From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V4 #36 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Friday, January 29 1999 Volume 04 : Number 036 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Kicki's dream [Daniel Atterbom ] RE: [AVALON] Roxy sightings [S.J.Batie@open.ac.uk] [AVALON] early BF sighting [S.J.Batie@open.ac.uk] [AVALON] Error Concerning cd [ASchulberg@aol.com] RE: [AVALON] Editions of Roxy on cd ["Paul A. Moore" ] Re: [AVALON] #8A: Profiles I'd Like To See [ASchulberg@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Editions of Roxy on cd [ASchulberg@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Wanted [ASchulberg@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Roxy sightings [Heather Marie Propes ] [AVALON] Kicki's homepage [Kicki Gustafsson ] Re: [AVALON] Roxy sightings ["Martin Stockman" ] [AVALON] Visions of Bryan [Tim Kendrick ] RE: [AVALON] Roxy sightings ["Garratt, Chris" ] Re: [AVALON] Byzantium ["gareth mc ginley" ] [AVALON] Lost songs ["Robert Fedder" ] Re: [AVALON] Visions of Bryan ["Richard Swift" ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:09:30 +0000 From: Daniel Atterbom Subject: Re: [AVALON] Kicki's dream At 18.31 +0000 99-01-28, Neil Ashar wrote: >Kicki, I think you should do the rest of us non-Scandinavophones (but >Swedophiles, or Kickophiles, nonetheless) a favor and translate your >page into English, for us surfers who weren't able to decode your 100 >secrets. Neil, if I had the time, I would do it. Since I started this, I'll end it. I do not know Kicki G at all, we have only exchanged e-mails. At the end of http://www.torget.se/users/k/KickiG/familjen.html Kicki writes in Swedish: "Our family was increased in an unusual way. [Our five years old daughter] Marta became older sister to Simon. Simon's last name is Holmlund and he's four years old. He is the son to my cousin Elisabet, who died suddenly on November 1, 1997." She then tells who how she and her husband became guardians for him. And she ends with: "How fast life can change, just over night." I found this very touching, esp since I do not have any children of my own. And since the personal profiles on the list were, eeh, personal, :-) and Kicki has been a rather active member of the list I just want to share this with you. Have a good weekend. Daniel Daniel Atterbom *************** "It is over-long and there are parts which are boring. This makes it rather unreadable and very difficult." British writer ALAN DE BOTTON on JAMES JOYCE'S "Ulysses," which topped a list of the world's great English-language novels. Detta är ett privat och personligt brev, innehållet får inte utan särskilt medgivande publiceras eller på annat sätt spridas vidare. This is a private and personal letter, the content of which is not for publication or re-distribution without my written permission. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 07:19:39 -0800 From: "Vicente Dobroruka" Subject: [AVALON] Byzantium Gareth said: "My uncle publishes books on Byzantine art, is very much upper class, and speaks kinda like Bryan too so I suppose that explains it." Yes Gareth this is fine indeed. I am also very keen on Byzantine affairs, though from a alightly point of view - I work with apocalyptic literature, and this subject is a completely exotic world for me when it concerns the Orient. Where exactly does your uncle work? Since this is *slightly* off-topic mail me privately if you want. Always thought that BF goes well with ancient texts reading. Pleased to know there are still people devoted to those apparently obscure specializations - including me... Be well, Vicente vicente@unb.br - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:49:46 -0000 From: S.J.Batie@open.ac.uk Subject: RE: [AVALON] Roxy sightings > >Anyone else have any Roxy sightings? > [Steve] Late '73 in Shepherds department store in Gateshead Tyne & Wear. BF was at the photographic counter, so being a brash schoolboy I just steamed in and asked for an autograph. This must have been about the time Stranded was released as all the Gateshead buses sported huge copies of the gatefold sleeve on their external upper deck advertising area, cool or what !. > -------------------- > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:51:06 -0000 From: S.J.Batie@open.ac.uk Subject: [AVALON] early BF sighting > >Anyone else have any Roxy sightings? > [Steve] Late '73 in Shepherds department store in Gateshead Tyne & Wear. BF was at the photographic counter, so being a brash schoolboy I just steamed in and asked for an autograph. This must have been about the time Stranded was released as all the Gateshead buses sported huge copies of the gatefold sleeve on their external upper deck advertising area, cool or what !. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 07:30:56 EST From: ASchulberg@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Error Concerning cd Peter Dewey informs me that I made a mistake. The tracks from Velvet Goldmine did NOT fit on the cd. Sorry for the error. Arnie - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:33:37 +0800 From: "Paul A. Moore" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Editions of Roxy on cd Arnie, can you advise who'll deal with a cd request from Hong Kong? Thanks -----Original Message----- From: ASchulberg@aol.com [mailto:ASchulberg@aol.com] Sent: Friday, January 29, 1999 3:31 AM To: avalon@smoe.org Subject: [AVALON] Editions of Roxy on cd Fellow AVALONians- With the forthcoming Roxy video compilation underway, I am happy to announce the availability of the Editions of Roxy cover compilation on cd. Peter Dewey has made a master cd from my compilation tape and has agreed to provide Gene and Davd with master cds which they can then copy and provide to stateside AVALON members while Peter will handle European requests. I will handle anyone who wants the compilation on tape. Anyone wanting a copy should supply the appropriate medium and a return mailer with the necessary postage to the person providing their cd or tape. Peter can be reached at: peter@dewey.demon.co.uk (European requests only) Gene can be reached at: decophile@pipeline.com Davd can be reached at: davdmock@america.net, and I can be reached at: aschulberg@aol.com (tape requests only) Contents of the cd are: BIG COUNTRY- PRAIRIE ROSE GLASS CANDLE GRENADE- MORE THAN THIS GRACE JONES- LOVE IS THE DRUG FATAL FLOWERS- BOTH ENDS BURNING PRETTY & TWISTED- MOTHER OF PEARL SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES- SEA BREEZES CONCRETE BLONDE- END OF THE LINE THEN JERICHO- PRAIRIE ROSE SPIZZ ENERGI- VIRGINIA PLAIN MIKE MCGEAR- SEA BREEZES TIN MACHINE- IF THERE IS SOMETHING (LIVE IN TOKYO) ROZZ WILLIAMS AND GITANE DEMONE- IN EVERY DREAM HOME A HEARTACHE IVA DAVIES AND ICEHOUSE- A REALLY GOOD TIME MEN WITHOUT HATS- EDITIONS OF YOU ROBYN HITCHCOCK- MORE THAN THIS plus 2HB, Ladytron and Bitter-Sweet from the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack. These "bonus" tracks are not on the tape version. Enormous thanks to Peter Dewey and similar thanks in advance to Gene and Davd for carrying out this project. Arnie -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:36:17 EST From: ASchulberg@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] #8A: Profiles I'd Like To See In a message dated 99-01-28 19:30:06 EST, you write: << 've hear ENOUGH about Vapor, But profiles I'd like to see: Bahi Arnie >> Well, I think it's kinda juvenile but send me the form and I'll fill it out. Arnie - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:36:10 EST From: ASchulberg@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Editions of Roxy on cd In a message dated 99-01-28 18:07:41 EST, you write: << I think this list is amazing, and the people on it wonderful! First the video (under production) and now this CD with covers. How do you do it? >> With love and determination, my dear Kicki. Arnie - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:36:14 EST From: ASchulberg@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Wanted In a message dated 99-01-28 19:29:29 EST, you write: << Every now and again, I ask for clues about the whereabouts of these rarities - things that are known to have existed, things that are definitely out there somewhere. Never had any luck with them but it's about that time again, so here's the list. 1. Horoscope tapes. Around 1991 or 92, Ferry presented for approval tapes of a *completed* album - Horoscope - to his record company. He'd written its music and lyrics and produced it. Uncommercial, though "a good piece of work", he later said of it. Virgin records weren't too keen, it would seem. No Eno, no Trower - no hooks, basically. If it made it to cassette, SOMEONE must have a copy. (Later, following a break for Taxi, parts of this album were rerecorded, rewritten, Enossified, Trowered and included on Mamouna. "Half an album" left over, leading Bryan - in 1994 - to predict a minimal delay before the next one. Hah! He'll *never* get it.) 2. Mother of Pearl Rerecorded by Bryan, probably for Horoscope, in the early 1990s. Anyone? 