David Bowie, "Moonage Daydream"

I've gotta thank Dillo for the reminder that, duh, a bunch of Harpswell Hootenanniers cut a fine David Bowie cover just about 3 years ago!   Extra dunce points to me, as "Moonage Daydream", off the 1971 "Hunky Dory" album, was actually the first song that I put on my "to cover" list for the gathering that year.  It's a song that blasts out of the gate with a fistful of classic Bowie styling in the LP version: super-cleanly produced, dry crunching rock chords followed by delicate 12-string acoustic and piano and strings; drums pushed way up front of melodic bass; yelped rollercoaster vocal melodies with layered harmonies; lyrical-sequiturs with tons of space imagery and overtones of ambiguous love/ lust/ devotion; a weirdo sax-flute solo; a take-off guitar excursion from Mick Ronson.  The whole darn enchilada.

With everybody else doing the heavy lifting, I think we pulled our version off OK.  That's Dillo on the Trevor Bolder style bass and Roady on the "Woody" Woodmansey drums.  Paul B is on the Wurlitzer and Roger on the lead vocals and lead guitar.  I played rhythm guitar and overdubbed the other stuff.

Moonage Daydream (David Bowie cover):
https://app.box.com/s/lbqrnjfxdzvpqtuljv15dby89hxfsgsb