From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V6 #487 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, October 18 2001 Volume 06 : Number 487 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] OFF TOPIC: California Guitar Trio ["James James" ] Re: [AVALON] J.O'B's world tour [Avalon887@aol.com] [AVALON] LA Offer closed ["Don Becker" ] Re: [AVALON] LA Offer closed ["M. Taylor" ] [AVALON] OT: Cut-outs ["Rod LeCloux" ] Re: [AVALON] OT: Cut-outs [KarenASwenson@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] J.O'B's world tour ["Peter Seely" ] Re: [AVALON] Los Angeles offer ["Strimples" ] Re: [AVALON] Best lyrics? ["terrypaulrigz8c" Subject: [AVALON] OFF TOPIC: California Guitar Trio I know there's a few fans of Robert Fripp/ King Crimson on the list, so I thought I'd pass this along. If you are not familiar with the California Guitar Trio, they are students of Mr Fripp. You may have seen them perform on the same bill as King Crimson. Anyway, they are amazing acoustic guitarists that cover everything from Bach and Beethoven to King Crimson and Yes, The Shadows, and more. Since live performances are rare, live video performances are even rarer. If anyone is interested, I can forward the .asx files for a two hour live performance from this past summer at a club in Toronto Canada (which also includes Tony Levin!). (The source is a website offering streaming concerts - www.primeticket.net.). Downloading this small file will save you watching the streaming video, especially if you have a slow dial-up connection. You can even save the files on a diskette for playback anytime on your Windows Media Player, without being online. (I'm unsure as to playback on a Mac, but you're welcome to try it.) I've been playing it at work and it's wonderful. If anyone is interested, please email me offlist for the files. Jamessidmouth58@hotmail.com - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:51:22 -0400 From: "Don Becker" Subject: [AVALON] Los Angeles offer Having benefitted from the kindness of our own Grant Goggans (thanks, man!), I am going to give a little back to the list. The first six people who want a copy of the recent LA gig are more than welcome to it. I will accept both trades and B&P (2 CDs). But to make things interesting, you have to send me a joke (no matter how bad) to qualify. :) - --Don - -- Don Becker don@adelphi.edu http://www.donbecker.org Unix System Administrator, Adelphi University http://www.adelphi.edu ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:59:54 EDT From: Avalon887@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] J.O'B's world tour John, fabulous account of your travels, eileen in Kew Gardens ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:02:43 -0400 From: "Don Becker" Subject: [AVALON] LA Offer closed OK - all six slots have been taken for this offer. Depending on how this goes, I may do another B&P offer soon. But this has worked out well for me, since I'm getting the NYC show after all. :) Thanks for all the bad jokes. - --Don ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:34:30 +0000 From: "M. Taylor" Subject: Re: [AVALON] LA Offer closed >Thanks for all the bad jokes. What was the worst joke? =P M _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:44:31 -0500 From: "Rod LeCloux" Subject: [AVALON] OT: Cut-outs Hallo, Yesterday I picked up 2 cool cutouts at "Big Lots". They were "Heart-Dreamboat Annie" and "Steve Miller-Fly Like An Eagle", both for $6.99 each. What's cool about them is that they are the mini-album releases(cardboard gatefold jacket) and also digitally remastered. Well, I don't listen to Heart and Steve Miller much these days but I thought they were too cool to pass up and I did see Heart live when I was about 14 years old in Green Bay. Anyways, it got me thinking. Remember when you could go to just about any record store and they had tons and tons of cut-outs. And then when CD's took over the market the same thing happened. Places like Best Buy and large record shops carried cut-out CD's. In fact, I could always count on picking up the latest Roger Daltrey solo album for $3.99 six month after it was released. However, over the last couple of years they seem to have disapeared, except for the odd small pile here and there. Does anyone know what happen? Did record companies finally figure out how to make the exact numbers available for the market? I doubt it!! Are they recycling them after the shops return over-stock? I haven't the foggiest clue. Do I have my priorites screwed up? Should I be worrying about more important things in life???? Please don't make me look at my 401K plan... Rod ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:41:42 EDT From: KarenASwenson@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] OT: Cut-outs In a message dated 10/17/01 8:43:42 PM, rlecloux@execpc.com writes: << Yesterday I picked up 2 cool cutouts at "Big Lots". >> Boy, what can't you find at Big Lots? I usually go there when I've got some "mad money" and get stuff like candles and Israeli marmalade, but have found a lot of unexpected great (to me) cutouts by blues artists I'd like to know more of like Bobby "Blue" Bland and Lightnin' Hopkins, got an Adrian Belew (terrific as usual)and a late-model Yes or Jon Anderson (almost unlistenable). I, too, remember more cutouts in mass-market stores. I get some catalogs featuring mainly non-rock audiophile cutouts, but beats me where the rest go. Karen ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:07:58 -0400 From: "Peter Seely" Subject: Re: [AVALON] J.O'B's world tour Let me echo the sentiments of praise for the tour account, and for John and Emma, who seemed like a great couple when I met them. It amazed me that some people on these sites started believing they were celebrities in their own right because they were "superfans" (but aren't we all?). John and Emma certainly took superfan to new heights, though, and it was a pleasure for this Yank to meet them in the UK. Pete - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 3:48 AM Subject: [AVALON] J.O'B's world tour > I knew there would be times like this when I’d sit at home and reminisce….. > > You’ve got me boy on the run around, you’ve got me all around the world.. > > 4 months later 6 countries 10 cities 15 shows 20 zegagazzillion pounds and I am now unbuckling the safety harness on the rollercoaster. I had only seen Roxy as a band once prior to this tour and it was great to be able to see them again. I have always said that Roxy Music is the soundtrack to my life and that would apply to a lot of others on this list too. Over the last 4 months I had all sorts of flashbacks from my previous 30+ years. I laughed, I cried and I knew why. I remembered all those special moments in my life that Roxy where the backdrop too. I laughed with my new found friends on this list before during and after the shows. I cried at the memory of special moments that I shared with my late parents that these songs were part of, my whole life was replayed back to me in the space of 4 months. > > The highlights for me on this tour are hard to define as I there where so many different highs for me. The Dublin show takes quite a beating in that the element of surprise was there for us. The surprise of the opening drum on For Your Pleasure at this show was a treasure so rare. Many gig post gatherings in Newcastle and London and meeting many fans especially Betsy at Wembley who came all the way from San Francisco to meet us all again and tak e in a show while she was there. > > On to USA and I didn’t quite believe it at Glasgow airport that morning that I was heading to America just to see Roxy Music. The buzz of walking through a train station in Philladelphia and meeting peole I know. The surrealism of walking into a bar near Washington and overhearing someone say “that’s John O’Brien”, I mean, I was thousands of miles from home. Boston was the low point in the tour for me when the doctors advice of “don’t go to USA, stay home” made sense, as an illness that I had prior to leaving was kicking in and the jet lag didn’t help. This low was quickly sorted with a wonderful time in Cape Cod courtesy of Will with very relaxing chat with Reecey, Will & Colleen for 2 evenings and a day. > > On to NYC, walking to the venue for the first show I saw a huge light sign saying “Roxy Music Madison Square Garden” that was a real buzz. Coal miners sons living in the farthest reaches of my homeland just don’t go to places like that, I had to pinch myself. And just when I thought I was all Roxied out, I couldn’t believe how rich in contrast this show was to the previous one, one of the best shows of the tour for me. The fan gathering back in the pub after the show was one of those impromptu wonderful evenings you just can’t explain. I knew that night why I had went to the bother and expense of crossing the Atlantic. > > The New York disaster on 11th September brought a lot home to me. I had been there, I had friends there, I had a wonderful time there. This Roxy Music thing had brought so many people together who had so many genuine concerns for people whom they had never met and probably never will. This was another example of what being a Roxy fan brings to you other than the music, friendships as well as seeing the world. > > Rotterdam & Antwerp found me adding to the foreign currency I have collected in going to Roxy/Ferry shows. It was great to meet “the Dutch” on their own backyard, and again I had some of the best social evenings of my life. Belgium will have to stock up with beer before I return though. > > Glasgow 2 was easily the best gig of the tour, the atmosphere and performance was second to none and as someone born and brought up just outside Glasgow I was proud of the reputation of the Glasgow audiences was still intact. > > The final show in London was a great gig to finish off with. The audience were really up for it in contrast to the 1st night in Hammersmith. Looking along the front row I recognised every face their. It was so fitting for all these people to be sitting there as I had seen them all in various corners around the world through all summer long. > > Like the As Time Goes By tour, the post show gatherings are what this is all about and if Roxy or Bryan doesn’t tour for a while I am sure we will find an excuse to meet up again. > > On a personal level I had some nice compliments about the webite that I launched at the start of the tour. The nicest one was after saying goodbye to many friends after the last show John Dillon said “it’s been a great tour and you have played a part in that.” > It’s nice that the fan-based websites get the recognition from the fans in their part in the tour between informing of dates and ticket sales to reporting in all the shows. > > A big thanks to Phil Manzanera who arranged for me to take Emma to meet him, Bryan & the band. Phil was impressed by the website and the work we had both put in to it. She has been my unsung hero for this tour. > > My bank manager is now an active member of The Society For The Abolition Of Bryan Ferry Live Concerts. He has told me that all that the word Roxy should mean to me for a while is:- > > Re-earning > Of > Xtra > Yen > > It was great to meet you all > > John O’Brien > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > 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, 18 Oct 2001 03:21:32 -0400 From: "Strimples" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Los Angeles offer Which LA gig is this?? Steve - ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Becker To: Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 5:51 PM Subject: [AVALON] Los Angeles offer > Having benefitted from the kindness of our own Grant Goggans (thanks, man!), > I am going to give a little back to the list. > > The first six people who want a copy of the recent LA gig are more than > welcome to it. I will accept both trades and B&P (2 CDs). But to make > things interesting, you have to send me a joke (no matter how bad) to > qualify. :) > > --Don > > -- > Don Becker don@adelphi.edu http://www.donbecker.org > Unix System Administrator, Adelphi University http://www.adelphi.edu > > > ________________________________________________________________________ ___ > 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, 18 Oct 2001 08:09:14 +0100 From: "terrypaulrigz8c" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Best lyrics? > Bryan Ferry is a great lyricist, which in all your opinions is his best album > lyrically? > > Terry "O" > > NP:Your Song/Ewan McGregor. > Heres me replying to my own post, I don't seem to have stimulated (!) all you folks enough. What I was really after was which album/set of lyrics REALLY stimulates your imagination, even after 10/15/20/25 years, which of these songs bring back memories of past lives/lost loves/happier times/desperate times/which have brought you through most of your life. Perhaps it's not just a whole album, it might be just one lyric. Heres one of mine (there are many), although the lyric was written in 1974, the time when the lyric came to be of significance was 1989. The whole of "A Really Good Time" reminds me of a great friend of mine ("Your well educated with no common sense"), there was never a romantic attachment ( "'Cos I've not much to say, And theres nobody else, Who's ready & willing and able to know me I guess"), now she lives on the other side of the world ("She's gonna make it, she's got what it takes") , we meet each other annually ( "She's probably late"!), we always laugh & then cry & I ALWAYS play "A Really Good Time" when I leave her ( "But I know, we all know, She'll have a Really Good Time"). In addition to this I feel "Country Life" was Bryans last truely inspired album lyrically as a whole, there have been great lyrics since (LITD/Can't let go/IYM/Manifesto/To turn you on/Which way to turn/39 Steps) and many more, but since CL clique'd & repetitive lost love/weary hard luck stories have been all too frequent. Hope I havn't bored you Terry "O" NP: A Really good Time on repeat, Must make a phone call today! Great things songs aren't they!!!!!! ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V6 #487 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest