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"Ok, so the Bowie Story. This is what happened. So like I said, I got hired to do the poster. Did it. Ya know, I liked it. Ya know, looking back it’s hard to look at now, because there’s so much that I see that I could of done, should of done, ya know, especially as an artist. As an artist at any given time you are working with the sum total of everything that you have brought to that project up until now. So all your experience, your time, the techniques you know, the things you’ve heard, seen, whatever, you bring that to every new project. Like you can’t do anything, like I was gonna say you can’t do anything more than that, which is really wrong. You want to try and do more than that. That’s how you progress. That’s how you evolve. You want to come and bring to your art something new every now and then, but anyway, I did the bowie thing, and I look back at it now, and there’s so much stuff I wish I could of done different, but ya know, it is what it is.

So I was at the show, and I was watching the opening act. The opening act for that show was the Polyphonic Spree. So I’m watching it, and I get a phone call. I get a phone call on my cell phone from somebody with Clear Channel who I was good friends with. She was kind of a higher up in Clear Channel. I won’t mention her name, because she might not want me to mention her name, but she said, 'Are you here.'

And I said, ‘Yeah, I’m here.'

And she said, 'Can you, are you gonna be available after the show?'

I’m like, ‘Why?'

She’s like, ‘Cause David wants to meet you.’

And I’ll be honest, like ok, I was excited obviously, but also, I kinda like freaked out a little bit because I’m like, oh shit did I do some thing wrong ya know. I mean that dude is very like, ya know, his whole thing is very egocentric. Right, I mean, so I was like, oh no I hope I didn’t do anything and he wants to talk to me about whatever and tell me I can’t sell these or whatever, so I’m like, ‘Yeah, cool.'

So I go back afterwards and just have a lovely time with the dude. I mean, we just hang out, we talk and whatever. Ya know It was just awesome. It was awesome. Ya know my mind is obviously racing because this was in 2004, so I had been doing poster work at that point for… fuck, hold up. The tv is up...

I had been doing poster art since the mid 90s. Even before I started, I’ve been to a lot of shows. Professionally, I had been to a lot of shows. So like getting star struck is not a thing that happens to me. I’ve only been starstruck a couple of times in my whole career, and this was definitely one of them. I’m like this is David Bowie. And so we talk, and then when it’s time to leave I basically tell him, ‘Dude I just want to let you know, after Hendrix, to me, you are Rock and Roll. Like you represent, like you are what it’s all about.

He looked at me for a little while he looked at me for a few seconds and then he looked at his assistant and he said, 'I like this guy,' and then we all laughed.

We actually were supposed to talk again, because he was leaving to go do the European leg of the tour. Then he’d be back in the United States, and we were gonna talk about doing more posters when he got back to the United States. So, I was really excited. I mean I left that night just like oh my goodness, like me and David Bowie. I did a poster for David Bowie he dug it, and he wants to do more.

And then he went over to Europe, and the second show when he was in Europe is when he had the pain, and he checked it out, and he had a heart attack, and shortly after that he retired.

Like, I was that close, but I’m so fortunate I got to work on the one that I did. Yeah, that guy is a really special person." -jr via Facebook Live Sept. '16