@Bob K I've always loved it too! I'm a Shakespeare nerd & it has always reminded me of what Juliet said when Romeo swore by the moon that he loved her... "Oh, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable." Bowie's one, very poetic line always makes that quote pop into my head. Kinda have a thing for all things lunar.🌛
I guess I assumed Nile Rogers played the rhythm parts but many have attested it's SRV (and he was a Strat man). I'm a fan of them both, anyways! It's kinda odd to hear SRV so tempo disciplined LOL.
Second that...Lex nailed it! From folk, glam, "white plastic soul", minimalism, Krautrock, New Wave, pop, electronic music, and whatever else Bowie was in the mood to explore, this man's work will always be an inspiration in sound & vision to the end of our days. What an absolute madman genius he was, f*****g hell.
David Bowie's genre: David Bowie. He's one of those artists who is entirely their own genre of music. Not enough can be said, the man was an absolute musical genius. And class - always total, pure, 100% class. Bowie.
I’m a 38 year old fan thanks to my late mother- “The Man was singing in cursive. And its fucking ELEGANT.” ‘Singing in cursive’?! Nicely put. I never thought of it that way.🤣👍🤷🏻♂️
"He didn't just get drunk for that part." Honestly, I wouldn't put it past him. When he recorded Heroes, he set the mic further and further away for each subsequent verse until he had to literally shout for it to pick up his voice. This was just so that he could ramp up the intensity as the song went on. He was a mad genius.
Are you sure about that? It seemed to me that Bowie played the guitar in the video and on the record. I will check. Bowie is an excellent guitar player also.
@@Rhiannon011 Yeah about that... There was some background drama. Not Necessarily with that, but behind the scenes between Bowie and SRV with them touring. It caused SRV to break out on his own though. So, that's a good thing.
Who plays the guitar solo on Lets Dance? Stevie Ray Vaughan It's strange when you realize one of your favorite recording artists sessioned on the hit album of another one of your favorite acts back in the day. And for some, it might be a surprise to learn that the late blues giant Stevie Ray Vaughan served as the lead guitarist on David Bowie's 1983 smash LP Let's Dance.
Ha! I knew it wouldn't take long for someone to point out SRV on guitar! Good job. Although Bowie actually played guitar, I wasn't a fan of the director having him mimic the lead in that video. Still, Bowie and SRV were generational talents!
@@kevincarpenter8194 - Yeah, I think I read in one of his biographies that Stevie was pissed off by that as well. Bowie wanted him to go on a tour with him, but Stevie didn’t want to abandon his buddies in Double Trouble.
That's what made Bowie next level. Never shied away from sharing the stage and brought in the right people for the job. He just knew. Rodgers' touches on this are choice.
Lex, I love how you respond to guitar. Even when it's just a little bit in a song like this, you'll catch it and know it was someone great. In this case it was a very Young Stevie Ray Vaughan before his Texas Flood album. Stevie was boo'd off the stage in Montreux in 1982. Bowie was there and recognized his skill and asked him to be on the Let's Dance album where he played guitar on Let's Dance and China Girl. Jackson Browne was there and offered to record Stevie in his home studio in California. This became Texas Flood and the launch of Stevie's rise to fame.
When the first notes for Modern Love rang out during the Reality tour, a bunch of us in the crowd went crazy and Bowie paused and said, “Oh, my Eighties Babies,”. 🥰 This was in Indianapolis, but he had the same reaction in the concert video 😆
So great to see all the Bowie fans commenting, sometimes feel like he wasn’t appreciated enough. His music will love on forever though as new people discover his genius and he left a massive catalogue for us to still find new gems
This was a massive tune when it dropped and the video was wonderfully sideways but totally worked. The whole album's great. Every part on this track is working at 100% - vocals, drums, guitar, horns, keys, bass. So much punch!
This is one of my favorite Bowie tracks! But you’ve got to listen to “Cat People.” (A.k.a. “putting out the fire with gasoline.”) from the same album. Trust me.
@@daviddundas4140 yeah, awful cheesy movie, but the song really shows off David’s vocal talent. That deep smooth voice at first, and then...with gasoliiiinnnne!!!♥️🔥 And instead of connecting it to that horrible Cat People movie, I love to think of it instead connected to Inglourious Basterds and “Shoshana’s Revenge.”
This is the song that made me take real notice of Bowie's music & made me go back to find earlier stuff. "Space Oddity" & "Golden Years" are favorites.
“Put on your red shoes and dance the blues”. Love it. Plus the Serious Moonlight line. I saw him on the Glass Spider tour, the Sydney show recorded for the DVD
Bowies voice has a natural vibrato. Some one did a video about his voice and found that bowies singing is impossible to auto tune because of his natural vibrato.
SRV has such a distinct guitar sound. Bowie worked with a lot of artists and has so many great songs, all the way up to his final, dark album, Blackstar.
Yes, before anyone knew who SRV was. David Bowie saw SRV at Montreaux in '82 and was blown away. He hired SRV for the "Let's Dance" album, which was Bowie's greatest commercial success.
Stevie Ray was very pissed off when Bowie mimed the guitar in the video for this song. Parted company with Bowie on bad terms just before the Let’s Dance world tour.
@@zwieseler I didn't know that. The rumour was Stevie was in talks to play in the tour, but he showed up strung out on coke with a stoned entourage and Bowie decided that wasn't going to work for him. I remember watching an interview with Stevie and he said the offered pay sucked and he turned it down.
SRV on guitar. "Legato" In music performance and notation, legato indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, the player makes a transition from note to note with no intervening silence. Legato technique is required for slurred performance, but unlike slurring, legato does not forbid re-articulation.Wikipedia
If you guys get a chance watch the documentary “five years”. It’s a pretty good chunk of David Bowie‘s career. It shows that David Bowie knew what the song was gonna sound like before he ever put a note on paper. He drove the back up singers crazy for his album Young Americans👍 he worked with a famous name singer on that album too that wasn’t famous yet!
Yes Bowie had a huge hit for this song and album, SRV was great on it. For some more Bowie with great songs and killer guitar from Mick Ronson, try his time with the Spiders from Mars, do Ziggy Stardust, Moonage Daydream, Suffragate City and their epic, Width of a Circle. Lex would Love these! Enjoy. 🎸
Bowie's sound was always different - but always relevant. For 45 years he managed to capture the exact flavor of that specific moment in time. He was always current, literally up to the moment of death. The beauty is that each album can take you back to that moment in history. I think "Changes", "Young Americans", or "China Girl" would be the next place to go - but I really encourage you to check out "Lazarus".
easily one of the best concerts i've ever seen. wasn't even a fan, but my mother took me to see him at the Fox Theatre in StL. he instantly became a god amongst musicians to me.
I'm pretty sure that there's a longer version of this that has even more SRV guitar greatness in it, mostly at the end. I didn't realize it was him when I first heard this song all those years ago, but now I can't not hear it. He had such a distinctive sound.
You should do “China girl” and “Cat people” from this same album. Bowie was a musical force of nature. He was able to always stay current with what was going on, yet do his own thing. He was able to change up and grow stylistically and it never felt unauthentic. The man was a true artist.
This album came out my freshman year of college. This song, plus Modern Love and China Girl will always make me feel like I’m back in my dorm room looking at my David Bowie poster and dancing around like a fool. 🕺🏻
David Bowe was one of the first white Artists thanks to songs like this to get played on R&B Radio stations and there's a clip of him on TH-cam asking MTV why there not playing any Black Artists he really was a forward thinking artist not only for his own music but for other Genre's too R.I.P David Bowe AKA The Thin White Duke
Always loved the way Ian McCulloch drops lyrics from famous songs into extended live Echo & The Bunnymen songs. At a gig in Southend in 1984 he dropped in the wonderful "Under the blankets / The serious blankets".
@@pdog547 Yes! That and China Girl were the 2 I remember as a kid too! Loved it back then, everything was so fun and cool, especially clothes! Everyone looks the same now... BORING! lol 🤗
@@andreab449 NO ONE has ever, is now, or ever will be anywhere close to Bowie's style and class. His musical genius was one of a kind, he's up there with all the greatest of all time, no question for me at all.
Did they have the moon 🌙 balloons drop down? The thing failed when we saw him here in Connecticut and we didn’t know why he was looking up and laughing until we saw the video.
@@unndunn1 yeah, I miss the days of the original Russian Lady and other bars. New Haven has much more to offer these days, I grew up in Orange and lived in Manchester for a few years.
Meh. They can both be called glam rock but Bowie was so much more than that. He was always unique and of the times throughout his career. Whether it was psychedelic folk in the 60s or industrial influenced rock in the 90s. Even the album he recorded on his death bed was pushing the envelope of popular music.
Srv supported bowie on tour coz bowie loved him. Hence he plays the solo on it. The style of singing is called Bowie. That's just the genius at work. Great song, great reaction. Try changes, life on mars, five years, moonage daydream, oh you pretty things, sound and vision, ashes to ashes, blackstar.xxx
The guy on the guitar through the main part of the song was Nile Rogers, the guitarist from Chic and basically took Bowie's song idea for a more melancholic demo version into this dance hit. The guy doing the solo is Stevie Ray Vaughan - One of the greatest guitarists to ever walk the Earth.
Soo many wasted hours at the arcade when I was a teen listening to this song. RIP Stevie Ray and David, What a Jam session to behold in heaven with all the talent that has passed on......
Make no mistake, the guitar riff is Nile Rodgers Nile Rodgers is responsible for this funky riff. You will recognise his distinctive guitar playing sounds from: Get Lucky by Daft Punk, I Coming Out by Dana Ross which you might know from being sampled on Notorious BIG's Mo Money Mo Problems track, also Lady by Modjo which is a sample of Soup For One by Chic/Nile Rodgers and also, you might know his guitar from being on Rappers Delight because thats Nile playing.. its sampled from Chic's 'Good Times.' You may also have heard his guitar work on all most of Sister Sledges work as he wrote and produced all the music for them. "We Are Family, I got all my sisters with me." Once you know Nile Rodgers 🎸 guitar, you'll recognise his music in Hip Hop, Disco, New Wave... Oh and bonus track... Notorious BIG "Notorious" thats a sample of Duran Duran which gues who was playing guitar? Yes, Nile Rodgers!! His most recently famous thing was playing with Daft Punk on Get Lucky. He's in the music video. Black dude with dreads. He's a legend of pop music. Oh yeah and Stevie Ray Vaughan played on the solo of Lets Dance.
I've just discovered your channel. As a person who grew up on this music, I'm 73 (2022) I enjoy how both of you react to hearing these classics for the first time.
Bowie's music can be the equivalent of musical whiplash in some sense and it always still manages to sound like Bowie-it is a vibe. For a real hard left from what you've reacted to so far, have a listen to the title track from 1976's "Station to Station" album (from his Thin White Duke era) or "LIttle Wonder" from 1997's "Earthling." Eccentric and fascinating tunes like so many others in his catalogue, enjoy!
At the time this song was released I loved it. I was an 18 year old college freshman. The only other song I knew by him to that point was Fame which had been a big R&B hit for him years earlier. I still like the song but it hasn’t held up as well as other tracks on the album.
Bowie was the first punk. He was the first glitter rock. He was the first techno rock. He created musical hybrids that no one has yet to emulate. His level of musical genius goes beyond the mere title of rock star. He was a super nova. And he fell to Earth. And we were lucky to have him.
MuchMusic in Canada, but same thing. They actually played music videos back then. I had VHS libraries we would play them at parties! And we effing loved it.
In this episode of Brad & Lex, Let's dance!!! Lets "sway!" Brad has that covered like insurance, he explains before performing his signature "side to side sway" as no one else can to Bowie's band. Lex gets into some enthusiastic "clutch" and "frontal" "bops" before the record ends leading to a convo that trails off into the nothing.
Hey what's up guys! Greetings from South Florida! This whole album is great. Nile Rodgers produce the album played all the rhythm guitar on the album. And Stevie Ray Vaughan played the lead guitar. You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!
David Bowie had many different bands and he always hired great musicians. Title song to the album of the same name. His commercial peak. Saw him on the "Serious Moonlight" tour and he was amazing!
Rather he assembled his band for each project. Various people came went and came back depending on the project. There were some who were notably rather constant.
I've seen a fair few Bowie interviews, the eccentricity was combined with great intellect, and he would be so modest with it, that it would make us question if he was what normal supposed to look like, and everybody else was the deviant. Many people took comfort from Bowie's non-conformism as a positive influence, especially if they were struggling with their own.
New Killer Star, Sound and Vision, Loving the Alien, Changes, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Five Years, Time, Rock and Roll Suicide, Rebel Rebel, Cat People (Putting Out Fire), The Man Who Sold The World! Those are some of the greatest songs for you to experience Bowie 👌
Actually that is called slurring on the guitar. The genius of David Bowie. I had the same reaction as Lex. Who is that guitar player? Then I heard the first Stevie Ray Vaughan tune on the radio. "Hey, it's that guy on the David Bowie tune!"
That's what a hit record sounds like! Great production value, 90s pop-disco vibes. Bowie's catalog is deep and he's such an original. So many altar-egos and incarnations. RIP.
Bowie was one one of those rare and exceptional artist who was able to reinvent his self over and over,he was an actor and starred in some very good movies an all round good act a compleat and unique performer, the like i have not come across in my life of 70 years he performed to his death with black star in lying in his coffin whilst singing one time
The video for this is as old as me haha .. and was shot in Sydney and country New South Wales here in Australia, near the town of Coonabarabran, located is what is considered one of the most spectacular regions in our state for stargazing :) Great reaction as always!
Holy shit - Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Tool, all in my all time list. I've seen Tom Waits once (Mule Variations tour) and I've seen Tool twice. Neko Case? PIXIES.
@@pdog547 Sounds like you have a really good taste in music. Greets from Germany! Seen Tom Waits some times, P.J. Harvey also and Tool, well, I can't count the times I've seen my absolute fav. band. LOL
@@ingobordewick6480 HEY MAN! Saw Tool in 2006 (Calgary, 10,000 Days Tour) and again in 2017 in Vancouver. When the lockdown BS hit us in 2020, I actually had a ticket to see them again in June, but it was cancelled :( I am glad to have seen them twice, it's the closest thing to a spiritual experience I will ever have. Tool has been my favourite band since about 1996, when I first heard the song "Opiate" (on LSD in the Northern Canadian wilderness, it was surreal). Tool is my favourite band too.
"Under the moonlight, the serious moonlight" for some reason I love that line! --- oh and Lex, "Who's on the guitar?" - Steve Ray Vaughn!
@Bob K
I've always loved it too! I'm a Shakespeare nerd & it has always reminded me of what Juliet said when Romeo swore by the moon that he loved her...
"Oh, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable."
Bowie's one, very poetic line always makes that quote pop into my head.
Kinda have a thing for all things lunar.🌛
I guess I assumed Nile Rogers played the rhythm parts but many have attested it's SRV (and he was a Strat man). I'm a fan of them both, anyways! It's kinda odd to hear SRV so tempo disciplined LOL.
Bowie wanted Stevie to hang around be his permanent guitarist. Stevie had other things in mind.
@@lumpyfishgravy I've seen Nile Rodgers explain how they wrote it and he said it was him playing rhythm
Bowie wanted Stevie on the tour but SRV turned down the dough, went back to Double Trouble in Texas and the rest is history
"He's eccentric, but if eccentric was a genre" best description of Bowie's work I've ever heard
Second that...Lex nailed it! From folk, glam, "white plastic soul", minimalism, Krautrock, New Wave, pop, electronic music, and whatever else Bowie was in the mood to explore, this man's work will always be an inspiration in sound & vision to the end of our days. What an absolute madman genius he was, f*****g hell.
Third that!....Bowie was indeed eccentric, authentic, and truly unique. They'll never be another one like him. I'd also recommend "China Girl".
He's British. We're a nation of eccentrics. lol
David Bowie's genre: David Bowie.
He's one of those artists who is entirely their own genre of music. Not enough can be said, the man was an absolute musical genius.
And class - always total, pure, 100% class.
Bowie.
YOU KNOW IT!!!
Exactly
Totally agree.
He was magical! Loved him!
He was a chameleon, and a genius. I miss him.
The Man was singing in cursive. And its fucking ELEGANT.
Great comment! 👏🏻👏🏻
Perfect analogy
I’m a 38 year old fan thanks to my late mother-
“The Man was singing in cursive. And its fucking ELEGANT.”
‘Singing in cursive’?!
Nicely put. I never thought of it that way.🤣👍🤷🏻♂️
"He didn't just get drunk for that part." Honestly, I wouldn't put it past him. When he recorded Heroes, he set the mic further and further away for each subsequent verse until he had to literally shout for it to pick up his voice. This was just so that he could ramp up the intensity as the song went on. He was a mad genius.
I’m pretty that was Brian Eno’s idea about the mic placement and natural reverb but it might have been inspired by how Bowie was singing the song
Bowie is undefinable. That's Stevie Ray Vaughn on the guitar.
Are you sure about that? It seemed to me that Bowie played the guitar in the video and on the record. I will check. Bowie is an excellent guitar player also.
@@Rhiannon011 Yeah about that...
There was some background drama. Not Necessarily with that, but behind the scenes between Bowie and SRV with them touring. It caused SRV to break out on his own though. So, that's a good thing.
@@Rhiannon011 its SRV
Who plays the guitar solo on Lets Dance?
Stevie Ray Vaughan
It's strange when you realize one of your favorite recording artists sessioned on the hit album of another one of your favorite acts back in the day. And for some, it might be a surprise to learn that the late blues giant Stevie Ray Vaughan served as the lead guitarist on David Bowie's 1983 smash LP Let's Dance.
@@Rhiannon011 It's Stevie for sure. I thought everyone knew that.
Is Bowie rock, pop, or funk? Yes...he is everything.
The guitarist for that song (and album) was the late great Stevie Ray Vaughan. The one and only.
"He's eccentric, but like if eccentric was a genre" - might be the best description I've heard of Bowie.
David Bowie IS the genre!! Lex, you nailed it! He is the chameleon of music & it brings me such joy to see you loving him
Brad & Lex, I think you'll love his "Changes" and "Young Americans" next!! On Lets Dance- Stevie Ray Vaughan - lead guitar.
Isn’t he on multiple tracks on that album?
@@kencliff9914 yes, all of side one, and I believe the whole album.
Ha! I knew it wouldn't take long for someone to point out SRV on guitar! Good job.
Although Bowie actually played guitar, I wasn't a fan of the director having him mimic the lead in that video.
Still, Bowie and SRV were generational talents!
@@kevincarpenter8194 - Yeah, I think I read in one of his biographies that Stevie was pissed off by that as well. Bowie wanted him to go on a tour with him, but Stevie didn’t want to abandon his buddies in Double Trouble.
Nile Rogers produced the song (and album) and still,plays this today at his gigs. Also, the first album I ever bought!
and SRV played the guitar
Rogers on rhythm, Vaughn on lead.
That's what made Bowie next level. Never shied away from sharing the stage and brought in the right people for the job. He just knew. Rodgers' touches on this are choice.
Nile is the MAN!
I was fortunate to catch Mr Rodgers at a random festival 10-15 years ago and had no idea who he was. He put on the best show of the day by far.
Lex, I love how you respond to guitar. Even when it's just a little bit in a song like this, you'll catch it and know it was someone great. In this case it was a very Young Stevie Ray Vaughan before his Texas Flood album. Stevie was boo'd off the stage in Montreux in 1982. Bowie was there and recognized his skill and asked him to be on the Let's Dance album where he played guitar on Let's Dance and China Girl. Jackson Browne was there and offered to record Stevie in his home studio in California. This became Texas Flood and the launch of Stevie's rise to fame.
One of my favourite songs of all TIME
This and 'Modern Love' never get old.
and China Girl!
And Fame
@@tomloft2000 You bet.
@@cliffordzellner5917 For sure.
When the first notes for Modern Love rang out during the Reality tour, a bunch of us in the crowd went crazy and Bowie paused and said, “Oh, my Eighties Babies,”. 🥰 This was in Indianapolis, but he had the same reaction in the concert video 😆
I remember when this came out and I was like, WTF is Bowie doing? Then I thought, this is dam groovin' and then I trembled like a flower.
Lex never fails to entertain. Loved Brad's comments on swaying.
So great to see all the Bowie fans commenting, sometimes feel like he wasn’t appreciated enough. His music will love on forever though as new people discover his genius and he left a massive catalogue for us to still find new gems
His slurring as you said is emotion! Nothing more nothing less! David was one of the great musical icons of our time!
You guys should react to…
David Bowie - China Girl
🎸🤘
Blue Jean is another one - not the most popular (I like it) but another side of his...Bowie-ness :)
This was a massive tune when it dropped and the video was wonderfully sideways but totally worked. The whole album's great.
Every part on this track is working at 100% - vocals, drums, guitar, horns, keys, bass. So much punch!
The gating of the snare drum is especially effective.
@@terrylandess6072 YYUP!
This is one of my favorite Bowie tracks!
But you’ve got to listen to “Cat People.” (A.k.a. “putting out the fire with gasoline.”) from the same album. Trust me.
Written by Bowie for the film Cat People by Giorgio Moroder, The version he did on the Serious Moonlight tour was amazing.
@@daviddundas4140 yeah, awful cheesy movie, but the song really shows off David’s vocal talent. That deep smooth voice at first, and then...with gasoliiiinnnne!!!♥️🔥
And instead of connecting it to that horrible Cat People movie, I love to think of it instead connected to Inglourious Basterds and “Shoshana’s Revenge.”
This is the song that made me take real notice of Bowie's music & made me go back to find earlier stuff. "Space Oddity" & "Golden Years" are favorites.
“Put on your red shoes and dance the blues”. Love it. Plus the Serious Moonlight line.
I saw him on the Glass Spider tour, the Sydney show recorded for the DVD
SRV did kill his solos in this track but the drum groove is what gets me-especially during that little breakdown section
Ah yes....the venerable Omar Hakim on drums. One of my favorites!
Stevie Ray Vaughan. Saw him 3 times live, always amazing. This was far from his best work, but still great.
Only saw him once.... but SO glad that I did!!
You are lucky.
Bowies voice has a natural vibrato. Some one did a video about his voice and found that bowies singing is impossible to auto tune because of his natural vibrato.
Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes" is interesting too.
Way more interesting, imo!
They'll trip out on the video with all of those Blitz Kids in it
Many don't know - that guitar? Stevie Ray Vaughn played on that album.
SRV has such a distinct guitar sound. Bowie worked with a lot of artists and has so many great songs, all the way up to his final, dark album, Blackstar.
Yes, before anyone knew who SRV was. David Bowie saw SRV at Montreaux in '82 and was blown away. He hired SRV for the "Let's Dance" album, which was Bowie's greatest commercial success.
Stevie Ray was very pissed off when Bowie mimed the guitar in the video for this song.
Parted company with Bowie on bad terms just before the Let’s Dance world tour.
@@zwieseler I didn't know that. The rumour was Stevie was in talks to play in the tour, but he showed up strung out on coke with a stoned entourage and Bowie decided that wasn't going to work for him. I remember watching an interview with Stevie and he said the offered pay sucked and he turned it down.
100%. Donny McCaslin’s band on Blackstar is amazing, and Bowie caught them in NYC’s Bar 55. Brilliant.
Rhythm guitar - Nile Rodgers, lead guitar - stevie Ray vaughn, producer - nile Rodgers.
Wow, she has such a great spirit and that smile would brighten anyone's day, it's contagious.
SRV on guitar.
"Legato"
In music performance and notation, legato indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, the player makes a transition from note to note with no intervening silence. Legato technique is required for slurred performance, but unlike slurring, legato does not forbid re-articulation.Wikipedia
That guy on the guitar, killin' it, was Stevie Ray Vaughn.
The term Brad was looking for was “ Vocal Sway” and Bowie is truly a vibe
If you guys get a chance watch the documentary “five years”. It’s a pretty good chunk of David Bowie‘s career. It shows that David Bowie knew what the song was gonna sound like before he ever put a note on paper. He drove the back up singers crazy for his album Young Americans👍 he worked with a famous name singer on that album too that wasn’t famous yet!
Luther?
Yes Bowie had a huge hit for this song and album, SRV was great on it. For some more Bowie with great songs and killer guitar from Mick Ronson, try his time with the Spiders from Mars, do Ziggy Stardust, Moonage Daydream, Suffragate City and their epic, Width of a Circle. Lex would Love these! Enjoy. 🎸
Definitely his best era by far!! I agree stick with early Bowie with Mick Ronson!!
@@stevemartinez5067 Totally agree, he never reached quite so high again.
keep up the bowie i just found u guys today because of bowie reactions
Bowie's sound was always different - but always relevant. For 45 years he managed to capture the exact flavor of that specific moment in time. He was always current, literally up to the moment of death. The beauty is that each album can take you back to that moment in history. I think "Changes", "Young Americans", or "China Girl" would be the next place to go - but I really encourage you to check out "Lazarus".
easily one of the best concerts i've ever seen. wasn't even a fan, but my mother took me to see him at the Fox Theatre in StL. he instantly became a god amongst musicians to me.
I'm pretty sure that there's a longer version of this that has even more SRV guitar greatness in it, mostly at the end. I didn't realize it was him when I first heard this song all those years ago, but now I can't not hear it. He had such a distinctive sound.
The album version is longer with an extended solo. The intro is also longer. I bought the album on vinyl and was blown away by the longer version.
You should do “China girl” and “Cat people” from this same album. Bowie was a musical force of nature. He was able to always stay current with what was going on, yet do his own thing. He was able to change up and grow stylistically and it never felt unauthentic. The man was a true artist.
This album came out my freshman year of college. This song, plus Modern Love and China Girl will always make me feel like I’m back in my dorm room looking at my David Bowie poster and dancing around like a fool. 🕺🏻
David Bowe was one of the first white Artists thanks to songs like this to get played on R&B Radio stations and there's a clip of him on TH-cam asking MTV why there not playing any Black Artists he really was a forward thinking artist not only for his own music but for other Genre's too R.I.P David Bowe AKA The Thin White Duke
One of a kind. It feels so weird that he is gone.
@@pdog547 Prairie Dog that is the truth I can't believe it's been 6 years since his passing
Yes. Similar to Elton John and Hall and Oates.
@@joesmith8725 Joe Smith I never seen those ones I got to check them out thanks for letting me know
Damn that beat is so good.
Bowie was a genius, songs for any occasion
This was a HUGE video in early music video history. It was in heavy rotation on Night Tracks and MTV.
Always loved the way Ian McCulloch drops lyrics from famous songs into extended live Echo & The Bunnymen songs.
At a gig in Southend in 1984 he dropped in the wonderful "Under the blankets / The serious blankets".
My FAVOURITE Bowie song! 🙌🔥❤
Mine too
It was the first song I ever heard from him...when it actually came out! I bought the cassette fairly quick.
@@pdog547 Yes! That and China Girl were the 2 I remember as a kid too! Loved it back then, everything was so fun and cool, especially clothes! Everyone looks the same now... BORING! lol 🤗
@@andreab449 NO ONE has ever, is now, or ever will be anywhere close to Bowie's style and class. His musical genius was one of a kind, he's up there with all the greatest of all time, no question for me at all.
At 58, I’ve been to over 500 concerts in my lifetime. His Serious Moonlight Tour, circa 1983 is in my top 5 still……
Did they have the moon 🌙 balloons drop down? The thing failed when we saw him here in Connecticut and we didn’t know why he was looking up and laughing until we saw the video.
@@unndunn1 I was at that show and remember that. I went to both nights. I miss the Hartford of the 80’s…..
@@laurakali6522 I was in college in New Haven and then lived there for several years. I pretty much only go to Hartford for concerts.
@@unndunn1 yeah, I miss the days of the original Russian Lady and other bars. New Haven has much more to offer these days, I grew up in Orange and lived in Manchester for a few years.
The best way to understand and appreciate Bowie is to think of him as solo artist version of Queen.
Meh. They can both be called glam rock but Bowie was so much more than that. He was always unique and of the times throughout his career. Whether it was psychedelic folk in the 60s or industrial influenced rock in the 90s. Even the album he recorded on his death bed was pushing the envelope of popular music.
Srv supported bowie on tour coz bowie loved him. Hence he plays the solo on it. The style of singing is called Bowie. That's just the genius at work. Great song, great reaction. Try changes, life on mars, five years, moonage daydream, oh you pretty things, sound and vision, ashes to ashes, blackstar.xxx
The guy on the guitar through the main part of the song was Nile Rogers, the guitarist from Chic and basically took Bowie's song idea for a more melancholic demo version into this dance hit. The guy doing the solo is Stevie Ray Vaughan - One of the greatest guitarists to ever walk the Earth.
Props the great NIle Rodgers for this gem (amongst many)
Soo many wasted hours at the arcade when I was a teen listening to this song. RIP Stevie Ray and David, What a Jam session to behold in heaven with all the talent that has passed on......
Stevie Ray Vaughan on guitar.
No doubt....
Nile Rodgers produced too right?
@@kJ922-h3j Nile Rodgers came up with the funky riff/vibe, SRV does the solo
This and China Doll back to back. I loved this Bowie era. Modern Love was super.
I heard that song for years. And never knew. And it totally blew my mind to find out that was Stevie Ray Vaugn playing.
Make no mistake, the guitar riff is Nile Rodgers
Nile Rodgers is responsible for this funky riff. You will recognise his distinctive guitar playing sounds from:
Get Lucky by Daft Punk, I Coming Out by Dana Ross which you might know from being sampled on Notorious BIG's Mo Money Mo Problems track, also Lady by Modjo which is a sample of Soup For One by Chic/Nile Rodgers and also, you might know his guitar from being on Rappers Delight because thats Nile playing.. its sampled from Chic's 'Good Times.'
You may also have heard his guitar work on all most of Sister Sledges work as he wrote and produced all the music for them. "We Are Family, I got all my sisters with me."
Once you know Nile Rodgers 🎸 guitar, you'll recognise his music in Hip Hop, Disco, New Wave...
Oh and bonus track... Notorious BIG "Notorious" thats a sample of Duran Duran which gues who was playing guitar? Yes, Nile Rodgers!!
His most recently famous thing was playing with Daft Punk on Get Lucky. He's in the music video. Black dude with dreads.
He's a legend of pop music.
Oh yeah and Stevie Ray Vaughan played on the solo of Lets Dance.
Another of his later incarnations. Good tune. And Lex? You’re swaying just as he’s singing let’s sway lol
I've just discovered your channel. As a person who grew up on this music, I'm 73 (2022) I enjoy how both of you react to hearing these classics for the first time.
"Inflection" is the term Brad is looking for.
Bowie's music can be the equivalent of musical whiplash in some sense and it always still manages to sound like Bowie-it is a vibe. For a real hard left from what you've reacted to so far, have a listen to the title track from 1976's "Station to Station" album (from his Thin White Duke era) or "LIttle Wonder" from 1997's "Earthling." Eccentric and fascinating tunes like so many others in his catalogue, enjoy!
At the time this song was released I loved it. I was an 18 year old college freshman. The only other song I knew by him to that point was Fame which had been a big R&B hit for him years earlier. I still like the song but it hasn’t held up as well as other tracks on the album.
Bowie was the first punk. He was the first glitter rock. He was the first techno rock. He created musical hybrids that no one has yet to emulate. His level of musical genius goes beyond the mere title of rock star. He was a super nova. And he fell to Earth. And we were lucky to have him.
Great artist....RIP David Bowie the real Jean Genie
I love the percussion and his tone.❤RIP to D.B. and S.R.V.❤
Memories of when MTV was entertaining and fun to watch.
MuchMusic in Canada, but same thing. They actually played music videos back then. I had VHS libraries we would play them at parties! And we effing loved it.
In this episode of Brad & Lex, Let's dance!!! Lets "sway!" Brad has that covered like insurance, he explains before performing his signature "side to side sway" as no one else can to Bowie's band. Lex gets into some enthusiastic "clutch" and "frontal" "bops" before the record ends leading to a convo that trails off into the nothing.
Hey what's up guys! Greetings from South Florida! This whole album is great. Nile Rodgers produce the album played all the rhythm guitar on the album. And Stevie Ray Vaughan played the lead guitar. You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!
Such a good song David Bowie is a class act
I am sure everybody and their dog has already told you the guitar is played by the incomparable Stevie Ray Vaughan. May he continue to R.I.P.
Now you need to do Frank Zappa's "Be In My Video," which was his reaction to this song.
David Bowie had many different bands and he always hired great musicians. Title song to the album of the same name. His commercial peak. Saw him on the "Serious Moonlight" tour and he was amazing!
Rather he assembled his band for each project. Various people came went and came back depending on the project. There were some who were notably rather constant.
Love Davie Bowie! Musical genius. 💕
it's all about the sway, good point brad
Life on Mars!!! just brilliant...love the channel
I've seen a fair few Bowie interviews, the eccentricity was combined with great intellect, and he would be so modest with it, that it would make us question if he was what normal supposed to look like, and everybody else was the deviant. Many people took comfort from Bowie's non-conformism as a positive influence, especially if they were struggling with their own.
Turns out this might be my favorite Bowie song, across all the years.
Listen carefully and you'll hear Stevie Ray Vaughan on guitar
One of my fave Bowie songs!
New Killer Star, Sound and Vision, Loving the Alien, Changes, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Five Years, Time, Rock and Roll Suicide, Rebel Rebel, Cat People (Putting Out Fire), The Man Who Sold The World!
Those are some of the greatest songs for you to experience Bowie 👌
Actually that is called slurring on the guitar. The genius of David Bowie. I had the same reaction as Lex. Who is that guitar player? Then I heard the first Stevie Ray Vaughan tune on the radio. "Hey, it's that guy on the David Bowie tune!"
That's what a hit record sounds like! Great production value, 90s pop-disco vibes.
Bowie's catalog is deep and he's such an original. So many
altar-egos and incarnations. RIP.
Released 1983
Lex your so adorable, I love your reactions! I'm hooked!
Why do you two seem like the best pair to have a game night with?? 😂 as long as it’s not music trivia lol! Keep it goin!!
My favorite Bowie song!
Bowie was one one of those rare and exceptional artist who was able to reinvent his self over and over,he was an actor and starred in some very good movies an all round good act a compleat and unique performer, the like i have not come across in my life of 70 years he performed to his death with black star in lying in his coffin whilst singing one time
Loved the fact my GOAT filmed the clip to this in Australia. Iconic film clip.
You two are a vibe 😎. Y’all always make me smile
Bowie was awesome. I have a box set of his greatest hits. I think it's time to break it out again.
The video for this is as old as me haha .. and was shot in Sydney and country New South Wales here in Australia, near the town of Coonabarabran, located is what is considered one of the most spectacular regions in our state for stargazing :) Great reaction as always!
Bowie is like a handful of other artists, his own genre. Tom Waits, P.j. Harvey, Jack White, Beck. I am sure I am missing a few.
Tool
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Holy shit - Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Tool, all in my all time list. I've seen Tom Waits once (Mule Variations tour) and I've seen Tool twice. Neko Case? PIXIES.
@@pdog547 Sounds like you have a really good taste in music. Greets from Germany! Seen Tom Waits some times, P.J. Harvey also and Tool, well, I can't count the times I've seen my absolute fav. band. LOL
@@ingobordewick6480 HEY MAN! Saw Tool in 2006 (Calgary, 10,000 Days Tour) and again in 2017 in Vancouver.
When the lockdown BS hit us in 2020, I actually had a ticket to see them again in June, but it was cancelled :( I am glad to have seen them twice, it's the closest thing to a spiritual experience I will ever have. Tool has been my favourite band since about 1996, when I first heard the song "Opiate" (on LSD in the Northern Canadian wilderness, it was surreal).
Tool is my favourite band too.
Bowie is in a league of his own!!! Funky to the bone!!! Brad & Lex go ahead and get your "SWAY" On!!!
That's just David Bowie's style. I doubt it's called anything..lol... He was a great artist, very creative and a force of nature. R.I.P.
First Bowie song i got into tbh, being an 80s child, first heard this on the radio in about 1983
David Bowie was probably the best singer songwriter in the twentieth century.
It's Stevie Ray Vaughan on lead guitar. It's Nile Rodgers (from Chic) on Rhythm guitar, who also produced the song.
Stevie Ray Vaughan on lead guitar. Niles Rodgers of Chic produced the album. Great stuff!
Guitar by Stevie Ray Vaughn, vocals by David Bowie. Bowie is his very own genre in music and life.