{"id":98702,"date":"2020-04-25T07:30:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T11:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=98702"},"modified":"2020-05-30T09:42:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T13:42:38","slug":"a-blast-from-the-past-rarity-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=98702","title":{"rendered":"A Blast From the Past, Rarities Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not often you see a cover version of a song where the cover singer does it better than the original artist.  That\u2019s particularly true when the original artist is named \u201cDavid Bowie\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, it does happen on occasion.  I ran across the following on Youtube the other day; it just might be an example.  Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/oXo4iuSsqcE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If the backing band sounds familiar \u2013 yeah, that\u2019s Bowie (guitar, sax, and backing vocals) along with Trevor Bolder (bass) and Mick Ronson (guitars) from the Spiders from Mars plus Mike Garson (piano) backing Lulu on the tune (Ansley Dunbar played drums).  All but Dunbar recorded the original version with Bowie. <\/p>\n<p>The song was the B-side for Lulu&#8217;s version of Bowie&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TyFAnA9oPRE\"><i>The Man Who Sold the World<\/i><\/a> &#8211; which is absolutely excellent, too.  But her version of <i>The Man Who Sold the World<\/i> (which Bowie produced) and Bowie&#8217;s original are different enough in style that it&#8217;s hard to compare the two in terms of who performed better. <\/p>\n<p>_____<\/p>\n<p>FWIW:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OH6Kxkj5_qs\"><i>this version<\/i><\/a> of Lulu&#8217;s cover of &#8220;Watch that Man&#8221; doesn\u2019t seem to have quite the same sound quality as the one above.  But the photo montage that accompanies it is a fascinating bit of rock-and-roll history (though it gets a bit repetitive towards the end).  IMO it&#8217;s worth a look for that alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not often you see a cover version of a song where the cover singer does &hellip; <a title=\"A Blast From the Past, Rarities Edition\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=98702\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Blast From the Past, Rarities Edition<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100285,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98702\/revisions\/100285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}