Drummer reacts to "Five Years" (Live) by David Bowie

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  • Thank you to me for this wonderful pick. Wow. We are listening to the rest of Ziggy Stardust starting next week (barring requests) and that is that. This was so... disconcerting at points... but had 50s vibes. It almost had another song trying to bust out of the one they were playing. So weird! Love it though. Bowie rocks so hard.
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  • @timmclaughlin537
    @timmclaughlin537 Місяць тому +24

    You will be hard pressed to find a finer album. Ever.

  • @heartoftherose
    @heartoftherose Місяць тому +15

    After the news announcement that only "Five Years" remain, Ziggy Stardust arrives to save the Earth - with "Soul Love," "Moonage Daydream," and much, much more... play it, Lee!

    • @L33Reacts
      @L33Reacts  Місяць тому +6

      Next week! It's coming:) I'll do the studio from here on out though. More then likely.

  • @davidfisher8821
    @davidfisher8821 Місяць тому +13

    Ziggy is a must! While I think Aladdin Sane is s better album, both are at the heart of Bowie’s most famous era. You’re gonna love them!

  • @onlymeian58
    @onlymeian58 Місяць тому +15

    Just an incredibly breathtaking performance. Seeing this on TV blew the minds of a generation. You really need to check out the performance of "Starman" live on Top Of The Pops. Tame by today's standards, but at the time it shocked the nation. The man is a legend. Mick Ronson too. 💖🎸⚡ Peace 😎🤘

    • @L33Reacts
      @L33Reacts  Місяць тому +3

      He really is iconic as hell.... Definitely one of the greatest artists of our time. I wish I could have sat down with a spot of tea and pick his brain.

  • @redadamearth
    @redadamearth Місяць тому +9

    I would have recommended hearing the studio album version of "Five Years" on "Ziggy Stardust", first, but that's definitely a cool performance of it. The album version is bigger.

  • @bendancar
    @bendancar Місяць тому +1

    Ziggy Stardust is a concept album, with a story arc. This being the first track, Five Years sets up the premise of the story. It's a fantastic album worth a whole listen. Keep going !

  • @Joshualuv13
    @Joshualuv13 Місяць тому +1

    This song has my favourite line from any song ever ..Think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour, drinking milkshakes cold and long.. Smilingly just and waving and looking so fine .Don't think you knew you were in this song . Brilliant Album.

  • @bridgittetirman2645
    @bridgittetirman2645 Місяць тому +14

    Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide should be your next track off Ziggy Stardust. I want it to be the last thing I hear.

  • @vegdagol2843
    @vegdagol2843 Місяць тому +9

    The live version you watched of “Width of a Circle” was from the last concert Bowie did as Ziggy Stardust but the song itself was from an earlier album “The Man Who Sold the World”, 1970.

  • @scotstevens5263
    @scotstevens5263 Місяць тому +7

    Great album, entire play.

  • @mftoms59
    @mftoms59 Місяць тому

    I feel a heavy dose of his Folk Roots in this song, been a fan of Bowie since 73 this song still gives me goose bumps.

  • @user-oe9hj9yl7m
    @user-oe9hj9yl7m Місяць тому +2

    Ah. The Old Grey Whistle Test !!! It was our life line to so much good music. All played live. It broke so many act from both sides of the pond to prominence. Happy days

  • @markwade2530
    @markwade2530 Місяць тому +2

    Work your way through the Ziggy album. You will not be disappointed Lee.

  • @DrStrangelove3891
    @DrStrangelove3891 Місяць тому +7

    One of my favorite Bowie songs. The crescendo is better on the album version though.

  • @loisr1560
    @loisr1560 Місяць тому

    I saw Bowie 20 years ago on his last tour of Australia. He was awesome.

  • @mickjones5381
    @mickjones5381 Місяць тому +1

    I watched this the night it aired. Home from the pub, Whistle test on. There's some great performances on there.

  • @rayname908
    @rayname908 Місяць тому +1

    Everything on Ziggy Stardust is great

  • @MrDiddyDee
    @MrDiddyDee Місяць тому +8

    At 74 Woody Woodmansey is the last surviving member of The Spiders from Mars. The band were very down to earth Yorkshire lads, invited by Bowie to move to London and be his backing band. They initially weren't happy about the glam image, but once they saw how much attention Bowie got from female fans they'd be fighting over using the eyeliner. The whole band contributed a lot to those early songs, but got no writing credit, Bowie was to be notorious for using, and then suddenly dropping his collaborators and moving on to a new crowd. Woody, like his bandmates, knew nothing of the plans to finish off Ziggy, until Bowie announced it on stage on the last date of a tour. Woody continued a career in music and has since worked with both Art Garfunkel, and Sir Paul McCartney.

