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Thread started 05/29/13 7:36pm

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Carlos Alomar and Earl Slick Discuss David Bowie's Stay

http://www.bbc.co.uk/prog...s/p019jgj7

Really cool clip!

It's an outtake from the excellent new BBC documentary "Davie Bowie - Five Years".

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Reply #1 posted 05/30/13 6:38pm

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this is what he needs to cover with the next band he assembles

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Reply #2 posted 05/30/13 6:53pm

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cool Thanks for the preview--can't wait to get a chance to see the documentary.

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #3 posted 05/30/13 8:54pm

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purplethunder3121 said:

cool Thanks for the preview--can't wait to get a chance to see the documentary.

Already aired in the UK on BBC. There's a HD and standard def torrent available...

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Reply #4 posted 05/31/13 9:30am

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Having someone like Carlos on his records was a genius move by Bowie. He added the soul / funk licks and could play the rock stuff as well. Having him onboard really helped him to separate himself from many of his contemporaries.

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Reply #5 posted 05/31/13 9:42am

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novabrkr said:

Having someone like Carlos on his records was a genius move by Bowie. He added the soul / funk licks and could play the rock stuff as well. Having him onboard really helped him to separate himself from many of his contemporaries.

I thought the same thing would happen when Stevie Ray Vaughan played on the Let's Dance album...add a new dimension to Bowie's sound, in this case Texas blues/rock. It didn't really work, at least not nearly as well as the Young Americans/Philadelphia sound, but that may have been due to personality issues rather than music, from what I've read.

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Reply #6 posted 05/31/13 12:54pm

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Stevie Ray Vaughan was recruited as a lead guitarist for that record (kind of an odd choice for Bowie, if you ask me). What the clip you linked should "prove" is that Alomar was looking for ways to fuse Bowie's own "British rock" together with American soul / funk music. He was a rhythm guitarist and contributed to the arrangements a lot. I don't get the vibe that Bowie used him to just add "flavour" into his music, which seems to have been the case with many of his lead guitarists.

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