Aug 012010
You may recall this disturbing find from hrrundivbakshi.
It turns out The Hello People were not the only band employing the use of mime in rock ‘n roll. If you’re a regular to the Halls of Rock, I’m sure you know about David Bowie‘s formal mime training. You’ve probably seen this clip.
A young David Jones, miming his way to Bowie.
Or one of these.
does the guitarist from the sensational alex harvey band qualify? i’m not sure if he ever acted it out.
Gotta say as much as miming Bowie bugged (especially the first one with the VPL) Twink just seemed sort of adorable. He didn’t bug me at all.
I hope Leo Sayer’s mime period didn’t turn you off to You Make Me Feel Like Dancing.
BigSteve, “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” packed too much power to be threatened by mime or Sayer’s proto-Richard Simmons Look.
I always enjoyed that puppet body Bowie performance on SNL (& the drag thing for the other song he did that night). I thought of it more as using the television medium to do something a little different. And it moves. The rest of those clips, though? YAAAAWWWWNNN! Even The Pretty Things, but I prefer their earlier, more straight-ahead rock & roll stuff to the twee psych Pretties, so the miming doesn’t really matter much one way or the other to me.