From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V3 #138 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Sunday, June 7 1998 Volume 03 : Number 138 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Re: avalon-digest V3 #137 [Mark Sturdy ] Re: [AVALON] Newton,-correction [jspellma@techadvisers.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 17:51:07 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Sturdy Subject: [AVALON] Re: avalon-digest V3 #137 On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Martin Futoma wrote: > 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. Agreed. Gene, you're a star. Bye, Mark ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 17:13:16 -0400 From: jspellma@techadvisers.com 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 - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------- I have also found it strange how this video ended up with that noise on it. I like all Bryan's music but I feel Newtown is when he peaked. Within two years "Boys and Girls" and "Bete Noire" were released, I feel his two best solo albums. A continuation of Avalon, yet a departure back to the dissonance of Roxy's early years, much less predictable than the commercial, at times Las Vegas style Highroad. One thing that strikes me is the concert was filmed on at least two different nights. One moment your watching the band and all of a sudden Michele and Edna have each others outfits on. I love this. But you would think audio was recorded both nights so wouldn't someone have caught it after the 1st night? This noise has to be on the master. I only have the VHS so can someone with the Laserdisc verify? Thanks. Jim ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V3 #138 **************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to avalon-digest-owner@smoe.org