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My mind has never been so boggled.
In 2000 I'd have been 15, and I honestly don't know if I'd heard of Bowie then. Hell, I'd never heard a Pink Floyd song.
Watched most of the set this morning. Honestly, I don't totally get all the fuss. I love his great songs as much as anyone else - Life on Mars, yes! And The Man Who Sold the World is a favourite of mine. But... there's plenty of humdrum stuff in his catalogue, too, and he's not shy to put it in the live show. The set had the vibe of a very good band playing songs, and that's fine. But there are lots of good bands playing the songs.
The other thing is, I'm not totally convinced Bowie would be all that excited about how backwards looking people can be - people raving about a 20-year old show by an artist who at that point was really a "legacy" act (I know he was still making music, but...).
I wish there was this much excitement in popular culture and wider society for the kind of music & artists that Bowie really liked in the years before his passing - the next generation of artists largely living through their years in obscurity or at best minor celebrity because what the world really wants is to bring back the dead artistic giants of the 20th Century.
It's kind of strange in a way. To use the same time intervals at play here, imagine if 1970 Bowie couldn't get a break because everyone was still obsessing over a recording of 1950 performance of a Jazz band who's cultural relevance stemmed from its work in the 1920s?
In conclusion, Bowie is cool. We need the next Bowies.
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My point was that you kind of have to be into music to go to a festival. I couldn't really see how you could be at a festival and not be aware of one of the biggest musical icons of all time.
Anyway, I apologise and hope you enjoyed Justin Bieber or whoever the hell it was you went there to see....
I think that's very true. And in fact I seem to remember at the time a lot of people were quite sniffy about his Glastonbury performance because he did a crowd-pleasing greatest hits set instead of something experimental and arty.
The main reason for that was Slick's late inclusion into the touring band.
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On a side note, I realised that I am exactly the same age now as Bowie was in that performance...