From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V7 #187 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, June 3 2002 Volume 07 : Number 187 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] any volunteers for list meet-up webpage? [KB Porter ] [AVALON] =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ferry_sings_for_your_pleasure_Ma'am_?= ["M" ] [AVALON] Re: One Way Love [MarlanaK@webtv.net (M.M.K.)] RE: [AVALON] Re: One Way Love ["dark.images" ] [AVALON] Re: One Way Love [OBrienFerry@AOL.COM] Re: [AVALON] Re: One Way Love ["paula brown" ] [AVALON] Review [David Firmin ] [AVALON] Non-BF related spoof - nRg ["M" ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 09:43:50 -0400 From: KB Porter Subject: Re: [AVALON] any volunteers for list meet-up webpage? "Besides, it's not like wasting precious water resources....." But M, it might be! Consider the energy needed to power Yahoogroups; some comes from coal mines, some from nuclear power plants. Among other sources, a significant amount of power is captured with hydroelectric generators harnessing the energy of, you guessed it - water! Water is extremely precious, all things considered. My objection to Yahoogroups is the suffering I must endure wading through the advertisements and cookies just to access the group I want! I'm hoping Cecilia's web pages are much more Avalon friendly! Thank you for stepping up to the plate, Cecilia! Best wishes. KBP ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 07:38:26 -0700 From: "PeteK" Subject: [AVALON] Bryan at # 189 I wonder how many units an artist would sell to chart in at #189. I think Colleen's 3 purchases must represent about a 1/10th of Bryan's sales here in the U.S. Our Mr.cool is competing with the polka records now. Seems like a lot of the people that attented the Roxy shows last year are not buying Frantic, let alone any newcomers. If memory serves me well, as abysmal as Mamouna record sales were here in the U.S. Bryan at least charted around # 94 or # 95. It seems as if Bryan is not good for Virgin and certainly Virgin is not good for Bryan. This is what you call a bad marriage. Running out of time. NP Stan Ridgway's Holiday in Dirt ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 11:35:04 -0400 From: "M" Subject: [AVALON] =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ferry_sings_for_your_pleasure_Ma'am_?= http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=598152002 Ferry sings for your pleasure Ma'am LOUISE RIMMER IMPROMPTU picnics and carryout wine glasses didn't prevent the good people of Edinburgh donning their gladrags for Bryan Ferry's contribution to the Jubilee Celebrations in Edinburgh last night. The weather was kind and this was reflected in a worrying amount of open collared shirts from the men and a number of off-the-shoulder Jerry Hall inspired outfits from the women. The average age was 45 and the dress code was suave city. First up was Horse, looking resplendently androgynous in a purple reflective suit, her gorgeously expressive voice was on full power but sadly was somewhat wasted on a selection of songs that would befit the memory of a goldfish. Nonetheless she managed to attract at least one seated row to their feet for her last funk inspired number 'Guilty' and then it was Ferry time. Looking like he'd never so much as been near turbulence, let alone a near fatal air crash, the singer proved there was plenty of testosterone in the old sophisticate yet. Dressed head to foot in leather, Bryan Ferry drew aged rockers to Edinburgh Castle like a pensionable pied piper. He snarled, rocked and swooned like it was 1977 and the crowd went wild - a fair few air guitar enthusiasts amongst them. His entrance was 'It's All Over Now Baby Blue' - the Bob Dylan cover which features on his latest album. Next up was Roxy Music favourite 'Sign of the Times'. Backed by besuited lovelies Ferry next sang the suitably raunchy 'Can't Let Go'. By now the men all looked faintly peeved. With more than 30 years' experience Ferry, the former lead singer of Roxy Music, can still ease women who should be his daughters well out of their underwear as 'Fool for Love' testified. This was endorsed once again by a slightly up-tempo version of the classic 'Oh Yeah'. The overall atmosphere and reception was priceless and proved that once again, even at 57, Ferry is one of our most precious national treasures. It has to be said that it's the oldies that really get the crowd going. The Bob Dylan classic 'Hard Rain Gonna Fall' illustrates the old Roxy magic as does 'Slave to Love' which was particularly beautiful. ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 11:36:13 -0400 From: "M" Subject: [AVALON] Music Life: Sultan of suave to storm the castle http://www.sundaylife.co.uk/features/story.jsp?story=301534 Music Life: Sultan of suave to storm the castle 'The Dorian Gray of rock music' By John McGurk THE Dorian Gray of rock, Bryan Ferry, makes his long overdue live debut at a free concert in Ulster this Tuesday night. For the Roxy Music mainman is set to become the king of the castle - Belfast Castle - at the first rock show in the grounds of the historic building. Ferry, the 56-year-old hair-flopping fop, has founded his career on a series of groundbreaking musical ventures over the past 30 years. First off, pouting and preening in a tiger skin jacket and Fifties rocker quiff, Ferry startled many with his cool crooning grip on intelligent rock/pop with the highly influential Roxy Music. Early hits such as Virginia Plain, Pyjamarama and Street Life became the thinking person's music of choice in the shallow waters of manufactured pop and po-faced progressive rock. Later, another artistic swerve into poised, pervy funk pop offered up classics such as Love Is The Drug and Both Ends Burning. Then, a late Seventies mutation into glacial Eurodisco rock came with hits like Angel Eyes, Dance Away and The Same Old Scene. But by the early Eighties, Ferry's once invincible sense of romantic longing had teetered over the precipice into yawn inducing ennui on the immaculate but overly mannered final Roxy album, Avalon. Since then, Ferry has struggled to balance his command of style and musical texture with a sense of pop exhilaration. For the most part, his work in the late Eighties and Nineties has been a victory of style over content. But last year's Roxy Music concert reunion tour rejuvenated and re-energised Ferry to complete his first album of almost wholly self-penned songs in eight years. The 13-track result, Frantic, is a finely judged mix of lustful, longing rock balladry - alongside some surprising excursions into acoustic blues and country swing. Few can play the 'tuxedo-clad hurt lounge lizard wistfully licking his wounds' better than Ferry - helpless at the hands of unknown temptresses on Cruel, Goddess Of Love and Nobody Loves Me. He also breathes new life into the lyrically stunning, keyboard driven style of early Roxy with the decadent musical grandeur of San Simeon and the experimental pre-New Romantic sounds of Hiroshima. With the help of Ulster-born soprano, Mary Nelson, he makes the medieval song, Ja Nun Hons Pris, and A Fool For Love, shimmering, sad, but very sexy AOR rock pop excursions. Ever so elegant and elegiac on Frantic, Ferry has recaptured the best of his high, husky-voiced crooning and chameleon-like musical dexterity. Recent reviews for his current tour, which kicked off in Denmark, have been glowing. With a nine-piece band and two dancers, Ferry offers up some Frantic material with a crowd pleasing raft of classics. So expect to hear the likes of Love Is The Drug, Let's Stick Together, Oh Yeah (On The Radio), Jealous Guy, Slave To Love and much more. As long as another live favourite, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, is not matched by Ulster's current wretched weather, this show should be a 'Ferry' memorable night. Bryan Ferry performs at Belfast Castle this Tuesday as part of Radio 2's contribution to the BBC's annual Music Live celebrations. All tickets for the free show have been allocated. ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 11:56:01 -0400 From: "M" Subject: Re: [AVALON] any volunteers for list meet-up webpage? > Consider the energy needed to power Yahoogroups; some comes So if people all over the world should be more energy conscious, we should reduce the number of mailing lists, websites, bulletin boards, guestbooks, and e-mails? Not good, I'm in the process of registering another domain name and will put up a site eventually.... > My objection to Yahoogroups is the suffering I must endure > wading through the advertisements and cookies just to access > the group I want! I'm willing to put up with the bad when I use Yahoogroups. Some of us don't mind using it and some don't like it. =) Anyway, before I waste more resources..... Off to see Spiderman this afternoon! M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A young New Yorker called M Was frequently seen with old men Described as fantastic She preferred lots of plastic Especially Barbie and Ken. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 17:31:29 +0100 From: "June Jack" Subject: [AVALON] Concert intro music Well, I was at the concert at Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh last night. I enjoyed it immensely but must admit I found it quite 'different' to any Bryan concert I've been to before. Not one for the aficionados really, but all the hits were there and the man himself seemed to be enjoying it, despite all the daft women who insisted on mounting the stage and grabbing him! It was quite funny the first time it happened but by the time about six of them had been hustled off by the big burly security guy, the joke was wearing a bit thin. I'm glad I went along, but I'm really looking forward to the October shows which I think will be a bit more like what we 'dyed in the wool' Ferry fans are used to. The fireworks were pretty spectacular though, and the free samples of Glenkinchie's finest malt were very welcome indeed! Anyway, I just wondered if anyone can tell me what the music was that was played after Horse (bless her!) finished and before his highness came on. In particular, there was one track which featured a sort of Celtic sounding pipe-type instrument which I particularly liked. I think someone said before that it was Eno - can anyone give me the details please? Ta much. June xxx ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 13:49:24 -0500 (CDT) From: MarlanaK@webtv.net (M.M.K.) Subject: [AVALON] Re: One Way Love When you listen to "One Way Love" , I hear a instrument like a "SAW", You know how when it's held taunt & made to quiver you get this sound from it. Since "Goodnight Irene " was such a bluesy # & it may have had the same in it. What do others think? I'm liking this Frantic, the more I listen. He has just got to come to Dallas for part of his American tour!!!!! Marlana............................................................... ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 21:43:35 +0100 From: "dark.images" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Re: One Way Love Marlana,I remember reading somewhere BF used various synths on this track to create various effects on this track,I noticed this sound myself I thought it had a more 60's female backing vocals sound to it,but I do see where your coming from with the sound of a vibrating saw Andy -----Original Message----- From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of M.M.K. Sent: 02 June 2002 19:49 To: Avalon@smoe.org Subject: [AVALON] Re: One Way Love When you listen to "One Way Love" , I hear a instrument like a "SAW", You know how when it's held taunt & made to quiver you get this sound from it. Since "Goodnight Irene " was such a bluesy # & it may have had the same in it. What do others think? I'm liking this Frantic, the more I listen. He has just got to come to Dallas for part of his American tour!!!!! Marlana............................................................... ________________________________________________________________________ ___ 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, 2 Jun 2002 17:22:15 EDT From: OBrienFerry@AOL.COM Subject: [AVALON] Re: One Way Love In a message dated 02/06/02 19:50:27 GMT Daylight Time, MarlanaK@webtv.net writes: > When you listen to "One Way Love" , I hear a instrument like a "SAW", > You know how when it's held taunt & made to quiver you get this sound > from it. I think this sound is the one Ferry refers too as 'Witch' on the Mamouna & Taxi album. It is a sound he created on his synth and used that name when he stored it on his Keyboard J.O'B. ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 18:15:29 -0500 From: "paula brown" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Re: One Way Love > When you listen to "One Way Love" , I hear a instrument like a "SAW", > You know how when it's held taunt & made to quiver you get this sound > from it. >I think this sound is the one Ferry refers too as 'Witch' on the Mamouna & Taxi album. It is a sound he created on his synth and used that name when he stored it on his Keyboard J.O'B.< I was wondering what that was. It's really cool. Paula ___________________________________________________________________________ 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, 2 Jun 2002 17:19:12 -0700 (PDT) From: David Firmin Subject: [AVALON] Review Scotland on Sunday article: http://pictures.care2.com/view/2/894452507 *** Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 23:12:38 -0400 From: "M" Subject: [AVALON] Non-BF related spoof - nRg > Consider the energy needed to power Yahoogroups; some comes Sorry, I could not resist. =) I wrote this on the train today, on my way to see Spiderman. M Man fears that Internet is waste of energy resources By M Chicago  Mr. Epperson, an Internet user of four years, suddenly realized that the Internet and e-mail is a complete waste of the worlds energy resources. Determined to be more energy conscious, Mr. Epperson limits his computer use to thirty minutes a day and unplugs his computer equipment when he is finished. He only sends e-mail when absolutely necessary, like wishing "Happy Birthday" to his uncle in Toronto. In addition, he will not visit websites, post at bulletin boards, sign guestbooks or subscribe to mailing lists. The energy required to power things like AOL and Yahoo must be staggering, noted Mr. Epperson. I feel better that I am doing my duty as a citizen by conserving power and helping to preserve the worlds resources for future generations. Theres a great side effect too. Now I have more time to do other things, like clean my house and mow the lawn. Ironically, Mr. Epperson runs his own website, www.inet-wastes-nrg.com, that educates computer users about their wastefulness and how to reduce it, and calls for websites to join forces to reduce energy consumption. If you think about it, we dont need to have separate sites for CNN and the BBC since you pretty much read the same things. We could have www.bbcnn.com. We also dont need to have so many different search engines. Whats the difference anyway? We could have www.yagoogle.com. We could certainly abolish some sites. Cmon people, some of us dont want to look at pictures of your pets or friends. Mr. Eppersons future plans include decreasing the number of TV channels and radio stations. ___________________________________________________________________________ The subliminable footer says: To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V7 #187 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest