Band Legacy
Despite some reports that Bowie was unhappy working in the band, Bowie stated multiple times over his years with Tin Machine that he was happy working in that medium.
Bowie used his time with the band as a way to revitalize himself and his career, (which he would later call a "lifeline"), citing Reeves Gabrels as a source of his new-found energy and direction:
Reeves took me aside and spent many hours explaining it in very simple terms. 'Stop doing it' was, I think, the key phrase he used. 'Stop doing it.' 'But you know, I've got all these shows I've got to do, and I hate having to do these hits, and ...' 'Stop doing it.' That was essentially the reasoning, which I found extremely complicated to understand at first. And then it dawned on me--he meant stop...doing...it. And I did. —March 1997The band itself, despite earning mixed reviews during its existence, has, in later years, often been found "unjustly" harshly reviewed.
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