Talk:Dead Man Walking (David Bowie song)

Intro guitar riff?

Can we get a citation for this comment about the guitar riff being taught by Jimmie Page and the connection between this song and "The Supermen"? I don't hear a connection between the songs, nor, for that matter, do I hear any particularly standout guitar riffs at all. P4limpsest (talk) 15:55, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Let me look it up. Bowie discussed this while on a radio station tour (in California?) back in the day, and he definitely stated something along these lines (although with his sense of humor, it may have been a joke, because it was during the same time that he (jokingly) claimed that he and Johnny Cash had written 'Scary Monsters' together).

87Fan (talk) 05:09, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

So yeah, on April 8th 1997, Bowie was at Smith's Olde Bar in Atlantat Georgia and he gave an acoustic concert with interviews (recorded on a bootleg as "Seven Months in America"). While he's introducing "The Supermen," Bowie recalls: "Jimmy said "I've got this riff ... I'm not using it, I don't quite know what to do with it, you might like it," so he gave it to me," and then he played the basic riff from The Superman. He actually told this same story a few times while touring acoustically that year, so I would believe the story, his Scary Monsters anecdote notwithstanding. Would it be appropriate to upload an acoustic sample of his story, plus the riff?

87Fan (talk) 18:54, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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