From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V6 #302 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Friday, July 13 2001 Volume 06 : Number 302 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Supper with the Maestro [KWil632057@aol.com] [AVALON] Reecey and Co. [Louis Simone ] Re: [AVALON] "Psalm" [Richard Evans ] [AVALON] Check it out [Bill ] Re: [AVALON] Reecey and Co. ["Peter Seely" ] Re: [AVALON] Meetings In New York City [Avalon887@aol.com] [AVALON] Psalm ["Eman 97" ] Re: [AVALON] Psalm ["Peter Seely" ] Re: [AVALON] Psalm [Artman1@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Check it out [Daniel Atterbom ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:11:24 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Supper with the Maestro > "Wish everybody would leave me alone > > They4re always calling on my telephone > > When I pick it up there4s no-one there > > So I walk outside just to take air" > > > Please say you didn't go up and say that to him... ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:32:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Louis Simone Subject: [AVALON] Reecey and Co. I am watching "the videos" right now near Cleveland, Ohio. They are really, really great. For a "yank", this is incredible footage to have the honour of seeing. As you know, our "rock on tv" situation isn't the greatest over here. Thanks to Reecey...a fantastic effort...greatly appreciated. Oh yea, Elvis hasn't left the building...he is down the street at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. paulclevo Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:48:33 +0100 From: Richard Evans Subject: Re: [AVALON] "Psalm" Hey I'm a drummer wot do I know!! Cheers richard LeeSullivn@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 7/12/01 8:26:13 PM GMT Daylight Time, > evansr@cableinet.co.uk writes: > > > and Andy alto just fits superbly > > Soprano. Size isn't everything. Really. > Lee S > > ____________________________________________ > Easily distracted? Displacement activity a problem? > Me too. Going to: > > www.LeeSullivan.co.uk > > won't help either . . . > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > 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: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 19:06:19 -0500 From: Bill Subject: [AVALON] Check it out The Classic Review Of the Week! INDEED!!!!! http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/pagename=/RP/GENRES/cms_genres.html/fid=272169 Brian Eno's Avant-Rock Milestone By Pat Berkery CDNOW Contributing Writer Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets (EG) At no other time has Brian Eno melded the abstract and the traditional, the melodic and the muted, and achieved the net effect his 1974 solo outing, Here Come the Warm Jets, yielded. Strange buzzes and instrumental treatments circle the runway ominously, as glam-punk vamps and surprisingly on-kilter melodic sensibilities crash-land on a slick but well-lit runway. By Eno standards (these standards include his work with avant-garde composers such as Michael Nyman, and pioneering ambient efforts such as Another Green World), Here Come the Warm Jets might as well be Exile on Main Street; it's a rock album. But it's a rock album flush with Eno's predilection for strangeness and straight-up, out-there sonic textures. Eno's two endeavors prior to Here Come the Warm Jets - -- Roxy Music's 1973 album For Your Pleasure, and a 1973 collaboration with King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp entitled No Pussyfooting -- found him employing Fripp's technique of orchestrating looped delays dubbed Frippertronics. Both records -- Roxy's stylized glam and No Pussyfooting's futuristic bent -- bathed Here Come the Warm Jets in colors that were new to the rock palate, but sounded vaguely familiar just the same. It all begins with "Needles in the Camel's Eye." A distant whir of what sounds like 1,000 guitars hammers away, as plodding drums keep the beat, and Eno yodels barely discernible lyrics which may or may not have something to do with the restlessness of youth ("Why ask why?" is about the song's only understandable line). The proto-disco-punk of "The Paw Paw Negro Blow Torch" would reappear later in the decade with New York bands such as the Talking Heads and Eno's own production efforts with David Bowie. Fripp's studious guitar heroics latch themselves tightly to Eno's tense, affected vocals on tracks such as "Baby's on Fire" (a pulsating union of rocking machismo and fey posturing), and play come-hither foil to Eno's many voices on the lurching "Driving Me Backwards," a trick Fripp would employ to great results with Adrian Belew on latter-day King Crimson offerings. When you peel back the many layers of Here Come the Warm Jets, everything about it screams, "Not a Rock Record!" Yet play it loud enough on your car stereo, and watch how you're eclipsing the speed limit by the time "Baby's on Fire" creeps up. ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:54:53 -0400 From: "Peter Seely" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Reecey and Co. Andrew from Chicago, Would love to hear about Martinis. Pete in Chicago, p.s., Danilo bought his tickets from me... - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [AVALON] Reecey and Co. > In a message dated 7/11/01 7:49:40 PM, seely31@home.com writes: > > << Reecey, > > > I wanted to let you know that the videos arrived today in Chicago, > > Pete >> > Sigh, mine haven't! > Hey, Pete, you're in Chicago? > You should contact us about Martinis.... > Andrew > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > 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: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:04:04 EDT From: Avalon887@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Meetings In New York City Hi. The name of the restaurant is Edmond Doran. It is on the same level as the lobby and can be reached by walking through the lobby and turning left, walking past some stores on your right, and continuing down the corridor and then if my memory serves me correctly another left to the entrance of the restaurant. See you there! eileen ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 19:55:15 -0700 From: "Eman 97" Subject: [AVALON] Psalm >>Although on balance (just) my favourite album of the first five is >>Stranded", I have always considered "Psalm" to be the weakest track. I never really liked that Welsh Male Choir bit, and consider it far to dour. To me the song never "fitted in" on the album. Right, it doesn't fit that LP, and for a long time I considered it the one truly bum Roxy track. Then I heard a studio outtake on a bootleg, where BF went a smidge over the top, and the mix was wilder...and the track really worked. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:21:50 -0400 From: "Peter Seely" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Psalm There's another bum track on that album: Serenade. It's the only Roxy album of the first four I would say has 2 bum tracks. Pete - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eman 97" To: Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:55 PM Subject: [AVALON] Psalm > >>Although on balance (just) my favourite album of the first five is > >>Stranded", > I have always considered "Psalm" to be the weakest track. I never really > liked > that Welsh Male Choir bit, and consider it far to dour. To me the song never > "fitted in" on the album. > > > Right, it doesn't fit that LP, and for a long time I considered it the one > truly bum Roxy track. > > Then I heard a studio outtake on a bootleg, where BF went a smidge over the > top, and the mix was wilder...and the track really worked. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > 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: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:54:05 EDT From: Artman1@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Psalm Serenade is actually one of my favorite songs on Stranded! The way Bryan sings it so melodramatically makes it quite humorous and Phil put some great guitar work into it as well. As far as Psalm goes, it was hard for me to get used to that song since I'm Jewish and don't get into the religion thing too much, but once I let it grow on me, I liked the way it demonstrated Bryan's vocal range. I really can't say I'd throw away any tunes on that album. I've always considered that my favorite album, but lately, as I've listened to Country Life, I might sway toward that one just slightly since it rocks more than Stranded does. Art In a message dated 7/12/01 11:13:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, seely31@home.com writes: > There's another bum track on that album: Serenade. It's the only Roxy album > of the first four I would say has 2 bum tracks. ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:10:42 +0200 From: Daniel Atterbom Subject: Re: [AVALON] Check it out At 19.06 -0500 1-07-12, Bill quoted: "At no other time has Brian Eno melded the abstract >and the traditional, the melodic and the >muted, and achieved the net effect his 1974 solo >outing, Here Come the Warm Jets, yielded." Was it not released in 1973, or am I forgetfull? Great review of a great album. Daniel ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V6 #302 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest