From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V4 #37 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, January 30 1999 Volume 04 : Number 037 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Roxy sightings [Bahi Para ] Re: [AVALON] 2 different sites ["Richard Swift" ] Re: [AVALON] Roxy sightings [Heather Marie Propes ] Re: [AVALON] Roxy sightings [Rex Estorffe ] Re: [AVALON] Roxy sightings [Rex Estorffe ] Re: [AVALON] Lost songs ["tfagan" ] Re: [AVALON] #8A: Profiles I'd Like To See ["alegna" ] Re: [AVALON] #8A: Profiles I'd Like To See [Heather Marie Propes ] [AVALON] SEALED RM/BF ON YAHOO [thesonics@earthlink.net (Jay Siekierski)] [AVALON] Manzanera site [erik simpson ] Re: [AVALON] profiles [POE1527@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Manzanera site ["G-media" ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:20:27 +0100 From: Bahi Para Subject: Re: [AVALON] Roxy sightings Martin Stockman wrote: >Step forward the basin-fringed demi-god that is Sir Neil Hubbard. That's certainly what he should be. Did Bryan get him to sign an exclusivity contract or does he still work on other projects? Bahi - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:31:28 -0000 From: "Richard Swift" Subject: Re: [AVALON] 2 different sites Shin I'm sure the first site is the website Jim Lawn said he was setting up around December 97 / January 98 but it has only just started to materialise. I have e-mailed the site to find out more and await a reply. Don't know about the second - it looks professional enough but as you say why have a second site if the first is the official one for both Bryan and Roxy. If it is an 'official site' perhaps it will mirror the Roxy content of the first - a vehicle perhaps to promote the forthcoming relaunch of the back catalogue? I will e-mail too and let you know if I get a reply. Cheers, Richard - -----Original Message----- From: shin To: avalon@smoe.org Date: Friday, January 29, 1999 6:00 AM Subject: [AVALON] 2 different sites >What is going on with these 2 sites: > >http://www.bryanferry.co.uk/ > >http://www.roxymusic.co.uk/ > >The BF site states it is the official BF+RM site. Then there is the >second site which just RM. There is definitely something bubbling here. >I am going to email the first site and ask what is going on. > > > > > > > >-------------------- >To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: >unsubscribe avalon > - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 02:06:58 +0100 From: Bahi Para Subject: Re: [AVALON] 2 different sites Shin asked: >What is going on with these 2 sites? Good question and kudos for spotting the activity at the new site. There are at least 3 registered Ferry-related sites that might be assumed to be official. Anyone Ferry fan who hasn't yet visited should check out this background image: http://www.bryanferry.co.uk/img/ferrybgrnd.jpg Looks particularly cool scaled right down. Bahi 1) http://www.bryanferry.co.uk/ Held by IE Music. Looks like the real thing, too. The registration details are fairly old (regiestered on 14-Apr-1997) but the thing has been dormant until recently. 2) http://www.roxymusic.co.uk/ (and http://www.roxy-music.com) Held by Manzanera's Gallery Music/Gallery Studios. Given the lack of progress and the recent emergence of Bryan's own site, do we have evidence of problems with Roxy reunion plans? 3) http://www.bryanferry.com Held by EMI (UK) but currently pointing to a dumb EasyNet standard page. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:10:34 -0600 (CST) From: Heather Marie Propes Subject: Re: [AVALON] Roxy sightings On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Martin Stockman wrote: > 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. I'm glad our hero is keeping himself up. Who is 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." I love it, Bryan, me and the masses, all taking the bus together, only in different parts of the world. I bet he looks just as cute as Paddington Bear in his duffle coat. In fact, Someone out to market a stuffed Bryan! > 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.) Are you serious? It's that simple? Did your friend get the car? I wonder why he was selling it if he had a sentimental attachment to it? Oh well, maybe insurance wsa too expensive or it had an oil leak and Lucy didn't want it messing up the driveway. > Martini A toast to the Martini! Heather - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:30:53 -0500 From: "Decophile" Subject: Re: [AVALON] 2 different sites - -----Original Message----- From: Bahi Para To: avalon@smoe.org Date: Friday, January 29, 1999 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [AVALON] 2 different sites >Shin asked: > >>What is going on with these 2 sites? > >Good question and kudos for spotting the activity at the new site. There >are at least 3 registered Ferry-related sites that might be assumed to be >official. Anyone Ferry fan who hasn't yet visited should check out this >background image: > >http://www.bryanferry.co.uk/img/ferrybgrnd.jpg > >Looks particularly cool scaled right down. > >Bahi I had to point out the absence of Eddie`s image via their "suggestions" e-mail link. That just won`t do. They show an e-mail link to recieve updated news on the site. Perhaps they can post it directly to the Avalon list. Gene - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:40:19 -0800 From: Rex Estorffe Subject: Re: [AVALON] Roxy sightings Martin Stockman wrote: > > >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 ex mon femme learned to drive in a morris traveller with the wood stuff 'not treated'she was from the north of uk and lived in the kings road chelsea/fulham could it be she sat in the same seat as our hero oh noooo! - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:44:32 -0800 From: Rex Estorffe Subject: Re: [AVALON] Roxy sightings Robert Fedder wrote: > > 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 So funny sounds like an excert from Lady chatts lover - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:59:05 -0500 From: "tfagan" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Lost songs - -----Original Message----- From: Bahi Para > >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. When I first got that magazine I thought it just might take the rest of my life to decode that interview till I found a decoded version somewhere else in the issue! - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:16:42 -0800 From: "alegna" Subject: Re: [AVALON] #8A: Profiles I'd Like To See (groan) okay, here's mine. ---alegna >ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Capricorn >DESCRIBE YOUR HAIRSTYLE: Updated Farrah Cut >QUOTE THAT DESCRIBES YOUR PHILOSOPHY: If it moves, kill it. >FAVORITE MAKE-OUT MUSIC: Bolero and Boys and Girls >FAVORITE VICE: Chocolate >DESCRIBE YOURSELF PHYSICALLY (WITH AT LEAST ONE MEASUREMENT):Short and round (think Mama Italian). 5'1", Dark wavy hair, big around everywhere. Nice teeth. >FAVORITE PHILOSOPHER and/or CELEBRITY: Don't have one >CELEBRITY YOU MOST RESEMBLE: A cross between the early Roseanne and Delta Burke >COMPLETE THIS SENTENCE: "Sexually, I AM: turned on by dark haired guys with English accents >PET PEEVES IN A MATE: Bad grooming, lack of intellegence >DESCRIBE YOURSELF IN HIGH SCHOOL: Smoked pot, ditched school, shoplifted. Pretty typical rebellious kid. >STANCE ON PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENTS: Only if I'm rich >FAVORITE BOOK: Tales from the Flat Earth by Tanith Lee >FAVORITE MOVIE: Hmm... Gone with the Wind and Die Hard >PERSON ON AVALON LIST YOU WOULD MOST (or LEAST) LIKE TO MEET: I don't pick favorites >FAVORITE SUPERMODEL and/or DESIGNER: Supermodel: Anna Nicole Smith (well, maybe not Supermodel). Designer: Donna Karan >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, > >I can do things with my tongue that you can't even imagine.> > > > > >-------------------- >To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: >unsubscribe avalon > - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:45:39 -0600 (CST) From: Heather Marie Propes Subject: Re: [AVALON] #8A: Profiles I'd Like To See On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, alegna wrote: > >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, > > > >I can do things with my tongue that you can't even imagine.> woohoo! You're the greatest, I loved it! ciao, Heather - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:49:31 -0600 (CST) From: Heather Marie Propes Subject: [AVALON] profiles I just wanted to tell everyone that I LOVE these profiles. I read each one eagerly, and now feel like I know everyone here a lot better. And I think they have made the conversation flow a lot better around here, now that we know something about each other. I wish I could meet all of you. Maybe someday some of us will meet. I've never met any of my online friends. Has anyone else? What is it like when you meet them? ciao Heather 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 19:38:54 -0800 (PST) From: thesonics@earthlink.net (Jay Siekierski) Subject: [AVALON] SEALED RM/BF ON YAHOO For you collectors out there here are the links for 2 SEALED LP's by RM/BF. Thxs J NYC http://auctions.yahoo.com/auction/2473628 http://auctions.yahoo.com/auction/2473653 The Sonics All Music Site Published By Jay Siekierski http://home.earthlink.net/~thesonics NEW REVIEWS UP: DAVE DAVIES/ROLLING STONES/JOHN MAYALL/AEROSMITH/BE BOP DELUXE/RESIDENTS Check Out My Music Auctions. On Ebay: Bluenigel & Yahoo: Rednigel - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:09:35 -0800 From: erik simpson Subject: [AVALON] Manzanera site Hi; The Manzanera site is now active. Check it out. Apparently he will be selling old and new product directly from the site. Has some sketchy news about Phil's new album due this spring which includes Robert Wyatt. I found some it a bit hard to read, and not everything is up yet (audio files yet to come), but it's nice to see it going. Haven't had a chance to fully explore it yet, but I figured some of you would be interested, and I had to jump at the opportunity to be on-topic for a change. Bye; Erik S - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:13:34 EST From: POE1527@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] profiles i imagine it would be quite like the first time that lenin and trotsky met - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 08:35:16 From: "G-media" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Manzanera site Erik, What's the web address of the site? > >The Manzanera site is now active. Check it out. Apparently he will be >selling old and new product directly from the site. Has some sketchy news >about Phil's new album due this spring which includes Robert Wyatt. I found >some it a bit hard to read, and not everything is up yet (audio files yet to >come), but it's nice to see it going. Haven't had a chance to fully explore >it yet, but I figured some of you would be interested, and I had to jump at >the opportunity to be on-topic for a change. > - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V4 #37 *************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest