{"id":12,"date":"2011-10-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2011\/10\/ziggy-stardust-srv-an-awesome-near-miss-music-for-mondays\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T18:20:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:20:24","slug":"ziggy-stardust-srv-an-awesome-near-miss-music-for-mondays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2011\/10\/ziggy-stardust-srv-an-awesome-near-miss-music-for-mondays.html","title":{"rendered":"Ziggy Stardust + SRV = An Awesome Near Miss (Music for Mondays)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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I\u2019ve always liked David Bowie, even when I couldn\u2019t stand to look at him at times. The Ziggy Stardust look was interesting,<\/i> no? But man, Space Oddity<\/i> is great, and so is Suffragette City<\/i>, We Could Be Heroes<\/i>, Jean Genie<\/a><\/i> and lots, lots more. Bowie was looking for a new sound in the early 1980\u2019s and he stumbled upon a blues guitarist who caught his ear at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1982. Stevie Ray, needing to eat, signed on with Bowie and cut the album, though later he opted out of touring to promote it.
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The album that resulted was released in 1983 and was called Let\u2019s Dance<\/i>. When it hit the airwaves, I remember hearing Modern Love<\/i> on the radio and liking it. I didn\u2019t really get to listen to the whole album, you know, with head phones the size of Mission Control headset, until I was in Cairo in late 1984. When I did, I remember wondering, who the heck is this guitar player? He\u2019s got a great sound! <\/p>\n

So Let\u2019s Dance<\/i> was also my very first Stevie Ray Vaughn album. The first of many. How good was Stevie Ray Vaugh? Six Grammys good. What follows are some of my favorite SRV-heavy tracks from this album and a bonus track from a practice session for the Serious Moonlight Tour<\/i> that Stevie opted out of. It turned out not to have been a career killing idea. We\u2019ll go in order of each songs appearance on the album.<\/p>\n

Modern Love.\u00a0<\/b><\/i> Whoa, I thought to myself, who is this cat on guitar? And come to think of it, I think \u201cmodern love\u201d stinks too. Though I had never met it personally myself, I preferred the idea of \u201cold fashioned\u201d love. So I liked this tune from the very beginning.<\/p>\n