Punk, Bowie & Bikes… in the Vanity Crash Pad

 

PHOTO by Anastasia Pantsios

SUN 7/12 7PM

Feeling low? So was David Bowie in 1977 when he abandoned a cocaine-fueled superstar lifestyle in Los Angeles to convalesce with Iggy Pop in Berlin, quit drugs and revolutionize music by producing Iggy’s The Idiot and Lust for Life, and releasing his own groundbreaking masterpiece, Low. This week, Vanity Crash performs the Low deep cut, Breaking Glass in the Vanity Crash Pad this Sunday at 7PM, a fragment of a track that could be viewed as an exorcism of Bowie’s near-death experience in L.A.

QUESTION of the Week: What is your favorite two-wheeled passion? Tell us about yours, and we’ll tell you ours, right here in the Crash Pad this week. You must acquire a FREE ticket and join on Zoom to tell us about your bike, cycle, or other 2-wheeled obsession.

The Birth of Punk: Cleveland, Akron & Kent Had A Baby. We have fingers crossed for our next set of gigs in October, 2020 at BOP STOP, Jilly’s Music Room and CLE Urban Winery for a premiere of our next show, The Birth of Punk. This week in the Crash Pad, we’ll preview a chapter exclusively for our guests.

Every other Sunday at 7PM Eastern, join the band live on Zoom in the Vanity Crash Pad, chat with them in the comments, and learn a little about the band’s unique originals and some of the definitive cover versions they perform. Grab your free pass hereEpisode 8 this Sun 7/12 at 7PM features Vanity Crash smashing through the Bowie deep cut, Breaking Glass.

Most listeners pick up on the Kraftwerk influences in David Bowie’s Berlin era (esp. Low & “Heroes”), but miss the forest for the trees: the American rhythm section of Carlos Alomar (who toured with James Brown and was a former member of the house band at The Apollo), bassist George Murray and drummer Dennis Davis, of which Bowie remarked in 1999: “Kraftwerk supported that unyielding machinelike beat with all synthetic sound-generating sources. We used an R&B band.”

Nowhere is that funky R&B band more apparent than in the embryonic track Breaking Glass, with composer credits going to Bowie, Murray & Davis. The funk roars: “Low makes Ziggy Stardust sound like it was recorded on paper drums,” according to Bowie biographer Chris O’Leary.

In the meantime, enjoy the premiere of Vanity Crash performing the rarity Breaking Glass. Zoom with us and crank it up.

Reserve your free pass here.

 

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