"... and later met Mr. Vivino backstage.'I said to him, 'How did you hear about the show?"' Mr. Gordon recalled. 'And he said, "Everybody talks about it," and that he and John Lennon and Iggy Pop used to sit and watch the show.' Mr. Gordon said that Mr. Lennon, who had been killed just a month earlier, had wanted to attend the performance. After meeting Mr. Bowie and his producer, Tony Visconti, 'Floyd says, "Jimmy get these guys outta here. We got a show to do!"' Jimmy Vivino said. Two decades later, Mr. Bowie wrote and recorded 'Slip Away,' a moody song about Uncle Floyd.... Twinkle twinkle Uncle Floyd/We were dumb/But you were fun, boy..."
I wonder if Leopold "Butters" Stotch is some kind of tribute to Uncle Floyd, or just a coincidence. That voice, the messy blond hair, the vague undertone of hostility
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He was funny. But he was no Soupy Sales.
YouTube: When David Bowie died Uncle Floyd called a radio show and told the story when David Bowie went to see his show at The Bottom Line
He was funny enough but it was off-putting that he was too young to call himself an uncle. Kind of like Papa John, the pizza guy.
I hope the rest of his act was better than the video. I don't think you could drink or inject enough to find that funny.
But the video is funnier than Soupy Sales.
I wonder if Leopold "Butters" Stotch is some kind of tribute to Uncle Floyd, or just a coincidence. That voice, the messy blond hair, the vague undertone of hostility
Dollarize the economy.
How much did they pay the guy to vociferously laugh?
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