Bowie in the Studio and ZDTV Interview 1999.

hello David oh yeah pleased to meet you this is good to see you have a seat sir and yours yours EDT video CD TV it's my new Sienna yeah actually I read the quote understand yes so sadly wasn't sure favorite channels yeah huh keep it on Oh David I was a most impressed when I read there this is a joker is you really a plan on the station so you do watch yeah it doesn't mean that I listen haha okay but no I like it on in the background because there's always something every half-hour grabs my attention now you can get the station of the muder of course peak yeah I didn't New York I know that and I do work that all that will change [ __ ] Clinton I have a white David hello our Yong Chun ribs break your [ __ ] hi rich hey Daniel it is - hi Daniel we're all the whole royal health family here sobbing Gianna yeah unless you know I'm sitting you're still role which you can grab and don't worry about audio that much we have to do lighting okay David I used to work for you at in time really oh yes you be here so I'm so sorry absolutely dianna actually rigged up the interview and then she came and joined us so she's nicer working both ends yeah that's great we met there the chaps from ultra star above and round the other day we chatted to them about your whole project and what they're doing amazing can i smoke at the air shop do I just forget in this country in our cities I know how it's a good one it's different yeah I'm right my story impossible is time what's that restaurants for well in California especially no yes really really I'm so easy it distort my back light penis I'm just scare you can't smell it strong you a downtown in any building so that's wrong Sam you can't out it in the prayer me anymore I understand alright you're standing within 20 foot of a captain and on that one buddy said on your way back that's a wind up driver in the abbey me on there won't be that level you have ever me only wait on those with me yeah sounds about yeah John I yeah we're almost this night about back to the team is here like no no no that's not I started work we've give us a board we are general to them on their Saturday night just know yeah email on the area members what else write that up Motley Crue yeah brilliant bunch of creative they're quite fun yeah they are and it's a great sense of humor there yeah well then amazing thing about it was a none of it I'm an awful drafted only through the chat room then yeah no serious letdowns there yeah ah computer really though where we have one yokai I'm saying nothing but now that was a great thing about it on the network was this is that all the other night the so-called ball yeah on Saturday I like the tree no no no this right axis represent away as well I'm sorry they want to shut it was gonna happen then use yeah something was made together have it gets not announced that okay we've got a real treat for you okay they thought maybe you're gonna walk in the door or something and there's your number tracks yeah so we actually filmed Ross that reacting this piece we just record though the sound player called but we got facial expressions of people reacting the tracks they're really impulsive right we're a snow fell I thought they felt very special that you yeah I wanna let you know something you know cuz I I couldn't make it Oh II we are we ready to roll yeah I can feel a noise from over here it's from Rolling Stone this is slow funk it's a headphones I think a grass is truly fantastic they get great idea oh I know some funky artists all right yeah you should market now you know it's really great repeated it in slightly idea that's a very good idea David's hello hello thank you so much for sitting down with as EDTV very excited tonight it's going to be a quite something and you're a friend of the station you apparently watch yeah I watch it a well in Bermuda I can watch it very easily because things are things work very well in fove you can't watch in New York right but it's sort of it goes it's so it's on par with CNN my household I'm so happy to hear that but you did say a minute ago you watch ZD TV but don't necessarily listen good Lord no no thanks well we I catch something about every 15 to 30 there's something that kind of takes my ear and I switch back in but it's good for painting with really because it was this this kind of this this low-level creativity that comes in the speaker's all the time and it kind of boys you up and motivates you on well well ZD Z V is motivating lovely with this enough glad you're a fan now more about you tell me firstly when your relationship yeah the internet began um well the present very poly one you know the old rather hostile yes just our one the initial one um I think probably I thought that I would never get past programs on the computer and just sort of stay with the things why Photoshop and imagine all that and just do sort of translate my paintings my drawings into desktop ready work that I could then sort of manipulate and move around and all that and the idea just going I didn't see it as being much more than a kind of a kind of a potential shopping mall really and then I had a couple of friends my son got me into the computer I have to go backwards he was a sort of a computer he used to use it for just research and he used to these quiet games freak when he was younger and so he kind