From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V3 #137 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, June 6 1998 Volume 03 : Number 137 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Tape Tree Update! ["Sara Kerr" ] Re: [AVALON] Tape Tree Update! [mfutoma@webtv.net (Martin Futoma)] Re: [AVALON] Much more than this? [Will Frechette ] Re: [AVALON] Newton,-correction [Will Frechette ] Re: [AVALON] Newton,-correction [Jeff Kay ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 07:41:48 -0500 From: "Sara Kerr" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Tape Tree Update! Gene, Wow that sounds pretty perfect to me...Thanks for all your time. Sara > > I put over 20 hours in this recording, going over much of it note by note, > to try to get it as perfect as possible but being that the lp used is over > 20 years old, there were some minor flaws that just couldn`t be fixed, > namely a slight skip on "The In Crowd." > > Gene > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 16:42:48 -0400 From: mfutoma@webtv.net (Martin Futoma) Subject: Re: [AVALON] Tape Tree Update! Being relatively new to the list, and not expecting such a tape being made available, I just wanted to thank all involved, especially Gene, for making this happen. Martin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 15:50:50 -0500 From: Will Frechette Subject: Re: [AVALON] Much more than this? jas2347@xsite.net wrote: > My personal favorite is their cover of 'Young Americans'. Check it out, > if you haven't heard it. > > David > > Whom, what, when and where?? > > Jas Their version of Purple Haze is indeed impressive, I haven't heard Young Am. but I will have to check it out. ...and what ever happened to Jeff Hughes...what the hell buddy, where are you, are you here or what. You King Crimson dissin' motherjumper. Will ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 16:20:38 -0500 From: Will Frechette Subject: Re: [AVALON] Newton,-correction HipChip wrote: > > Yeah, > > I found "The High Road" on laserdisc ten years ago. I bought the disk even > though I didn't then have a laserdisc player. Now I do and I am glad I had > the foresight to buy the laserdisc. This brings me to a point that I just can't get past...and it even follows our newt town thread. What the hell was Virgin video thinking when they released the Newtown video. We've gone over the fact that the master had to have been jagged up because people all over the US and the globe, I beleive, have that blurb in the audio portion of their tape. I think that vid is the singular most powerful peice of art Mr. Ferry has produced. I say that because he may have more powerful audio items but the coupling of the visual and the audio and the live nature of the recording (live stuff if recorded properly will usually have twice the energy of the same studio recording, sometimes even speeding up the tempo of certain songs as an aftereffect of the live energy)blows all of his other stuff away. Not to mention the fact that I like the newer stuff alot more than the older stuff (I said not to mention that) So here it is, the flagship of his product, his finest moment, imho, a show which could bring dead deaf people back to life and make them good looking at the same time, and nobody at Virgin noticed that the audio is totally unacceptable. Botched as badly as anyone could imagine, somebody set the master on top of a 15" JBL's driver magnet or something equally as disasterous. What the hell, it's Bryan Ferry, nobody with a discriminating ear listens to that crap, F*** it let's issue it just like it is. Seems to me the Ferryfans should have an ear for subtlety and nuance and be heavy audiofiles as well. What the hell did Bryan think of all this. I'd have sued. Does he even know. OK this is all leading to this. I'm pretty sure it was released on laserdisc, is it messed up also. Anybody got one. If it's not messed up I'nm going to get one and dub it over my original Newtown. I'm sure we went over this last year or so but I don't remember much about what was said. That short term memory thing I guess. God it's healing to rant like a lunatic every now and then. Thank you very much Will ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 21:53:09 -0400 From: Jeff Kay Subject: Re: [AVALON] Newton,-correction Will Frechette wrote: > HipChip wrote: > > > > Yeah, > > > > I found "The High Road" on laserdisc ten years ago. I bought the disk even > > though I didn't then have a laserdisc player. Now I do and I am glad I had > > the foresight to buy the laserdisc. > > This brings me to a point that I just can't get past...and it even > follows our newt town thread. What the hell was Virgin video thinking > when they released the Newtown video. We've gone over the fact that the > master had to have been jagged up because people all over the US and the > globe, I beleive, have that blurb in the audio portion of their tape. I > think that vid is the singular most powerful peice of art Mr. Ferry has > produced. I say that because he may have more powerful audio items but > the coupling of the visual and the audio and the live nature of the > recording (live stuff if recorded properly will usually have twice the > energy of the same studio recording, sometimes even speeding up the > tempo of certain songs as an aftereffect of the live energy)blows all of > his other stuff away. Not to mention the fact that I like the newer > stuff alot more than the older stuff (I said not to mention that) > So here it is, the flagship of his product, his finest moment, imho, a > show which could bring dead deaf people back to life and make them good > looking at the same time, and nobody at Virgin noticed that the audio is > totally unacceptable. Botched as badly as anyone could imagine, somebody > set the master on top of a 15" JBL's driver magnet or something equally > as disasterous. What the hell, it's Bryan Ferry, nobody with a > discriminating ear listens to that crap, F*** it let's issue it just > like it is. Seems to me the Ferryfans should have an ear for subtlety > and nuance and be heavy audiofiles as well. What the hell did Bryan > think of all this. I'd have sued. Does he even know. > OK this is all leading to this. I'm pretty sure it was released on > laserdisc, is it messed up also. Anybody got one. If it's not messed up > I'nm going to get one and dub it over my original Newtown. > I'm sure we went over this last year or so but I don't remember much > about what was said. That short term memory thing I guess. > God it's healing to rant like a lunatic every now and then. > > Thank you very much > > Will I'm new to this list. I bought the only copy of that video I ever came across. I felt that I had like, gotten a bad copy. As it were they didn't have another and I did not want to go without, so..... I kept it, because, I guess you all know why. Thanks for the info. One other thng, they were great at the start. I still love Re Make Re Model, BBC version kills. Long time fan (circa 1972) Jeff ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V3 #137 **************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to avalon-digest-owner@smoe.org