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Tim G<p>Delighted to discover that Reeves Gabrels has been a member of The Cure since 2012. And sitting here now listening to the excellent guitar on Songs Of A Lost World.</p><p>Calling out to the <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/BowieADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BowieADay</span></a> people who enjoyed his latter collaborations with Bowie, or who made the diversion into <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/TinMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TinMachine</span></a>.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@ReevesGabrels" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ReevesGabrels</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/ReevesGabrels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReevesGabrels</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/TheCure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheCure</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/SongsOfALostWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SongsOfALostWorld</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/DavidBowie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DavidBowie</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a></p>
Roman ALAN<p>An interesting choice from the Brain DJ this morning: a song that I haven't listened to for a while –</p><p>David Bowie, "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell" (1999)</p><p>Written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels, who also played lead guitar, rhythm guitar, and synthesiser on the track.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=330xVUHu4Kc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=330xVUHu4K</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/GlamRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlamRock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/DavidBowie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DavidBowie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/ReevesGabrels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReevesGabrels</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p>Postscript: <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ReevesGabrels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReevesGabrels</span></a> was playing slide <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/guitar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guitar</span></a> in “country-pop” band <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RubberRodeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RubberRodeo</span></a> after their 1986 release produced by <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/DavidBowie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DavidBowie</span></a> collaborator Ken Scott (<a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> engineer on <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/SpaceOddity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceOddity</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheManWhoSoldTheWorld</span></a>, producer on <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/HunkyDory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HunkyDory</span></a>, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ZiggyStardust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZiggyStardust</span></a>, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AladdinSane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AladdinSane</span></a>).</p><p>So a different and less-<a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/1980s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1980s</span></a>-bombast version of <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Bowie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bowie</span></a>’s <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/NeverLetMeDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeverLetMeDown</span></a> could have happened then!</p><p>Maybe critics wouldn’t have panned it so hard; maybe he wouldn’t have reacted with five years of <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/TinMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TinMachine</span></a>. Maybe, maybe…</p>
Mark Gardner<p>In an alternate reality, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/guitarist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guitarist</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ReevesGabrels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReevesGabrels</span></a> was put in touch with <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/DavidBowie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DavidBowie</span></a> a year earlier. <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Bowie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bowie</span></a> scrapped further <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/guitar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guitar</span></a> recording sessions with <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/PeterFrampton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterFrampton</span></a>, stopped returning multi-instrumentalist <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ErdalK%C4%B1z%C4%B1l%C3%A7ay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErdalKızılçay</span></a>’s calls, and wisely chose <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/LaurieAnderson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaurieAnderson</span></a>’s spoken words over actor <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/MickeyRourke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MickeyRourke</span></a>’s attempt at rap.</p><p>The result might have been this version of 1987’s <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/NeverLetMeDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeverLetMeDown</span></a> album, posthumously re-recorded in our universe’s 2018: <a href="https://songsha.re/open/aa012c83ba3c4154ad080dea061c429117192859541483421" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">songsha.re/open/aa012c83ba3c41</span><span class="invisible">54ad080dea061c429117192859541483421</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/80sMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>80sMusic</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/1980s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1980s</span></a></p>