Carmine and Stevie Ray Vaughan (Page 2 of 3)

So be it! I recall MTV being all over that video and I for one found it highly, ridiculously even, all at once silly, offensive, cheesy, and above all lame that David Bowie would deign with smiling pretense to be pulling off that guitar solo!!! I could tell by hands and it made me very upset.

Rock On & Keep the Faith,
Rocket

"He still doesn't charge for mistakes! "
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"Everybody wants ta get inta the act!"
“Now, this isn’t your ordinary party crowd, here.  I mean, there are professionals in here.”

Bowie is actor as much as musician, - and I do not mean that as a derogatory statement. The "Let's dance" album was a pop album in a period where pop was awful, - this was in comparative terms a very well put together album, with clearly a couple of good musicians on it!

For those that do not know the video this is it, - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA a film about red shoes! Quite unusual to have aboriginal cast in those days, - a minority group suffering racial divide within their own Country, - credit to Bowie for bringing the divide between the rich and poor as he does in this video. And great that MTV picked up this video and gave it such airplay, - may have in some small way helped change opinions on something that is a whole lot bigger than a mime to a solo.

Not sure Rocket why you would get upset up the solo issue, - the video is very purposefully vague about the playing of it, - Bowie even wears white gloves which I took as his acknowledgment to SRV and the audience that this is theatrical, - he is not trying to claim anything here, - quite the reverse.

good debate/talking point Rocket.

Production of video is normally out of an artists hands, - it is what it is and have to say I think it is a BS story that SRV got the hump over the video, - it is an easy talking point that adds credibility to SRV over Bowie who is one of the most successful artists ever.

Maybe you did not have all of the "new romantic" electro pop rubbish that we had,  how can you have a band without a guitar in it???    - The Romantics did nothing over here, - it was all Ultravox, Pet Shop Boys and Duran Duran, - generalising it was an awful piece of music history. - Artists that started out as good went so mainstream and awful, - Elton John and Rod Stewart to name just two.

Bowie wrote some of the best rock riffs; Rebel rebel, Jene Genie and a few very good songs; Hereos, Changes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDetQ18fw5Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA29BVtC … re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYjBQKIO … re=related

and just found this, - Bowie and SRV worth a listen. Enjoy people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCqtQo6c … re=related

One thing about Bowie is he is quite the chameleon.  I saw him play after NIN and he was as hardcore as NIN only with a better voice.  He doesn't get out that much any more, his wife won't let him!

Whoops you found my typo... 

Thanks,

Bill

this thread does hint at the negative side to this forum, - in that if it aint blues rock or EC, JB or SRV then it get's a bashing, - there is a slight edge born about by the seeming lack of tolerance for other artists who do not "conform" to the ideology, - and not for the first time people with a more eclectic/tolerant view point who just put something else into the debate get knocked. I am generalizing, - some like Rocket are great to have a debate with.

I do not know who directed the video, - who called in the cast, who made the calls, - it could well be correct the SRV did spit the dummy over the video, - but for me whoopie-dooo - the show was the David Bowie show, he was the artist, it was his name on the ticket, and I had to put my glasses on (seriously) to find Carmine and SRV named on the album.

Maybe Jimmie did tell him it was the best part of the record, - but did the contract between SRV and Bowie stipulate that he play on the video? Who knows? - all sounds like a load of sour negativity to me that may have been the case at the time but many years have gone by since, - shame that some keep harping on about the negative. The purpose of my starting this thread was very much more around the positive aspect of Carmine playing alongside SRV (and Bowie).

My problem with this whole thing is that people are saying "well it could be true" or "this is speculation" about what I am saying. No. What I am saying has been well documented and is regarded as "the word." One thing, I do not speculate, unless I label it as such. I do my homework before I say something. So there's my minor frustration taken out for today. 

I found this in an SRV interview...http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002283.html

Did you actually do any of the live shows with Bowie?

SRV: Unh unh. There was a whole different light on the subject almost that had nothing to do with the way he offered the tour. We [Double Trouble] were supposed to open up all the shows and he was supposed to be wanting to have us in that situation to help us out. And as it turned out, I was supposed to quit them [Double Trouble] and not have anything to do with them, not do interviews or anything. And, I’m sorry, I’ve worked for that a long time. Fame and this big tour is really not that important.

But who knows, it may be just more speculation...