From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V6 #40 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, February 5 2001 Volume 06 : Number 040 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Spell [Bahi Para ] [AVALON] Sunday Morning [Bahi Para ] Re: [AVALON] Press conference ["Han Snijders" ] Re: [AVALON] Press conference [KWil632057@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] no light here [Julialiva@aol.com] RE: [AVALON] no light here [Michael Hill ] [AVALON] Paris Concert ["Tracy Connell" ] Re: [AVALON] Out of the Blue and in the Flesh (long!) ["Ivor Canning" ] Re: [AVALON] Press conference ["ncjones.lewis2" ] Re: [AVALON] no light here ["Andrew Shearer" ] RE: [AVALON] no light here [Michael Hill ] Re: [AVALON] no light here ["David Squires " ] RE: [AVALON] no light here ["David Squires " ] Re: [AVALON] "When She Walks Into the Room" ["Han Snijders" ] Re: [AVALON] An Inspector calls... ["Ivor Canning" ] [AVALON] Stiched up ties and Chance meetings [jas2347@xsite.net] [AVALON] Would Roxy Music come to Atlanta? ["Gregory A. Koetting" Subject: [AVALON] Spell (I can't.) Apologies to film buffs or to anyone tempted to seek out the mysterious Won Kar Wei I mentioned yesterday; please search under Wong Kar-Wai. B ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 10:23:24 +0000 From: Bahi Para Subject: [AVALON] Sunday Morning Meeting people with whom you've been corresponding for years is always a little scary but there's an immense feeling of relief when it works out as well as it did yesterday. (Familiar, I guess to those who met up at gigs last year but this is only my second Avalon-linked meeting.) Thanks to all those who were - Colleen, Ivor, Neill, Jane, Johnny and Richard - for a very enjoyable evening. (And thanks to Ivor for saying something about 'people on the list', without which I might never have had the courage to ask if these way-too-quiet people chatting away behind me were Ferry fans.) Despite myself, I've come to enjoy the Avalon spats too much to do anything that would put a complete stop to them; suffice to say that one of our better known subscribers does display a rather mischievous twinkle in her eye and an all-too-rare sense of humour and irony. I hope I haven't done too much damage already. B ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 12:16:30 +0100 From: "Han Snijders" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Press conference Hi Jonathan, I don't know in which role you're gone visit the pc but can you ask some questions? Han ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 07:51:52 EST From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Press conference Sure, If anyone has questions that they would like asked I'll try my best!!! In a message dated 04/02/01 11:24:46 GMT Standard Time, snijders.geest@hetnet.nl writes: << Hi Jonathan, I don't know in which role you're gone visit the pc but can you ask some questions? Han >> ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 11:54:47 EST From: Julialiva@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] no light here In einer eMail vom 03.02.01 15:51:04 (MEZ) Mitteleuropdische Zeit schreibt bahi@macnet.co.uk: << add Cale on bass and you're in for a corker. Would the cleaned-up, 21st century Cale swallow his pride and play bass for Roxy? >> Cale is too much of a progressive forward thinking artist to join such a pure nostaliga-trip. Disappointing enough that Ferry hasn't got anything else to offer these days, if Cale would join....well, I would not know who to admire anymore. He's better off keeping out of "reunions" - aren't we all better off to keep up with the time, even if it's a hard time? ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 17:16:13 +0000 From: Michael Hill Subject: RE: [AVALON] no light here I hope this new album makes an appearance soon, because it's rather depressing to read so many negative E-mails about Bryan and the reunion. "Disappointing"- be patient, man! I'm quite disappointed to read so many of these sceptical statements. The best idea would be to just wait for the album and the tour, and then decide whether to moan or not! >===== Original Message From avalon@smoe.org ===== >In einer eMail vom 03.02.01 15:51:04 (MEZ) Mitteleuropdische Zeit schreibt >bahi@macnet.co.uk: > ><< add Cale on bass and you're in for a corker. Would the > cleaned-up, 21st century Cale swallow his pride and play bass for > Roxy? >> >Cale is too much of a progressive forward thinking artist to join such a pure >nostaliga-trip. Disappointing enough that Ferry hasn't got anything else to >offer these days, if Cale would join....well, I would not know who to admire >anymore. He's better off keeping out of "reunions" - aren't we all better >off to keep up with the time, even if it's a hard time? > > >___________________________________________________________________________ >The subliminable footer says: >To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: >unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:52:21 -0000 From: "Tracy Connell" Subject: [AVALON] Paris Concert I found the DVD of the Paris Concert in HMV in Gateshead in the North East, despite them telling me a week earlier that there was nothing listed. I asked about the VHS video version and they had no listing of that. Perhaps that will appear on their shelves next week. Has anyone actually seen the VHS version in the shops? Also I can't seem to remember when Bryan was supposed to be releasing a new album. Does anyone know or is there a delay because of the Roxy reunion? Btw, any unofficial Roxy dates for Newcastle yet? I know, too many questions! Tracy. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 13:43:42 -0800 From: "Ivor Canning" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Out of the Blue and in the Flesh (long!) Arnie cracks the whip: > For those of us who bemoan the slow work habits of the Maestro, just compare > to EJ and you'll see that Bryan is a speed demon in comparison. A trifle harsh Arnie, given he's been working on TV soundtracks for such a long time. Just for the hell of it, I had a quick look at the Nash Bridges site and discovered that Eddie wrote music for no fewer than 92 episodes of said program, between September 1996 and May of last year. Even assuming a mere 30 minutes of music per episode, that amounts to a fairly astonishing 56 hours of recorded music ! There is some talk about bringing out soundtrack albums - if they do it episode by episode (like ex-Tang Christophe Franke's 'Babylon 5' music) he would eclipse Bryan Ferry's entire recorded output in one fell swoop ! But hey, we're talking about quality, right ? S8^) Regards, Ivor. n.p. Hot Butter 'Popcorn' - at long last !!!!!!!!! I've been waiting for this electronic/lounge classic to come out on CD for YEARS - it's just a shame they left off one of my favourite tracks ('Pipeline'). ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:36:25 -0800 From: "Ivor Canning" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Out of the Blue and in the Flesh (long!) - correction D'oh - make that 46 hours (still too long, in my book !) Regards, A Numerically Challenged Ive. ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:40:43 -0000 From: "ncjones.lewis2" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Press conference stand by for a "where's Thommo?" stampede! Neil Jones - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [AVALON] Press conference > Sure, If anyone has questions that they would like asked I'll try my best!!! > > > In a message dated 04/02/01 11:24:46 GMT Standard Time, > snijders.geest@hetnet.nl writes: > > << Hi Jonathan, > > I don't know in which role you're gone visit the pc but can you ask some > questions? > > Han >> > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > The subliminable footer says: > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:42:19 -0800 From: "Ivor Canning" Subject: Re: [AVALON] no light here Julia dreams: > Cale is too much of a progressive forward thinking artist to join such a pure > nostaliga-trip. Not like back in 1993 then, eh ? S8^O Regards, Ivor. n.p. The Velvet Underground 'Live MCMXCIII' ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:45:43 -0000 From: "ncjones.lewis2" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Press conference If you manage to get any questions in how about whether this tour will hold up, or indeed be used to promote the new Ferry solo work which was being talked about at the tail end of last year. Cheers Neil Jones - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [AVALON] Press conference > Sure, If anyone has questions that they would like asked I'll try my best!!! > > > In a message dated 04/02/01 11:24:46 GMT Standard Time, > snijders.geest@hetnet.nl writes: > > << Hi Jonathan, > > I don't know in which role you're gone visit the pc but can you ask some > questions? > > Han >> > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > The subliminable footer says: > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 14:15:44 -0500 From: "Gregory A. Koetting" Subject: [AVALON] "When She Walks Into the Room" Just curious, gang, whether "When She Walks Into The Room" was ever played live- seems like the last tour would have been appropriately set up for this oft-overlooked song... greggie/atlanta n/p "Not Dark Yet" by Bob Dylan ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 19:21:06 -0000 From: "Andrew Shearer" Subject: Re: [AVALON] no light here I suppose another source of the original Roxy demo would be Richard Williams, the Melody Maker journalist. Andrew >From: Bahi Para >Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org >To: avalon@smoe.org >Subject: [AVALON] no light here >Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 14:42:10 +0000 > >I've rarely been able to check this mailbox over the last few months; >with my apologies for their rambling and thoroughly unfocused style, >here are some comments. > >Jocelyne wrote: > >>The 1971 Roxy demo of course. Wonder who's got that gathering dust on a >>studio shelf? > >John Walters, I imagine, since Peel & Walters received a copy of >(what I assume was) the tape that went to the record companies. Peel >presumably burned his after seeing Ferry on the Bete Noire tour. I >didn't read the Peel review of the show in the Observer but it was >harsh enough for Bryan to refer to it in an interview 7 years later >while promoting Taxi. (There were a few references to Peel at that >point: he claimed in an interview to have heard Blackfoot's version >of Taxi on the Peel show while doing 100 mph, trying to find pen and >paper to jot down the song's details; he also included a snip of Peel >muttering "cheers" in typically morose fashion - as a Radio 1 news >broadcaster finished a bulletin, I think - on Rescue Me.) > >To hear him tell the story, Walters had more to do with the Roxy >thing initially than Peel did, Bryan recognising Walters immediately >(from their time in Newcastle Uni with Hamilton) when he visited the >Radio 1 office to deliver the tape. (Or was it the other way around? >Did Walter recognise Ferry? I forget.) > >Won Kar Wei's beautifully shot film, In the Mood for Love, received a >few mentions here, not all favourable. I didn't know that he chose >the English title while listening to a Ferry track, as someone here >suggested - does this quote appear somewhere? (The Chinese title >means something like "The Age of Blossom".) I'd just like to mention >that this film is to Won Kar Wei's earlier releases what Avalon is to >the first three Roxy albums. Imagine Roxy going from Stranded >straight to Avalon. Shockingly placid at first, lovingly recorded and >likely to deeply divide the opinions of fans of the earlier work, to >put it mildly. Adding to the film's aura, in Won Kar Wei's native >Hong Kong, the two leading characters (Tony Cheung and Maggie Leung) >are both played by people who are very public style icons themselves. >There's another layer to the film for natives of Hong Kong, as they >watch the actors play with and against their own public images. It's >a very Avalon-like film and if you like emotions to be easy, >up-front, and obvious, it's not for you. > >Love War; I remember someone, (probably Mr Turner, Avalon's official >librarian at the time, and a very dedicated one, too, supplying us >with every article mentioning Ferry from every newspaper he could get >hold of) first posting news of Love War. It was part of an article in >which Bryan was claiming that the new album would have a more >aggressive, assertive sound. I believe it was in a the piece taken >from the Times or something. The funny thing is I can't remember any >mention of Dave Stewart at the time, though numerous other names were >named. And it was quite some time ago, probably around '95. Was this >track rewritten and re-recorded with Dave Stewart or have I just >blanked out all mentions of Stewart's name? > >The Crimson tape: I expected the Avalon digest following that >mentioning the tape to be pretty much written by Arnie Schulberg >alone but if there was a single message, I missed it. Wow, Arnie, are >you really that busy or have you already got your copy of that tape? > >Roxy Reunion: add Cale on bass and you're in for a corker. Would the >cleaned-up, 21st century Cale swallow his pride and play bass for >Roxy? Would Ferry swallow his pride and ask? Unlike Eno (one of his >many ex-sparring partners) Cale loves live work and revels in it. He >has complete command of an audience and is - perhaps now more than >ever - an astonishingly good live player. Hey, Roxy could do Waiting >for the Man and segue into Valentine - or Mother of Pearl... >melancholy shimmering. And then Sunset. And Ferry would have to be >asked not to smile, or he'd spoil it. :-\ > >(I've been listening almost non-stop to Cale's version of Leonard >Cohen's Hallelujah - glorious.) > >And finally, the sound of Carleen Anderson's voice on Which Way to >Turn: an exceptionally wonderful thing, if played loudly enough (the >song and the sound of the voice, both). I've forgotten the other 50 >things I was going to write about. > >Consider yourselves lucky. Next time is the best time, > >B > > >___________________________________________________________________________ >The subliminable footer says: >To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: >unsubscribe avalon > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 19:23:44 -0000 From: "Andrew Shearer" Subject: Re: [AVALON] no light here I suppose another source of the original Roxy demo would be Richard Williams, the Melody Maker journalist (now mainly sport I think). Andrew >From: Bahi Para > >Jocelyne wrote: > >>The 1971 Roxy demo of course. Wonder who's got that gathering dust on a >>studio shelf? > >John Walters, I imagine, since Peel & Walters received a copy of >(what I assume was) the tape that went to the record companies. Peel >presumably burned his after seeing Ferry on the Bete Noire tour. I >didn't read the Peel review of the show in the Observer but it was >harsh enough for Bryan to refer to it in an interview 7 years later >while promoting Taxi. (There were a few references to Peel at that >point: he claimed in an interview to have heard Blackfoot's version >of Taxi on the Peel show while doing 100 mph, trying to find pen and >paper to jot down the song's details; he also included a snip of Peel >muttering "cheers" in typically morose fashion - as a Radio 1 news >broadcaster finished a bulletin, I think - on Rescue Me.) > >To hear him tell the story, Walters had more to do with the Roxy >thing initially than Peel did, Bryan recognising Walters immediately >(from their time in Newcastle Uni with Hamilton) when he visited the >Radio 1 office to deliver the tape. (Or was it the other way around? >Did Walter recognise Ferry? I forget.) > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 20:02:11 +0000 From: Michael Hill Subject: RE: [AVALON] no light here Here here! Well noted, lest we forget that Bryan is stylistically far more forward-thinking than Cale. I sure hope this tour works out fantastically well, not that Bry & Co need prove anything, but just to reassure our worriers on the list. Roxy are too cool to ever put on anything other than a super show. Nostalgia trip? No, we're talking about Roxy here, and the ATGB tour I felt was proof enough that the songs still sound better than anything else floating about the music industry. All we need is a new album then! >===== Original Message From avalon@smoe.org ===== >Julia dreams: > >> Cale is too much of a progressive forward thinking artist to join such a >pure >> nostaliga-trip. > >Not like back in 1993 then, eh ? > >S8^O > >Regards, > >Ivor. > >n.p. The Velvet Underground 'Live MCMXCIII' > > >___________________________________________________________________________ >The subliminable footer says: >To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: >unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 20:12:42 -0000 From: "David Squires " Subject: Re: [AVALON] no light here On 3 Feb 2001, at 14:42, Bahi Para wrote: > Roxy Reunion: add Cale on bass and you're in for a corker. Would > the cleaned-up, 21st century Cale swallow his pride and play bass > for Roxy? > Hey, Roxy could do Waiting for the Man and segue into Valentine - > or Mother of Pearl... melancholy shimmering. And then Sunset. And > Ferry would have to be asked not to smile, or he'd spoil it. :-\ > > (I've been listening almost non-stop to Cale's version of Leonard > Cohen's Hallelujah - glorious.) It would be nice, but I don't think he'd do it. I'm off to see Cale (again!) in a week or so in Cambridge. I last saw him in early 1999 at the RFH. The highlight of that show was a haunting version of "The Ballad of Cable Hogue", which was wreathed in a Morricone-esque spaghetti soundscape - chilling! "This is a song about two men who fell in love in jail..." Nice to hear from you again on the list, Bahi. David - -- David Squires, Wimbotsham, Norfolk, UK ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 20:29:45 -0000 From: "David Squires " Subject: RE: [AVALON] no light here On 4 Feb 2001, at 17:16, Michael Hill wrote: > The best idea would be to just wait for the album and the tour, and > then decide whether to moan or not! I should live so long! David - -- David Squires, Wimbotsham, Norfolk, UK ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 23:18:02 +0100 From: "Han Snijders" Subject: Re: [AVALON] "When She Walks Into the Room" Never played live as far as I know. In my top ten Ferry/Roxy songs. This Island earth, Broken Wings, Can't Let Go, when she walks in the Room etc. I love these songs. more than 20 years old and they still sound fresh. I like the way they recorded his voice on these numbers, more direct. Compare that to Help Me, for example. Can't stand the sound of that one. Layers of his voice that gives a kind of echo. Brrr. Han - ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: Gregory A. Koetting Aan: Verzonden: zondag 4 februari 2001 20:15 Onderwerp: [AVALON] "When She Walks Into the Room" > Just curious, gang, whether "When She Walks Into The Room" was ever played > live- seems like the last tour would have been appropriately set up for this > oft-overlooked song... > > greggie/atlanta > > n/p "Not Dark Yet" by Bob Dylan > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > The subliminable footer says: > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 14:54:00 -0800 (PST) From: Adrew Howard Subject: Re: [AVALON] no light here > >The 1971 Roxy demo of course. Wonder who's got that gathering dust on a > >studio shelf? > Actually Ferry mentioned in an interview in Record Collecter in late '99 that he still has a copy of that demo tape. it would be inbteresting to hear it. > the sound of Carleen Anderson's voice on Which Way to > Turn: an exceptionally wonderful thing, if played loudly enough (the > song and the sound of the voice, both). Carleen Anderson makes Mamouna great for me. I can't but imagine her with horns and a fork tail on this album. Hear her tragically rejecting Ferry's advances in a brutally frank manner on Don't Want To Know. Hear her let a desperate Ferry "run out of time" on Chain Reaction. Which Way To Turn is indeed tremendous stuff. It's the shortest song lyrically on the album but clocks in as the longest at 5 minutes 44 seconds - - testament indeed to the highly attractive instrumentals and the excellent use of lyrical repetition. I love how the various layers come together one at a time, blending beautifully: the overlaid drumbeats drift effortlessly into the deliberately uncertain keyboard and a sadness tainted vocal. The atmosphere builds up to a crescendo, then begins winding down with the piercing cries of the sax dominating the proceedings, whilst all the time being accompanied by a slow strumming guitar, and a grim spiritual presence. Overwhelmed by immortality Ferry, in trance-like fashion, repeatedly mourns his fate. For the final two and a half minutes, like a man who has just been made aware of death ("And the world YOU KNOW"), he sings painfully that he is "Easing out of time". Drew "Walk on ice feel your fingers burn" - Bryan Ferry (1994) _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 01:27:20 -0800 From: "Ivor Canning" Subject: Re: [AVALON] An Inspector calls... Andrew thinks it may have been in the dining room with the lead piping: > I suppose another source of the original Roxy demo would be Richard > Williams, the Melody Maker journalist (now mainly sport I think). But Inspector, you overlook the most obvious culprit - From the pages of 'Record Collector' (December 1999): BF: I do have the tape of Roxy that I used to carry around and play to people. RC: The original demo tape ? BF: Yeah, I have that, which is before Phil joined and has Roger Bunn on guitar. RC: Would you consider putting that on the box set? BF: Oh yeah, I might well do. M'lud, the prosecution rests. Regards, Ivor. n.p. Henry Cow 'Leg End' ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 02:12:51 -0800 From: "Ivor Canning" Subject: Re: [AVALON] The other grail... Arnie is not a true believer S8^) : > Alas, I do not have such a tape and Fripp has contiually denied its > existence. Out of interest, Arnie, what has he actually said in print on the matter ? When I commented on the audition tape sometime last year but (feebly) couldn't remember where I'd read it, somebody (Christian ?) said that it had been mentioned in an edition of MOJO back in 1995, perhaps by Pete Sinfield. Rod's interesting account certainly bears this out. Importantly, this incident shows that Fripp still had the tape, as it were, 'post-anonymity'. I could just about believe someone carelessly