From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V4 #283 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Friday, September 24 1999 Volume 04 : Number 283 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] SNL/Jerry Hall [jspellman ] Re: [AVALON] VIRUS! WARNING! [f2hb@casema.net] [AVALON] Avalon awards 1999 ["gareth mc ginley" ] [AVALON] Avalon awards 1999 -Reply [Kimberly Shell ] Re: [AVALON] Avalon awards 1999 -Reply [Kimberly Shell ] [AVALON] BBC Radio 2 ["Richard" ] Re: [AVALON] Avalon awards 1999 [Bahi Para ] [AVALON] Article from the globeandmail.com Web Centre [alice Subject: Re: [AVALON] SNL/Jerry Hall Chris Sigetti wrote: >They are skipping many quality acts though, in favor > >of crap like Steve Martin's "King Tut", so beware of the BS. > > Hey man, I liked Tut. > I liked it too, but not better than Bryan Ferry doing songs from Bete Noir. Sure enough he was snubbed. Oddly enough they did have a 2 minute ditty with Ferry look-a-like John Laroquette (sp?) and Jerry Hall. Then Mick came into the scene. It was from 1986. I didn't even listen to what the skit was about, I was so struck by her beauty. She must have been about 30. Looked better than now and better than Let's Stick Together video. The face, the hair... They don't make them like that anymore. Jim - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:03:17 -0400 (EDT) From: f2hb@casema.net Subject: Re: [AVALON] VIRUS! WARNING! "Donna Caskey" WROTE: ============================================= >I received a virus. DO NOT OPEN MY PREVIOUS E-MAIL. I apologize. ........... 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Every so often I'd catch up on the old archives, usually in batches of 5 weeks or so and just to prove so I now announce the 1999 Avalonia awards. 1999 Award for Outstanding Bravery: JOHN FULTON: for daring to suggest that the Beatles were a load of old tripe on a list full of 30 and 40 somethings. 1999 Award for Innovation: RICHARD: for being the only intelligent Scouser I have ever met or will ever meet. 1999 Vote of Sympathy Award: JOANNE STOCKMAN 1999 Most Wanted Award: PHOTO OF ALISON: a 16 year old fan of Bryan Ferry and Nick Cave with a casual attitude to the birds and the bees. Oh yes lifes pattern is well and truly drawn in the sand for Gareth and Alison. We shall do all that ShyGuy advises us to resist and then more. She seems so perfect. But there must be some catch. She must be an ugly dog. Only one way to find out - get a picture on Kicki's site THIS MINUTE. 1999 Award for worst dressed Avalonian at Royal Festival Hall: 8 WAY TIE 1999 Dirty Old Man Award: JAZ (followed in a distant second by Mick Jagger) 1999 Luckiest Person of the Year: GARETH MCGINLEY - for not losing his summer job after ribbing Andy Cooper about being "on vacation" at the Royal Festival Hall (Andy is in the higher echelons of "OnDigital", the company which I worked for over the summer). 1999 Stupidest Person of the Year: ANYONE WHO SUBSCRIBED TO "ONDIGITAL" 1999 Smartest Person of the Year Award: HEATHER - for finding a new job, signing all the contracts and then getting pregnant. Her boss was heard to roar "I can read you women like a Buch". 1999 Sherlock Holmes Award: HAN SNIJDERS - for detective work on new album lyrics. 1999 Webmistress Award: KICKI GUSSTAFSON - though Avalon detective Han is looking into match rigging allegations after Mrs. Gusstafson was alleged to have struck a bargain with one of the male judges. Daniel Atterbom is reported to be "extremely hurt". Most Extraordinarily Exuberent Person Award 1999: Tie for first between BAHI PARA & JOHN O BRIEN - for being in unbelievably positive moods after the Royal Festival Hall gig while the rest of us looked for the easiest way to get to the top of London Bridge and throw ourselves straight off, head first into the Thames. 1999 Award for Most Hilarious Post: Unquestionably CHRIS TURNER on Roxy obsessives, making us realise that we are all well and truly insane. Martin Stockman is so "far gone" that he checks himself into Dr. Puxley's clinic. Shakespeare is reported to be turning in his grave at the very thought of these two being in eachothers company. 1999 Award for Most Depressing Bastard: Tie for first between RED & HARRY SMITH. 1999 Award for slamming the notion that Americans are all a crowd of humourless PC w*****s (sponsored by Martin Stockman): MARK SHANAHAN - though Will & Arnie arent far out of the running. 1999 Outstanding Fact of the Year: JOHN O BRIEN - for not only assuring us all that Amanda Lear has indeed got female genitalia but also for letting us know how many fanny hairs she had as of May 1999. 1999 Caricature of himself Award: Tie between GARETH MCGINLEY & BRYAN FERRY - Bryan pulled off a late master stroke by making an album of "Oldies" to catch Gareth who had built up a massive lead earlier in the year. Btw, it's the first time in 25 years that Bryan hasn't won the award by himself. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:15:12 -0500 From: Kimberly Shell Subject: [AVALON] Avalon awards 1999 -Reply This was Brilliant Gareth - glad to have you back!! - -kim >>> "gareth mc ginley" 09/23/99 12:53pm >>> Dear list members, After a summer of bumming about I return as a student to bum about some more - - to spend many hours sitting around a table with fellow dossers drinking coffee, watching endless episodes of Countdown, spending all my money on beer and pool and of course rounding off my wasted youth with Avalon...OHHHHHHHHH YESSSSSSS Truth is though I've never really been away. Every so often I'd catch up on the old archives, usually in batches of 5 weeks or so and just to prove so I now announce the 1999 Avalonia awards. 1999 Award for Outstanding Bravery: JOHN FULTON: for daring to suggest that the Beatles were a load of old tripe on a list full of 30 and 40 somethings. 1999 Award for Innovation: RICHARD: for being the only intelligent Scouser I have ever met or will ever meet. 1999 Vote of Sympathy Award: JOANNE STOCKMAN 1999 Most Wanted Award: PHOTO OF ALISON: a 16 year old fan of Bryan Ferry and Nick Cave with a casual attitude to the birds and the bees. Oh yes lifes pattern is well and truly drawn in the sand for Gareth and Alison. We shall do all that ShyGuy advises us to resist and then more. She seems so perfect. But there must be some catch. She must be an ugly dog. Only one way to find out - get a picture on Kicki's site THIS MINUTE. 1999 Award for worst dressed Avalonian at Royal Festival Hall: 8 WAY TIE 1999 Dirty Old Man Award: JAZ (followed in a distant second by Mick Jagger) 1999 Luckiest Person of the Year: GARETH MCGINLEY - for not losing his summer job after ribbing Andy Cooper about being "on vacation" at the Royal Festival Hall (Andy is in the higher echelons of "OnDigital", the company which I worked for over the summer). 1999 Stupidest Person of the Year: ANYONE WHO SUBSCRIBED TO "ONDIGITAL" 1999 Smartest Person of the Year Award: HEATHER - for finding a new job, signing all the contracts and then getting pregnant. Her boss was heard to roar "I can read you women like a Buch". 1999 Sherlock Holmes Award: HAN SNIJDERS - for detective work on new album lyrics. 1999 Webmistress Award: KICKI GUSSTAFSON - though Avalon detective Han is looking into match rigging allegations after Mrs. Gusstafson was alleged to have struck a bargain with one of the male judges. Daniel Atterbom is reported to be "extremely hurt". Most Extraordinarily Exuberent Person Award 1999: Tie for first between BAHI PARA & JOHN O BRIEN - for being in unbelievably positive moods after the Royal Festival Hall gig while the rest of us looked for the easiest way to get to the top of London Bridge and throw ourselves straight off, head first into the Thames. 1999 Award for Most Hilarious Post: Unquestionably CHRIS TURNER on Roxy obsessives, making us realise that we are all well and truly insane. Martin Stockman is so "far gone" that he checks himself into Dr. Puxley's clinic. Shakespeare is reported to be turning in his grave at the very thought of these two being in eachothers company. 1999 Award for Most Depressing Bastard: Tie for first between RED & HARRY SMITH. 1999 Award for slamming the notion that Americans are all a crowd of humourless PC w*****s (sponsored by Martin Stockman): MARK SHANAHAN - though Will & Arnie arent far out of the running. 1999 Outstanding Fact of the Year: JOHN O BRIEN - for not only assuring us all that Amanda Lear has indeed got female genitalia but also for letting us know how many fanny hairs she had as of May 1999. 1999 Caricature of himself Award: Tie between GARETH MCGINLEY & BRYAN FERRY - Bryan pulled off a late master stroke by making an album of "Oldies" to catch Gareth who had built up a massive lead earlier in the year. Btw, it's the first time in 25 years that Bryan hasn't won the award by himself. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:39:44 +0200 From: "Han Snijders en Willy v/d Geest" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Avalon awards 1999 Welcome back Gareth Han> - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:38:06 PDT From: "gareth mc ginley" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Avalon awards 1999 -Reply > >This was Brilliant Gareth - glad to have you back!! >-kim > Thanks Kim, and how could I possibly forget to include our cheerleader of the year. Gareth ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:55:27 -0500 From: Kimberly Shell Subject: Re: [AVALON] Avalon awards 1999 -Reply -Reply Aren't you sweet! - -k >>> "gareth mc ginley" 09/23/99 01:38pm >>> > >This was Brilliant Gareth - glad to have you back!! >-kim > Thanks Kim, and how could I possibly forget to include our cheerleader of the year. Gareth ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:23:16 -0400 From: Heather Buch Subject: Re: [AVALON] Avalon awards 1999 - --_uReach_com_26916734993811459629941xxx_ Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - ---- On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, gareth mc ginley (ginley71@hotmail.com) wrote: he he he he he. There's too much great stuff here. I don't know where to start. Guess I'll just comment on some highlights: > > 1999 Vote of Sympathy Award: JOANNE STOCKMAN Shouldn't she receive "best actress" for her fresh, delightful job in the role of Kicki? > > 1999 Most Wanted Award: PHOTO OF ALISON: a 16 year old fan of Bryan > Ferry > and Nick Cave with a casual attitude to the birds and the bees. Oh yes > lifes pattern is well and truly drawn in the sand for Gareth and Alison. > We > shall do all that ShyGuy advises us to resist and then more. She seems > so > perfect. But there must be some catch. She must be an ugly dog. Only > one > way to find out - get a picture on Kicki's site THIS MINUTE. I think he's being coy Allison, he really likes you. > > 1999 Dirty Old Man Award: JAZ (followed in a distant second by Mick > Jagger) No, come on. After Will tried so hard for that title! > > 1999 Smartest Person of the Year Award: HEATHER - for finding a new > job, > signing all the contracts and then getting pregnant. Her boss was heard > to > roar "I can read you women like a Buch". Oh thank you. I'm sure there are those who would argue. PLEASE don't say anything, those of you! By the way, my last day on this job is tomorrow. I'm moving to Boston. But don't worry. I've got a job lined up there, and I'm still pregnant. > 1999 Sherlock Holmes Award: HAN SNIJDERS - for detective work on new > album lyrics. Oh yes, and I believe the detective is the suspect, Flangebracket, I presume! > > 1999 Webmistress Award: KICKI GUSSTAFSON - though Avalon detective > Han is > looking into match rigging allegations after Mrs. Gusstafson was alleged > to > have struck a bargain with one of the male judges. Daniel Atterbom is > reported to be "extremely hurt". I didn't hear about this but it sounds interesting. > 1999 Award for slamming the notion that Americans are all a crowd of > humourless PC w*****s (sponsored by Martin Stockman): > MARK SHANAHAN - though Will & Arnie arent far out of the running. And the best use of asterisks! *Mark* > 1999 Outstanding Fact of the Year: JOHN O BRIEN - for not only > assuring > us all that Amanda Lear has indeed got female genitalia but also for > letting > us know how many fanny hairs she had as of May 1999. Yes, thank you John for preserving Amanda's honor. > > 1999 Caricature of himself Award: Tie between GARETH MCGINLEY & BRYAN > FERRY > - Bryan pulled off a late master stroke by making an album of "Oldies" > to > catch Gareth who had built up a massive lead earlier in the year. Btw, > it's > the first time in 25 years that Bryan hasn't won the award by himself. I think we should all give a big hand to Gareth, the new Vapour! Heather Buch ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number - Free Free voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com - --_uReach_com_26916734993811459629941xxx_-- - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:38:35 -0500 From: Kimberly Shell Subject: Re: [AVALON] Avalon awards 1999 -Reply Yes yes- we love the ***** - hahahaa! - -k ps - keep in touch Mrs. Heather! Good luck on the final move!! <<<> 1999 Award for slamming the notion that Americans are all a crowd of > humourless PC w*****s (sponsored by Martin Stockman): > MARK SHANAHAN - though Will & Arnie arent far out of the running. And the best use of asterisks! *Mark*>>> - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:53:11 EDT From: ASchulberg@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Avalon awards 1999 In a message dated 09/23/1999 3:25:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, hpropes@ureach.com writes: << I think we should all give a big hand to Gareth, the new Vapour! >> I must disagree. The wit is there but not the glowering malevolence. Arnie - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:54:39 EDT From: BPhilipson@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] SNL Okay, that was a sorry attempt at sarcasm. I guess my emoticon wasn't strong enough... - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:51:20 -0700 From: "Alison Brown" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Avalon awards 1999 Oh, the pressure! Don't hold your breath, Gareth. Alison > 1999 Most Wanted Award: PHOTO OF ALISON: a 16 year old fan of Bryan Ferry > and Nick Cave with a casual attitude to the birds and the bees. Oh yes > lifes pattern is well and truly drawn in the sand for Gareth and Alison. We > shall do all that ShyGuy advises us to resist and then more. She seems so > perfect. But there must be some catch. She must be an ugly dog. Only one > way to find out - get a picture on Kicki's site THIS MINUTE. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:24:21 +0100 From: "Richard" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Avalon awards 1999 Welcome back Gareth! Can you change my award to 'Posh Scouser' as someone once called me, as I come from the Wirral - a famous ferry ride away from Liverpool!! My Liverpool friends are disgusted if I ever refer to myself as a scouser - I think you have to be born within spitting distance of the Liver Building to qualify! Richard - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:35:48 +0100 From: "Richard" Subject: [AVALON] Re: Releases The first batch of BF re-issues is scheduled to hit the shops on Monday (27 September), two weeks late!! The final Roxy releases are out the following week. Hats off to HMV Manchester for publicising these release dates more prominently than any other in their store. No word on the release date for the second phase of Ferry re-masters although I think they're scheduled to appear before ATGB. I got a very unimpressive mailshot from Virgin today to promote the Roxy releases - even they had no release date for the second phase of Ferry CDs and "Viva!" is now "Vival!" according to their typing - hardly inspiring. Their prices too aren't that competetive - I think they can be matched by www.keymailorder.com who at least take an interest in giving their customers timely and accurate information. Richard P.S. J. O'B - a couple of weeks have elapsed since your last exclusive - any news??! - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:45:31 +0100 From: "Richard" Subject: [AVALON] BBC Radio 2 As reported earlier, Radio 2 has another one hour programme on air this Saturday. "Bryan Ferry Solo" will be broadcast at 7.00 p.m. The UK Listings magazine 'Radio Times' has a couple of pictures (neither new) and makes the programme one of it's choices of the day. This may too be a re-editing of the earlier "Bryan Ferry Story" but will feature material from the new album (and interviews?) since the programme description reads "Midge Ure surveys the solo career of Bryan Ferry, from the first album of cover versions to the latest project, a collection of favourite songs from the thirties". Richard P.S. Boris - thanks for sight of the album publicity in Germany. The first of Britain's November music magazines (probably "Q") will be out in the next few days and we will hopefully see what Virgin UK are doing to promote the album here. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:53:42 +0100 From: Bahi Para Subject: Re: [AVALON] Avalon awards 1999 >Most Extraordinarily Exuberent Person Award 1999: Tie for first between >BAHI PARA & JOHN O BRIEN - for being in unbelievably positive moods after >the Royal Festival Hall gig while the rest of us looked for the easiest way >to get to the top of London Bridge and throw ourselves straight off Mr. Mc Ginley, what *did* you expect at a gig organised by Nick Cave? I'm honoured to be able to share this award with John, whose exuberance I shall never be able to match. My special thanks to the banjo player, BANJO, without whom, etc. Welcome back, Gareth. B - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:44 -0400 From: alice Subject: [AVALON] Article from the globeandmail.com Web Centre - --====938133872==== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This e-mail has been sent to you by alice (nadege1702@aol.com) from the globeandmail.com Web Centre. Message: Another Toronto article The Globe and Mail, Thursday, September 23, 1999 Glam-rocker spins 1930s sounds Bryan Ferry always had a passion for songs from the pre-rock era. Now he = has recorded an entire album of them. By Robert Everett-Green Toronto -- You're sitting in the coffee bar near the back, and it's nearly = empty, and you hear the singer do the sweet, sad beginning of Kurt Weill's = September Song. And since you're alone you try to guess who's singing. Judg= ing from the arrangement -- dusky strings and liquid clarinets -- it could = be somebody from way back, a little- known maverick from the early stereo p= eriod. But the breathy baritone has a familiar quiver, and a painterly way = of daubing at the words, that suggests a later, more spangled epoch. The so= ng fades like a departing ghost, and as you pass the counter to leave you a= sk who that was, and of course it's Bryan Ferry, the silver prince of seven= ties glam-rock. You shouldn't be surprised. Even in his heyday as the inventor and front-ma= n of Roxy Music, Ferry had a quiet passion for songs from the pre-rock era.= He has just never recorded an entire album of them, with arrangements that= revive the sound of the thirties. As Time Goes By, his forthcoming disc on= the Virgin label, could be the oldest new record of the year. "I've dabbled in the period before, but this is the first time I've done an= acoustic, authentic- sounding album, without guitars, with drums using bru= shes, and with that Teddy Wilson kind of piano," Ferry said, during an inte= rview last week in Toronto. "I was just trying to do respectful arrangement= s within the period." Even with that rather narrow purpose, Ferry has managed to produce a remark= ably original album. The songs, which include such standards as The Way You= Look Tonight, Where or When, and Just One of Those Things, are not so much= covered as quoted in full, with a palpable sense of distance but without i= rony. That tone couldn't have been easy to find, and Ferry isn't yet convinced he= 's done it. Sitting in his hotel room, shyly averting his gaze as he speaks= , this most stubborn of rock musicians was not above asking a music critic,= point-blank, whether he'd blown it. "Do you think the romanticism of these songs is refreshing now, or do you t= hink it's too -- weird?" The anxiety in his voice told me he wasn't fishing= for praise. Acceptance matters a lot to Ferry, almost as much as having his own way. He= 's famous for his meticulous habits, and his unwillingness to let anything = leave the studio that could be improved with a few additional tracks. But h= e's also extremely attentive to what his intuition tells him about where th= e next Bryan Ferry album should fit. And though he got onto his latest proj= ect through a request from a film producer -- a song was wanted, then not n= eeded, for Ian McKellan's thirties' update of Richard III -- Ferry sees a g= ap in the popular scene that he thinks needs filling. "Whenever you get a slow romantic song nowadays, it's usually in a blockbus= ter movie, and it's done very mainstream, very saccharine and bombastic," h= e said. "It's given the whole notion of a romantic song a bad name." The same sentiment marks the limits of his interest in the jazz and show tu= nes of the past. The compact, stylish sound of the thirties suits him much = better than the big-band expansiveness of the forties. "When the music is a bit later it gets a bit too big for me," he said. The = lushness of the bands I find not quite my thing. I like the solos [of thirt= ies jazz], that's one of the things I enjoy very much about Billie Holiday'= s recordings. You hear this fantastic voice, and then it stops, and then an= equally wonderful voice, on an instrument, takes over." And, of course, he loves the glamour of songs like The Way You Look Tonight= , which was first recorded in the classic film musical Swing Time by Fred A= staire. The connection is apt: Even as a rock vocalist, Ferry has always be= en an Astaire in a field dominated by Gene Kellys. It's impossible to listen to his Roxy Music albums, all of which are being = lavishly remastered and reissued by Virgin, without being struck by the ind= ividuality of his style. With his feints and swoons, preening declarations = and nervous vibrato, Ferry always seemed to be not just singing the lyrics,= but courting them physically. "Though the world is my oyster/it's only a shell full of memories," he sang= in Song for Europe, on Roxy's Stranded album. The line has a peculiar reso= nance now, with an album of old favourites coming out, and a lingering sens= e of disappointment over the fate of the last album of his own material, th= e 1994 disc Mamouna (his next is due out in late 2000). "It was terribly depressing," he said. "I think my confidence was shaken . = . ." It didn't help that he had been struggling with the album over a seven= - -year period, assembling ever-more elaborate multi-track compositions that = would often turn out to be missing one essential ingredient. "I got into some very bad habits over the years, where I would virtually ma= ke the entire record without having the lyrics written," he said, with a la= ugh. "I would have so much on tape, because I love the process of recording= , and at the end of the day I would say, 'hang on, there isn't really a son= g here yet, it's like an abstract piece of music.' I would quite often writ= e myself into a corner, where I found that if I sang a certain line a certa= in way, it would clash with something else that was happening." On top of that, he felt a heavy burden of expectation. Would there be a sin= gle, would it play on the radio, would the whole album be seen as an approp= riate thing for Bryan Ferry to have done? "I really felt that I should have a patron, like the Medici, so as not to h= ave to worry. . . . Doing this record was a release from all that. There ar= e no expectations, no singles, it's not going to be played on the radio, an= d I don't think there are going to be any videos. It's just a record, and I= 'm very happy with the simplicity of that." Here's to simple things, and to romance in the old style, without a smirk. Copyright 1999 The Globe and Mail Visit the globeandmail.com Web Centre for your competitive edge. - - News: http://www.globeandmail.com - - Books: http://www.chaptersglobe.com - - Careers: http://www.globecareers.com - - Mutual Funds: http://www.globefund.com - - Stocks: http://www.globeinvestor.com - - ROB Magazine: http://www.robmagazine.com - - Technology: http://www.globetechnology.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V4 #283 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest