From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V5 #88 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, March 6 2000 Volume 05 : Number 088 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Avalon updated [Kicki Gustafsson ] Re: [AVALON] Avalon updated [Kicki Gustafsson ] Re: [AVALON] Strand & Puxley ["gareth mc ginley" ] [AVALON] ATGB arrangements ["gareth mc ginley" ] [AVALON] Updated again [Kicki Gustafsson ] [AVALON] Some Other Spring [Bahi Para ] Re: [AVALON] Some Other Spring [Colleen Matan Subject: [AVALON] Avalon updated http://www.avalon.pp.se is updated with an article written by Simon Puxley about Do the Strand. Han Snijders was kind enought to send it to me along with a whole bunch of pictures - enjoy! /Kicki G - ------------------------ Kicki Gustafsson, Östersunds-Posten 063-16 16 51 http://www.op.se http://www.torget.se/users/k/KickiG (privat hemsida) - -------------------- To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 20:11:29 +0100 From: Kicki Gustafsson Subject: Re: [AVALON] Avalon updated >http://www.avalon.pp.se is updated with an article written by Simon Puxley >about Do the Strand. >Han Snijders was kind enought to send it to me along with a whole bunch of >pictures - enjoy! Forgot to say this: Han found this piece in an old Roxy Music magazine. Sort of glossy fanzine made in Holland in the early eighties with co-operation of the management. /Kicki - ------------------------ Kicki Gustafsson, Östersunds-Posten 063-16 16 51 http://www.op.se http://www.torget.se/users/k/KickiG (privat hemsida) - -------------------- To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 20:13:11 GMT From: "gareth mc ginley" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Strand & Puxley Kicki wrote: > > >http://www.avalon.pp.se is updated with an article written by Simon >Puxley > >about Do the Strand. >Han found this piece in an old Roxy Music magazine. Sort of glossy >fanzine made in Holland in the early eighties with co-operation of the >management. Very entertaining and interesting article, although it wouldn't be anything less coming from Dr. Puxley's pen. Just goes to show how intelligent, knowledgable, and humorous those early lyrics were. He's not credited for anything but you really have to wonder if Puxley ever made a contribution to the Roxy/ Ferry lyrics. Loved the bit about the "Strandsky"; always wondered what that was about. Another interesting extract is the inspiration behind "Mashed Potato Schmaltz" i.e. "sentimentality and oversweetness in music, films etc." Funny that Bryan should write this and then go on to record "These Foolish Things" (the song) later that year, not to mention ATGB in 1999. It was really terribly sad to hear about Puxley's death. He was just about the only person who's been with Bryan from the very start and his death must have been a terrible blow for BF, especially coming at the beginning of the tour. I loved Puxley's wicked sense of humour; very much the same as BF's except that Ferry's a bit more reluctant at making it known (see 1972 BF hospital interview on Roxy Archive). SP was a massively important element in the Roxy canon. He gave it an aura and he had a hell of a lot to do with Roxy's success. It's a pity that he's always tended to be the forgotten link in the chain. Maybe we could gather together everything he ever wrote on BF/ RM. That would be a nice tribute to the man. Regards, Gareth p.s. any more revealing articles from the magazine in question. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------- To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 20:43:43 GMT From: "gareth mc ginley" Subject: [AVALON] ATGB arrangements There have been a number of different arrangements by various artists of the songs from ATGB. For the sake of comparison could somebody let me know whose versions Ferry copies. Also, is I'm In The Mood For Love the only song on the album on which Ferry devises his own arrangement? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------- To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:55:37 +0100 From: Kicki Gustafsson Subject: [AVALON] Updated again I have finally added Anton van Lammerens review from Amsterdam to the reviewsection at http://www.avalon.pp.se. I have aslo added a new profile; Ida Miller is the 67th listmember to appear on the site! /Kicki G - ------------------------ Kicki Gustafsson, Östersunds-Posten 063-16 16 51 http://www.op.se http://www.torget.se/users/k/KickiG (privat hemsida) - -------------------- To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 01:52:27 +0000 From: Bahi Para Subject: [AVALON] Some Other Spring Colleen wrote: >And let's not forget [Some Other Spring] from "The 39 Steps", which >has got to be a reference to Billie Holliday, no? Has to be. And it's a striking phrase, too. I used to hear the word 'summer' when those three words were sung ('Summer, the spring, some time') so they started even more hopefully and still ended rather hopeless. And the Billie Holiday song does add so much to Bryan's. I was a late convert to Billie Holiday's recordings (I still don't have enough of them) and can remember my surprise on hearing a whole album of her music for the first time, realising just how good she was and how influential. I heard a version of Strange Fruit once on Peel's radio show in the '80s. The title was used as the name for the record label on which long-archived BBC Peel Sessions were eventually released - Bryan uses it on Limbo to add a chill in the first few scene-setting moments of that underrated song. Mamouna sounds even more regretful when Ghost of Yesterday adds its overtones. B - -------------------- To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 22:20:54 -0500 (EST) From: Colleen Matan Subject: Re: [AVALON] Some Other Spring On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Bahi Para wrote: > I was a late convert to Billie Holiday's recordings (I still don't > have enough of them) and can remember my surprise on hearing a whole > album of her music for the first time, realising just how good she > was and how influential. Which reminds me of a partial answer to Gareth's request. Although the song is pretty closely identified with Nina Simone, the version of "Love Me Or Leave Me" on _As Time Goes By_ is very close to Billie Holiday's. > Mamouna sounds even more regretful when Ghost of Yesterday adds its overtones. Damnit Bahi, you're going to make me like that album after all. Colleen - -------------------- To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 22:43:10 EST From: AMeyersLD@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Midnight Special 1975 In a message dated 2/29/00 10:30:44 AM, will@execpc.com writes: << First saw Sensational Alex Harvey Band on In Concert. Fantastic! >> Actually, I first saw Roxy on the Midnight Special, just like Jas. Probably not far from him at the time either. It inspired me to beg my mother to let me and my best freind go see Roxy on the Country LIfe tour at the Auditorium in Chicago. Later that year (or the next) I saw Alex Harvey open for the Tubes in Chicago. Great show. But what I remember of those weekend concert shows was my freind George saying that he'd seen this "non concert, mini movie kinda thing" on Don Kirshner's show. Yes, the first of the dreaded Rock Videos! Geez, it makes me feel old. Y'know, we had to actually get up to change the channel in those days.... Andrew in Evanston. - -------------------- To disentangle yourself from these bickering numbnuts, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V5 #88 *************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest