From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V4 #267 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, September 8 1999 Volume 04 : Number 267 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] here's looking at you kid [jspellman ] Re: [AVALON] here's looking at you kid [ASchulberg@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Smiling Eddie [ASchulberg@aol.com] [AVALON] ASSH/CD Tree Update ["Decophile" ] Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) ["Martin Stockman" ] Re: [AVALON] Ferry old? [Kicki Gustafsson ] [AVALON]Re: Spedding [jspellman ] Re: [AVALON] Ferry old? -Reply [Kimberly Shell ] Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) ["Han Snijders en Willy v/d] Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) [Kicki Gustafsson ] Re: [AVALON] As Time Goes By question [Noam Bronstein ] Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) ["Will Frechette" ] Re: [AVALON] the HAIR! ["Will Frechette" ] Re: Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) [Heather Buch ] Re: [AVALON] tour 1999? [pricie1@ix.netcom.com] Re: [AVALON] tour 1999? [pricie1@ix.netcom.com] [AVALON] BF in Chicago. [Paul Wasowicz ] [AVALON] GQ#2 ["tfagan" ] [AVALON] GQ#3 ["tfagan" ] [AVALON] Bombs away.... [jas2347@xsite.net] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 09:56:22 -0400 From: jspellman Subject: Re: [AVALON] here's looking at you kid Decophile wrote: > Speaking of bands that sound like the Beatles, the hands down winner has to > be Badfinger. I mean, "No Matter What" had been out some five years before I > realized who it really was. I thought Badfinger did the Beatles better than > the Beatles. > Same here, especially If You Want It, I still think it's McCartney on bass. These guys are still playing around, even if their all dead. They were in Boston about 12 years ago with the bass player as the only original member, a week later he hanged himself. I think a close second may be The Raspberries, Cleveland's answer to the Beatles. They did Badfinger better than The Beatles. ;-) The Monkees may have been a sham but, they did have some great guitar players on their songs, unfortunately Mike Nesmith wasn't one of them. Jim - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:10:38 EDT From: ASchulberg@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] here's looking at you kid In a message dated 09/06/1999 11:36:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, decophile@pipeline.com writes: << Speaking of bands that sound like the Beatles, the hands down winner has to be Badfinger. I mean, "No Matter What" had been out some five years before I realized who it really was. I thought Badfinger did the Beatles better than the Beatles. >> Yes. And, kids, how about the Knickerbockers song, "Lies"? Arnie - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:10:38 EDT From: ASchulberg@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Smiling Eddie In a message dated 09/06/1999 10:16:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jspellman@banet.net writes: << does anyone have a photo of Jobson smiling. > I`ve never seen a smile on his face, only a pout (for lack of a better term) > and sometimes a scowl, like in the all too familiar photo of the band posing > in front of the Holiday Inn marquee. >> There's a Jobson list. Like Jobson it's output is intermittent. But next time I get a chance I'll ask this question there. Arnie - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 13:06:32 -0400 From: "Decophile" Subject: [AVALON] ASSH/CD Tree Update I`m still waiting for several things to come in, a copy the Wolfhampton show being one of them. (I somehow missed out on this one). I`ve also come across 2 more tracks (For Your Pleasure and Song For Europe) for the '75 New York show CD which will bring the total to 12 tracks. A copy of the "Air Treatments" bootleg ('73 Air Studios demos?) courtesy of TriTri (tfagan@neo.rr.com) is also on it`s way and will be offered. Everything should be here this week, but if any of this material doesn`t come in on time, another tree will be put together and they will be offered then. One of the people making CD copies for everyone, Eric Simpson, is on vacation and won`t be back until the end of the week, so we`re looking at sometime next week before we get under way. When requesting, please list all CDs you`d like and e-mail me personally, not the list, with "CD Tree" in the subject line. IMPORTANT: If you e-mailed me with a request prior to this week, you`ll have to resubmit your request. Here is the list of what is available along with the new ASSH CD. Brian Ferry-Wolfhampton(?) '95 with Robin Trower 1CD (I`m still waiting for this one to come in.) The Stockholm show of 01.27.76, 2CDs, Excellent Stereo '75 New York show (Siren tour), 1CD Excellent Stereo (I`ve located 2 more tracks for this show and hope to have them added this week.) Various BBC broadcast '72-'74, 1CD Excellent Stereo Complete '75 Boston show (Country Life tour), 2CD Very good+ audience recording Editions Of Roxy- A 1 CD compilation of 15 Roxy songs covered by other bands. You will need to provide the appropriate number of blank CDs along with a stamped, self addressed, bubble-pac lined shipping package. In the case of people outside of North America, I`ll get back to you with postage/blank media cost. Cheers. Gene - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 18:08:19 +0100 From: "Martin Stockman" Subject: Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) Today I saw the photographs of the new haircut in GQ. Relax. It is still cool. Very 90s, unreconstructed, multo sportivo, taking a turn off mainstreet, away from the cacaphony and real-life relics. One fine quote from the article : Ferry has become known as a purveyor of elegantly morose pashmina rock, but visually he remains a bit of a wag. This article should be made available to the list. Martin (Okay, now back to Badfinger ...) - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 10:29:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Ashar Subject: [AVALON] Ferry old? He looks old, man!!! He looks like my dad!! They're about the same age. I guess Ferry still has his hair though... When his sequel to ATGB comes out he may be with a walker -- can't air guitar then!!! "Will rock for food" NA - --- Martin Stockman wrote: > Today I saw the photographs of the new haircut in GQ. Relax. It is > still > cool. Very 90s, unreconstructed, multo sportivo, taking a turn off > mainstreet, away from the cacaphony and real-life relics. One fine > quote > from the article : Ferry has become known as a purveyor of elegantly > morose > pashmina rock, but visually he remains a bit of a wag. > > This article should be made available to the list. > > Martin > > (Okay, now back to Badfinger ...) > > > > > -------------------- > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 19:46:22 +0200 From: Kicki Gustafsson Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry old? >He looks old, man!!! He looks like my dad!! They're about the same >age. I guess Ferry still has his hair though... When his sequel to ATGB >comes out he may be with a walker -- can't air guitar then!!! >"Will rock for food" > >NA *ROTFL* Can't somebody please copy the article for this list?? /Kicki G - ------------------------ 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: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 13:40:13 -0400 From: jspellman Subject: [AVALON]Re: Spedding I remember reading a story about Chris's Gibson Flying V, the one on the LST video. He said he took out the neck pickup and just had one pickup to make it look simple. Also, because he said he never used that pickup on his Les Paul. That was a very cool guitar, unfortunately it was stolen a few years later. Jim - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 12:56:26 -0500 From: Kimberly Shell Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry old? -Reply Yes- thank you for asking, Kicki!! >>> Kicki Gustafsson 09/07/99 12:46pm >>> >He looks old, man!!! He looks like my dad!! They're about the same >age. I guess Ferry still has his hair though... When his sequel to ATGB >comes out he may be with a walker -- can't air guitar then!!! >"Will rock for food" > >NA *ROTFL* Can't somebody please copy the article for this list?? /Kicki G - ------------------------ 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 - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 02:22:43 -0500 From: "Will Frechette" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Smiling Eddie I believe horror and shock were pretty much the look. Will - ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Spellman To: Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 9:11 PM Subject: [AVALON] Smiling Eddie > Decophile wrote: > > > I probably wouldn`t find it so hard to get into the post Siren era Roxy if > > Jobson had stayed on. His absence, IMO, leaves a void that somehow makes the > > later band sound incomplete. > > Not stray too far off topic, but does anyone have a photo of Jobson smiling. > > I`ve never seen a smile on his face, only a pout (for lack of a better term) > > and sometimes a scowl, like in the all too familiar photo of the band posing > > in front of the Holiday Inn marquee. > > > > Gene > > > > He must be a real serious guy. > Hey Will, did he smile when your > girlfriend offered him the pipe? > > Jim > > > > > > -------------------- > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon > - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 22:35:29 +0200 From: "Han Snijders en Willy v/d Geest" Subject: Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) >Today I saw the photographs of the new haircut in GQ. Am I crazy or does he look a bit like Paul McCartney? Han - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 22:53:32 +0200 From: Kicki Gustafsson Subject: Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) >>Today I saw the photographs of the new haircut in GQ. > >Am I crazy or does he look a bit like Paul McCartney? > >Han I have just seen the 1978 video to "What goes on", where the bearded Bry looks frightenly much like a lost Gibb-brother. Scary. /Kicki G - ------------------------ 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: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:53:44 -0400 (EDT) From: shinoballo@webtv.net (Jeff Pavlock) Subject: Re: [AVALON] Smiling Eddie I was watching the Jethro Tull anniversary video the other day and they were getting all over Mr. Jobson about his make-up. He was one of the few ex-Tulls not to attend. The clips he was in do not show a smiling Jobson. Proof positive - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 17:04:42 -0400 From: "Decophile" Subject: [AVALON] The CD Tree Guideline THE CD / TAPE / VIDEO TREE GUIDELINE INTRODUCTION: Welcome to the Avalon list. This mail list is devoted to Roxy Music and related artist and bands. If you give this list a chance, I think you`ll find that it has a lot to offer in the way of Roxy Music news and items of interest. There are many music related mail lists available on the Internet but I`m sure you`ll find the Avalon list is special and different. One thing that we offer that is of interest to many people is a selection of rare and unique material not available to the mainstream public (read into this bootlegs) by way of out "CD/Video trees." The Roxy Music bootlegs distributed via our "trees" are aimed at people who love listening to Roxy, want to hear interesting, good Roxy, and groan at the hint of another damn no-end-in-sight CD box set that seem to re-hash the same old studio cuts, "b- sides", and "special mixes" over and over. Bootlegs offer a unique glimpse of the band on their natural turf....the stage. Please keep in mind that no one on the Avalon list is responsible for the existence of bootlegs albums, we merely have access to them, enjoy them and wish to spread the music. I`ve met many people on this mail list who were stunned by the brilliance of a certain song done live on a bootleg and reevaluated their whole attitude to them. But first and foremost, the Avalon list is NOT just about bootlegs and anyone focusing only on this subject is missing out on some often stimulating, sometimes hilarious and most interesting people. WHAT A "TREE" IS AND HOW IT`S DONE: A "tree", as in Tape/Video/Cd "tree", is unique material relating to Roxy Music which is compiled by a person(s) and offered to the list. If enough interest is generated, then list members capable of producing CD-R and tape copies (known as "Master Holders") will contact the person with the material. A number of "masters" are made and sent to a number of "Master Holders". When the "Master Holders" are ready, they will announce it to the list and anyone interested in a copy would simply post a request to the list copies will go out to those interested. Hence, "a tree." Typically, anyone wanting a copy will need to send the appropriate number of blank media (video tapes, audio cassette tapes or CD-R) and a stamped, addressed bubble-lined shipping package. The "Master Holder" will make your copy and send it to you. That`s it. THE RULES: 1) A CD/Tape/Video (T/V/CD) Tree can only be initiated by a person(s) possessing enough Roxy related material to put (at least) a tape together. 2) NO ONE CAN VOLUNTEER ANOTHER`S MATERIAL. 3) In no way is a profit made by anyone initiating or taking part as a master holder. They will always be done for the cost of the media and shipping only. >>WHAT`S AVAILABLE: Past trees have included: Brian Ferry-Wolfhampton(?) '95 with Robin Trower The Stockholm show of 01.27.76, 2CDs, Excellent Stereo '75 New York/London show, 1CD Excellent Stereo Various BBC broadcast '72-'74, 1CD Excellent Stereo '74 Boston show, 2CD Very good+ mono audience recording Editions Of Roxy- A compilation of 15 Roxy songs covered by other bands. WHAT`S IN THE FUTURE: A Video collection. A CD of live recordings from the '80`s and a recent Ferry show from the Meltdown '99 festival. - ----------------------------------------------END-------------------------- - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 13:44:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Noam Bronstein Subject: Re: [AVALON] As Time Goes By question Thanks. Their web site had nothing on it so I wasn't sure. Noam - ---Hoon Shin wrote: > > Same as Mamouna. Virgin America. > > On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Noam Bronstein wrote: > > > I'm sure someone already mentioned this, but I've deleted old msgs and can't > > seem to find the answer on the FAQ or anywhere else. > > > > What label is releasing As Time Goes By in the US?? > > > > thanks, > > Noam > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > DO YOU YAHOO!