Meanwhile, the December 2015 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring Kurt Cobain, PJ Harvey, Don Henley, Bob Dylan, Courtney Barnett, Noddy Holder, The Beatles, Neko Case, Ken Kesey’s Acid Tests, Jimi Hendrix and more. Inspired by the book, The Man Who Fell To Earth, by Walter Tevis (The Queen’s Gambit) Lazarus focuses on Thomas Newton, as he remains still on Earth - a 'man' unable to die, his head soaked in cheap gin. The History Of Rock – a brand new monthly magazine from the makers of Uncut – a brand new monthly magazine from the makers of Uncut – is now on sale in the UK. Lazarus includes songs from Bowie’s iconic catalogue as well as new songs written for the stage including the title song, Lazarus. David Bowie DavidBowie Lazarus Rock Listen to David Bowie. Lazarus previews at the New York Theatre Workshop on Wednesday, November 18, and opens on December 7, when it runs through to January 17. VDOMDHTMLtml> Davis Bowie - LAZARUS - YouTube 'Lazarus' by David Bowie R.I.P. You don’t know what you’re watching for about 40 minutes or so.” But he hoped that audiences would be able to track the narrative on “an emotional level.” And he teased that the various strands would build to “a sad and shocking ending.” Speaking about the play’s narrative, meanwhile, Walsh said, “The piece is broken and fractured the information comes late. The piece also reports that none of the songs Bowie recorded for a scrapped soundtrack to Roeg’s film feature in Lararus. He liked it, though, and said he wanted to keep it.The NYT piece reveals that one of these is “ This Is Not America“, which Bowie recorded in 1985 with the Pat Metheny Group. I went down to the B before I should have done, one bar early. That’s why that cock-up is on there at the end of the first verse, where he says ‘Get back on it’. He was an easy man to work with, but it was difficult when you were doing something like The Jean Genie, which he played you once and then made you record it. The backing tracks for Aladdin Sane only took two days.”įor budgetary reasons? “No, that was just how he worked. Ziggy Stardust was recorded in a day and mixed in two days. “With him, he played you a song, and you had one run-through and that was the one you took.
Bolder’s signature ascending and descending grace notes shift between each root note in the verses – and his descending bassline, in unison with Bowie’s descending backing vocal, creates a memorable earworm.ĭid Bowie get involved in writing the bass parts, we asked him? “No, it was all mine,” said Bolder. Both Woodmansey and Bolder cite the track as their favorite on the album, as did producer Ken Scott. Moonage Daydream was written by Bowie in early 1971 and released as a single in May that year by the band Arnold Corns, a short-lived Bowie spinoff project, before being revisited for this album. The track was recorded in November 1971, before Hunky Dory’s release. Even when playing in the upper register, Bolder’s bass tone is full, consistent and smooth. Soul Love features a constantly moving bass part. The song never breaks away from its mid-tempo rhythm, and Bolder’s performance reinforces its simplicity, sitting perfectly with Woodmansey’s bass drum. The album opener Five Years features a picked bassline that sits perfectly among the drums and piano of the verses, with a low-mid presence that fits the instrumentation of the track. "A bass player isn’t just somebody who just sits back there and plonks away, it’s somebody who adds a lot to the music.” Lazarus is inspired by Walter Tevis best-selling 1963 novel 'The Man Who Fell to Earth,' about a human-looking alien who comes to Earth seeking a way to bring water back to his dying home. I play a lot of notes – too many notes sometimes," he joked. “I never wanted to just be a bass player plonking away, I always wanted to have the edge to the sound and be able to play with a melodic feel. “I think the thing that was good for me – like it was for Jack Bruce who played cello, which is a melodic instrument – was that I played trumpet and I adapted the trumpet stuff to the bass as well, playing melodic parts,” he told Let It Rock. If you listen, he's playing something different in every chorus, always got loads of different interesting little runs.”īolder was a multi-instrumentalist – like his hero Jack Bruce – and he felt that helped him develop his style. “He was just such a melodic player and he never played anything the same twice – listen to the songs.
“Trevor was a fantastic bassist,” she said. One fan of Bolder’s playing is a fellow bass player from Hull, Lou Duffy-Howard of the Red Guitars. I was a huge fan of Jack Bruce so I had a slight edge of distortion on it, but there were no pedals or anything like that back then.” It was like, plug in, turn it up, and away you go. “With Bowie I used a 100-watt Marshall bass head and two 12” cabs,” he said.
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