Well he reached rock bottom at one point and since then has lived a super healthy life. He still is insanely energetic during his concerts. He's scary!
This is true for anyone who is successful. People want to talk about economic inequality these days. The overwhelming majority of that 'inequality' is because someone is always working harder than you. Good on Bowie for not only being talented but driven as well.
@@bluemystic7501 Look at Lemmy, he worked his ass off and toured almost to the day he died. The shear willpower of artists like these like something we’ll probably never see again
I think people tend to forget that to be a musician/songwriter/performer at Bowie’s level means you are working non stop. So many tend to think “rock star” means constant partying but that’s kind of a myth. People like Bowie stayed at the top and were exceptional for a reason.
When Iggy Pop talks about someone else working hard, take note. Henry Rollins often speaks about Iggy Pop the way he speaks about Bowie. Granted, I've heard stories about how far down the rabbit hole Bowie was around the Station to Station album and it's probably my favorite overall.
I looked up the word 'longevity' in the dictionary, and there was a picture of Iggy Pop.....tee....Sotty, I couln't resist....It's very true, though. He gots stamina, for surez....
A lot of assholes are addicted to cocaine but they waste their life because they have no talent. Drug is not a magic, if you are a loser, you are a loser even if you use drugs. There are more chances you get your life fucked by drugs rather than become the next David Bowie just because you use drugs. The guy was a genius.
@@matiasmoulin2126 for god's sake mate, you dont. you get a genius strung out on cocaine. people with low self esteem think drugs will make them better because they are desperate for anything that they can use to cheat their way to being better, because they think that's all they are fit to do. drugs mess you up, its all they do. if you want to be superhuman, work at being superhuman.
@@Ricky-oi3wv :-) take it easy mate, my comment was not all serious. Do you think I'm advertising for Cocaine here? Of course I'm aware of that. But you just can't deny that Bowie did some crazy stuff on coke that he just couldn't achieve otherwise. Obviously he got himself into problems. Every story is the same. Read Keith Richards bio.
I read somewhere that even cocain addicts didn't have as good work ethic as him. And by the way, he stop using drugs in late 70s. And he stayed a legend for 4 decades after 70s.
@@spicyair710 people on speed do, I have a friend who sadly is an addict, he’s up at 5am, cycles 17 miles to work, and does a full 12 hour, labour intensive day, then he cycles 17 miles back home. He does this 5 days a week, and tends to get something silly like 8 hours sleep in them 5 days, on the Saturday he’ll stop and crash and end up sleeping 20 hours, then by Monday he’s straight back to it, it’s sad really
And this is Iggy Pop! Purported to be the hardest working man in rock and roll by everyone! I had assumed that Bowie was just as relaxed as he likes to act. BUT NOOOOO! IMHO
@@losado8712 He had a chauffeur dude. You can see it in a couple of documentaries. But I'm not here to argue with you - if you think any of this is backbreaking, then...um, cool.
@@doregon Why not quote the whole thing while you're at it? Obviously, if you take the beginning out of context, you get to sneer at Bowie. But it also makes you look like an idiot
Because you had this amazing Dutch music program on TV during the 90s called Lolapaloeza from journalist Bram van Splunteren who just had the best interviews with those artists. So a lot of those old interviews are no online. You should definitely check out his interview with John Frusciante archived here: ua-cam.com/video/eiGq1FPjXfk/v-deo.html
I don't really know more about its original recording. It was re-used in this interview: ua-cam.com/video/Ck6UIsl5oAE/v-deo.html from 1996, but I don't have the original interview.
Awesome..I love his voice and his mannerisms.....Severely iconic babe...You can see why so many women were crawling all over him, and men alike, hee.....They had a mutual admiration that was enviable, and also uncanny......
at this time...mid 70s... at THIS MOMENT... that we are watching iggy talk here DAVID WAS SAVING IGGY"S LIFE... iggy was a heroin addict with NOTHING DAVID took iggy under his wing taking him on tour, feeding him PAYING him, giving him OPPORTUNITY iggy's life went FORWARD FROM HERE... because David LIKED iggy... its history now... but ASK iggy TODAY may 24 2021 what David did for iggy back in the mid 70s and iggy will say..... HE SAVED MY LIFE...
All those English rockers had a strong work ethic! And in bands there was always one that had that Jagger, McCartney , Townsend etc they all worked like dogs for at least ten years or more to get where they had to be then crashed! Never really recovered lol
my intial reaction was, Coke will do that . . but as Iggy says, Bowie was, as an example, totally responsible for Lou Reed's success, because he had been into the Velvet Underground, WAY before anyone else, and he paved the way for Reed, in England with the best session musos etc etc . . . (Reed actually blew that recording date, but Bowie still got him to do it right 2nd time around)
i think bowie found his perfect chemical and dosis around that time....and with that a sustainable life-rythem being high half the time and kept his f*cking mouth shut about it.. ..cudos mr.bowie.... that's how it's done
0:42 ... I can't imagine it being any other way. Also driving to gigs and listening to music in the car ... that's not hard work - that is travelling in comfort. You listen to the latest stuff as some one who enjoys music. Hmm It is weird seeing 'normal' described as something out of this world to me ..
I could release an album every month. And I'm a one man group. However, I found out it was better if I waited for a few months or years until I'd bored myself of the material which didn't 'get me on my feet'. This became the new pass mark. Either I'm dancing until 5am, or its not getting anyway near 'up real close' by russ murray. My favourite record of all time. I recorded all of it myself. The only other contribution came from don van vliet. Yes, him. He co wrote 'about dallas' . That spooky twilight between wake and sleep. He told me both beats and half the lyric content. He also told me how to get the tones I needed out of my almost redundant Roland keyboard languishing in the spare room. I'll save that explanation for another day. I quickly wrote it all down before he faded away again. I think I may have even said 'is that you don?' Out loud.
He spoke in a kind of riddle like language, which I was able to decipher and use it to record the 6th song on that 2021 album, even though he passed away in 2010. Without which, that song would not exist. Wear a necklace...with the sea shells.
Getting up at 8 am and travelling by car..wow that’s tough!!! What would iggy say if he saw some of the people in my home country waking up 4 am and taking five different busses and trains to hustle for a job that pays the equivalent of a Big Mac per month
@@bartvanduijvenbode9952 I swear people will find a reason to argue or be offended by proxy whatever is being said..I love Bowie too, no battle, take it easy
And yet no one did it back in 1970 whenever the hell he did it. no one did it because they were all too busy thinking something else was the future. I wish I could tell you what it was but it was such a lame fad that it came and went without any impact
@@MichaelCook84 I'm referring to the fact that it doesn't sound hard to just listen to kraftwork at the time! Well it isn't but no one else did it at that time! they were too busy listening to other crap your music basically because kraftwerk was crazy underground and no one really listened to them when they first came out. Except for badasses like David Bowie. I suppose The fad that I would be referring to at the time could be anything from ranging to Janice Joplin all the way to Abba
To be fair, he also mentions here how he was still up at 4am! No disrespect though, I was up at 5:30am for work for years until recently too, I know it's rough stuff.
well, getting up early, travel all day, perform and go to sleep late, day after day, are tired activities. It's not like I'm gonna build a statue or something and I'm sure both you and me have seen worse, I would sign for this all my life, but a tour must be exhausting.
Only a musician would be amazed at someone getting up at 8am to drive in a car.
Turns out I was living a rock n roll lifestyle all along 🤘
You're telling me that if you seen David Bowie at the height of his career pull up at a traffic light beside you anyone in the world would believe it?
Is that the moment you decided to write a comment? That was not what he was amazed by, obviously.
You're missing the bit that he was playing a show the night before and then went out to see other bands...
LMAO! Thanks for that.
I love how Iggy gets all excited talking about him. Once in a lifetime kind of friendship that gave the world great albums.
Yeah it's nice, they seem to have been such great friends. Great artists both of them.
iggy pop is pure shit! ALWAYS HAS BEEN!
@Joennemans perhaps coke also had to do with David Bowie working so hard and staying up late?
@@wouterdeheus3626 Exactly, and it was at that period that Bowie got deeply addicted.
