{"id":2787,"date":"2009-04-10T16:48:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T16:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/?p=390"},"modified":"2009-04-10T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T16:48:40","slug":"drunk-bowie-sings-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2009\/04\/drunk-bowie-sings-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk Bowie Sings Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ye2XfPz7CDo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ye2XfPz7CDo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Surely I shouldn&#8217;t be watching this right now, since David Bowie is a PRS registered UK artist and YouTube and PRS are in dispute and all the music is blocked. Not this though, thanks to @lagowski for the steer. Mind you, Bowie has advocated and pioneered the use of music on the internet, and like Prince, and a select band of enlightened &#8220;old style&#8221; artists has seen<strong> the value of digital music sharing: an essential route to new fans<\/strong>, along with radio, tv and playing live. If they have never heard you, they can&#8217;t like you. For artists with something to say, it&#8217;s also a direct channel to the people they love the most &#8211; their fans. Do not underestimate the power of disintermediated uncensored mass communication.<\/p>\n<p>This is a pretty rousing live version of the classic Bowie song, his rock anthem <em>par excellence<\/em>, but you can hear the march of a thousand gigs in the performance. Bowie uses his mature voice in a unique way though, what energy. I&#8217;m a big fan of Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;trilogy&#8221; songwriting period: Low, Heroes, and Lodger.<\/p>\n<p>The first single I ever bought (aged ten) was <em>Space Oddity<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\/end fandom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surely I shouldn&#8217;t be watching this right now, since David Bowie is a PRS registered UK artist and YouTube and PRS are in dispute and all the music is blocked. Not this though, thanks to @lagowski for the steer. Mind you, Bowie has advocated and pioneered the use of music on the internet, and like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671],"tags":[566,578,596],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-4","tag-bowie","tag-drunk","tag-heroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}