Drummer reacts to "Five Years" (Live) by David Bowie

Thank you to me for this wonderful pick. Wow. We are listening to the rest of Ziggy Stardust starting next week (barring requests) and that is that. This was so... disconcerting at points... but had 50s vibes. It almost had another song trying to bust out of the one they were playing. So weird! Love it though. Bowie rocks so hard.
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[@timmclaughlin537]

You will be hard pressed to find a finer album. Ever.

[@heartoftherose]

After the news announcement that only "Five Years" remain, Ziggy Stardust arrives to save the Earth - with "Soul Love," "Moonage Daydream," and much, much more... play it, Lee!

[@L33Reacts]

Next week! It's coming:) I'll do the studio from here on out though. More then likely.

[@onlymeian58]

Just an incredibly breathtaking performance. Seeing this on TV blew the minds of a generation. You really need to check out the performance of "Starman" live on Top Of The Pops. Tame by today's standards, but at the time it shocked the nation. The man is a legend. Mick Ronson too. 💖🎸⚡ Peace 😎🤘

[@L33Reacts]

He really is iconic as hell.... Definitely one of the greatest artists of our time. I wish I could have sat down with a spot of tea and pick his brain.

[@redadamearth]

I would have recommended hearing the studio album version of "Five Years" on "Ziggy Stardust", first, but that's definitely a cool performance of it. The album version is bigger.

[@scotstevens5263]

Great album, entire play.

[@davidfisher8821]

Ziggy is a must! While I think Aladdin Sane is s better album, both are at the heart of Bowie’s most famous era. You’re gonna love them!

[@bridgittetirman2645]

Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide should be your next track off Ziggy Stardust. I want it to be the last thing I hear.

[@vegdagol2843]

The live version you watched of “Width of a Circle” was from the last concert Bowie did as Ziggy Stardust but the song itself was from an earlier album “The Man Who Sold the World”, 1970.

[@DrStrangelove3891]

One of my favorite Bowie songs. The crescendo is better on the album version though.

[@lindaulloa4786]

Ziggy Stardust is a great album! Worth a listen.

[@markwade2530]

Work your way through the Ziggy album. You will not be disappointed Lee.

[@dougieyou]

An absolute masterpiece of an album...ever song is a banger...you need to do the entire album...it's a must. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Joshualuv13]

This song has my favourite line from any song ever ..Think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour, drinking milkshakes cold and long.. Smilingly just and waving and looking so fine .Don't think you knew you were in this song . Brilliant Album.

[@rayname908]

Everything on Ziggy Stardust is great

[@MrDiddyDee]

At 74 Woody Woodmansey is the last surviving member of The Spiders from Mars. The band were very down to earth Yorkshire lads, invited by Bowie to move to London and be his backing band. They initially weren't happy about the glam image, but once they saw how much attention Bowie got from female fans they'd be fighting over using the eyeliner. The whole band contributed a lot to those early songs, but got no writing credit, Bowie was to be notorious for using, and then suddenly dropping his collaborators and moving on to a new crowd. Woody, like his bandmates, knew nothing of the plans to finish off Ziggy, until Bowie announced it on stage on the last date of a tour. Woody continued a career in music and has since worked with both Art Garfunkel, and Sir Paul McCartney.

[@carrerlluna66]

Ned from Spain here. That is the only time I've ever felt disappointed in Bowie. Without them he never would've made it. Woody, Trevor and Mick lived on almost nothing, terrible salaries and worked their asses off and got the shaft for their efforts. Ever hear the story of when Woody found out how much keys man Mike Garson was getting paid ? Supposedly Tony De Fries was part of the problem, no one mattered but Bowie.

[@L33Reacts]

Damn that is fucking rough. Ruthless business with managers and money involved. If you let creative people be creative people and let business people be business people I think the whole thing works a lot smoother. But people think they can do both (and some can) and it ruins everything.

[@rghilino6734]

Mike Garson is still around and performing. Though I don't know if he was technically a Spider.

[@carrerlluna66]

@@rghilino6734 Apparently Mike was unaware of the Spider's situation.I love Mike Garson as a person and he's one of the most incredible musicians in whatever genre. There is a great documentary about him on Amplified.

[@stevedotwood]

Fucking great album

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

Ah. The Old Grey Whistle Test !!! It was our life line to so much good music. All played live. It broke so many act from both sides of the pond to prominence. Happy days

[@ThatSteven20]

Glad you will explore the rest of the album

[@L33Reacts]

Yup next week we will do the next couple tracks. Can't wait to see where this goes.

[@MAZE4]

David Bowie was the best musician in the my lifetime.

[@smithpm81]

as i recall he did three tracks that episode

[@tinypurplefishesrunlaughin8052]

There is also:” Is there life on Mars “. Official video shows his unusual eyes one blue one green one dilated one not.

[@spectorcollector]

By the time this album came out, I already had Bowie's then-previous four albums and was convinced that he was some kind of prophet-poet-genius, so when he told us we had Five Years, I believed it-really believed it-with all my heart. Thanks for your ongoing Bowie series; watching your reactions, I see so much of myself listening to all those records when they were new.

[@bendancar]

Ziggy Stardust is a concept album, with a story arc. This being the first track, Five Years sets up the premise of the story. It's a fantastic album worth a whole listen. Keep going !

[@mana3735]

Based on a dream he had.

[@lemming9984]

You MUST have heard Starman!

[@mftoms59]

I feel a heavy dose of his Folk Roots in this song, been a fan of Bowie since 73 this song still gives me goose bumps.

[@user-li7bo4bf6z]

Still in love with Ziggy❤️😔

[@mickjones5381]

I watched this the night it aired. Home from the pub, Whistle test on. There's some great performances on there.

[@garyd6421]

Good choice Bowie live what a tune

[@juanjoseclavijorojas9775]

YESSS THE WHOLE ALBUM

[@djanga166]

Thank you. The best beginning of an album and with rock'n'roll suicide also the best end. I love Wednesday Bowie.

[@thescrewfly]

He's called Woody because there were two Micks in The Spiders From Mars. Guitarist Mick Ronson was on the piano for this song. An underrated guitarist, as you will no doubt soon discover.

[@loisr1560]

I saw Bowie 20 years ago on his last tour of Australia. He was awesome.

[@ste.6026]

Never been the biggest Bowie fan but his talent is undeniable, 'Five Years' is a Bowie favourite and this is a superb performance... I recommend 'Queen Bitch' from the same session, it's another Bowie fave of mine...

[@jimholt1888]

Lee, dude, you must listen to this album, start to finish...it's fucking mind-blowing!

[@user-yv1nr6qm6f]

That was Bowie doing what he most liked to do, which was taking us down a route we didn't know we wanted to go down. He liked to make us feel a little bit uneasy, taking us outside our comfort zone. With the Ziggy songs he decided to make it sound raw, like something scraped up off dirty city streets, not polished and perfect sounding. From a musical perspective this was a glimpse of punk three years before punk erupted in the UK. Mostly the album was about a rock performer going mad on drugs and an out-of-control ego trip. But this particular song is about an imaginary unspecified threat to human existence, and the breakdown in society that it causes. Don't fall into the trap of trying to work out exactly what everything means, because Bowie deliberately left gaps for you to fill with your own imagination.

[@nixonradio]

This is the opening song on Ziggy Stardust; its closing counterpart "Rock n Roll Suicide" kind of goes with it, and has probably saved countless lives. The whole album is special but these two are my favourite songs on it.

[@markwade2530]

What an album! ⭐️

[@juanjoseclavijorojas9775]

YES, REACT TO THE WHOLE ALBUM PLEASE

[@ajaxfernsby4078]

Yes, you would love the whole album beginning to end, then on to Aladdin Sane 1973. You won’t get to that right away but keep it in your back pocket for later.

[@chrisguevara]

An amazing opening track to a classic album.

[@smithpm81]

bowie is outstanding, and this LP is his best

[@Asymmatrix]

It's one of his best and the live version is excellent.

[@robinreiley1828]

We were so close to it all ending in 1972. Our Generals were seriously talking about only loosing 40 million civilians in America if we launched first. By Christmas, we had launched Operation Linebacker II ,on North Vietnam, leveling Everything Above Ground. Just before midnight on December 31st, 1972, China threatened a Nuclear Launch is f we did not stop bombing....I worked Bowie's last performance of the song "Siggy Stardust" at Giant's Stadium around 1990. Met David working an MTV Commercial recording that morning. A True British Gentleman..

[@theeloquentbaby]

Thank you for sharing so many songs! This unusually intense and serious performance by a young David Bowie was very interesting. Thank you, Lee.

[@3CatAlfie]

I recently go 'into' early Bowie as I was a bit too young to appreciate him in '72 this passed me by. However since discovering this video and 'Oh you Pretty things' from the same OGWT session I have to watch them on a weekly basis. Fabulous stuff. And as someone has already mentioned his performance of 'Starman' on Top of The Pops is iconic.

[@mrbumble2986]

Understandable I guess that you begin your Bowie reactions odyssey with Ziggy Stardust as it is probably the album he is best known for but I hope at some point you revisit his earlier masterpieces , A Space Oddity, The Man Who Sold The World and my own personal favourite Hunky Dory. Each of them contain some real gems which I'm certain you'll enjoy. Loving the reactions, great to see someone of your tender years appreciating the stuff a lot of us grew up with.

[@richardjacobs7632]

Drummer was rock solid, great album and song! Thanks

[@grahamheffer6535]

You’re in for a treat⚡️

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

Only band not to play live on TOGWT was the New York Dolls.

[@jamesadkisson7510]

If you like this the album version has a beautiful string arrangement at the end plus Mick Ronson doing bombs dropping guitar. Plus supposedly during Bowie recording the vocals he was crying at the end. And that’s the take on the album.

[@shelleys9603]

Bowie was probably afraid to blow out the mic here. He's always been a great actor, and in the studio version (which is also a must listen), he had the engineer stop halfway through and turn the levels down so he could really scream and cry during the repeats at the end. It's stunning to listen to.

[@dalemcmillan7231]

❤❤❤

[@marcjacobscontinued9411]

That "So many people" at 3:27 always gets me. The way he sings that, also in the studio version, is so...... so..... IDK sad? IDK

[@stevegreen5552]

Nice to see the great Mick Ronson demonstrate his non-guitar musicianship. Trevor Bolder's bass rarely gets the credit it deserves, though.

[@wpollock1]

The album version has a soaring guitar from Mick Ronson who is playing piano in this video. Fantastic song and album. I agree with the other comment that Aladdin Sane or Diamond Dogs or Station to Station are better than Ziggy, but it is a great place to start.

[@nikosalmpanis-ty3jt]

I like so much this song🤘

[@maryelizabethreynoldsprice2135]

David Bowie no one finer,

[@betseyr.9081]

For these songs you should do the album version before the live, just to get the full effect and power of the songs, this is good but not as dramatic as the record.

[@attilio7]

👍

[@marketingTUNEUP]

So good even with out mick ronsons lead guitar backing.

[@briangray00]

Doesn't age this song. I've played it a lot again since 2020. End of days.

[@smithpm81]

the old grey whistle test was the show all the cool bands played on... it got its name because it wasnt old, it was colourful, more that just whistle (all instruments) and it was not a test

[@jr13227]

Such an awesome band. What a shame that Bowie dropped them on a whim without warning especially when they contributed so much to his early success. I love Bowie, but that was always disappointing to me.

[@bobwoolerOriGinal]

The album version is far superior to this "weak" effort.

[@mattleppard1964]

Hate to break from the consensus, but a pretty meh album for me. I much prefer work he did both before and after. This is overrated IMHO 😊

[@grahamheffer6535]

You’re in for a treat⚡️