Man, it gave the world great GENRES. :)
I wouldn’t have thought Iggy would have outlived Bowie - or anyone for that matter.
Same, its weird, but seeing him live shows how much energy he has.
He kept it up for decades , that cannot be if he was always on drugs.
Well he reached rock bottom at one point and since then has lived a super healthy life. He still is insanely energetic during his concerts. He's scary!
Bowie is underestimated for his time on earth.
His music is air
So true
That is the effects of speed. He aged 60 years in like 10. Then, he just stuck there.
It doesn’t surprise me that Bowie worked his tail off to get where he did.
He did complete justice to his unparalleled genius.
That’s why he was so popular. He was immensely talented, but his work ethic was unrivaled
@@sidtrip1 unparalleled
This is true for anyone who is successful. People want to talk about economic inequality these days. The overwhelming majority of that 'inequality' is because someone is always working harder than you. Good on Bowie for not only being talented but driven as well.
@@bluemystic7501 Look at Lemmy, he worked his ass off and toured almost to the day he died. The shear willpower of artists like these like something we’ll probably never see again
“He was getting up at 8 in the morning” Lol!
Doesn't sound impressive until you get to the end "He's knocking on his guitarist's door at 4 in the morning..."
you didnt get to the end
I think people tend to forget that to be a musician/songwriter/performer at Bowie’s level means you are working non stop. So many tend to think “rock star” means constant partying but that’s kind of a myth. People like Bowie stayed at the top and were exceptional for a reason.
That’s like my 4am
@@drummer78 Bowie was also more than a "rock star" thats why he didnt have time for heroin lol
"I was exhausted just watching him!"
This is priceless 😂
I feel the same way watching Iggy lol
He said that so naturally 🤣
"He wakes up at 8 (!!)"
@@Mornepin Well, given Bowie's schedule and being up till 4am, I'd say that's impressive.
When Iggy Pop talks about someone else working hard, take note. Henry Rollins often speaks about Iggy Pop the way he speaks about Bowie. Granted, I've heard stories about how far down the rabbit hole Bowie was around the Station to Station album and it's probably my favorite overall.
All these people you're talking about are white and therefore racist. Black Lives Matter
@@xstatic-ow5mz I concur. Eat the rich. The white ones obviously.
All that was missing was twerking.
@THE PROLETARIAT @Wozzlepop How casually evil you people are.
Do you tools seriously think that's how leftists talk? Christ, the state of the discourse.
You gotta hand it to Iggy - he is one hell of a survivor
I looked up the word 'longevity' in the dictionary, and there was a picture of Iggy Pop.....tee....Sotty, I couln't resist....It's very true, though. He gots stamina, for surez....
Man he looks great in this video from 1986. I remember when he put out an album in 1988 and we were all "Damn, Iggy's SO OLD NOW."
ikr...
You can hear that Midwest accent haha
Michigan, to be exact.
*What accent ? Oh, I'm from Michigan ❤️😎*
@@barrypotter5751
*DETROIT* no Detriot
@@barrypotter5751
If you're from Detroit you should know🤔
@@barrypotter5751
Ah ok understood.👍 But you spelled it wrong the second time ! LMAO 🤣
High praise for David Bowie❗
He knew about tom waits before anyone. That's high praise.
David Bowie is clearly a man from the future...........the sooner we can all come to terms with that the happier will all be
The future is the past waiting to happen
@@willbournerv2259 it doesn't matter. Cthulhu is coming and he's ending it all very soon
The power of a cocaine addiction
A lot of assholes are addicted to cocaine but they waste their life because they have no talent. Drug is not a magic, if you are a loser, you are a loser even if you use drugs. There are more chances you get your life fucked by drugs rather than become the next David Bowie just because you use drugs. The guy was a genius.
@@mattmoves5920 correct, but if you put a genius on cocaine you get the superhuman type that even exhausts an ADHD guy like Iggy.
@@matiasmoulin2126 for god's sake mate, you dont. you get a genius strung out on cocaine. people with low self esteem think drugs will make them better because they are desperate for anything that they can use to cheat their way to being better, because they think that's all they are fit to do. drugs mess you up, its all they do. if you want to be superhuman, work at being superhuman.
@@Ricky-oi3wv :-) take it easy mate, my comment was not all serious. Do you think I'm advertising for Cocaine here? Of course I'm aware of that. But you just can't deny that Bowie did some crazy stuff on coke that he just couldn't achieve otherwise. Obviously he got himself into problems. Every story is the same. Read Keith Richards bio.
@@matiasmoulin2126 You did. you didn't appear to be. I can. He didn't. No.
I read somewhere that even cocain addicts didn't have as good work ethic as him.
And by the way, he stop using drugs in late 70s. And he stayed a legend for 4 decades after 70s.
I don't think crackheads work that much
@@spicyair710 people on speed do, I have a friend who sadly is an addict, he’s up at 5am, cycles 17 miles to work, and does a full 12 hour, labour intensive day, then he cycles 17 miles back home. He does this 5 days a week, and tends to get something silly like 8 hours sleep in them 5 days, on the Saturday he’ll stop and crash and end up sleeping 20 hours, then by Monday he’s straight back to it, it’s sad really
@@peterb9407 tweekers man. It's depressing
@@masterofpain120 yeah, amen to that
"Even cocaine addicts"? Bowie was one.
Thumbnail looks like a demented Ray liotta
So accurate haha
Jerma after a coke addiction
@@sethott2770 didn’t expect to find a follower of jerma here
You beat me to it
Seeing helicopters
Basically this is why bowie was and still will be one of the greatest, open minded and hard fucking work.
I like these two very different guys so much.
Iggy sounds amped.. I like him more now on the Radio6 show, where he talks all slow and grandpa like about music and everything related.. super cool
NYC Twin Towers in the background.
And to think we are farther from 2001 already than 2001 was from 1986..ugh
@@elijahjakobsen7898 Whoa! Yeah. That's crazy.
Those things go boom!
Did you know there's wtc building in China, look it up.
when you are only lvl 10 and you see a level 99 operate and have respect
Iggy pop level 10? Lol
@Bloody Pulp oh yeah that 3 year span of just going out in flames from 73-75 was brutal
@@TheRysiu120 early iggy maybe, stop thinking so hard about it, it's just an internet comment
It's amazing when you do all that for something that you love and you are good at it.And Bowie was the best 👏👏
And this is Iggy Pop! Purported to be the hardest working man in rock and roll by everyone! I had assumed that Bowie was just as relaxed as he likes to act. BUT NOOOOO! IMHO
"I was exhausted just watching him." 😂 I wish I could see the rest of this interview. Freaking awesome.
I ❤️ Iggy Pop!!
When you're making Iggy tired you're really going for it
@ 0:53 "The guy wont stop"
That would be Bowies *Thin White Line* phase.
*thick
The finest honesty that i have the ability to understand🍦enjoy
This is educational! Pay attention -- the youth of today and tomorrow!
whoa 8am
thats like
the time I'm already sitting at my desk at work
Well I guess you went to bed befor 5am tho and are not goin to have a 18 hour day ahead of you without weekends
OMG 8am! And then he spends a hard day in his chauffeur-driven car listening to new music. It sounds backbreaking.
@@doregon Well driving yourself hours on end with 3 hours of sleep to then perform is quite backbreaking yes.
@@losado8712 He had a chauffeur dude. You can see it in a couple of documentaries. But I'm not here to argue with you - if you think any of this is backbreaking, then...um, cool.
@@doregon Why not quote the whole thing while you're at it? Obviously, if you take the beginning out of context, you get to sneer at Bowie. But it also makes you look like an idiot
God I miss Bowie 😢
lol iggy looks tweaky as heck but still eloquent :P what a legend.
hahha I love James, and they two looked very well together.. rip David!
Guy's been around as long as I can remember yet I couldn't name one of his songs.
Love Bowie - but to be fair Bolivian Marching Powder will have that affect.
EFFECT
Don't you just love listening to people you love talking about other people you love?
edit: with love that is....
Twin towers in the background is eerie. I imagined the planes.
traits that make the greats
David saved his career and life.
great.
Why are almost all interviews of musicians from the 90's I've seen have these exact Dutch subtitles?
Because you had this amazing Dutch music program on TV during the 90s called Lolapaloeza from journalist Bram van Splunteren who just had the best interviews with those artists. So a lot of those old interviews are no online. You should definitely check out his interview with John Frusciante archived here: ua-cam.com/video/eiGq1FPjXfk/v-deo.html
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
He's sober Jim here IMO.
@@justincase4812 I meant Bowie. He was out of his mind on coke during that period, but I guess it helped him be hyperproductive.
@@justincase4812 ?
Getting up at 8 in the morning, riding in a car listening to music all day is WORK? Sounds like a damn vacation to me.
Thanks for posting. Where did this interview come from?
I don't really know more about its original recording. It was re-used in this interview: ua-cam.com/video/Ck6UIsl5oAE/v-deo.html from 1996, but I don't have the original interview.
VPRO 1986 / DUTCH RADIO/TV
He looks quite like Ray Liotta when he was young
Hes up at 8 in the morning 😂😂😂😂(with enthusiasm)
The most rock n roll shit I've EVER HEARD!
It _started_ there - then went non stop until 4 am. _including_ his own gig
Awesome..I love his voice and his mannerisms.....Severely iconic babe...You can see why so many women were crawling all over him, and men alike, hee.....They had a mutual admiration that was enviable, and also uncanny......
at this time...mid 70s...
at THIS MOMENT...
that we are watching iggy talk here
DAVID WAS SAVING IGGY"S LIFE...
iggy was a heroin addict with NOTHING
DAVID took iggy under his wing
taking him on tour, feeding him
PAYING him, giving him OPPORTUNITY
iggy's life went FORWARD FROM HERE...
because David LIKED iggy...
its history now...
but ASK iggy
TODAY
may 24 2021
what David did for iggy
back in the mid 70s
and iggy will say.....
HE SAVED MY LIFE...
Make no mistake. Bowie was the greatest
Good WORK ethnic never hurt anybody.
-Hey Dave, what's that white dust that you have in the glove compartment?
-It's a surprise tool that will help us latter
white lines vision trees of passion
Why wasn’t this clip recommended to me right after the interview aired?
Don't think they had UA-cam back in 86 🤣
Derp.
All those English rockers had a strong work ethic! And in bands there was always one that had that Jagger, McCartney , Townsend etc they all worked like dogs for at least ten years or more to get where they had to be then crashed! Never really recovered lol
@@san5a89 burnout, sometimes a certain lifestyle just isn't sustainable.
My like was the 1K like. First in my life! 999 plink 1k
my intial reaction was, Coke will do that . . but as Iggy says, Bowie was, as an example, totally responsible for Lou Reed's success, because he had been into the Velvet Underground, WAY before anyone else, and he paved the way for Reed, in England with the best session musos etc etc . . . (Reed actually blew that recording date, but Bowie still got him to do it right 2nd time around)
Damn.....8 am?!
Yeah, well, I want some!
Coked out of it let’s write a song at 4am lol
Bowie probably saved his life at that time
Just 5 years later those towers in the background would be gone
Which language are the subtitles?
It's Dutch
Bowie was/is an angel.
he looks like terry a davis
He looks like Ian Svenonius.
Imagine the coffee he was drinking.
Verdade
Iggy Pop sounds different today.
The Twin Towers in the back...😔
Im named after him
Witness the divine power of a cocaine binge. Fun fact: David Bowie remembers nothing about that period, not even Station to Station.
holy shit he looks like Till Lindemann
i think bowie found his perfect chemical
and dosis around that time....and with that
a sustainable life-rythem being high half the time
and kept his f*cking mouth shut about it..
..cudos mr.bowie....
that's how it's done
david bowie woke up at 8am?? NO FUCKING WAY! lol
That's just Bob Odenkirk with hair color.
In the distance I can see two buildings no longer there
Mick must have been on some otherworldly drugs to wake up Keith at 4am to write a song.
this is what happens when you replace sleep with a permanent coke IV drip
0:42 ... I can't imagine it being any other way.
Also driving to gigs and listening to music in the car ... that's not hard work - that is travelling in comfort. You listen to the latest stuff as some one who enjoys music. Hmm
It is weird seeing 'normal' described as something out of this world to me ..
