RIP David Bowie [Archive] - Kiwi Biker forums

Stylo

11th January 2016, 19:10

A posting on the official David Bowie website said the rock star died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a "courageous 18 month battle with cancer".

Sky News and The Hollywood Reporter said Bowie's representatives confirmed the death.

A short time ago, his son, director Duncan Jones also confirmed the news in a tweet.

george formby

11th January 2016, 19:25

Damn sad.

Got the news when my phone started beeping awhile ago. Heading off to the stereo now to celebrate the sounds of a generation and ponder the fickleness of life. He seemed ageless.

Stylo

11th January 2016, 19:33

Damn sad.

Got the news when my phone started beeping awhile ago. Heading off to the stereo now to celebrate the sounds of a generation and ponder the fickleness of life. He seemed ageless.

Doing the same and RIP David B,

Golden years indeed

HenryDorsetCase

11th January 2016, 19:41

Came here to post this. A number of my heroes have died recently. Lou Reed, Lemmy, now Bowie. I have been a fan since I was 13. Christ, first album I loved was Aladdin Sane.

Cranking up the saddest song in the world, from one of the saddest albums.

By the way, I also made the trek to the record store last week (Friday 8th) to buy the new album "BLACK STAR"

Totally worthwhile. Not a rock and roll record. Produced by Visconti.

I may have to take a week off of work.

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J.A.W.

11th January 2016, 19:45

Doing the same and RIP David B,

Golden years indeed

Dies @ 69.. & was Mick Jagger there - when he popped his cork?

Will Davy Jones ( Bowie's actual name, funnily enough) get a burial at sea?

Or will he re-invent himself & go on tour with Rob Zombie?

JATZ

11th January 2016, 19:45

Sad news indeed

The first cassette(remember them ?) I ever bought was his greatest hits, 30 something years back

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Stylo

11th January 2016, 19:53

Sound and Vision ..... those were his keys to life

This is a short vid from when he started out ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRc2_-BCljQ

J.A.W.

11th January 2016, 20:04

A posting on the official David Bowie website said the rock star died peacefully today...

Ooohhh.. kinda makes my post yesterday (#5360 in the '...Listening to...' thread) seem spookily prescient..

Moi

11th January 2016, 20:05

R.I.P. David - a great showman now appearing on a great stage...

Need to find the old VHS of Labyrinth...

sidecar bob

11th January 2016, 20:05

Woodman

11th January 2016, 20:09

Yeah sad news indeed. Great talent. One of my faves.

ellipsis

11th January 2016, 20:15

RIP. Ghostly, Dark, Rainbow, Rocker...

buggerit

11th January 2016, 20:38

He created a world record with his serious moonlight concert at western springs in 1983.
http://www.bowiedownunder.com/seriousmoonlight/9.html
I was 17 & went up on my CB360 & stayed at Meadowcourt Motel in Papatoetoe with a few guys I'd gone to school with.

Was there too, great concert, wasn't it also the loudest at western springs? Apparently they could hear it on the north shore:headbang:

Virago

11th January 2016, 20:45

My wife and I had just been discussing how old he looked in his new album promo TV advert. A couple of hours later we heard the news...

A sad loss.

boman

11th January 2016, 20:55

A huge loss to music. RIP.

Motu

11th January 2016, 21:07

My favourite has always been Pin Ups...I'm retro from way back. Another album important to me is Transformer, produced by Bowie. Stuff to mark my life by....I feel something creeping up on me.

steveworth62

11th January 2016, 21:19

Very sad a massive lost to the world of music and to all them who were lucky to know him.

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11th January 2016, 21:39

Bugger. I suddenly feel really old.

When your superstar idols of your youth start dying, you realise the years are catching up on you.

I've said it many times. Being a teenager through the 1970s was a genius move on our part. To experience the best decade EVER as a teen - totally awesome dude. David Bowie was the pinnacle of the music I loved. So many songs, how do you pick a favourite.

I saw him live at QEII Park in Chch sometime in the second half of the 70s. Hard to recall the year? I was stoned for 10 years. He ended with a serious lecture against the rising National Front movement. That took most of us young Kiwis by surprise and mystified many. We were all so far removed from what was happening overseas, and really David, few teenagers ever follow the news.

Farewell and thanks for all the fantastic music you gifted us, now fond memories.

Oakie

11th January 2016, 21:49

Death of a rocker is quite often a good career move. His new album will do very well.
Good luck getting a signed copy though.

Not a huge fan but I do have a few of his songs on my playlist. "Absolute Beginners' probably my fave.

Crasherfromwayback

11th January 2016, 22:21

In my opinion, one of THE coolest cunts ever to grace a stage.

12th January 2016, 06:23

Another incredible moment I wont forget. Saw him at Westpac Stadium, maybe late 90s. It was torrential rain. A waterfall was pouring off the front roof of the stage onto the walkway he had out into the crowd.

It was a bloody cold night as well. Bowie and band were sheltering under the stage roof as best they could. Then Bowie says, if you crazy fools (or something funny like that) are prepared to stand in mud and rain to listen to me then I'm joining you. He walked through the waterfall, in light clothing and remained out in the rain for the rest of the concert. Probably caught a cold but wow, we were all so impressed- he truly loved his fans.

neels

12th January 2016, 08:08

A sad day for music.

I can still remember the first Bowie song I ever heard, listening to Starman on my Dick Smith radio one night. Since then I've acquired pretty much every album he's done on one medium or another, and managed to infect the kids as well, went looking for the Bowie vinyl to play last night and found The man who sold the world in one sons room and Ziggy Stardust in the other's.

May he rest in peace.

YellowDog

12th January 2016, 11:44

A highly inflential artist and someone I listened to a lot when I was young.

I now regret giving away my 'Laughing Gnome' origninal 45 Vinyl single.

jasonu

12th January 2016, 13:15

He created a world record with his serious moonlight concert at western springs in 1983.
http://www.bowiedownunder.com/seriousmoonlight/9.html
I was 17 & went up on my CB360 & stayed at Meadowcourt Motel in Papatoetoe with a few guys I'd gone to school with.

I went to that one too. Had a great time except I got hit in the ear with a pie some cunt threw.

HenryDorsetCase

12th January 2016, 13:17

A highly inflential artist and someone I listened to a lot when I was young.

I now regret giving away my 'Laughing Gnome' origninal 45 Vinyl single.

Yeah, they can't ALL be classics.... ;-)

I did give my vinyl of Pinups a whirl yesterday, The Man Who Sold the World (album) today.

I tell you what, Black Star is a damn good album.

carbonhed

12th January 2016, 15:23

Stunned to find out he was actually human and mortal. One of the Titans of my yoof... gone.

martybabe

12th January 2016, 16:23

Back in the seventies I worked with a guy that organised gigs for up and coming artists....

I told him how much I loved Bowie and that I had recently seen him in concert. Bowie had done about ten costume changes, danced under blue stroboscopic lights, sang songs of the future, songs of hope, songs of alien worlds and mystic people. The performance was incredible and at one point Bowie had pointed at me in the crowd, me!

It took several days for my ears to stop ringing but, it was worth every second. On that day, this awestruck teenager believed he had seen something otherworldly. Dare I say it, the man was like almost god-like to my eyes.

My colleague said that Bowie wasn't really his bag but told me of the time he had booked Bowie and his band to play some no account venue in Wolverhampton (think Hamilton).

He received a panicked call from the band stating they had broken down on the Motorway and weren't going to make the gig.

According to my workmate, Bowie turned up with minutes to go and was told that his band wasn't going to arrive. Still worse, all the amps, guitars, drums etc, were parked up on a motorway a 60 miles away and the gig would have to be cancelled.

Within minutes, Bowie had bagged an acoustic guitar and a bar stool, which he dragged on stage himself. He adjusted his mike, sat on the stool , tuned the Guitar and played and sang alone for an hour and a half.

This is anecdotal of course but I have no reason to doubt the story nor the integrity and talent of the man himself.

David Bowie, Legend. RIP and thanks Kid, you were something special.

YellowDog

12th January 2016, 16:53

nodrog

12th January 2016, 21:17

Lots of people are saying that David Bowie left behind an amazing Legacy.

That's weird...He doesn't fit the stereotype of your typical Subaru driver.

Oakie

12th January 2016, 21:23

Lots of people are saying that David Bowie left behind an amazing Legacy.

That's weird...He doesn't fit the stereotype of your typical Subaru driver.

That's an Imprezzive conclusion.

TheDemonLord

12th January 2016, 23:25

Labyrinth, with the Crotch that follows you around the screen will never be the same again.

gsxr

12th January 2016, 23:44

http://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/news/a464586/david-bowies-ex-wife-angie-i-caught-him-in-bed-with-mick-jagger/

Well done that man

He realized his penis wasnt just for pissing on electric fences

Virago

13th January 2016, 08:02

I went to that one too. Had a great time except I got hit in the ear with a pie some cunt threw.

I guess you had pie-in-ear-ing spirit, huh?

Sorry, dad joke.

jasonu

13th January 2016, 08:44

I guess you had pie-in-ear-ing spirit, huh?

Sorry, dad joke.

Must try harder...

eelracing

13th January 2016, 21:03

Well done that man

He realized his penis wasnt just for pissing on electric fences

No worries in that regard according to this coked up to the eyeballs Hollywood...

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Bikemad

13th January 2016, 21:15

was given Space Oddity for my 11th b/day and was hooked from the get go............at one point had almost every album on vinyl including his covers album pinups.....although not his song Sorrow remains one of my fave songs.....the sax and violins are just superb.....and don't get me started on Mike Garsons piano on Aladdin Sane...i look forward to hearing his last offering........

HenryDorsetCase

13th January 2016, 22:02

Rick Wakeman on BBC2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03f8qql

Clunge Bucket

18th January 2016, 09:13

Heaven gets another pooftah

Crasherfromwayback

18th January 2016, 10:48

Heaven gets another pooftah

Wouldn't mind betting his wife's a shitload hotter than yours. :bleh:

Clunge Bucket

18th January 2016, 11:42

Wouldn't mind betting his wife's a shitload hotter than yours. :bleh:

Cant argue with that even though she is a sootie

HenryDorsetCase

18th January 2016, 11:58

Cant argue with that even though she is a sootie

...............and that's how you get on my ignore list you fucking ignorant racist fuckwit.

J.A.W.

18th January 2016, 13:01

...............and that's how you get on my ignore list you fucking ignorant racist fuckwit.

Oh the humanity..

Hysterical, HDC - what is it with "ignore list" announcements?
Totally pointless, except as a supercilious remark.. since you'd already know, & no one else - gives a shit..
&, the same goes - for the angry tirade of misdirected personal abuse, in response to an accurate, if vulgar, description..

While on the hilarity, I note that Jerry Hall, prior squeeze of Mick Jagger ( one of Bowie's bi-bed mates )
has hooked up with Rupert Murdoch.. its good to see some oldies are still having a bit of fun..

Clunge Bucket

18th January 2016, 13:34

...............and that's how you get on my ignore list you fucking ignorant racist fuckwit.

Ignorant.....???.....what's that then?

Clunge Bucket

18th January 2016, 13:48

...............and that's how you get on my ignore list you fucking ignorant racist fuckwit.

What a jiggaboo loving pooftah that is

ellipsis

19th January 2016, 18:00

...Dale Griffin passed on in the last few hours...

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...David Bowie gave them this ...

J.A.W.

19th January 2016, 18:13

...Dale Griffin passed on in the last few hours... ...David Bowie gave them this ...

"Passed on" what? Aids?

By the look of the out-of-it prick, I doubt he'd "passed" on any heavy shit, even ( maybe particularly) if he was on his death bed..

Not that there's anything wrong with that.. 'cept for Hep C/liver cancer or whatnot, gained by by sharing kit with filthy junkies..

But yeah, as pretty much '1 hit wonders' - they did make a fair fist of that Bowie tune..

Swoop

21st January 2016, 17:46

Fuck.

Another rock-god dead at 66.

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2016/01/20/rock-legend-animal-dies-aged-66/

When will it all end?

Banditbandit

22nd January 2016, 09:24

What a jiggaboo loving pooftah that is

Mate .. thats how ignorant racist scum end up on many ignore lists.

Ka haere koe ki tēnei motu ka ako koe ngā tikanga.

Clunge Bucket

22nd January 2016, 09:29

Mate .. thats how ignorant racist scum end up on many ignore lists.

Ka hare koe ki tēnei motu ka ako ke ngā tikanga.

Some people got no sense of humour....

As for the second line, I do love an anagram competition....:bleh::bleh::bleh:

Banditbandit

22nd January 2016, 12:18

Some people got no sense of humour....

As for the second line, I do love an anagram competition....:bleh::bleh::bleh:

Like rape, racism is never funny ...

ellipsis

22nd January 2016, 12:34

...the wanker pommy twat only lasted a couple of posts before he hit my list...it's a handy option when cunts have nothing but shite or wank to spread...

Moi

22nd January 2016, 12:44

Eloquent...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZEHp1MUoAAIth6.jpg

Rod Emmerson - New Zealand Herald - Wednesday 20 January 2016

Clunge Bucket

22nd January 2016, 13:32

...the wnaker pommy twat only lasted a couple of posts before he hit my list...it's a handy option when cnuts have nothing but shtie or wnak to spread...

:tugger::tugger::tugger::tugger:

Clunge Bucket

22nd January 2016, 13:34

Like rape, racism is never funny ...

Agree that rape is not funny

But.....

Dwarf chucking using little pigmy geezers is a great laugh. We put false wings on them and call it Bat Flinging

:2thumbsup:2thumbsup:2thumbsup

J.A.W.

22nd January 2016, 14:04

Like rape, racism is never funny ...

That's your opinion, & maybe its your sense of humour - that's lacking?

Cinema audiences laughed at this, & it features both..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRxUbv90lLI

BuzzardNZ

22nd January 2016, 17:58

That's your opinion, & maybe its your sense of humour - that's lacking?

Cinema audiences laughed at this, & it features both..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRxUbv90lLI

and another version ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG4W0LbIvW0

OddDuck

23rd January 2016, 08:56

I'd always quite liked Bowie's turn as an English hitman in an odd little movie called Into The Night... great little flick, doesn't try to be anything more than it is. Goldblum, Pfeiffer, Bowie. Probably a bit dated now though.

J.A.W.

23rd January 2016, 20:50

Like rape, racism is never funny ...

Never say never..

Here's an `80s classic.. that plays them for a laugh..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ccpUk-H40Y

98tls

23rd January 2016, 21:31

Heaven gets another pooftah

Username should be cumbucket.No doubt your fat and very pale but only 1/2 as much as your partner.

Berries

23rd January 2016, 22:09

See, I thought Clunge Bucket was an alias for Fatt Max seeing as he lost the plot over the last few weeks bringing Facebook woes on to here and the whole proud Englander thing. But now I think it is J.A.W trying some bipolar experiment.

AllanB

23rd January 2016, 22:19

Unfortunately I think the year may be full of the 'old crowd' saying their goodbyes. 69-70 is really a bloody good innings considering the abuse their internal organs got 40 years back.........

Clunge Bucket

24th January 2016, 18:31

Berries

24th January 2016, 18:40

So you are an expert on Bipolar are you? What a fucking ignorant cunt you are
Ha ha. Comedy gold at its best.

Clunge Bucket

24th January 2016, 18:45

Ha ha. Comedy gold at its best.

Do you care to qualify that or be all abstract as usual

Berries

24th January 2016, 18:51

Do you care to qualify that
Not to you.

Clunge Bucket

24th January 2016, 18:53

Not to you.

Typical, no balls, no conviction, hide behind 'Posts' on social media......you fucking lot make me laugh, where are your guts?

Clunge Bucket

24th January 2016, 18:54

Dont even quote the whole lot

as we used to say

Youre shit and you know you are.......

Berries

24th January 2016, 18:57

Youre shit and you know you are.......
You're.

Don't thank me.

Virago

24th January 2016, 18:58

Typical, no balls, no conviction, hide behind 'Posts' on social media......you fucking lot make me laugh, where are your guts?

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j243/neko421/IronyOverload.jpg

Clunge Bucket

24th January 2016, 19:00

You're.

Don't thank me.

Either grow a pair and say what you mean or be a big fat fucking coward with no balls

Clunge Bucket

24th January 2016, 19:01

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j243/neko421/IronyOverload.jpg

More kiwi 'Trying to be clever' bullshit

Clunge Bucket

24th January 2016, 19:12

More 'incognito' red rep

Love it, so hurt and scared.....pussies...

Madness

24th January 2016, 19:16

More 'incognito' red rep

Actually the lack of a senders name against rep received is down to the sites settings. You see you're just a noob. A minor, insignificant and somewhat meaningless thing, much like phlegm.

Perhaps your time would be better spent interacting with people more like yourself?

Berries

24th January 2016, 19:17

Either grow a pair and say what you mean or be a big fat fucking coward with no balls
Jeez, I hope Hyacinth is aware of her lads foul language.

What I meant is that you are a dick, your responses in this thread alone show that.

Clunge Bucket

24th January 2016, 19:19

Actually the lack of a senders name against rep received is down to the sites settings. You see you're just a noob. A minor, insignificant and somewhat meaningless thing, much like phlegm.

Perhaps your time would be better spent interacting with people more like yourself?

Eh hello mate how you doing?

Yes Im a noob and its a great place to be

i dont think Im very popular here, oh well...

Madness

24th January 2016, 19:19

I'm not your mate.

Clunge Bucket

24th January 2016, 19:20

Jeez, I hope Hyacinth is aware of her lads foul language.

What I meant is that you are a dick, your responses in this thread alone show that.

Ok I get it now, you live in the threads.....

Cool

Clunge Bucket

24th January 2016, 19:20

I'm not your mate.

Sorry about that

Berries

24th January 2016, 19:21

Ok I get it now, you live in the threads.....

Cool
Just interesting watching you melt down at the same time as J.A.W.

Beats watching the bull riding.

Clunge Bucket

24th January 2016, 19:23

Just interesting watching you melt down at the same time as J.A.W.

Beats watching the bull riding.
Erm.....oh go on then whats that supposed to mean?

awayatc

24th January 2016, 19:44

Eh hello mate how you doing?

Yes Im a noob and its a great place to be

i dont think Im very popular here, oh well...

No you are a foulmouthed rather pathetic sounding poor substitute for a human being...
By the way, I also red repped you before on another post....
and as far as spineless and balls etc go
in real life I would be tempted to teach you how to eat through a straw...
now crawl back into your fuckin hole , insignificant wank stain

Clunge Bucket

24th January 2016, 20:41

in real life I would be tempted to teach you how to eat through a straw...

So lets get real...... oh hang on you have no balls......

puddytat

24th January 2016, 21:19

Actually the lack of a senders name against rep received is down to the sites settings. You see you're just a noob. A minor, insignificant and somewhat meaningless thing, much like phlegm.

Perhaps your time would be better spent interacting with people more like yourself?

Unfortunately they're all back in Blighty getting pissed on larger or cider moaning about the immigrants while their fat slappers get fatter....
the only good thing has been your musicians...

Madness

24th January 2016, 21:25

the only good thing has been your musicians...

That'll go straight to the Fatt Man's wee head, shirley.

Banditbandit

25th January 2016, 09:15

That's your opinion, & maybe its your sense of humour - that's lacking?

Cinema audiences laughed at this, & it features both..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRxUbv90lLI

I find it deeply disturbing that cinema audiences laughed at that ... they certainly did not when I saw that movie ... Maybe that's why I live here and not across the ditch on Oz ... it seems a deeply disturbing country ...