    • @carrerlluna66
      @carrerlluna66 Місяць тому +1

      Ned from Spain here. That is the only time I've ever felt disappointed in Bowie. Without them he never would've made it. Woody, Trevor and Mick lived on almost nothing, terrible salaries and worked their asses off and got the shaft for their efforts. Ever hear the story of when Woody found out how much keys man Mike Garson was getting paid ? Supposedly Tony De Fries was part of the problem, no one mattered but Bowie.

    • @L33Reacts
      @L33Reacts  Місяць тому

      Damn that is fucking rough. Ruthless business with managers and money involved. If you let creative people be creative people and let business people be business people I think the whole thing works a lot smoother. But people think they can do both (and some can) and it ruins everything.

    • @rghilino6734
      @rghilino6734 Місяць тому

      Mike Garson is still around and performing. Though I don't know if he was technically a Spider.

    • @carrerlluna66
      @carrerlluna66 Місяць тому +1

      @@rghilino6734 Apparently Mike was unaware of the Spider's situation.I love Mike Garson as a person and he's one of the most incredible musicians in whatever genre. There is a great documentary about him on Amplified.

  • @tinypurplefishesrunlaughin8052
    @tinypurplefishesrunlaughin8052 Місяць тому +2

    There is also:” Is there life on Mars “. Official video shows his unusual eyes one blue one green one dilated one not.

  • @lindaulloa4786
    @lindaulloa4786 Місяць тому +3

    Ziggy Stardust is a great album! Worth a listen.

  • @djanga166
    @djanga166 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you. The best beginning of an album and with rock'n'roll suicide also the best end. I love Wednesday Bowie.

  • @garyd6421
    @garyd6421 Місяць тому +1

    Good choice Bowie live what a tune

  • @dougieyou
    @dougieyou Місяць тому +2

    An absolute masterpiece of an album...ever song is a banger...you need to do the entire album...it's a must. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @theeloquentbaby
    @theeloquentbaby Місяць тому +1

    Thank you for sharing so many songs!
    This unusually intense and serious performance by a young David Bowie was very interesting.
    Thank you, Lee.

  • @nixonradio
    @nixonradio Місяць тому

    This is the opening song on Ziggy Stardust; its closing counterpart "Rock n Roll Suicide" kind of goes with it, and has probably saved countless lives. The whole album is special but these two are my favourite songs on it.

  • @ajaxfernsby4078
    @ajaxfernsby4078 Місяць тому +1

    Yes, you would love the whole album beginning to end, then on to Aladdin Sane 1973. You won’t get to that right away but keep it in your back pocket for later.

  • @user-yv1nr6qm6f
    @user-yv1nr6qm6f Місяць тому +2

    That was Bowie doing what he most liked to do, which was taking us down a route we didn't know we wanted to go down. He liked to make us feel a little bit uneasy, taking us outside our comfort zone. With the Ziggy songs he decided to make it sound raw, like something scraped up off dirty city streets, not polished and perfect sounding. From a musical perspective this was a glimpse of punk three years before punk erupted in the UK. Mostly the album was about a rock performer going mad on drugs and an out-of-control ego trip. But this particular song is about an imaginary unspecified threat to human existence, and the breakdown in society that it causes. Don't fall into the trap of trying to work out exactly what everything means, because Bowie deliberately left gaps for you to fill with your own imagination.

  • @smithpm81
    @smithpm81 Місяць тому +2

    as i recall he did three tracks that episode

  • @thescrewfly
    @thescrewfly Місяць тому +1

    He's called Woody because there were two Micks in The Spiders From Mars. Guitarist Mick Ronson was on the piano for this song. An underrated guitarist, as you will no doubt soon discover.

  • @ste.6026
    @ste.6026 Місяць тому +2

    Never been the biggest Bowie fan but his talent is undeniable, 'Five Years' is a Bowie favourite and this is a superb performance... I recommend 'Queen Bitch' from the same session, it's another Bowie fave of mine...

  • @ThatSteven20
    @ThatSteven20 Місяць тому +3

    Glad you will explore the rest of the album

    • @L33Reacts
      @L33Reacts  Місяць тому +3

      Yup next week we will do the next couple tracks. Can't wait to see where this goes.

  • @3CatAlfie
    @3CatAlfie Місяць тому

    I recently go 'into' early Bowie as I was a bit too young to appreciate him in '72 this passed me by. However since discovering this video and 'Oh you Pretty things' from the same OGWT session I have to watch them on a weekly basis. Fabulous stuff. And as someone has already mentioned his performance of 'Starman' on Top of The Pops is iconic.

  • @stevedotwood
    @stevedotwood Місяць тому +2

    Fucking great album

  • @smithpm81
    @smithpm81 Місяць тому

    bowie is outstanding, and this LP is his best

  • @chrisguevara
    @chrisguevara Місяць тому

    An amazing opening track to a classic album.