of got me into the idea of at least programs and that would have been about 93 something rather and then I had a couple of pals that are actually online one of them was a member of the well right okay back in the early days as you back yeah yeah and glued me into how cool that was because though the ideas going backwards and forwards on the world which is fantastic I thought what a great forum for debate um that's really exciting I wonder how this is gonna grow I didn't think much more of it I thought well I'm not really gonna have anything to do this because I don't anything about it I'm not very technical and what could I possibly add to it now is your son now impressed about the fact that you're a wizard I'm no whiz oh haha you're almost there um I freeze and crash along with the best of them all the time continually I always blame everything else but me uh ice up mine every like crazy and I'm always down lonely too many programs at once and suddenly it's the Ice Age on screen nothing moves and I help dad used to keep your desktop you got a don't don't don't start playing your desktop huh now talk me through a typical day it used to be you know put your shoes away now it's clean your desktop up nothing's changed what do you mean this is progress I love it talk me through a typical day it's nothing progressive about this toward through a typical design bozo mo way through a typical day in the life of mr. David Bowie and the role that computers and the internet play oh nice get up yeah I'm sorry I hunt through your legs that way oh yeah choreographed thank you staged no no is that okay yeah legs are great um my legs let me see well I get up unhealthy time about five or six and morning we both do my wife or not the first thing I do is from all my emails I'll get them all out of the way there's usually lots and lots around that um email crazy and then I'll spend probably about an hour maybe more going through my site and checking out any new additions to the site I'm making sure the programs are working any new little gifts or up there see if I prove of them honor which I generally do because I have the advantage of being able to talk them through before they go up I'm I work very closely with both Howard who does a lot of the programming and David you who's our graphic designer who's fabulous we get on really really well we think very similarly we have the same we have the same eyes kind of one metaphorically yes we had the same eye and I saw a spot I suppose yeah I guess I kind of you know just do site inspection for about an hour and a half and then often I'll do another hour or so just playing around at my own time that it's my free time now what was the motivation David buying Boeing it then I have internet nap around for not kidding so used to be disco nap this girl Internet now we got ty4 disco nap and then you get back on after that ya know then I get then then then virtual life finishes and real life kind of comes back into play let's focus for a nice it's still only around 10 right see so I can get it done really early in the morning all that so you're more of a morning man or a nightmare uh I used to be a nightmare now I'm a night man um that was very clever but mumbles very good yeah or cooped up in the act same I used to know now hold on and then no in the evening at least two or three times a week I go into the rooms and on my sight again anonymously generally bit sometimes I have I have a name that they know I know we've I like that survey you don't to use that on camera now this is interesting yeah you do participate in the chats I participate a lot more than they think David Bowie the voyeur yeah I got several I got several their dresses so it would be very hard for them to I know some of you know what they are but how does the spammer you're on well how is that sitting in on a chair knowing all these people are chatting about you and your partner well they're not no that's the point I'm the best thing that's happened with outside I think because it's produced a kind of a community film that one doesn't become the focus of everything all the time and it's amazing how much you get into their lives and find out about what they're doing and what's interesting them other than just being part of the the Bona sight it's amazing that the talk about shows they've been to or aren't events that they that they are participating in a lot of them are very visually oriented and they're either painters or they're graphic designers for sites there's a lot of site webmasters and programmers out there which is pretty nice that a part of my site and you invite people obviously to send in stuff or continually yeah there's have been and as you probably know if you've been through this like there's an amazing amount of submissions both in the written word and ending graphics in on the visual side what an amazing bunch of people I mean there really are great they really are great I've been through quite a few of the other sort of so-called fan sites of other artists and I'm really proud of my lot because they've got the gut they've really got a good sense of humor as well you should be proud because you set out to create the community so you said on the opening day oh yeah page yeah you filiberty write what it really feels it feels like a virtual community yeah which I'm not quite sure how you differentiate between that and a real-time community real-life community there's something added not actually knowing who the other person really is in reality but only having a sense of that person it's it's almost metaphysical it's it's an extraordinary feeling I enjoy it very much I enjoy because I don't quite understand it and I think that's I've always enjoyed the things I don't really understand your thoughts on mp3 distribution of um oh what the more the merrier I think mp3 is the great you know something I so tired of hearing people say I always going to bring down the record companies no no you know what it's going to make it much harder for bootleggers because as soon as you put something up an mp3 you can trace the site in about five and they're dead whereas in the old world you know bootleggers in Hong Kong can it can be pumping them out five years nobody will touch him because nobody's going to bother go over there but it's much harder to be a bootlegger on the Internet and you know what I've not seen one Celine album in mp3 if this is going to cause the downfall of all major artists where are all these major artists albums that are supposed to be flooding all there isn't one up there it's all our awful obscured terribly embarrassed as well I'll tease don't like it because all their rubbish gets her now what about the distribution of movies on the net independent films well as you probably know this I'm there's already a lot of really great independent movie sites out there that are allowing filmmakers to show at least lengthy samples of their work if not in some cases you know full length movies at least 15 20 minutes I think that's I suppose I pre suppose that the end result will be short samples of any particular work whether it be musical or visual and then play to download the entire thing I would imagine you know in a sort of conservative way that that's what will happen and there'll be some artists that will wish to not having the restrictions of a corporate kind of contract will have the options of saying we'll look I need some money so you're going to have to pay for this but if you do this for me I'm also going to give you some stuff as well which I think that's that's the kind of bat I'd like to see that and I would do that that's what I personally would do you buy this but if you buy this you get this right people are getting something bang yeah yeah focus on the clusters two more the cyber Sun contest oh yeah firstly yeah impressed with the entries Alex tell me how well all together entries and voters we had over 200,000 that's not hits that's actual entries short entries and voters so I think in hits wise were well over the million and entry is probably about must have been about 90,000 something like every one of which I read it took me all died Sunday well into Monday morning what was the special about Alex's son uh it was impertinent it's canned well and it was easy to sing and that was I said don't give anything hardly fast any easier finally you're listed recently in computer world alongside the ten most influential people in the world of computers alongside Bill Gates so yeah how does that feel and what does the future I have no idea what that feels like I don't have anything to measure David and Bill yeah David and build diving bill I actually I was absolutely flabbergasted and knocked out really I was and bless all that Selena so the future the future though I think there will be one future very important don't wait for it we create that we make the future as we make the truth you know they are all words to live mine alright and get sort of like I miss winking that if it's alright David for you to just say quick still been watching yeah but I yeah sure Heisey DTV is I watch it I can't say it alright but I I say hello and they say ok gives one more hi this is David Bowie on Z D TV and I'll swing around do one quick Oh break break up our happy sorry let's swing around and do one with you so maybe turn the light our way look something do it this is David no not that one my right view there is that okay David can I get I'm serious David coos hey this is Liam sure guys just scoot over this way a little bit to the right good Thanksgiving and join us on scene DTV hi this is David this is Liam join us both on ZD TV again this is David and this is Liam you sure yeah we're sure at join us on Zuni TV great a little finally David we're gonna present very quickly with a little something before you leave oh yes please you're really on this okay yeah I'd like you to bridge a few it's me give me the give me the stuff Wow I've got my own cam clicker all that yeah GD TV net cam Network she'll have to thank them right in there there's negativity neck neck he'll network it'll be it'll be installed immediately thank you so much and a little backpack and stuff to work very cool hold it all in lovely all right that's excellent I'll put that aside thank you swim thank you and good luck on the song tonight yes yeah thank you thanks David yeah okay Oh splendid we'll have fun with the chewing on the recording oh yeah we're gonna be a flying taking this with oh yeah we're gonna be oh yeah flying the war watching then I was watching my colleagues will give out to let movie Andrea am i with you to resolve this part is for David Monica because oh thank you amen thanks guys yeah on behalf of bug music we're proud to present Alex with a publishing contract for winning this contest and to welcome him among the prestigious bug writers such as Reeves Gabrels Hunt and Tony sales piggy pop Johnny Cash and many others Alex thank you got a writing any more songs Alex yeah definitely alright you got a deal thank you honey thank you very much all right guys what are you doing I'll come in oh hello hello it's for here nice meeting you hello collaborator right hello good to see you this is breeze Kerberos Braves Alex hey well done fantastic thank you yeah it's really cool yet nice weekend yeah wonderful here we are foursome no Anthropology eyes all right straight on breezy a tiny bit come out just register that's it thank you all right very good great really nice to meet you what's good something let's try to sing it it is night guys yeah I don't give ya no Beth but this good weary huh smells good uh that's Haran lee sang-min I saw ah it's called Minotaur probably really crazy oh it's French we talked about aftershaves and all that kind of stuff food so we're gonna have to go it's gonna be a long night for it yes it's fantastic Thanks this is something I made - I'm submitting it to a show contemporary art and now in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Museum I call it woman these are nipples you say what's the idea and ones love is reflected in me oh it's a Lucent camera yeah a lock on the screen over it I know I can that was a bit up I know it's incredible quality fantastic Oh yeah oh yeah and no family are you happy with your Bala lalalalala Oh breezy do you want to come over here cuz you're gonna block several gentlemen yeah it's not gonna bother me that's good see along the leashes okay ah Alan interest is it miss Teresa why are we doing all care for camera crews at once this really is firing squad time all right in that case we'll do it we do it we do like a couple of verses into a course as we would do okay you got some open tracks there so am I going to like four tracks I tell you what can you do me the favor of getting another pair of cones for Alex so we can listen yeah cuz I are trying uh so I can hear what we're what we're up to dude so what I tend to do is put down a lead vocal um and then start building up from there so we just do that's what we do I just give me the yeah go from the top man let me just hear the interim it's Nash trying grown inside a plastic box lots and safety hearts become took a mine now it's time now and to say goodbye and to face the line was or a so far or as a bar good let's uh let's let's hear that back and try undo second trick to it as well so open up another transform I believe you're bleeding so use that one as a guide vocal as well for the moment let's just do this though just trying over to us oh how was that alright really great is it gonna be alright these things well all right there's naturally so inside plastic a little bit and bring this this voice up a little bit the new one grown inside a plastic box arts and safety laws second taking can I hear that last line the the first track yeah arts become outdated class day two clocks ticking in your mind now it's time to those are now it's time to say good I'm surprised the line and again that same last line that we do now it's time to face the line it was very low could you bring it up a little bit now I want to hear the first side goodbye now it's time to face the line but I'm just trying to get a phrasing okay now it's time to face the line again I know that we'd never now it's time to say goodbye now it's time to face the line was tarus apart ha watts we're or as a bar okay top third huh I'm sorry these are gold dust mate now I said these are worth buh-buh-buh-buh-buh first published song by Alex this does not leave my position once he signed it that it Sonia son your future is over so we gotcha hey kid I always fall for publishing contract deal it'll be a family next third try arts and say hearts become legs and claws ticking mine now it's time and to say and to pass the line ah go from the topic I'll do that again this one game I do now it's time to face the lie that we'd never cry has become outdated clocks ticking in your mind so we bid farewell sorry did again okay in this fun guys yeah rate ok 3 2 recording history has been made folks mr. David Bowie recording the song co-written by cyber Song Contest Winner Alex grant has been NetCast live at David Bowie calm & rollingstone.com good I came to do one more ok recording history is being made folks mr. David Bowie live in the studio as I speak recording a song written by cyber contest winner Alex grant co-written by him at least he got to meet his hero earlier tonight now he's in the studio with David Bowie recording that tune which will soon be up for all to listen to on the David Bowie site that's a load of bollocks sorry cause

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Keywords: David Bowie, ZDTV, Liam Mayclem, TechTV, What's Really Happening?

Id: SPY5m7pYke0

Length: 31min 56sec (1916 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 10 2014

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[u/The_Match_Maker]

Now this is what I'm talking about, reaching all the way back into the past. Before G4, before even my beloved TechTV, there was ZDTV. I really hope that the new G4 embraces this legacy, rather than the old G4's running away from it.