From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V5 #73 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, February 24 2000 Volume 05 : Number 073 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Stardom ["Will Frechette" ] Re: [AVALON] Black Taxi ["Will Frechette" ] Re: [AVALON] Black Taxi ["Will Frechette" ] Re: [AVALON] BF album news ["Han Snijders en Willy v/d Geest" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Stardom We will fondly look back on the *Donor Years* will - ----- Original Message ----- From: > > Tried reading Crosby's autobiography but only got about halfway through it. > He certainly lived the rock star life and his self-indulgence is so > overpowering that reading the book became a struggle since he's not very > likeable. > > Now, with the Melissa Etheridge/fatherhood angle I guess we're in for a > second autobiography on the later years. > > Arnie - -------------------- To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 23:57:23 -0600 From: "Will Frechette" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Black Taxi I was driving in my car the other day and thought how Bry could become a Mega Super Star, and this will work. He should cover some really harsh but popular heavy metal, give it his personal treatment, heavy layers ala Mamouna. Two quick monsters for ferry:Fade to Black by Metallica and Mother by Danzig. fade was playing and it kept making me think, it's dark, even laid out the way he likes. Cool guitar. I'm dead serious on this one. I'm not saying try to get their thing happening but do like a Spell type thing where you wouldn't even know it's the same song. Mother on the other hand was just off the top of my head. You know Ferry's a closet air guitarist. He wants to rip it up so bad it's not funny. At one point on APS vid (forgot which track) he breaks out into a whistle solo (and not in a song that has one). He always talks about the guitar whenever he talks about his music. I'd go as far as to say he lives vicariously on stage through his guitar players. Oh and Trower's one note guitar solo in Spell was pretty weird I thought he was going to wail, being a halfarsed guitarist myself I was a little let down. I thought he could have tore it up on that one. Will - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Rosencutter" > When I first heard that Ferry was releasing an album of cover songs > called Taxi, I got excited about the idea of his covering Harry Chapin's > "Taxi." Not that I particularly liked the song, I was looking forward > to hearing Bryan's take on it. "She gave me 20 dollars for a two-fifty > fare, and she said 'Ferry, keep the change.'" So the album disappointed > me from the onset. - -------------------- To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 23:59:50 -0600 From: "Will Frechette" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Black Taxi Concrete Blonde covered Everybody Knows while Paul Thompson was with them and it was fantastic. My other favorite band coincidentally. Will - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Noam Bronstein" > I'd love to hear Ferry cover "First We Take Manhattan". I've been > listening to Jennifer Warnes' sort of dull version (saved by those > great Stevie Ray Vaughn guitar licks). What a great song though. I > wonder, is it because Leonard Cohen's songs were covered to death that > BF never bothered to do it? > > "They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom." > > Noam - -------------------- To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:22:55 +0100 From: "Han Snijders en Willy v/d Geest" Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF album news The saturday-magazine of the Volkskrant had a 3 page interview with Bryan. The usual stuff about selecting the songs, working with Colin, etc. Blaming the music-industry that they only want mainstream music. About the new album is he is telling that he worked on it with Eno and Stewart and Jonny Greenwood ( the journalist is mentioning him). 'But maybe it was wrong to choose always for the famous people to work with, working with this band of relative unknown people is a real pleasure" I'm now thinking about reworking the material that is ready." (There we go again.... 2002 is what I expect) About a Roxy reunion. Not at this moment but maybe in the future. "Manzenera played with me in Greenwich and that was nice, only he played too hard" Han > The Dutch newspaper Volksrant has reported that Bryan Ferry > is working on a new album that includes collaborations with > Brian Eno, Dave Stewart and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood. > > Beryl Tomay's Follow Me Around site > (http://www.followmearound.com/) notes that Thom Yorke and > Greenwood covered five songs of Ferry's band Roxy Music for > the "Velvet Goldmine" soundtrack in 1998 in a band called > Venus in Furs along with Bernard Butler, Paul Kimble and > Andy Mackay. > > > > > -------------------- > To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail > majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon - -------------------- To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:16:11 +0100 From: "Han Snijders en Willy v/d Geest" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Black Taxi Taxi, the song, is one of my favourite songs. It is as if the music is the soundtrack for the lyrics. If I close my eyes I can see the cab driving through the night in the rain. Very Ferryesque. Very desperate, Very beautiful. Love In your mind too btw. Martin wrote a few months ago something about the 'map' of an album. In your mind has that strong connection between the songs. Even the songs that are not so interesting have their place as part of the whole. Saw a very fuzzy video of the Tokyo performance of 1977 yesterday evening and I loved it. Very strong hornsextion and the great Chris Spedding on guitar. Beautiful solo's in love me madly. What a song is that. The price of love has a beautiful ending with both Manzanera and Spedding playing a heavy solo at the same time and Ferry in the middle turning from one to another. On that tour Manzenera was definitely not the leading man. What happened to An O'dell? Han. > Sad to say I agree. Taxi smacked of panic release really. And over > production didn't help. I think it was designed to be commercial. The best > thing on Taxi is the Intro to Spell and "Because your mine" which at least > had some menace. I say again that you only have to listen to the Mamouna > promo stuff on APS to realise that the clutter killed some of the beauty and > emotion. > > This is back to the self belief thing. Did a man with his gift really have > to surround himself with great session musicians playing AOR stuff? And even > if they are covers on atgb it's great to hear him sing some great lyrics and > be the real star of the show. > > Rob > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kicki Gustafsson > To: > Sent: 23 February 2000 17:35 > Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry Unique > Yuck. The impression Taxi left with me is that it's a veeeery boring record. > Ferry wades thorugh a morass of guitarlicks and "ambience"-synths. > His voice and singing is dead most of the time, and whatever joy he might > have felt when doing this record was effectivly erased in the production. > Hell, I prefer In Your Mind if I have to choose! > > /Kicki G - no flaming, thank you > > > > > > > > -------------------- > To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail > majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon - -------------------- To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:59:50 CET From: "Pauline F" Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF question to Avalon Encyclopedia >didn't he have to sell a flat in New York to finance Bete Noire? and I >thought he still had a place in Paris but could be wrong. > I think you're right with his selling of the NY flat. But I don't think he ever had a real home in Paris. He either stays in a rented apartment (mentioned 87 in a Smash Hits interview, "with horrible but very expensive brown suede walls") or at his favourite hotel, the Lancaster. Pauline ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------- To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V5 #73 *************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest