New track - "Where Are We Now" - just released by David Bowie - the first in 10 years! What a coincidence! Who'd a thunk it??? .......and a new album ("The Next Day") to be released in March.
Great post, Micks younger brother Dave was one of my friends at school a few of us would go to Daves house and play the board game Risk, now that's what I call anarchy lol.
It could have been late sixties, I was trying to put a date on it, but is was a long time ago and the memory fades.
He's still touring with Uriah Heap, mainly in Eastern Europe(they can still sell out stadiums), he's still got it.... [video=youtube;6PdyeYSK8ow]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdyeYSK8ow[/video] (Bass solo at about 1.20)
Gram Parson was a ****ing genius, shame he died so young. Hot Burito No1 is still one of my all time favourite songs. Mind you Mick Ronno was a ****ing genius as well
Not fortunate enough to meet Bowie or Ronno and the lads back in those day but did come across 4 scruffy guys ambling down Hawthorn Ave, 60's again, then sitting on the kerb edge drinking from bottles. I had a Saturday job working in a shop down there at the time and one of them ask me directions to the city centre. Wasn't until much later I got to find out who they were, The Pretty Things who has just had a big hit record, Rosalyn. The other claim to fame, if that's what you can call it, was meeting up with one of the Hullaballoo's, no idea which one, a band bigger in the States then at home, but all dressed the same with blonde hair cut Beatle style
[video=youtube;yHqpus9Afu4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHqpus9Afu4[/video] Not sure that the Spiders were better than Bowie's Thin White Duke era backing band in terms of musical ability. I can enjoy 'Live in Santa Monica 1972 ' and the 'Thin White Duke 1976' bootlegs but they are totally different types of music and approach. The version of Heroes about ten minutes into the Beat Club Bremen concert above is probably the best version of that song you will ever hear.