misplacing the audition tape *before* Roxy took off, but not after - and especially not Fripp ! Of course, it's possible that the tape is by now genuinely lost or that Fripp has agreed to keep it under wraps, but at least this suggests there is more than a grail of truth in the matter (ouch !!) ... Regards, Ivor. n.p. Henry Cow 'Unrest' ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 00:41:27 -0600 From: jas2347@xsite.net Subject: [AVALON] Stiched up ties and Chance meetings Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:10:44 EST From: AMeyersLD@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Roxy Tour 2001 Hey Jas and Kim (and anyone else near Chicago): Dinner and drinks on the night of the Roxy show? I am having my dinner jacket altered in preparation.... You betcha! I first saw Roxy at the Auditorium in 1975 (can it really have been that long ago!?) Very elegant. A Great place for a concert...Chicago Theatre wouldn't be bad either. I'm still wondering why I did not go that show in 1975!! I'm sure you and I would have struck up a conversation. Yes, the Chicago Theatre would be great too. What about the Airie Crown Theatre ( sight of the Bete Noire and Mamouna tours)? Oh yeah... One of the thrills of the last tour for me (other than meeting Jas for the first time!) was hearing the gorgeous, sprawling arrangement of "Sunset". That, I believe, was Mr Good's work. Thanks Andrew. The feelings mutual. Add to that, meeting our (Chicago's) verion of Siren...Kim!! Colin and Lucy on the tour? YES!!! I still have the memory of almost falling out of my chair while hearing Sunset on the last tour. Colin had it nailed down. Jas, we can both wear white dinner jackets, as long as the ladies wear black.... Alright!! We could call ourselves Remake/Remodel, the Jealous Guyzz, the Bogus Men, or the Bewlay Brothers (Bowie reference there). Of course Kim would be our Siren (or Prarie Rose) and she would certainly not be Stranded..with us in tow. Hmm...I'm thinking lots of photo ops before the show and afterwards with the band. It's a must the we up front during the show. I'm also thinking of reviving what I did not have the time to do when Bryan's show was here last time: make up cards or a poster with the Avalon list address on it. Maybe Bryan may not be aware of us (or is he?), but Phil and Andy might ( assuming they pack their Notebooks with them). We could get more Chicago fans interested in the list. I can just see the photo now of us with the band and the Avalon address. It could happen... Jas - Were you in the crowd (Aragon '99) that got to chat with Bryan after the show - side entrance - my girlfriend has NEVER been the same after shaking hands and chatting with him. Come to think of it, never have I ! Also, Roxy played U of I Chicago in '82 - that was a great venue. Alex Just North of Chicago in Cheeseland Was I???? Oh yes. It was crush to get to him, but I made it. It was what I had waited 20 years for. If you look across the street ( the Lawrence Avenue side) from the Riviera ( where he played in Nov. 99) you will see the now shuttered Uptown Theatre. Roxy played there on the Manifesto tour. It was the night I snuck into the back of the limo to get Bryan's autograph ( no I did not get it). I mentioned this to Bryan the last time and he smiled as he gave me his autograph. A very electric moment! A very nice guy. I made pics of this historical event, but the disposble camera I had broke down at the wrong time. Dammit!!! It was also me that almost got the same camera snatched by security before the end of the concert. Thank god for Andrew and the other people around me for interceding on my behalf. Kim has some good pics of her and Bryan. As for the U/I show in 1982? Yep,I was there too: on the main floor. I hope you come down from "cheeseland" to join us again when they play here. We need a stong cheering section for the show. Jas Chicago ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 04:01:07 -0500 From: "Gregory A. Koetting" Subject: [AVALON] Would Roxy Music come to Atlanta? Oh man-- The possibility of Roxy Music coming to Atlanta just amazes me (gotta happen!!).. I'm not sure if tour dates have been announced, but if Roxy should (wisely) visit Atlanta, I would love to have some sort of a Roxy party before the 'main thing.' Just throwing it out... greggie/atlanta "I would love you but I'm getting so blown away" - - "Like a hurricane" by Neil Young ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V6 #40 *************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest