examples of what rock or pop music is capable of, surely.

I just liked the part were he was just himself. It was just so fun. 😀

i acutely have more respect for Jimmy Page after watching this .and the format and content are excellent!

Awesome video!!!!!!

Bowie was brilliant but I have to put forward David's friend John, John lennon to be sure , as another creative force in my own opinion at least

Fantastic video. The second point, learning your craft, can many times unlock a creative experience. As you work on the nuts and bolts you stumble upon something new and exciting. You can't expect something creative to appear while you do nothing. Just like a fire doesn't ignite on it's own, a creative idea needs to be sparked by action of some kind.

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I understood David Bowie to be saying that writing the music, melody was easy & the tunes flowed like a tap but, the 2nd phase was about writing the songs. I think he was expressing in this area that he was finding it much harder to write the words, or the lyrics, to fit in and complete the song,

This video is me

Chick corea was awesome. I like the name and description of the channel as well. Nice piece.

nice video man. ilovemylife much in the same way and all the people that I've worked for the we've had good material have some of the traits that you mentioned about. I think that Beck is very much like myself and David Bowie... or the opposite cuz I'm younger. goodness to you

His generation did indeed like most music artists, film and inventions that have taken us to today including electronic instruments, cell phones, computer's and so much more

AI is the danger for the creativity of humans ,,

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He worked hard at it for hours and hours each day. It does not just "Flow" You learn to play and then as you learn you Practice writing songs. Anyone can write a pop song. But only a few 100 people in the world can do it very very well, with a talent for hard work. Also there are not really any original Pop Rock/ Songs. They sound like others but twisted round and produced to sound original. The Beatles stole lots of riffs from Chuck Berry who stole them from the Blues players in the deep south in the 1950s... Bob Dylan stole from the vast cannon of old Folk songs and music.

Put yourself in the place with the instrument (s) of creation. Then experiment. Game over.

LOVE this - first time watcher and now subscriber :)

Thankyou .As a lifetime Bowie fan , I loved this .I was fortunate enough to see him love twice during his career, and iv got to tell you ,it was just brilliant ,both himself and all the phenomenonal musicians who worked alongside him.