Monday, 23 January 2017

Bowie and mic-craft

I love this little known tune by the late lamented David Bowie.

It's like 'What would happen if you put Marc Bolan and Iggy Pop in a room and got Bowie to write down the result?"

But I could be wrong.

But what I really dig about this video is how Bowie use a common or garden SM58 microphone, live.

Observe, gentle reader as David Bowie sings into the microphone, moving in close, and backing away as he sings louder, in order to save the sound-mixing guy a living nightmare of playing around with the volume fader. A real craftsman at work...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsYp9q3QNaQ

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