Name: Ashes to Ashes (Acoustic Demo)
Duration: P00H05M29S
Description: A demo of one of my favourite Bowie songs. I recorded this when Capital Models were about to start learning it - mainly so that I could get a handle on the original arrangement. The same recording, with the tempo amended to that of the Bowie record, is on the bonus section...

Ashes to Ashes (Acoustic Demo)

from Twentytwentyone by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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A demo of one of my favourite Bowie songs. I recorded this when Capital Models were about to start learning it - mainly so that I could get a handle on the original arrangement. The same recording, with the tempo amended to that of the Bowie record, is on the bonus section...

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Do you remember a guy that's been in such an early song
I've heard a rumour from ground control Oh no don't say it's true
They got a message from the Action Man “I'm happy, hope you're happy too”
I've loved all I've needed love, sordid details following

The shrieking of nothing was killing, just pictures of Jap girls in synthesis
And I ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair
But I'm hoping to kick but this planet is glowing
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high, hitting an all time low

Time and again I tell myself, I'll stay clean tonight
But the little green wheels are following me, oh no not again
I'm stuck with a valuable friend, “I'm happy, hope you're happy too”
One flash of light but no smoking pistol

I've never done good things, I've never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue
Want an axe to break the ice, wanna come down right now
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high, hitting an all time low

My mama said to get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom

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from Twentytwentyone, released December 31, 2021
David Reilly : Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Bass, Rhythm Bed

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Cloudland Blue Quartet Edinburgh, UK

A quartet in name only, initially influenced by Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut, songwriter & soundscaper David Reilly started musicking in 1977 by creating drones using sellotape on the keys of his dad's Bontempi Organ. The subsequent junk shop purchases of an electric guitar & fuzzbox and the acquisition of an old Beatles songbook, led him into songwriting... ... more

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