BOWIE With LOU REED HOP FROG

Recorded Octoberearly November 2001, New York. Released 28 January 2003 on Lou s The Raven Album Despite the occasional public dustup, David Lou settled into being friends, living within walking distance of each others NYC homes. In the months after 9, 11, Reed was working on an album based on Edgar Allan Poe stories and poems, and he asked Bowie if he wanted to sing on a track. Bowie chose Hop Frog, a little rant under two minutes long. Thats him, not me, Reed told Venice magazine in 2003. He chose that part. I was pretty astonished myself, because I thought he would have picked one of the other parts. I thought he would go for one of the power ballads, but it turns out that he was a perfect Hop Frog. I realized that David wanted to have some fun, and have some fun just being Bowie. He did the kind of background vocals on this that I really like, all the way back to my Transformer record when he did those kind of things. I liked it then and I still love it now. Hop Frog essentia