rubberdingyrapids
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another denied-by-david story.
i suppose that means bowie had discerning taste, but from i think bowie just wanted to work with 'cool' bands, rather than because the song was particularly special (thinking of the song he did with TVOTR).
Speaking to one time Sex Pistol Steve Jones on his radio show in LA last week, Pitchfork notes that RHCP's Anthony Kiedis revealed: "Every record we ever made, we had the band discussion: 'Who should we get to produce this record?' 'I don't know, we have to try someone new. Let's get David Bowie!'"
"So in the beginning we would call him, and he would say no, respectfully", Kiedis goes on. "Then, later, we would write long emails explaining everything, and why it was time for us to really get our ships on - and he always respectfully declined... For two minutes I was heartbroken, and then I would hear Chad Smith play drums, and I'd be like, 'We're good, we can go do something else'".
Though if Bowie was pretty keen to not work with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, his sometime collaborator Brian Eno is even keener. "[Bowie] said no to us like, two or three times, but his mate [Brian] Eno, who we've also been asking our entire career to please produce a record for us, has said no eight times. All good. You gotta ask. And by the way, 'no' is a reasonable answer. It's one of a couple of answers you could get, and it's acceptable".
i suppose that means bowie had discerning taste, but from i think bowie just wanted to work with 'cool' bands, rather than because the song was particularly special (thinking of the song he did with TVOTR).
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