3. That Madonna Song In late 1985 or early 86, Madonna was asked what she'd been working on recently. She said she'd written a song for Bryan Ferry. In late '87 - new label, new management, and following 2 singles written and recorded for films - Bete Noire appeared. Its music was largely cowritten by Madonna's then collaborator Pat Leonard, who also coproduced it. A fascinating mix of quick, cheap, electronic sequences and layers of subtle, soulful playing and singing but... no sign of Madonna or her song, although her sound permeated the whole album. So... any clues? Did she ever record the song? Did he? 4. Misc The Ferry demo of The Way You Do would be good. The legendary Crimson performance (untaped, Fripp has said, but you never know). And, of course, the Roxy Music demo tape that got them the Peel gig and the EG deal... Also, the unreleased Eno mixes of The 39 Steps (Tech Rock with Love Love Ending?). Esprit no longer have copies. Anyone? >> I'm with Bahi. If anyone has any of this stuff, fork it over! No reason to hog it for yourself. We're all communitarians here at AVALON. Share the wealth. Arnie - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:03:17 -0600 (CST) From: Heather Marie Propes Subject: Re: [AVALON] Roxy sightings Are all Swedes journalists, or only the Swedes that like Roxy Music? Am I being quoted? Ciao, http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/asbuch/index.htm#hometop Heather Marie Propes asbuch@midway.uchicago.edu - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:28:22 +0100 From: Kicki Gustafsson Subject: Re: [AVALON] Roxy sightings >Are all Swedes journalists, or only the Swedes that like Roxy Music? Am I >being quoted? > >Ciao, > >http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/asbuch/index.htm#hometop > >Heather Marie Propes asbuch@midway.uchicago.edu > Lets's see...: 1) Yes 2) Yes 3) Yes /Kicki - ------------------------ Kicki Gustafsson, Östersunds-Posten 063-16 16 51 http://www.op.se http://www.torget.se/users/k/KickiG (privat hemsida) - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:31:55 +0100 From: Kicki Gustafsson Subject: [AVALON] Kicki's homepage >At 18.31 +0000 99-01-28, Neil Ashar wrote: >>Kicki, I think you should do the rest of us non-Scandinavophones (but >>Swedophiles, or Kickophiles, nonetheless) a favor and translate your >>page into English, for us surfers who weren't able to decode your 100 >>secrets. > >Neil, if I had the time, I would do it. Daniel, that's very sweet of you, but please: If and when I decide it's time for my humble homepage to go international, I'll do it myself. /Kicki G P.S Please, please, please - my homepage is not the topic of this list, if anyone wishes to discuss it, do it with me privatly. - ------------------------ Kicki Gustafsson, Östersunds-Posten 063-16 16 51 http://www.op.se http://www.torget.se/users/k/KickiG (privat hemsida) - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:37:16 +0000 From: "Martin Stockman" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Roxy sightings >Anyone else have any Roxy sightings? As Bryan works in London it won't come as any surprise that "sightings" by any one of a network of friends / acquaintances are fairly frequent. Usually my phone rings shortly afterwards with "Martin, just guess who was at the next table to me last night.?.." or somesuch refrain. An old girlfriend, for instance, spotted the Maestro in Le Caprice (restaurant) just before Christmas. Like most ordinary non-Avalonions she had assumed that Bry was a) retired, b) living/working abroad c) looking like a man of certain age. She was completely knocked out by how great he was looking - ie healthy and chic, and how happy he appeared to be. And you're asking what supper companion was putting him in such good spirits ? Step forward the basin-fringed demi-god that is Sir Neil Hubbard. A pleasant anecdote was related to me by a member of my football (soccer) team one frosty Sunday morning a few years ago. "You like Bryan Ferry don't you Martin ?" said Tom as we stretched our ageing hamstrings in the warm-up. I assented. "Yeah I've been working with him." "What ?" "He's working on some songs with Robin Trower at our studios and I'm assisting the Sound Engineer. Bloody nice guy Bryan. I'll tell you something else ; how d'you reckon he arrives at the studio ? You'll never guess - by Bus. Never known a star to turn up like that. As I say bloody nice guy. And another thing. He's only wearing a duffle coat. Looks like some sort of sixties CND campaigner, y'know a beatnik.Bloody nice guy Bryan." (To the Avalon Swear-word Police : All profanities issued are from direct quotes and are used for verisimilitude.) One of the recent tangential threads on the list has been a "discussion" as to what car Ferry drives. My understanding contradicts the quasi-James Bond fantasies of fellow Avalonions (and indeed the magazine NME that infamously labelled him Byron Ferrari.) He was spotted last autumn at a Classic Car rally held in the grounds of some baronial pile in the English Countryside (style fans : he was sporting a cashmere navy blazer. I cannot confirm a monogrammed RM on the breast pocket.) This sighting reminds me of an amazing story from the mid-eighties. A car enthusiast pal rang me to say he had put in a bid at auction for a car owned by Bry. Would I be interested as it was the reserve price was only £750 ? It turns out the car is a Morris Traveller and BF has /had a sentimental regard for this vehicular curio. A Morris Traveller is about as eccentric a car as any that has emerged from a British production line. It has wooden beams around the windows and doors, not unlike a Tudor cottage. No doubt he dreamed of putting roses round the door and sitting in the garden growing potatoes by the score. I didn't buy it but wangled a photocopy of the Owners Documentation : (Home address, 75 Kings Rd.) I suppose I should attend to my non-Avalonion life now, pip pip Martini - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:52:19 -0500 From: "Weinberger, Kelly A." Subject: FW: [AVALON] #8A: Profiles I'd Like To See > >I've hear ENOUGH about Vapor, But profiles I'd like to see: > > > >that other gal in Chicago > > > Well, I think that might be me. I'm the one who alerted the group to > Unknown Pleasures after stumbling upon it at the Frankfurt Book Fair last > October. Could be the last time I posted. Kelly > ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Aries > DESCRIBE YOUR HAIRSTYLE: unruly & long > QUOTE THAT DESCRIBES YOUR PHILOSOPHY: Obscure; cynical yet optimistic. > FAVORITE MAKE-OUT MUSIC: Boys & Girls, Avalon > FAVORITE VICE: round-the-world backpack travel, slam dancing, & this list. > DESCRIBE YOURSELF PHYSICALLY (WITH AT LEAST ONE MEASUREMENT): hmmm, rather average to petite. > FAVORITE PHILOSOPHER and/or CELEBRITY: Bryan, Bill (Shakespeare), > T.S.Eliot > CELEBRITY YOU MOST RESEMBLE: a shorter Mary Elizabeth Mastrontonio > COMPLETE THIS SENTENCE: "Sexually, I AM: too much. > PET PEEVES IN A MATE: my husband's messiness > DESCRIBE YOURSELF IN HIGH SCHOOL: quiet, not as normal as everyone thought > STANCE ON PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENTS: Maybe next time. > FAVORITE BOOK: Any Martha Grimes; I'm reading Beryl Markham's bio now. > FAVORITE MOVIE: El Postino, Cinema Paradiso, Fargo (anything ending in > "o") > PERSON ON AVALON LIST YOU WOULD MOST (or LEAST) LIKE TO MEET: Everyone; > even the Vapor. How about a group hug during Glastonbury? > FAVORITE SUPERMODEL and/or DESIGNER: Gotta be Courtney Love wearing > Versace. > IN TWENTY-EIGHT WORDS OR LESS, TELL US WHY YOU WOULD BE MR or MS RIGHT For > JERRY/FERRY. PLEASE BEGIN YOUR ENTRY WITH 'Dear Bryan' OR 'Dear Jerry': > Dear Bryan: Sometimes marriages made in heaven cannot survive in this life. > -------------------- > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon > - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 99 16:50:21 UT From: "Robert Fedder" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Roxy sightings BF lives near me in West Sussex, and a friend of mine works with a gardener who is BF's gardener in Fittleworth/Bedham. My friend has been almost forced off the road by BF driving a 911. Also on 30/12/84 I was mugged by a couple of skinheads in Paris at about 6pm. Eno walked past about 10 mins later, whilst a friend was commiserating with me at a roadside café. Recognizing baldie, we caught his attention and started up a conversation. Eno offered help, we walked to his hotel where he sorted out elastoplasts etc. I asked what he was working on, and he said "something quite unlike anything I've done before". This later became Apollo - which is a spacey version of On Land. Generally, a very nice bloke. >Anyone else have any Roxy sightings? As Bryan works in London it won't come as any surprise that "sightings" by any one of a network of friends / acquaintances are fairly frequent. Usually my phone rings shortly afterwards with "Martin, just guess who was at the next table to me last night.?.." or somesuch refrain. An old girlfriend, for instance, spotted the Maestro in Le Caprice (restaurant) just before Christmas. Like most ordinary non-Avalonions she had assumed that Bry was a) retired, b) living/working abroad c) looking like a man of certain age. She was completely knocked out by how great he was looking - ie healthy and chic, and how happy he appeared to be. And you're asking what supper companion was putting him in such good spirits ? Step forward the basin-fringed demi-god that is Sir Neil Hubbard. A pleasant anecdote was related to me by a member of my football (soccer) team one frosty Sunday morning a few years ago. "You like Bryan Ferry don't you Martin ?" said Tom as we stretched our ageing hamstrings in the warm-up. I assented. "Yeah I've been working with him." "What ?" "He's working on some songs with Robin Trower at our studios and I'm assisting the Sound Engineer. Bloody nice guy Bryan. I'll tell you something else ; how d'you reckon he arrives at the studio ? You'll never guess - by Bus. Never known a star to turn up like that. As I say bloody nice guy. And another thing. He's only wearing a duffle coat. Looks like some sort of sixties CND campaigner, y'know a beatnik.Bloody nice guy Bryan." (To the Avalon Swear-word Police : All profanities issued are from direct quotes and are used for verisimilitude.) One of the recent tangential threads on the list has been a "discussion" as to what car Ferry drives. My understanding contradicts the quasi-James Bond fantasies of fellow Avalonions (and indeed the magazine NME that infamously labelled him Byron Ferrari.) He was spotted last autumn at a Classic Car rally held in the grounds of some baronial pile in the English Countryside (style fans : he was sporting a cashmere navy blazer. I cannot confirm a monogrammed RM on the breast pocket.) This sighting reminds me of an amazing story from the mid-eighties. A car enthusiast pal rang me to say he had put in a bid at auction for a car owned by Bry. Would I be interested as it was the reserve price was only £750 ? It turns out the car is a Morris Traveller and BF has /had a sentimental regard for this vehicular curio. A Morris Traveller is about as eccentric a car as any that has emerged from a British production line. It has wooden beams around the windows and doors, not unlike a Tudor cottage. No doubt he dreamed of putting roses round the door and sitting in the garden growing potatoes by the score. I didn't buy it but wangled a photocopy of the Owners Documentation : (Home address, 75 Kings Rd.) I suppose I should attend to my non-Avalonion life now, pip pip Martini - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:09:24 -0500 From: Tim Kendrick Subject: [AVALON] Visions of Bryan Hello. I have posted hardly a thing,but I have been observing you all, A God studying the ways of mortals in his magic pool, for 2 months now. I thought Martin Stockman's story was the best and funniest thing I've come across so far. I too have a Bryan sighting to tell of, but it is too risque to post. Sorry. (provocative,eh? But true.) By the way, I have searched the internet up and down and over and under and to and fro and back and forth for this bloody DANCE WITH LIFE 4-track. If anyone has a spare, I would be SO grateful, and would happily purchase it for a modest amount of moola. (Muulah? Moula? Moolah? Mamoula?) As the person who brought up Kate Bush - sorry to those who think only pure Roxy should be covered. But of course the people Ferry has influenced, and those who influenced him, are legitimate subjects for at least passing mention. Which means everyone from Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and Frank Sinatra to Duran Duran, Adam Ant and Sid Vicious are fair game. (Whoops! six non-Roxy mentions. What a world! What a world! - as the wicked witch in the WIZARD OF OZ puts it. Eeek! - seven!) T. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:00:41 -0000 From: "Garratt, Chris" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Roxy sightings > "You like Bryan Ferry don't > you Martin ?" said Tom as we stretched our ageing hamstrings in the > warm-up. > I assented. "Yeah I've been working with him." "What ?" "He's working > on > some songs with Robin Trower at our studios and I'm assisting the > Sound > Engineer. Bloody nice guy Bryan. I'll tell you something else ; how > d'you > reckon he arrives at the studio ? You'll never guess - by Bus. Never > known a > star to turn up like that. As I say bloody nice guy. And another > thing. He's > only wearing a duffle coat. Looks like some sort of sixties CND > campaigner, > y'know a beatnik.Bloody nice guy Bryan." > > That would be Tom Nicebutdim ? ... 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Now I feel much closer to Bryan. http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/asbuch/index.htm#hometop Heather Marie Propes asbuch@midway.uchicago.edu On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Tim Kendrick wrote: > Hello. > I have posted hardly a thing,but I have been observing you all, A God > studying the ways of mortals in his magic pool, for 2 months now. > I thought Martin Stockman's story was the best and funniest thing I've > come across so far. I too have a Bryan sighting to tell of, but it is > too risque to post. Sorry. (provocative,eh? But true.) - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:24:19 PST From: "gareth mc ginley" Subject: Re: [AVALON] R.M/B.F. poll Well folks here's the first part of the results for the RM/ BF poll (too time consuming to include the whole lot in one message). There were 29 entrants (details later). Scoring goes like this: if, for example you voted for only one favourite song than that song receives one full vote, if you voted for 4 favourite songs each receives one quarter of a vote etc. etc. GENERAL 1. Overall which albums interest you most, those of Roxy Music or the Bryan Ferry solo albums? 1. ROXY MUSIC ALBUMS 82.8% 2. BRYAN FERRY SOLO ALBUMS 6.9% N/A 10.3% ROXY MUSIC 1. Is Roxy Music your favourite band? 1. YES 69% 2. NO 20.7% 3. SOMETIMES 10.3% (Everyone answere this question) 2. Do you believe that Roxy Music was the most influential band in the 70's? 1. NO 62.1% 2. YES 31% N/A 6.9% 3. Which of the two phases of Roxy Music interest you most? 1. FIRST 79.3% 2. SECOND 13.8% 3. BOTH 3.4% N/A 3.4% 4. Which is your favourite Roxy Music album? 1. COUNTRY LIFE 20.7% 2. SIREN 17.2% = AVALON 17.2% 4. FOR YOUR PLEASURE 13.8% 5. STRANDED 12.1% 6. ROXY MUSIC 8.6% 7. VIVA 6.9% 8. FLESH & BLOOD 3.4% (Everybody answered this question, Manifesto received no votes) 5. Which Roxy Music album do you believe to be the most influential? 1. ROXY MUSIC 47.9% 2. AVALON 24.1% 3. FOR YOUR PLEASURE 13.4% 4. COUNTRY LIFE 6.9% 5. STRANDED 4.6% N/A 3.4% (Siren, Manifesto, and Fleah & Blood received no votes) 6. Which is your least favourite Roxy Music album? 1. FLESH & BLOOD 34.1% 2. MANIFESTO 30.6% 3. SIREN 7.9% 4. STRANDED 6.9% = none 6.9% 6. ROXY MUSIC 3.4% = FOR YOUR PLEASURE 3.4% = COUNTRY LIFE 3.4% N/A 6.9% 7. Which do you believe was Roxy Music's biggest influence, their style or their music? 1. MUSIC 62.1% 2. STYLE 24.1% N/A 13.8% 8. Which is your favorite Roxy Music song? 1. MOTHER OF PEARL 15.5% 2. IF THERE IS SOMETHING 8.6% (3.4% of this is the Viva track) 3. BEAUTY QUEEN 6.9% = BOTH ENDS BURNING 6.9% = SAME OLD SCENE 6.9% = TRUE TO LIFE 6.9% 7. SONG FOR EUROPE 5.2% = OUT OF THE BLUE 5.2% = MORE THAN THIS 5.2% = AVALON 5.2% 11. DO THE STRAND 3.4% = IN EVERY DREAM HOME... 3.4% (on Viva) = SUNSET 3.4% = THRILL OF IT ALL 3.4% = TO TURN YOU ON 3.4% = VIRGINIA PLAIN 3.4% 17. PSALM 1.7% = ALL I WANT IS YOU 1.7% 9. Which is your favourite Roxy Music song from each album? ROXY MUSIC ALBUM 1. IF THERE IS SOMETHING 31% 2. LADYTRON 13.8% 3. RE-MAKE RE-MODEL 10.3% = VIRGINIA PLAIN 10.3% = 2HB 10.3% = CHANCE MEETING 10.3% 7. SEA BREEZES 6.9% 8. THE BOB 3.4% N/A 3.4% FOR YOUR PLEASURE ALBUM 1. BEAUTY QUEEN 25.9% 2. FOR YOUR PLEASURE 17.2% 3. DO THE STRAND 13.8% 4. IN EVERY DREAM HOME.. 12.1% = EDITIONS OF YOU 12.1% 6. GREY LAGOONS 6.9% 7. STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL 3.4% 8. THE BOGUS MAN 1.7% N/A 6.9% STRANDED ALBUM 1. SONG FOR EUROPE 36.2% 2. MOTHER OF PEARL 27.6% 3. STREET LIFE 10.3% 4. JUST LIKE YOU 6.9% = PSALM 6.9% 5. SUNSET 3.4% 6. AMAZONA 1.7% N/A 6.9% COUNTRY LIFE 1. OUT OF THE BLUE 20.3% 2. THRILL OF IT ALL 18.3% 3. ALL I WANT IS YOU 12.1% = CASANOVA 12.1% = REALLY GOOD TIME 12.1% 6. PRAIRIE ROSE 10.3% 7. BITTER SWEET 7.9% 8. IF IT TAKES ALL NIGHT 3.4% N/A 3.4% SIREN ALBUM 1. BOTH ENDS BURNING 37.9% 2. SENTIMENTAL FOOL 15.5% 3. LOVE IS THE DRUG 13.8% 4. END OF THE LINE 10.3% 5. JUST ANOTHER HIGH 8.6% 6. NIGHTINGALE 6.9% N/A 6.9% MANIFESTO ALBUM 1. MANIFESTO 19% 2. ANGEL EYES 13.8% = STILL FALLS THE RAIN 13.8% = DANCE AWAY 13.8% 5. STRONGER THROUGH THE YEARS 6.9% 6. TRASH 3.4% N/A 10.3% FLESH AND BLOOD ALBUM 1. MY ONLY LOVE 29.3% 2. SAME OLD SCENE 17.2% 3. OH YEAH 15.5% 4. RUNNING WILD 13.8% 5. NO STRANGE DELIGHT 6.9% 6. IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR 3.4% = OVER YOU 3.4% = RAIN, RAIN, RAIN 3.4% N/A 6.9% AVALON ALBUM 1. MORE THAN THIS 19% = TRUE TO LIFE 19% 3. AVALON 17.2% 4. TO TURN YOU ON 13.8% 5. TAKE A CHANCE WITH ME 10.3% 6. THE MAIN THING 6.9% 7. WHILE MY HEART IS... 3.4% 10. What do you think is Roxy Music's best lyric? 1. MOTHER OF PEARL 26.7% 2. IN EVERY DREAM HOME... 25% 3. SONG FOR EUROPE 5.2% = LOVE IS THE DRUG 5.2% 5. VIRGINIA PLAIN 4.3% = MANIFESTO 4.3% 7. BITTER SWEET 3.4% = IF THERE IS SOMETHING 3.4% = WHILE MY HEART IS... 3.4% = OUT OF THE BLUE 3.4% = TO TURN YOU ON 3.4% = BOTH ENDS BURNING 3.4% = DO THE STRAND 3.4% 14. RE-MAKE RE-MODEL 1.7% ....Part 2 on coming soon ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:52:09 PST From: "gareth mc ginley" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Byzantium Vicente asked: > Where exactly does your uncle work? He works at home in London somewhere around Shephards Bush. The funny thing is that his name is Liam Gallagher and he's constantly getting e-mails saying "What do you see in that bitch Patsy Kensit anyway". ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 99 19:56:49 UT From: "Robert Fedder" Subject: [AVALON] Lost songs Bahi, where do you get all this from! Pearl ca 1990? Sounds v interesting... The Madge song may be held up because of the rift with Leonard - where he stiffed Bry for royalties. Robert >>>> Every now and again, I ask for clues about the whereabouts of these rarities - things that are known to have existed, things that are definitely out there somewhere. Never had any luck with them but it's about that time again, so here's the list. 1. Horoscope tapes. Around 1991 or 92, Ferry presented for approval tapes of a *completed* album - Horoscope - to his record company. He'd written its music and lyrics and produced it. Uncommercial, though "a good piece of work", he later said of it. Virgin records weren't too keen, it would seem. No Eno, no Trower - no hooks, basically. If it made it to cassette, SOMEONE must have a copy. (Later, following a break for Taxi, parts of this album were rerecorded, rewritten, Enossified, Trowered and included on Mamouna. "Half an album" left over, leading Bryan - in 1994 - to predict a minimal delay before the next one. Hah! He'll *never* get it.) 2. Mother of Pearl Rerecorded by Bryan, probably for Horoscope, in the early 1990s. Anyone? 3. That Madonna Song In late 1985 or early 86, Madonna was asked what she'd been working on recently. She said she'd written a song for Bryan Ferry. In late '87 - new label, new management, and following 2 singles written and recorded for films - Bete Noire appeared. Its music was largely cowritten by Madonna's then collaborator Pat Leonard, who also coproduced it. A fascinating mix of quick, cheap, electronic sequences and layers of subtle, soulful playing and singing but... no sign of Madonna or her song, although her sound permeated the whole album. So... any clues? Did she ever record the song? Did he? 4. Misc The Ferry demo of The Way You Do would be good. The legendary Crimson performance (untaped, Fripp has said, but you never know). And, of course, the Roxy Music demo tape that got them the Peel gig and the EG deal... Also, the unreleased Eno mixes of The 39 Steps (Tech Rock with Love Love Ending?). Esprit no longer have copies. Anyone? Hopefully, Bahi - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:25:13 -0000 From: "Richard Swift" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Visions of Bryan Tim - There are a couple of CD singles of "Dance With Life" - one is a three track and the other four. I got my 4 track from a UK specialist outlet - don't recall the name but Jim Lawn mentioned it in one of his newsletters and I could dig it out if you need it. You can order from their website. Alternatively try the Lakeshore Record Exchange (Canada) at http://alternativemusic.com I have had a couple of CDs from them including a nice digipak "Introduction to Mamouna" containing four tracks and the current text on Bryan's work at the Virgin website. I have checked their site and the four track CD is listed in their main catalogue, so hopefully it's in stock. Good luck. Richard - -----Original Message----- From: Tim Kendrick To: avalon@smoe.org Date: Friday, January 29, 1999 5:08 PM Subject: [AVALON] Visions of Bryan >Hello. >I have posted hardly a thing,but I have been observing you all, A God >studying the ways of mortals in his magic pool, for 2 months now. >I thought Martin Stockman's story was the best and funniest thing I've >come across so far. I too have a Bryan sighting to tell of, but it is >too risque to post. Sorry. (provocative,eh? But true.) >By the way, I have searched the internet up and down and over and under >and to and fro and back and forth for this bloody DANCE WITH LIFE >4-track. If anyone has a spare, I would be SO grateful, and would >happily purchase it for a modest amount of moola. (Muulah? Moula? >Moolah? Mamoula?) >As the person who brought up Kate Bush - sorry to those who think only >pure Roxy should be covered. But of course the people Ferry has >influenced, and those who influenced him, are legitimate subjects for at >least passing mention. Which means everyone from Billie Holiday, Charlie >Parker and Frank Sinatra to Duran Duran, Adam Ant and Sid Vicious are >fair game. (Whoops! six non-Roxy mentions. What a world! What a world! - >as the wicked witch in the WIZARD OF OZ puts it. Eeek! - seven!) >T. > > > > >-------------------- >To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: >unsubscribe avalon > - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:28:56 +0100 From: Bahi Para Subject: Re: [AVALON] Lost songs Robert Fedder wrote: >where do you get all this from! Pearl ca 1990? American magazine article picked up by chance in London somewhere once. It's nowhere to hand but I think it might have been Creem. Or Spin, maybe? It was an interview with Bryan with a passing mention that he'd rerecorded Pearl for his then current album. The Madonna thing was from that bastion of pop music journalism, Smash Hits. Terse last-page type article. Too bizarre for them to have made up, I hope. And it was an interview, rather than a set of quotes. Speaking of magazine articles, does anyone remember Raygun setting a whole Ferry interview in Zapf Dingbats around 93 or 94? Quite an amusing idea, though Bryan probably didn't think so. Do you know more about the Leonard/Ferry rift? I heard that Leonard and Madonna fell out over an unauthorised remix he released. Upon the release of Bete Noire, Bryan mentioned that there was such good camaraderie among his core players that he intended to go straight back into a studio and start on a quick followup. Ignoring the ever amusing lack of self awareness that these sort of comments betray, I gathered that he got on quite well with Pat Leonard. The royalty problem - was it to do with disagreements over who wrote what? I also remember a Guy Pratt interview - roughly 1991 - in which he said he'd played on every track of Ferry's new album (Horoscope) 3 times. 3 years later, he barely made an appearance on Mamouna. "Bryan just keeps going till someone tells him to stop." Have received a message suggesting that at least one Horoscope cassette is in circulation (thanks, digest subscriber David N) but haven't yet found anyone with a copy. Working on it, will keep you posted. B - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V4 #36 *************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest