Drummer reacts to "Watch That Man" & "Aladdin Sane" by David Bowie

Well, that was certainly unexpected... my god. Is this the best Bowie song?? I don't know... but it's certainly close.... that was SO good. Unfairly good lol.
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[@brigidsingleton1596]

As a 71 year old English woman who is cared for by my youngest (30yo) daughter, no access to my pension money, my daughter does all that for me and I have no bank account so sorry but I cannot support you financially but I do appreactiate your music reactions and wisdom throughout. I feel your daughter's, having you as their Dad, will help improve our world for themselves, for you and their Mum (Mom?) and their own futures, because of your attitude, which is a refreshing thing to behold in today's world. You're a kind, thoughtful, genuine person. Thank-you for sharing your David Bowie (etc) reactions and sensible views on our lives with us. Stay safe. Stay happy. Stay kind. 🖖

[@robertjewell9727]

That's definitely Garson on that lengthy piano chaos cascade. David just told him to go for it and improvised the whole thing. He was with Bowie for decades after this.

[@L33Reacts]

@@robertjewell9727 I see why he stuck with him. He is absolutely incredible

[@richardfairlamb9728]

Great reaction. Bowie’s run of albums from Hunky Dory to Scary Monsters is untouchable. Trust me, these albums will blow your mind.

[@P.Galore]

The Aladdin Sane title track features what may be the most incredible piano solo in all of rock music, by Michael Garson. Listen as it leaves the song like a soul leaving the body, takes flight, observes from above and around then gently returns to the song and becomes one with it again. It is absolutely spectacular and amazingly beautiful in its free-form.

[@brewstergallery]

Yes Yes YYYYEEEEESSSSSSS ! Mike Garson is a MONSTER ! Have you ever seen the documentary about him ? He is truly a musician of genius and an amazing human being. One of the few who Bowie kept in the band for decades.

[@damonhines8187]

Abso-f**king-lutely!! My favourite piano in rock music too! Garson goes gaga. 🫠🤙🏼🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊

[@pleasantvalleypickerca7681]

Mike Garson played the piano on "Aladdin Sane". He has a channel on youtube. I once commented on one of his videos about how much I loved "Aladdin Sane" and his piano playing and he actually replied and thanked me for appreciating his work! When someone as talented and legendary as Mike Garson takes the time to respond to a fans comment that tells me he's a classy guy that appeciates his audience.

[@TheCornishCockney]

The mad piano is supposed to denote insanity,and it achieves that. Bowie……Rock God.

[@robinstarkey6071]

Annd, suddenly I'm 17 again, and my parents are screaming to 'turn it downnn'!!!!

[@hosehead58]

I and my best buddy driving around the block again and again in his dad`s Ford pick-up, this one blasting out, over and over

[@hosehead58]

also at 17

[@hosehead58]

I would play the piano on the dashboard

[@emilymartinez6961]

The more you listen to Bowie, the more you're going to realize he's a musical genius.....❤Bowie ✌️🎶

[@ajaxfernsby4078]

Now you’re infected. However, the infection is the cure. That’s all, but…….beware The Diamond Dogs.

[@MarkCox21125150]

yep - will blow his mind

[@mattleppard1964]

To expand one of the comments, Bowie’s half-brother, Terry Jones, was schizophrenic, hence “A Lad Insane” (Aladdin Sane). Bowie always feared he had it, too, and it would eventually claim sanity. Terry killed himself by jumping in front of a train in 1985. For me, it’s an outstanding track; trippy, jazzy, brilliant, tinged with an emotinal ache 😊❤

[@suz5862]

Aladdin Sane is referencing not Terry but the generations of young men sent off to fight futile wars.

[@mattleppard1964]

@@suz5862 Just checked - you’re right! I stand corrected 👍

[@suz5862]

Please don’t stand corrected. I was just around at the time of the release and remember the contemporaneous commentary which accompanied it. Unfortunately most of that does not show up in a google search 😊

[@mattleppard1964]

@@suz5862 I’m an ex-journalist and think myself a music expert. To be so fundamentally wrong for so long is a sackable offence 😂

[@jonfazzone5125]

Bowie & Ronson Woody & Trevor Perfect Together

[@joeyblowey123456]

Aladdin Sane is such a great , and criminally overlooked album. Solid from start to finish.

[@MTB-Idle]

I will be forever grateful to my mate Steve and his sister Vanessa who came to my party and bought me this album on vinyl plus Pin-Ups for my 18th birthday in 1982. Have enjoyed all the tracks ever since.

[@Johanson0543]

Your mate’s sister got a great taste in music!

[@IlanaEdits]

Mike Garson is one of the best piano players in the world. This was all one take. He was the longest collaborator and band member with Bowie. They were a match made in heaven ☺

[@davidfisher8821]

Aladdin Sane is my favorite song of all time, pure genius. You are gonna love this album!

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

A great run of albums

[@heartoftherose]

Such a wonderful, underappreciated album. Thanks for moving forward with my favorite Bowie. Don't skip Hunky Dory. Even though it's earlier, it's still a magical trio of albums, and usually Bowie changes his style and collaborators more quickly.

[@HareDeLune]

To make things a little more insane, the piano is placed up front and center in the mix, where vocals would usually go. Bowie's voice, meanwhile, occupies the place where rhythm guitar would usually go, and the hypnotic, repetitive rhythm section is placed all the way in the back.

[@lemming9984]

The piano at 9:30 - I can just imagine Les Dawson hammering away!

[@John-et9yl]

Or Eric Morecambe - playing all of the right notes.... but not necessarily in the right order.

[@lupodelupis3672]

The good old times of glam rock, and well, Bowie was one the best (with Marc Bolan's T.Rex, Sweet, Roxy Music, Slade, Mott The Hopple, Sparks and New York Dolls) exponents.

[@markferrett700]

You'd have to be insane not to love this!!!!

[@HT-io1eg]

The genius just keeps coming. One of a kind artist. Exceptional

[@markwade2530]

Arguably, my favourite piano solo(s) ever in that track.

[@bobwoolerOriGinal]

Great album. His next, which is even better IMO (a superb mash of post-glam, proto-punk, soul, art rock and funk) is the post apocalyptic, 1984-themed Diamond Dogs, were Ziggy has morphed into the Halloween Jack persona👍

[@DrStrangelove3891]

That piano... so friggin' good

[@saturninebear]

My 2nd favourite DB album after S2S. Phenomenal.

[@stevedotwood]

I bought this album just for the title track. That piano is insane!

[@lathedauphinot6820]

Bowie loved the Velvet Underground, and “Aladdin Sane” could nearly be the V.U.’s “The Gift” from ‘White Light/ White Heat’, with the very similar backing track coming out of one speaker and on “The Gift” John Cale, the Velvets’ avant-garde professional piano player, telling a story out of the other channel.

[@radicaladz]

Great opener, one of my favourite Bowie tracks, and a highly overlooked one for reactions, it seems. Will be sure to check out more of your reactions.

[@dalemcmillan7231]

Loved this album! My favourite Bowie album. A bunch of great memories for me ❤

[@shemanic1]

Always great to see you reacting to some Live Bowie.

[@uma.n2680]

The piano in Aladdin Sane always felt to me, like those 20s German expressionist films, it's eerie and give a sense of foreboding.

[@L33Reacts]

I can agree with that it’s very disconcerting and intense. Still my favorite moment on the album (so far)

[@gregbacon9808]

Remember to play “ Panic in Detroit” great song to Blast over your Best Speakers!🎸🎼

[@april6058]

Amazing Album- Bowie is a legend!!❤

[@ElCentralScrutinizer]

Great album pick. One of my favorites. Team is throwing you stuff that I really like and would recommend for you myself. I could ask for one a month (Patron Member) but the team is doing great. Just like supporting the channel.

[@wpollock1]

LOVE this album! The personnel on this album (Ronson, Garson) then, David on sax is so strong! Bowie called this album "Ziggy goes to America". A Lad Insane is such a great song. It is a precursor to Diamond Dogs......Future Legend and Halloween Jack (another Bowie character) in the dystopian future. Love to see a reactor appreciate that track....I have loved it since 1973.

[@digrock7065]

Love your instincts towards music. Clearly have a great ear for music. Welcome to the Bowie journey- some really good shit on the way. Keep it going - love your reaction ⚡️⚡️

[@edwardmeradith2419]

With the exception of the opening & closing of Ziggy Stardust - I always preferred this album.

[@CharlyDS]

I only *really* discovered Bowie recently by digging into his classic discography, this album blew me away but to be honest all of them are fantastic. Now, I'd go for Station to Station, the song. But there are so many to mention..

[@corawheeler9355]

The first song was the expected Bowie ... the second song, I don't know where it came from, but it was amazing.

[@brewstergallery]

Ned from Spain here for the Bowie classix Lee. Watch That Man is supposedly about New York Dolls frontman David Johansen and the song is very much in the Dolls basic woozy Chuck Berry R n R style. The band on this and Cracked Actor are seriously swaggering without a care in the world. Then they play with elegance and control in Aladin Sane with the incredible Mike Garson's solo mixing in Latin Salsa, George Gershwin, free jazz, avant garde classical...and Mike did it alone in ONE TAKE. If you have the time look for the documentary about Mike it's a mind blower.

[@russellmarriott9396]

Rag time is exactly right. That’s what Bowie asked Garson to play.

[@RayEvans-j1q]

Watch that man! After this album, his music was about to transition, again!

[@EricHazzard-s7s]

Great Reaction Lee spot on with the insane piano comment courtesy of Mike Garson - Just awesome- the rest of Aladdin Sane is pure genius - when Aladdin is. Complete - I would love to hear your reaction to Bowie Pin ups Album - covers of ‘60’s music that influenced David during his creative evolution - Some real Bangers in there - I love Bowie Pin Ups his covers are just majestic & madrigal!!!!

[@grahamheffer6535]

That Album cover ⚡️

[@thunderspike1892]

Mike Garson are phenomenal. He did something similar on Dead Man Walking from the 1997 album Earthling. Did you hear Bowie using a quotation from On Broadway at the end. In later live versions he used that and All Day And All Of The Night (Kinks) when doing a duet with his then bass player Gail Ann Dorsey.

[@ultang]

Not as consistent an album as Ziggy but in places it goes weirder and deeper and I love it for that

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

Another universe revisited

[@janewells5970]

A Lad Insane! Brilliant 🎉❤

[@88pjtink]

I swear, when you grow up with this and Sgt Peppers being among your first albums you own- well. It can kind of spoil you for music forever. It doesn't get much better. There is a GREAT mini-bio on youtube about that pianist, and his fascinating meeting and playing/recording/touring with Bowie. He initially had no appreciation for rock music, was a jazz pianist, and found himself in a very unlikely place because David convinced him it would be right. This has always been my favorite Bowie album. It has a old-school soundin,g almost 50's rock n roll sound from heaven.

[@88pjtink]

That special on youtube is called, "ALADDINSANE, AND THE PIANO SOLO HEARD AROUND THE WORLD", by the way.....

[@L33Reacts]

Y’all were definitely spoiled lol all I had was gangster rap and emo music growing up.

[@L33Reacts]

I will check that out! Thank you for the suggestion and for watching 😎

[@88pjtink]

@@L33Reacts We certainly were spoiled. This is not my account. I was born in '64. Perfect timing for Zep, The Stones, Pink Floyd, Heart, etc...

[@realbser1956]

Aladdin Sane was phenomenal.

[@EvanWeber1234]

Greatness

[@lindaulloa4786]

One of my favorite albums of his. All songs are great but I especially love Aladdin Sane, Panic in Detroit and Time! I was going to request both songs but since he is doing the whole album there's no point.

[@GP-mw8ce]

Drive in Saturday next continues the journey

[@janewells5970]

Garrison is amazing pianist. Aladdin sane song says to me is he was ready to explore more bizarre. That led him to Eno

[@SteveHolst]

A Lad Insane

[@mikkomfi8643]

Next one is also really great, "Drive-In-Saturday".

[@SnoopySnoops1]

Bowie

[@vegdagol2843]

In some ways a better album than Ziggy, very energetic. The concept is the tour through America and each song is associated with a city/place Watch That Man (NY), Aladdin Sane (, RHMS Ellinis, the boat to London)

[@T23000PLUS]

A Lad Insane (Aladdin Sane)

[@lmb3962]

A LAD INSANE

[@ohfour-seven6228]

Great album, but Panic in Detroit and Lady Grinning Soul are waiting for you!!!

[@hoppers13]

My piano hates me for my pathetic attempt at this solo. I can just about manage Rick Wakeman’s “Life on Mars” but this is just too fucking much.

[@Ghengiskhansmum]

"Panic in Detroit" with Mick Ronson on guitar is quite a good track. There's a good version on the "b" side of a single but cant remember which single it was.

[@rghilino6734]

Oh you need to get to Cracked Actor. The lead in of Panic in Detroit is amazing too.

[@johncollier9280]

I ne'r noticed it until this listen but the track Aladdin Sane is rather Zappaesque...

[@RayEvans-j1q]

Check out Panic in Detroit!

[@suz5862]

The segment of the title (1913-1938-197?) alludes to WWIII, with Bowie believing that a third world war was imminent. Four months before the song’s release, Nixon had initiated a massive “carpet bombing” campaign in Northern Vietnam that became known as the Christmas bombing. It lasted for 11 days with more than 20,000 tons of explosives being dropped. It is not the first time Bowie wrote about a song about insanity of war. Check out Running Gun Blues from Man Who Sold the World.

[@iancitizen6489]

What that Man meh, but as already mentioned, many great sounds here. Drive in Saturday and my fav Panic in Detroit.

[@Pcrimson1]

Alladin Sane, both song and album, are top favorites of mine, as with Statio to Station. Not sure if you hit Diamond Dogs, again awesome title track and album. Now when will you hit Be Bop Deluxe? This is a vastly ignored tragety. Alex, of Alex and Lexy just did them, and Shawn did too. Trust me, people who know them will appreciate it. Those who don't know them will wonder "Why?". Crying to the Sky and Sleep that Burns gives you a sample of what they are, kinda Bowie meets Hendrix....trust me...

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

11:07 11:07 11:09 11:10 11:10 11:10

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

What in this do you see as remarkable?

[@brianwalsh3091]

A Lad Insane……….

[@thescrewfly]

Not trying to be a contrarian, but I found this album really disappointing when it came out. I thought the songwriting was a bit weak and I still think there are fewer standout tracks than the previous three albums. But what do I know - I always preferred Hunky Dory to Ziggy Stardust.

[@mattleppard1964]

A far better album than Ziggy for me. Everyone raves about Ziggy, but I find it uninspiring and inconsistent.

[@davidthom7127]

Piano might be Rick Wakeman?

[@donwest5387]

hate to be critical, but poor mix

[@eximusic]

Aladdin Sane - best piano solo in rock ever. Not as good as Thelonious Monk or Cecil Taylor though.