He took it all too far but boy could he play guitar…
Here’s the second of our unpublished pieces from David’s fellow musicians that didn’t make it to UNCUT’s 30 greatest Bowie songs in the UNCUT Bowie special that was published in April. (04.18.2008 NEWS: BOWIE’S 30 GREATEST SONGS IN UNCUT NEXT WEEK & 04.29.2008 REMINDER: BOWIE’S 30 GREATEST SONGS IN UNCUT)
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J MASCIS on Ziggy Stardust
I loved early Bowie. He had such a cool look and I loved the fact his records changed over different periods. I liked most of them until he got into that MTV phase in the early ?80s, with stuff like “Modern Love”. And I admired him for helping out Iggy and The Stooges, who I really liked.
I listened to Bowie at a very early age. My older brother was always buying records and the Ziggy album [The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars] was one of them. The image played a big part too, I liked that persona he adopted. I was always into aliens and spaceships, so it appealed to me a lot. He looked so freaky. “Ziggy Stardust” was a big favourite. I think Dinosaur Jr kinda ripped off that song a little in our own “Get Me”. There?s a little break at the beginning of that song that?s lifted from “Ziggy Stardust”.
I remember going to see that movie [D.A. Pennebaker?s ZiggyStradust And The Spiders From Mars] with my friend, and I had all my money in change in this big plastic egg. I went up to the counter and they wouldn?t let us in. They realised I was too young and you needed to be eighteen or something. My friend was pissed that I showed up with this stupid egg.
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