  • @markwade2530
    @markwade2530 Місяць тому +1

    What an album! ⭐️

  • @juanjoseclavijorojas9775
    @juanjoseclavijorojas9775 Місяць тому +1

    YESSS THE WHOLE ALBUM

  • @user-li7bo4bf6z
    @user-li7bo4bf6z Місяць тому +1

    Still in love with Ziggy❤️😔

  • @stevegreen5552
    @stevegreen5552 Місяць тому +3

    Nice to see the great Mick Ronson demonstrate his non-guitar musicianship. Trevor Bolder's bass rarely gets the credit it deserves, though.

  • @juanjoseclavijorojas9775
    @juanjoseclavijorojas9775 Місяць тому +1

    YES, REACT TO THE WHOLE ALBUM PLEASE

  • @jimholt1888
    @jimholt1888 Місяць тому +1

    Lee, dude, you must listen to this album, start to finish...it's fucking mind-blowing!

  • @richardjacobs7632
    @richardjacobs7632 Місяць тому

    Drummer was rock solid, great album and song! Thanks

  • @robinreiley1828
    @robinreiley1828 Місяць тому

    We were so close to it all ending in 1972. Our Generals were seriously talking about only loosing 40 million civilians in America if we launched first. By Christmas, we had launched Operation Linebacker II ,on North Vietnam, leveling Everything Above Ground. Just before midnight on December 31st, 1972, China threatened a Nuclear Launch is f we did not stop bombing....I worked Bowie's last performance of the song "Siggy Stardust" at Giant's Stadium around 1990. Met David working an MTV Commercial recording that morning. A True British Gentleman..

  • @Asymmatrix
    @Asymmatrix Місяць тому +3

    It's one of his best and the live version is excellent.

  • @wpollock1
    @wpollock1 Місяць тому +1

    The album version has a soaring guitar from Mick Ronson who is playing piano in this video. Fantastic song and album. I agree with the other comment that Aladdin Sane or Diamond Dogs or Station to Station are better than Ziggy, but it is a great place to start.

  • @lemming9984
    @lemming9984 Місяць тому +1

    You MUST have heard Starman!

  • @jamesadkisson7510
    @jamesadkisson7510 Місяць тому

    If you like this the album version has a beautiful string arrangement at the end plus Mick Ronson doing bombs dropping guitar. Plus supposedly during Bowie recording the vocals he was crying at the end. And that’s the take on the album.

  • @shelleys9603
    @shelleys9603 Місяць тому

    Bowie was probably afraid to blow out the mic here. He's always been a great actor, and in the studio version (which is also a must listen), he had the engineer stop halfway through and turn the levels down so he could really scream and cry during the repeats at the end. It's stunning to listen to.

  • @grahamheffer6535
    @grahamheffer6535 Місяць тому +1

    You’re in for a treat⚡️

  • @betseyr.9081
    @betseyr.9081 Місяць тому +2

    For these songs you should do the album version before the live, just to get the full effect and power of the songs, this is good but not as dramatic as the record.

  • @mana3735
    @mana3735 Місяць тому +1

    Based on a dream he had.

  • @user-oe9hj9yl7m
    @user-oe9hj9yl7m Місяць тому

    Only band not to play live on TOGWT was the New York Dolls.

  • @marcjacobscontinued9411
    @marcjacobscontinued9411 Місяць тому

    That "So many people" at 3:27 always gets me. The way he sings that, also in the studio version, is so...... so..... IDK sad? IDK

  • @nikosalmpanis-ty3jt
    @nikosalmpanis-ty3jt Місяць тому

    I like so much this song🤘

  • @maryelizabethreynoldsprice2135
    @maryelizabethreynoldsprice2135 Місяць тому +1

    David Bowie no one finer,

  • @dalemcmillan7231
    @dalemcmillan7231 Місяць тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @briangray00
    @briangray00 Місяць тому

    Doesn't age this song. I've played it a lot again since 2020. End of days.

  • @marketingTUNEUP
    @marketingTUNEUP Місяць тому

    So good even with out mick ronsons lead guitar backing.

  • @attilio7
    @attilio7 Місяць тому

    👍

  • @smithpm81
    @smithpm81 Місяць тому

    the old grey whistle test was the show all the cool bands played on... it got its name because it wasnt old, it was colourful, more that just whistle (all instruments) and it was not a test

  • @jr13227
    @jr13227 Місяць тому

    Such an awesome band. What a shame that Bowie dropped them on a whim without warning especially when they contributed so much to his early success. I love Bowie, but that was always disappointing to me.

  • @bobwoolerOriGinal
    @bobwoolerOriGinal Місяць тому

    The album version is far superior to this "weak" effort.

  • @mattleppard1964
    @mattleppard1964 Місяць тому

    Hate to break from the consensus, but a pretty meh album for me. I much prefer work he did both before and after. This is overrated IMHO 😊

  • @grahamheffer6535
    @grahamheffer6535 Місяць тому +1

    You’re in for a treat⚡️