From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V4 #8 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, January 9 1999 Volume 04 : Number 008 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [none] [Amanda Carsner ] Re: [AVALON] BF biography [jspellma@techadvisers.com] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 08:15:48 -0500 From: Amanda Carsner Subject: [none] Hey, guys! This a random contribution I thought everyone might enjoy. While working out at the gym today, I came across a two year old issue of W magazine. In the magazine there was an article about Princess Di's 36th birthday party (thus confirming the age of the magazine) which featured a photo of Bryan at the event. Also, there was an article on a dentist who works on the pearly whites of celebrtities, among them Iggy Pop and, yes, Bryan Ferry. Amanda - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 01:43:35 -0500 From: jspellma@techadvisers.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF biography >> .... Again, IMHO, RM's other musicians were little more than Ferry's soldiers of fortune - even if Manzanera and Mackay managed to compose some stuff (maybe at a ratio 9:1 compared to Ferry's output). Eno did not do even this little - one of the reasons why I think he is greatly overestimated concerning his RM's years, even if I do like his solo stuff....>> Happy New Year to you as well Vincente. Allow me to politely disagree on one point. I thought Eno had a huge influence on the sound of the band, the noises and backgrounds, and his stage presence was never replaced. In financial terms, your right, songwriters clean up the cash, but as far as a musical success, it can be owed to the players in the band just as much. One of the reasons Mick Taylor left the Stones is because he thought he was being screwed by Mick and Keith. His solos on songs like Can't You hear Me Knockin and Time Waits for No One were melodies themselves- yet he gets nothing. Led Zeppelin had to break up when they lost their drummer. The Who should have. The Pretenders were swell with James Honeyman Scott on guitar, without him they were blah. I thing songwriting is only lyrics, chords and vocal melody. The players get screwed. Legendary Motown bassist James Jamison got something like 58 dollars each for Bernadette and Glady's Nights' Grapevine. He was more Motown than Berry Gordy was. Absolute robbery. Jobson wasn't even an equal member of Roxy. How nice. It just doesn't seem right. The Average White Band rewarded the entire band on every song by including the name White - like (Stuart, White) where each member would get one sixth of 50 percent or whatever. I think more bands should have done this. Some bands just split it equally, I think Van Halen and Black Sabbath did that. Roxy was pretty tough in this area. I can see the band in the limo, with the bass player taking a cab. Blathering Goodnight. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V4 #8 ************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest