From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V3 #26 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, January 27 1998 Volume 03 : Number 026 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] DUMB FUCKING CONTEST NUMBER...49 [ASchulberg ] Re: [AVALON] Contest #38: Both Ends Burning, Ms Matan? [Heather Marie Pro] Re: Re: [AVALON] Contest #38: One Hand Clapping, Ms. Propes? [JVapor7@ao] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 06:03:12 EST From: ASchulberg Subject: Re: [AVALON] DUMB FUCKING CONTEST NUMBER...49 In a message dated 98-01-19 09:34:37 EST, you write: << List the covers you would have Bryan Ferry record and the artists they are > associated with: >> "Knock On Wood" (Eddie Floyd) Arnie - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 06:03:10 EST From: ASchulberg Subject: Re: [AVALON] Supposedly, Bowie bashing and the "50" photograph << After the line "I would do anything for you" BF's lyric was "I would climb mountains" but Bowie changed it to "I would come all day." Normally blasphemous to "improve" upon Bryan, but I think this one was a winner.>> That's an "improvement"? Hey, I like a dirty lyric as much as the next guy but as a romantic declaration, "I would come all day" is a brag, not a statement (however cliched) of attempting the difficult. Arnie - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:18:04 -0600 From: "Victor Hastings" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Vocals on "Up in smoke" - -----Original Message----- From: Mikael Weichbrodt To: avalon@smoe.org Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 10:46 AM Subject: [AVALON] Vocals on "Up in smoke" >Greetings. > >I was wondering if anyone out there knows who sings on Phil Manzanera and >Andy Mackay's "Up in smoke" album. Is it anyone else than themselves? My >brother suspected it to be Andy Bell (!), and we only have the thing on >tape and no sleeve to consult in the matter. It couldn't possibly be Andy >Bell could it?? Please help if you can. > >Micke Weichbrodt > i believe it must be james wraith, who did all the vocals on "the explorers" which was the name mackay and manzanera used for these projects. i do not know why the explorers name was not used uniformly on their releases. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:14:12 -0600 From: "Victor Hastings" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Graham Simpson VS Rik Kenton - -----Original Message----- From: Amanda Carsner To: avalon@smoe.org Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 7:10 PM Subject: [AVALON] Graham Simpson VS Rik Kenton >Greetings To All! > > I'm fairly new to the wonderful, strange, exotic, erotic world of Bryan >Ferry and Roxy Music. My curiosity started after I read an article in >ROLLING STONE about the famous album cover for "Country Life". I purchased >the CD and have been totally, blissfully hooked since. I've also been >starved for info on Ferry and the group and I have been able to absorb tons >through the mailing list...so now I'm turning to you guys to answer a >question that I have (which has, by now probably become common everyday >knowledge to you). Okay - I know that Roxy music has went through more >than its share of bass players. I have a CD of their debut album and was >also lucky enough to find it on vinyl. I noticed that in the liner notes >of the CD (with all of those great cheesy glam shots of the band), Graham >Simspon's pic is featured while, on the album, Rik Kenton's pic is >featured. Also, Simpson is given sole credit on the CD liner notes but on >vinyl liner notes both Kenton and Graham are given credit, even though >Kenton's pic is the only one featured. I'm confused. > > Amanda C. > Here goes, and somebody will surely correct me as I'm away from my discs & reference materials. Simpson played bass on "Roxy Music," the band's first album (which, in its British release, did not include "Virginia Plain"). Simpson left the band shortly after the release of "Roxy Music" on account of some sort of mental "breakdown" which I've never seen explained in great detail. In short Simpson converted to Sufism and became, as Ferry once mentioned in an interview, "some sort of mystic." Kenton played bass on "Virginia Plain" which was released as a single in the UK and was included on the American release of "Roxy Music." Hence Simpson is listed and pictured as the bassist on the British release of the album, and Kenton, who had replaced him by the time it was released in the U.S., is given bass credits/pix on the U.S. pressing. Kenton apparently wanted the band to record some of his own material and Ferry, for some reason, would have no part of it ;-) so Kenton did not appear on subsequent records. Since then Ferry has employed a host of guest bassists in the studio and on tour. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 13:23:45 EST From: ASchulberg@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] New Manager, New Tour In a message dated 98-01-20 17:48:51 EST, you write: << That's a shock to me! Is it true?? I haven't heard a thing about her death. I'm going to do some research on the web.>> Grace- There's some spoofing going on here. Arnie - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 13:23:43 EST From: ASchulberg@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] New Manager, New Tour In a message dated 98-01-20 13:31:54 EST, you write: << After years of dissatisfaction with management, Bryan Ferry has announced he's now signed with Colleen Matan of Postmodernists Are People, Too, Inc. Matan has announced a "mega-world-tour" featuring onstage "every musician that ever played with Roxy Music or Bryan, even the dead ones" and she promises it will include "all sorts of spectacular special guests" such as Eno and Ferry duetting on 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," Dennis Rodman doing an interpretive dance to 'Ladytron,' and a grand finale, 'Pull Up to the Bumper,' a tribute to the late Grace Jones, featuring Madonna, members of Oasis, and the the Spice Girls. Ferry's new lp of retro-rap, 'Chillin' at the Rave,' is produced by Puff Daddy, and the first video from the single--a daring cover of the Bobby Goldsboro chestnut, 'Little Things'--will be directed by Quentin Tarantino. The tour is sponsored, of course, by Phytofix Hairspray. "Bryan is very excited to be coming back to America--we don't think the cane will be a problem," says Matan. "Hopefully this will cap off the resurgence of interest that began with 'Velvet Goldmine.'" >> Had to laugh out loud. Good one. Arnie - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 13:55:35 -0500 (EST) From: Colleen Matan Subject: Re: [AVALON] New Manager, New Tour On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 ASchulberg@aol.com wrote: > Grace- > > There's some spoofing going on here. > > Arnie There is? You mean I'm _not_ about to become Bryan's manager in the near future? Damn. And that was the best news that I'd heard in months. Dejectedly, Colleen - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:13:29 -0800 (PST) From: Grace LoBue Subject: Re: [AVALON] New Manager, New Tour Yea, I know. It just wouldn't surprise me nowadays with all the celebrity deaths in the last few weeks. You never know. Grace. - ---ASchulberg@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 98-01-20 17:48:51 EST, you write: > > << That's a shock to me! Is it true?? I haven't heard a thing about her > death. I'm going to do some research on the web.>> > > Grace- > > There's some spoofing going on here. > > Arnie > > > > > -------------------- > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 18:35:02 -0600 (CST) From: Heather Marie Propes Subject: Re: [AVALON] Contest #38: Both Ends Burning, Ms Matan? > My Fellow Avalonians, > > It is my duty to inform you that as a PAPTI official--and thereby a judge of > this competition--Colleen Matan is hereby disqualified from participating in > Contest #38. Please delete her entry immediately. > Of course, I must note this decision can be swiftly overturned depending on > the severity of the hate mail I receive, in particular any missives sent > bearing Philadelphia-area addresses. > > Your Humble Lobster Boy, > > Jimmy > > O.K., Jimmy. But before the group disqualifies someone on grounds as esoteric as being a PAPTI member, you need to explain what PAPTI is. Is it your new marketing campaign? Are you trying to compete with Pepsi? Why didn't you have any ads on Superbowl Sunday? Also, I bid you (and any other Avalonians who read Jimmy's recent response to MY contest entry) to revisit my original entry and note that I suggested our friend Jimmy might be in the kitchen washing *dishes* following my dinner with Bryan, CERTAINLY NOT giving Bryan and I a bath, as Jimmy deluded. Jimmy might be good with contests, but he's terrible with context. But then again, he's a post-modernist! Heather - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:35:48 -0500 (EST) From: JVapor7@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: [AVALON] Contest #38: One Hand Clapping, Ms. Propes? My Fellow Avalonians, Due to the firestorm of political pressure I am under, I now reinstate Colleen Matan as a contestant in Contest #38. But let me say this here and now to the people of Avalonia--AT NO TIME did I suggest that I have BATHED with Mr. Ferry and Ms. Propes. I merely quoted a rather unrestrained contest entry in which Ms. Propes stated she would be "completely relaxed" "because I would know that all the while Jimmy was in the kitchen cleaning us." I think the context speaks for itself in these remarks. I thank you for your consideration in these matters, Ciao, J, PAPTI (not affiliated with Pepsi in any way) PS. Ms. Propes, could you please return the dress, the hatpin, and the copy of 'Leaves of Grass'? And please dry-clean the dress, would you, baby? - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V3 #26 *************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to avalon-digest-owner@smoe.org