Tin Machine

Uh, but we're done with the '80s.

We are done with Tin Machine.

Um, anyone who wants us to do Tin Machine II, you're welcome to do that for yourself [laughs] and let us know how it goes.

Email us-

Yes, uh, you can record the episode.

It do- it did feel like a large gap.

Yes.

Between, I mean, e- even knowing that we, we did Tin Machine I, and I still have not listened to Tin Machine II.

I loved them.

We got the Tin Machine tour, man.

The Tin Machine tour.

And then Atlantic's like, well, we don't really have the budget for that.

I'm like, you told us.

What was the name of the band in 1989?

Tin Machine?

Yes.

Oh, it was the Tin Machine song.

Yeah, well, good.

It was number-

Well, it's-

It doesn't even make the top 100? Are you kidding?

I ripped Bowie in July of 1990 on the front page that said, boo for Bowie's bad concert.

The next year, he formed a metal band called Tin Machine.

Yeah, Tin Machine, which was great.

Reeves Grabal is a guitar player.

Reeves' wife at that time was the publicist for Robert Plant.

Grabrow.

The Bowie thing happened the next year.

He was playing, trying to think of the name of the place the Tin Machine played, the Capital Ballroom.

Yeah, I wondered about that.

Like, what does that mean? Apparently, David Bowie was playing in a band called Tin Machine.

Tin Machine, yeah.

And so Axl Rose is running down the street screaming, I'm going to kill you, Tin Man.

I'd have loved to have seen that.

Tony Sales was born in 1951, rock bassist.

He and his brother Hunt played in Iggy Pop's band and also David Bowie's supergroup, Tin Machine.

Darby Crash was born in 1958, real name Jan Paul Beahm.

He was a punk rock frontman and lyricist for the L.A. band The Germs.

I can't help thinking about me.

This is a song that was originally released as an A side with The Lower Third, and it was the last single that Bowie released as a lead singer of a band until he worked with Tin Machine in the late '80s.

Bowie and The Lower Third split up shortly after this song was released, or maybe even slightly before.

I can't remember the exact chronology there.

Yeah.

I suppose going back to your last question, I did see Tin Machine.

Most people who know me know how much I love Bowie, but I didn't love Tin Machine.

I went to see them.

I get that he was always very, very brave and that It's the idea that, you know, yeah, I'm going to make a drum and bass record.

And he never seemed to be afraid to fail.

And I think that's possibly one of the most inspirational things about him.

But yeah, Tin Machine, it was awful.