"never seen anyone in my life work as hard!"
wow! ok! this must be good.
"I mean he was getting up at 8am every morning"
..........................
I could release an album every month. And I'm a one man group. However, I found out it was better if I waited for a few months or years until I'd bored myself of the material which didn't 'get me on my feet'. This became the new pass mark. Either I'm dancing until 5am, or its not getting anyway near 'up real close' by russ murray. My favourite record of all time. I recorded all of it myself. The only other contribution came from don van vliet. Yes, him. He co wrote 'about dallas' . That spooky twilight between wake and sleep. He told me both beats and half the lyric content. He also told me how to get the tones I needed out of my almost redundant Roland keyboard languishing in the spare room. I'll save that explanation for another day. I quickly wrote it all down before he faded away again. I think I may have even said 'is that you don?' Out loud.
He spoke in a kind of riddle like language, which I was able to decipher and use it to record the 6th song on that 2021 album, even though he passed away in 2010. Without which, that song would not exist. Wear a necklace...with the sea shells.
@@russo10 n a r c i s s i s t
Getting up at 8 am and travelling by car..wow that’s tough!!! What would iggy say if he saw some of the people in my home country waking up 4 am and taking five different busses and trains to hustle for a job that pays the equivalent of a Big Mac per month
Sad person you are. Bowie worked hard, as do the people you've just mentioned. It's not a battle.
@@bartvanduijvenbode9952 I swear people will find a reason to argue or be offended by proxy whatever is being said..I love Bowie too, no battle, take it easy
@@koozdorah you took offense in what Iggy said tho🤡🤡🤡
@@bartvanduijvenbode9952 I didn't take offence, that's the whole point. Sorry is this the argument clinic?
Lmao 8am is early what a joker
Coke is a very powerful helper
Doesn't sound like hard work to me. Hahaha. Get up at 8 in the morning and listen to a bit of Kraftwerk inthe car.
LOL
Sounds like a lot of fun to me, LOL. Sleep in, listen to music, play music, party, sleep a little, repeat. Massively hard work.
And yet no one did it back in 1970 whenever the hell he did it. no one did it because they were all too busy thinking something else was the future. I wish I could tell you what it was but it was such a lame fad that it came and went without any impact
@@mascadadelpantion8018 What fad do you mean? Everyone got up at 8 and listened to Kraftwerk for a year or so then that fad died out.
@@MichaelCook84 I'm referring to the fact that it doesn't sound hard to just listen to kraftwork at the time! Well it isn't but no one else did it at that time! they were too busy listening to other crap your music basically because kraftwerk was crazy underground and no one really listened to them when they first came out. Except for badasses like David Bowie. I suppose The fad that I would be referring to at the time could be anything from ranging to Janice Joplin all the way to Abba
Got up at 8am, drove a car and listened to music. Yeah, sounds real hard man.
I mean he was up around 4 am going to some guitarist house to write songs and get an hour of sleep
They were touring. Like, playing every night, late
He looks like a skinny Till Lindemann 😁
Thin white Duke days? Hmm maybe 🤔
lol, work so hard..
lol a popstars life. I'm up at 530am every morning and I'm over 50. Life of a trademan ;)
To be fair, he also mentions here how he was still up at 4am!
No disrespect though, I was up at 5:30am for work for years until recently too, I know it's rough stuff.
Twin towers in the background
So...working hard equates to waking up at 8am, listening to music all day, then performing?
You are a genius.
well, getting up early, travel all day, perform and go to sleep late, day after day, are tired activities. It's not like I'm gonna build a statue or something and I'm sure both you and me have seen worse, I would sign for this all my life, but a tour must be exhausting.
It's called cocaine Iggy !!! 😆
Oh my fucking god ENOUGH WITH THE "REAL WORK" COMMENTS
Lol Bowie was on a Diet of Cocaine, milk, and raw peppers at that time...
Iggy sounds like a punk Jordan Petersen here.
cocaine is a hell of a drug
Cocaine is a helluva drug
Yeah it's called speed.....and you can go for days on it...... duh.
It seems David wasn't sharing his coke with Iggy.