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > > unsubscribe avalon > > > > > > > > > > -------------------- > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 17:08:40 -0400 From: "Decophile" Subject: Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) - -----Original Message----- From: Han Snijders en Willy v/d Geest To: avalon@smoe.org Date: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 4:46 PM Subject: Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) >>Today I saw the photographs of the new haircut in GQ. > >Am I crazy or does he look a bit like Paul McCartney? > Paul McCartney looks like Wallace Shawn's elderly brother? Gene - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 22:38:36 +0100 From: "Martin Stockman" Subject: Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) >>Today I saw the photographs of the new haircut in GQ. > >Am I crazy or does he look a bit like Paul McCartney? > Yes Han. But lets not get Johnny Fulton angry again. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 14:41:26 PDT From: "mark shanahan" Subject: [AVALON] the HAIR! >Yes, well I have definite plans for these kids. They are not >going to be the types of kids you see running wildly down the >halls of the art museum. Heather i have a vision of boot camp floating through my head ... well, it would be nice if someone UK-wise *could* float a pic up on the web - -- that is, of the new coif-o. the hair, the hair -- oh, my god, not the HAIR! i would venture to say that bryan ferry *is not* bryan ferry without _that_ hair ... of course, it can be grown back - well in time for any touring. speaking of hair, nice cover for 'ASSH'! although, if you want to be spell-correct, i believe it's 'saturday night *live*' (not 'life', unless i read wrong). and, thanks alison for the bowie quote! peaces/ms ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 05:20:52 -0500 From: "Will Frechette" Subject: Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) Crazy Han! Will - ----- Original Message ----- From: Han Snijders en Willy v/d Geest > >Today I saw the photographs of the new haircut in GQ. > > Am I crazy or does he look a bit like Paul McCartney? > > Han - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 18:20:33 -0400 From: Heather Buch Subject: Re: [AVALON] the HAIR! - --_uReach_com_26916734993674283318957xxx_ Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - ---- On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, mark shanahan (m_shanahan@hotmail.com) wrote: > well, it would be nice if someone UK-wise *could* float a pic up on the > web > -- that is, of the new coif-o. the hair, the hair -- oh, my god, not > the > HAIR! I have a vision of every Gap commercial I've ever seen in my head. What I would personally like to begin seeing again on men is not that "tousled 1 1/2 inches of a grown-out crewcut," but the late 70's feathered wedge a la Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man or Hello Larry or Greg Brady. That was so *cute*! And I think it would look just *great* on Bryan. Heather ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number - Free Free voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com - --_uReach_com_26916734993674283318957xxx_-- - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 05:24:37 -0500 From: "Will Frechette" Subject: Re: [AVALON] the HAIR! If only mine could be grown back in time for the tour. Will - ----- Original Message ----- From: mark shanahan oh, my god, not the > HAIR! i would venture to say that bryan ferry *is not* bryan ferry without > _that_ hair ... of course, it can be grown back - well in time for any > touring. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 18:32:34 -0400 From: Heather Buch Subject: Re: Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) - --_uReach_com_26916734993674355421355xxx_ Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think you're all crazy Heather - ---- On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Han Snijders en Willy v/d Geest (snijders.geest@gironet.nl) wrote: > > > >Today I saw the photographs of the new haircut in GQ. > > Am I crazy or does he look a bit like Paul McCartney? > > Han > > > > > > -------------------- > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number - Free Free voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com - --_uReach_com_26916734993674355421355xxx_-- - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 20:19:55 -0400 (EDT) From: John Colquhoun Subject: Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) I live near Toronto & managed to grab a copy of the UK GQ..........I concur with Martin............Bryan's hairdo is fine.......a little grey at the temples...........Afterall...........my right side part was longer...........when we were young................ The article mentioned Bryan has packed in his cigarettes & is now a golfer(i knew there was a reason for that peaked cap)................ I'll bet the "prop" will return during the upcoming tour............. JC - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 20:31:08 EDT From: ASchulberg@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) In a message dated 09/07/1999 1:06:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, martinstockman@btinternet.com writes: << Ferry has become known as a purveyor of elegantly morose pashmina rock, but visually he remains a bit of a wag. >> What the hell is "pashmina"? Befuddled in the States. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 20:52:58 -0400 From: "tfagan" Subject: Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) most women at the sophie/edward wedding were wearing pashminas: here's a real answer: The most commonly asked question about Pashmina is what is it?. There are many inaccuracies in the press about Pashmina and where it comes from and. We have been seling it exclusively for 6 years. Our information comes from the largest buyers and most experienced users of this rare and beautiful fiber. We have done our best to sort out fact from fiction but those who really know still have a natural reluctance to tell the whole truth while those who don't spin tales to any ready ear. Pashmina is Cashmere Pashmina is the best cashmere wool in the world. Sometimes it is called Shamina, sometimes it is confused with Shahtoosh. It only comes from Kashmir and Tibet. Pashmina Wraps and Blankets Ignited by the shahtoosh craze, Pashmina is becoming the cashmere sweater of the new millenium. The majority of pashmina shawls in the market are made of pashmina and silk. This is what you are most likely to see in fashion and style magazines. But we carry a full range of pashmina wraps. - --TriTri (living in the states anyhoo.....) - -----Original Message----- From: ASchulberg@aol.com To: avalon@smoe.org Date: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 8:34 PM Subject: Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) >In a message dated 09/07/1999 1:06:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >martinstockman@btinternet.com writes: > ><< Ferry has become known as a purveyor of elegantly morose > pashmina rock, but visually he remains a bit of a wag. > >> > >What the hell is "pashmina"? > >Befuddled in the States. > > > > >-------------------- >To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: >unsubscribe avalon > - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 21:46:10 -0400 From: Jim Spellman Subject: Re: [AVALON] That Haircut (Warning: On Topic) Kicki Gustafsson wrote: > I have just seen the 1978 video to "What goes on", where > the bearded Bry looks frightenly much like a lost Gibb-brother. > > Scary. > > /Kicki G I was horrified when I saw that. It's like - I'm incredibly handsome, but let me look as ugly as possible please. It's his only look that I never liked. Jim - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:48:38 -0400 From: "tfagan" Subject: [AVALON] GQ #1 I can do the article in installments but can't help with the photos: Style/Wardrobe Bryan Ferry With a new album of elegant classics and a look to match, Roxy Music’s man in the black tie is back to his suave, sartorial best - -- To Eltham Palace, a beautifully restored Art Deco pad, formerly owned by the Courtauld family and now, after some meticulous restoration by English Heritage, open to the public. We could be here to marvel at the architecture of this wonderful house, but we’re actually here to admire another example of 20th-century English heritage; Bryan Ferry, rock legend and thoroughbred clotheshorse. The first thing you notice about Ferry is his hair. Or rather, his lack of it. The famous fringe is gone. That limp curtain of oily barnet, the calling card of Ferry’s louchely cultivated style since he formed Roxy Music in the Seventies, has been chopped back to a boyish, mussy mess. It appears to be Ferry’s take on the “bed hair” look as worn by the likes of Gay Dad, but is of course executed with a little more panache. This is Bryan Ferry, after all. One gets the feeling that the bed that made this hairstyle is not some mattress thrown down on a bedsit floor, but one of those nice French “sleigh” beds of the best mahogany, with Egyptian cotton sheets, and cashmere blankets thrown on for warmth. The accent has been tweaked too, and seems to be doing a sort of reverse Jarrow March, making its way from smart Kensington back up to Ferry’s native Northeast. Quite appropriately for Ferry, it is when he says “Cartier” (“Ca-ee-ay”) that his Geordie is most pronounced. Needless to say, the clothes are still faultless – understated classics with only a few carefully considered twists; conventional duds worn at a slightly raffish rake. After what he calls a flirtation with Japanese designers – “You know, Comme des Garcons and all that,” Ferry has gone trad again. “I’ve gone back to Savile Row. That Japanese designer stuff is all right for performing in, but I’ve found myself going back to English tailoring and I’m quite happy to be there, thank you very much,” he says, his finger perfectly placed on the fashion Zeitgeist as ever. He goes to Anderson & Sheppard for his serious threads but also dabbles in clobber by the new wave of outfitters, whom he calls “character tailors”, and has had suits handmade by David Chambers, Mark Griffiths and Mark Powell. He seems to have a special place in his heart for Powell, rather sweetly supplying him with a character reference when he got into a scrape with the law a couple of years ago. “I like to think I helped him avoid a long stretch in prison,” he grins. As usual, Ferry was in good company -- Naomi Campbell was Powell’s other referee. Powell first met Ferry a few years ago when he was asked to run up a black suit to set off a young Honor Fraser (now a supermodel, then Ferry’s fellow cover star on a greatest hits album). Ferry was rather taken with Powell’s cut and soon commissioned him to make him a couple of velvet coats. “You’d think he would be incredibly fussy, but he’s not really – just about anything you put on him drapes really nicely,” says Powell. “You can’t catch him out either – he always knows what’s going on with the latest styles.” The daunting dilemma currently wracking the shelves and rails of Ferry's well-stocked wardrobe is what to wear for the coming-out of his latest long-player. Ferry has a new album coming out soon, you see. Entitled As Time Goes By, it is a collection of Thirties cover songs --"I'm in the Mood for Love," "As Time Goes By,"etc -- hence our meeting at Eltham Palace, one of that decade's elegant monuments. So does Ferry have a "look" planned to go with this album? "Well," he says slowly, "there is a tradition with those kind of songs that really suggests some kind of formalwear. I've always wanted to dress in that jazz tradition, like Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. I mean with this sort of music you wouldn't want to wear leather clothes, would you? An certainly nothing corny like a monocle, or singing through megaphone." He stops, leaving a pregnant pause where he would once have drawn on a cigarette (he's given up) or raked a hand through his fringe (now gone) and inhales deeply before announcing, "It'll probably involve some sort of ... dinner jacket." The nation breathes a sigh a relief -- Ferry is back in black tie. It is, in the hallowed annals of rock significance, arguably as much of a landmark as Kiss returning to make-up. Ever since he posed in front of a swimming pool on the cover of 1974's Another Time, Another Place --After Eight-thin watch on his wrist, fag in hand, wild party winding down in the early morning behind him -- the picture of Ferry wearing a dinner jacket has become one of the most iconic images in soigné rock. (to be continued) - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 20:44:01 -0700 From: pricie1@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] tour 1999? How about Ann Odell arranging the strings? (You know Jobson is a no-go...) Remember her? During the 1977 US tour, Ferry introduced her as the "very lovely Ann Odell".... - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 20:45:36 -0700 From: pricie1@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] tour 1999? I doubt Jobson is available - he does the score for that lame Don Johnson TV show...(but we can hope....!) - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 23:04:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Paul Wasowicz Subject: [AVALON] BF in Chicago. Just heard on Chicago's radio station XRT that Bryan will play Riviera and tickets will be sold for reserved seating. No dates were mentioned. paul. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 00:19:51 -0400 From: "tfagan" Subject: [AVALON] GQ#2 - -... That said, it is also a visual statement that has had its downside, furnishing Ferry with the stigmatic status of a Gatsby-esque parvenu. What with his posh wife (former model, Lucy Helmore), his posh houses in London and Sussex and his four children (Isaac, Merlin, Tara and Otis) at posh schools, he has often been accused of affecting the manners of the aristocracy. This is ridiculous. Ferry may mingle with the nobs but he would be the first to admit that he is really rather common. He likes flash cars like Corvettes and Cherokees, not string-back gloved classics. He goes for brassy, tarty girls like Marilyn Monroe, and he like football. Indeed the only aristocratic thing your reporter can detect are his frequent claims of being poverty-stricken. Sartorially, he is far wittier than the toffs. He dons evening wear not like some clueless, braying Sloane at a hunt ball, but as if it were a second skin. Deliciously aloof, it's a look that says, "I might be a gatecrasher, but I am the best-dressed gatecrasher you've seen. I dare you to throw me out." The album accompanying this style is equally well turned-out. Doing an album of Thirties classics might sound a bit of a Peter Skellern-ism, but put aside your K-Tel prejudices and imagine Ferry providing the soundtrack for a shelved Woody Allen film, circa Broadway Danny Rose, and you'll get the picture. Ferry's voice is perfect for these songs. It has a plaintive vibrato quiver ("It has always been there, but it's less jokey than it used to be," he says.) and is also quite beautifully tear-jerking. The stand out track is "I'm In the Mood For Love," a lilting, libidinous bossa nova which finds the fragile "mock balladeer" delivering his languid vocal though teeth clenched tightly together. It starts off fairly straight, but slowly honey-drips into a dreamy, druggy bump-and-grind. There's even some sexy Euro-bird quitly rutting away in Franch somewhere in the back of the mix. It's music to have your ear lobes tongued by. In many ways it's the inevitable Bryan Ferry record, the one everyone's been waiting for since he covered Cole Porter's "These Foolish Things" in 1973, displaying a talent for remodeling the past -- the Thirties were very big in the Seventies, you see. And it could work again: after all, the Seventies are very big now. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 00:20:36 -0400 From: "tfagan" Subject: [AVALON] GQ#3 ... The ultimate endorsement of the collection's authenticity came when Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records and music-business legend, played the album to a group of industry friends at a Manhattan dinner party. "Ertegun kidded d that he'd discovered some recordings of this amazing jazz singer from the Thirties. For a while at least, the whole party fell for it," Ferry laughs, quietly thrilled that he managed to fool New York high society. Peter York, style watcher and lifelong Ferry devotee, would appreciate this anecdote. He once called Ferry "The most important pasticheur in Britain" and described him as living "the ultimate art-directed existence. His records are very clever jokes, his singing voice the ultimate put-on," says York. "Many people take the Ferry style seriously, presumably bot realising that Ferry himself doesn't." During the past fifteen years, with rather self-indulgent albums like Mamouna and Boys and Girls, Ferry has become known as a purveyor of elegantly morose pashmina rock, but visually he has always been a bit of a wag. He understood the gaudy appeal of racy models as cover stars a long time before men's magazines picked up on them (the cover of 1974's Roxy Music album Country Life featured Marilyn Cole [Ed- he means Stranded -- DUH], then Playboy's Playmate of the Year -- the Jenny McCarthy of her time.) Forgive him if he seems a bit jaded by the same old sartorial scene. When it comes to a witty wardrobe, Ferry has been there, done that and the suit made. Since bursting onto the music scene in the early Seventies and blitzing the opposition with his glam, teddy boy, bobby-dazzler get-ups, blue glitter eye shadow and raven-black quiff, he has been second-guessing designers and preempting stylists. He did the peacock suit thing long before Paul Weller even though about writing about it. The chic GI look, as unveiled on Roxy's 1974 British tour -- all tailored, flat-fronted khakis with shirt epaulettes blazing -- predated similar Prada ensembles by more than 20 years. And Ferry was rocking that all-black, urban-gaucho style when Gucci's Tom Ford was still in nappies. He was the Trocadero spiv, the lounge lizard and the post-punk, skinny-tied rocker. Damn, he even looked good with a moustache. He instinctively knows when to dump a look too. "It's like anything else," he says, "once you see another person wearing the same look, you can never feel the same way about it again. I remember during our so-called glam rock thing, we'd suddenly find ourselves on a TV show with some other tawdry band who were wearing a knocked-off version, and I'd think ... time to move on." So, where now for this modish fiftysomething? To the links, of course. Like Alice Cooper, the Beastie Boys and Coolio, Ferry has taken up golf. In the back of his Jeep, there's a bag with shiny chrome rods protruding from the top; Big Berthas, putters and wedges. Ferry seems enamoured of the sport, gushing on about a recent visit to the Stoke Poges course and ladling praise on Gary Player, his favourite swinger. Though this may be as much for his all-black wardrobe as his skill on the green. He wears his clubs well, but it's hard to envisage Ferry joining Tarby on the pro-celeb scene. And you can't see him succumbing to a slow desiccation perched on a "19th hole" bar stool, high ball in hand and gin nips kicking in. Mind you, knowing Ferry, he'd probably look good doing that too. - --Simon Mills - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 23:23:39 -0500 From: jas2347@xsite.net Subject: [AVALON] Bombs away.... Possibly the worst slur anyone could ever say in the world EVER!!! Comparing Roxy to those fuckin' overrated arseholes. Ok, I know you are all gonna start a war with me now and America is probably bomb Scotland, but don't get me started, they really are a sore point with me, sacred cows or what? I better shut up now. Yours sabre rattlingly JF. JF: Fuckin' overrated arses???? Surely you are jesting, young man. Yes, the bombing of Scotland will commence shortly. Jas Sacred cow fan - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V4 #267 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest