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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: question/observation

From: john barrick <astroboy@...>
Date: 2007-11-17

That was Bowie's experiment with the cut up writing method that William
Burroughs used in novels like The Naked Lunch - though if the truth be
told, I believe that Brion Gysin actually pioneered the technique. With
Bowie, it was most evident to me on the album, Lodger.

johnb
PS bowie always gets more street cred than anderson - it's in the rule book.


d.etheridge1@... wrote:
> Well I heard that David Bowie used to write lyrics, cut the sentences
> up into individual words, and throw them together like some demented
> scrabble on steroids -no one's taken the piss for such a
> 'pretentious' approach. Or does chance immediately bestow street cred
> on DB and not JA?
>