Bowie In Brooklyn

Stu Robins is the Host this week on Morning Dew.

This week's musical topic was the "Bowie Is" exhibit that has been on display at the Brooklyn Museum for many months now. There are about 400 incredibly interesting artifacts, songs, manuscripts, album art, audio and video and countless other items of interest to talk about. Stu has joined many descriptions of these items along with the music of David Bowie to he tries to re-create the atmosphere that the curators brought to light.

Join Stu through this journey into the life and times of David Bowie from 1 to 3 AM at 99,5 FM WBAI in New York and streaming live at www.wbai.org

Here is the 24/7 Archival Podcast Player Link for those who may have missed the Live Broadcast:

http://nuarchive.wbai.org/mp3/wbai_180617_010003mdew.mp3

Today I spent an afternoon in Brooklyn surrounding the magnificent ‘DAVID BOWIE IS’ Exhibit at Brooklyn Museum. (Closing Sunday 7/15/18!) It took 2 hours to take in the mind-blowing multi-media displays of the ‘Sound & Vision’ of David Bowie’s 50 years of relentlessly re-inventing his music, fashions, dance, theatrics, gender-bending, sexually charged, way larger than life personas. There was even a 13 minute Mime segment on video that was brilliant. I got a lump in my throat when I saw the meticulously handwritten chord changes and lyrics to ‘Space Oddity’, in the context of the first ever photos of The Earth taken from Space. Then it was hard not to shed a tear watching the videos of 3 different readings of the song, both live and In-Studio. The mirrored Big Screen videos of Bowie & the late, great Mick Ronson rocking out on ‘Starman’ was another highlight!

We followed the incredible 2 hour ‘Bowie Is’ Museum Tour with a brew at ‘The Other Half’ Brewery and a little late Cajun takeout lunch from Cafe BooQoo.

Great Day!