The only way to get that tone is by digging in hard with unbridled confidence and beating that Strat like it owes you money.
You actually hear Vaughan's fearlessness. But now, when you hear those thick strings rolling like thunder out of the 15" speaker of SRV's Vibroverb, it's hard to imagine the tracks any other way. This album also changed guitardom forever because Bowie took a chance on an obscure Texas blues guitarist to add anachronistic Albert King sting to his '80s synth-driven, pop-dance-disco tracks.Īt the time, Bowie and Stevie Ray Vaughan seemed an unlikely combination. In spite of this public bitch slapping, MTV kept Bowie in heavy rotation and Let's Dance became his biggest album. The label sent Bowie there to kiss MTV's ass, not kick it, yet by going off script, the Thin White Duke turned a vapid conversation into a civil rights lesson and an incredibly engaging bit of television. You can imagine the EMI promotion team squirming as much as dazed interviewer Mark Goodman when Bowie courageously called out the media giant.
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Por ejemplo: In a 1983 MTV interview to plug Let's Dance, Bowie ignored self-promotion and used the live TV time as a platform to confront the network for ignoring black artists.
Bowie managed to sustain the public's interest for over a half-century because he remained fearless. He had a wildly successful career in a cutthroat business for 53 years, staying relevant up until the end-a nearly impossible feat in this fickle, youth-driven industry. And when you don't feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you're just about in the right place to do something exciting."īowie is not a bad source for advice on achieving greatness. Always go a little further in the water than you feel you're capable of being in-go a little bit out of your depth. Thiago Braz da Silva's inspiring performance reminded me of something Bowie said in a 1997 interview: “If you feel safe in the area that you're working in, you're not working in the right area.
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Thiago missed early vaults and had never cleared higher than 5.93 meters in his life, but in front of 30 million people, he raised the bar to 6.03 meters, grabbed a bigger pole then he'd ever held, ran full speed down the track, and launched himself skyward to defy death and win the gold in his hometown. Second: Thiago Braz da Silva competing in the pole vault, an undeniably terrifying sport ranked among the most dangerous. Personal favorite: women's beach volleyball. Like 90 percent of you, I watched bits of the 2016 Olympics.
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