From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V2 #31 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, October 16 1997 Volume 02 : Number 031 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Move along [Will ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 03:44:06 -0500 From: Will Subject: Re: [AVALON] Move along Bahi Para wrote: > > Will wrote: > > > I think the milestone in Ferry's career was Boys and Girls > > Well said. Some light in the darkness. > > >In closing all I can add to this jumbled mass of statements is,39 > >Steps, Your painted smile, The only face > > Mamouna is a complete world. It's not a concept album or a treat for music > journalists, delighting in post-modern cleverness - just nine intense > visions of a world. This is an album you can live inside. > > John wrote: > > >Bryan should drop thiis relentless effort to recreate the Avalon sound. > >Instead he should return to either the electrfying sounds of Stranded > >(MOP and Serenade) or should go for horn laden sounds of his middle solo > >efforts. [...] > > I'll bite. These pathetic calls for Bryan Ferry to return to some past > style or other, and claims that he's trying to recreate the Avalon sound... > That sound isn't a patch on the current one or that of Boys & Girls. > Granted, Avalon was open enough and immediate enough to make it a big > seller in Europe and a number one album in Britian, accessible to almost > anyone. It's not as if Roxy failed when they did this stuff. Why try to > do it again? What's wrong with the first Roxy album, or For Your Pleasure? > Ferry's on a journey - if you were comfortable where you were years ago, > stay there - you won't be short of company. But Ferry at 53 trying to sound > like Ferry at 30 after three years' work would be a complete wash-out. > Bahi Bahi you got that right Ferry's on a journey and as far as I'm concerned he's the man I want driving. He spends years wrenching music out of his soul and the cool part is that it all comes across in the result. Will - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V2 #31 *************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to avalon-digest-owner@smoe.org