No autotune, just raw fabulous singing and a new rock & roll!

This is great. Love the Diamond Dogs album. Slight correction though... the second track is actually called "Dodo".

@CatDaddySteve

Жыл бұрын

Has You seen the complete Floor Show rehearsal video here on KZread ?

I have been watching bootleg videos of this and other Bowies videos from this particular show for years and most with a lot of quality flaws or missing spots but was happy to see them and could live with them! ...But finally, it's so great to start seeing very high-quality original TMS videos here on "The Midnight Special" channel from Bowie's 1980 Floor Show that aired back in 1973 and I remember it like it was yesterday! ...I sure hope eventually the whole show will be shown in its entirety! ...As there was nothing else ever like it ever since as it was almost the end of his Ziggy-Aladdin persona! ...Absolutely Bowie fantastic! Thank you Midnight Special for releasing it and the many other shows and artist you have been sharing as I have been praying for many, many, many years for this musical history day to come from you!

@cliffkeller8551

Жыл бұрын

Yeah interesting to see Mick Ronson playing with him. I thought Bowie had already fired him.

A very subdued Ronno taking a back seat on this one.

Ansley Dunbar is a beast on the drums. That friggin snare sounds GREAT!!

This is sorta that grey area between Ziggy and the Thin White Duke Bowie, but this performance is sooper-cool with Ansley Dunbar on drums, which is kind of a heavy drummer upgrade, but not necessarily the best fit for the soul music that emerges right after this. Anyway, great to have this footage!

diamond dogs brilliant album the cover used to scare me when I was kid

Please upload the complete 1980 Floor Show. Thanks.

One of craziest things I saw @ The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was a costume that Bowie wore from this era and his waist was crazy small.

@kevind4850

Жыл бұрын

By this time, he was spiraling into a period where he was basically subsisting on cocaine and milk. A year later, he was having trouble walking, though he still got through performances fairly well. He dropped below 100 pounds at one point. His "Thin White Duke" character was truly skeletal.

@velvetpilot2008

11 ай бұрын

It really makes you wonder how a beautiful black girl like Ava Cherry could fall for him when he looked like that. I mean, he's talented and all and apparently had a Pringles can between his legs so maybe that's what did it.

@temeyer

10 ай бұрын

@@velvetpilot2008he was David Bowie that’s how 😂

@rabbwit3744

Ай бұрын

@@velvetpilot2008this made me laugh thank you

Such a fantastic performance and a peek into what might have been as this was supposed to be the opening number of the play of Orwell's 1984 that Bowie was working on at the time only to have Orwell's wife refuse to give him the righrs. Being Bowie he moved on quickly keeping a song or two from the stalled musical it became the basis for his next album, Diamond Dogs.

@dickiefears5832

Жыл бұрын

I understand what you're saying, but remember if he had got the rights to make a musical based on the book, Bowie's trajectory would probably have been different. Things have a knock on effect of what comes next. There may well not have been a Young Americans, a Station To Station, the so called Berlin trilogy, etc. Even the Diamond Dogs album!

@michaelabbott516

Жыл бұрын

@@dickiefears5832 Totally agree, I was just giving a little backstory as a way to illustrate Bowie's penchant for adapting quickly and how he can change a bad situation into a chance to challenge himself and come up with something, usually, better than he originally intended. Plus I'm a big fan of these transitional performances where he is already tipping his hat to what's coming next. "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming" 👩‍🎤⚡

@specialiseesi6746

Жыл бұрын

WOW MAN!! I didn´t know all that! Shocked. I can´t imagine what musica it would´ve been! But yes, Diamond Dogs is a masterpiece of modern music. Even today I can´t stop listening.

Sort of a holy grail... fantastic. But indeed, the second part is called Dodo. Thanks for all these treats

@davidwhitman1472

Жыл бұрын

It sure is. 1980 Floor Show.

“Dodo” has been one of my favorite Bowie performances since seeing it back in 1974!! 👨🏻‍🎤⚡️

to finally see this cleaned up after all these years is wonderful

"Warren Peace" (Geoff MacCormack) uno de los grandes amigos de Bowie, en la percusión! Ava Cherry (su interés romántico y musa) en coros...más lo que quedaba de The Spiders from Mars. Qué fascinante configuración de musicos.

@KlausBahnhof

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, MacCormack is awesome in these performances and just a great guy all round xx

Bowie Genial se transformando, mutando, em breve o mundo nao mais seria o mesmo! Eterno Bowie no início dos 1970 prestes a inventar os 1980👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

LOVE IT

I love the horns juxtaposed with Mick Ronson's guitar, and the Astronettes. This arrangement is superior to the studio version. I don't know why David changed it.

@JesusGomez-ob2qt

6 ай бұрын

Their is a studio version of this arrangement on the sound and vision archive compilation!

@andreasboose5611

Ай бұрын

Aladdin Sane is singing 1984 before Halloween Jack 😊

Fantastic opener! Thought so then; my opinion remains the same. Glad to see this.

Thank you.

absolutely badass!

Please tell me a DVD with improved sound is in the works! Although honestly... This is 1000 times more than any Bowie fan could have expected. Thank you Midnight Special!

In Awwwwww..❤

Interesting time. Ziggy meets disco David.

@professormause

Жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_soul

I would love to see Electric Light Orchestra!!!

@themidnightspecialtvshow

Жыл бұрын

All in good time, they are on the list.

can u post the entire episode

👽👽👽👽

"...another mammal to _____ [screw]" in Dodo wiped off the TV master

@KlausBahnhof

9 ай бұрын

...Those bastards 😤

@normann.8601

4 ай бұрын

Memo, not mammal.

"Another memo to SCREW" ...Curse these puritanical censors, cutting a harmless word out of this classic tune 😤

instead of breaking up the songs , the complete show would be nice

@burtsugarman-pq3mp

Жыл бұрын

Coming soon 1:05

@professormause

Жыл бұрын

then what would be buyable at a later date then ?

@themidnightspecialtvshow

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. We are talking about that

this really stinks.

Any plans to release the whole show ?? Weve been suffering with 3rd gen VHS clones for decades... ...do it before we are all dead !!! Ziggy was the big thing when I was in middle school..I begged my Mom at 12 to allow to stay up and watch ..she watched it too....needless to say...she wasnt impressed...LOL

@KlausBahnhof

9 ай бұрын

Predictable parental reaction, yet hilarious none the same! I'm glad you got to watch it 😊