From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V7 #248 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, July 24 2002 Volume 07 : Number 248 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] son of FRANTIC thoughts ["Paula Brown" ] Re: [AVALON] A Really Good Time ["Philip Adams" ] [AVALON] RE: Nobody Loves Me ( An interpretation) [KWil632057@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] A Really Good Time ["Paula Brown" ] [AVALON] New date added for Paris! ["kartor@libertysurf.fr"] Re: [AVALON] A Really Good Time - now attire ["Philip Adams" Subject: Re: [AVALON] son of FRANTIC thoughts >HIROSHIMA... bloody hell, this is one of my favourite tracks on the album.< It is mine too, my second favorite, and sometimes my first. Please join my campaign to get them to add this to the set list!! It could be so good live if they catered to it. >NOBODY LOVES ME strikes me as the most orthodox song here. I think he avoids self-parody here, but comes closer to it than elsewhere on FRANTIC.< True! He has so much nerve to use this phrase. He never was afraid of putting himself out there. >Everybody has already remarked that SAN SIMEON is really DREAMHOME II.< Bryan said in multiple interviews that San Simeon is leftover Dream Home lyrics he happened across in his things, having lost most of his old lyrics when the suitcase full of them disappeared many years ago while traveling. There has been speculation that this is merely a ploy, made up, but I doubt it. And if it is, good, I'm glad they're thinking! >JA NUN HONS PRIS/ A FOOL FOR LOVE ...I refuse to think of the first as two things... An astonishing, compact verse, packed with a range of sensation: Yearning, melancholic, erotic, tender, forbidding.< And happily, now back in the set list. It's my favorite too, when I'm not stuck in Hiroshima, and I totally agree that JNHP is an essential prelude. I love that he has picked the Arthurian thread back up after these years and is now weaving the tapestry. Like Tennyson and the PreRaphaelites of the late 1800s, Ferry has become the vessel to immortalize and give new relevance to what is the most romantic era in history, bringing that romance alive in our time, and perhaps not only through his music. Paula ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:01:53 +0100 From: "Philip Adams" Subject: Re: [AVALON] A Really Good Time David Firmin posted : > S. T. Karnick on Bryan Ferry's Frantic on National Review Online....... good read, not wholly accurate but put simply, I'm also grateful for Ferry's influence and talent over many years. Philip ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:04:19 +0100 From: "Philip Adams" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Tribute Band I'll not knock him. Philip > My monitor is covered with soda! > > Judy > > > NP: Pretty Mess - Vanity > > > > JB asked :- > > > > Does anyone know if any roxy tribute bands exist in > > the uk ................... > > > > Yes, > > > > You can find Bryan Ferry tour dates at :- > > > > http://www.bryanferry.com/tour.html > > > >> Nigel Hollis > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:12:10 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] RE: Nobody Loves Me ( An interpretation) Tim states: It crossed my mind that the title might have come from the standard moan of a teenager to their parents, and his house is full of recently-teenagers, actual teenagers and soon-to-be teenagers! Just a thought. The emotional context of the song itself, however, is entirely adult, worn out, tired, aging. Um, no it's not. It's really really obvious what this song is about. Listen really carefully to the lyrics, they are actually pretty venomous. Jonathan n/p Public Image Ltd 'Public Image' ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:40:16 -0500 From: "Paula Brown" Subject: Re: [AVALON] A Really Good Time > S. T. Karnick on Bryan Ferry's Frantic on National Review Online....... good read, not wholly accurate but put simply, I'm also grateful for Ferry's influence and talent over many years. Philip< Me too! But I'm afraid Bowie would beg to differ about the suit thing. I do remember, however, that when I went to St. Louis for the Station to Station tour, me and Bowie were the only ones I saw there in suits. So who knows what forces conspired to influence us that way. With me, it could certainly have been Bryan -- or simply that I was finally able to afford better clothes! With Bowie, I think he has a mind of his own. And anyway, it wasn't only Ferry who was wearing suits those days. Even Jagger was occasionally seen in a lime green affair in the odd layout, which he managed to carry off, though neither he nor Bowie ever cut quite the figure in one that Ferry did, if I may say so. I posted that article on Bowienet just to see exactly how ballistic the fans would go and had to step in when one called Ferry a lounge singer who never sang anything but other people's songs. Then I reminded them that Bowie did do If There is Something, a Ferry original, just for good measure. Oh, well, let the chips fall where they may........ Paula ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:25:36 +0200 From: "kartor@libertysurf.fr" Subject: [AVALON] New date added for Paris! Bryan will be playing at the Olympia on the 22th and 23th of September! Great news for us.. Caroline by the Seine - -------------- Profitez de l'offre exceptionnelle Tiscali ! "Internet Gratuit le Jour" Cliquez ici, http://register.tiscali.fr/forfaits_ls/ Offre soumise ` conditions. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:16:05 -0400 From: "Ronald L. Stubbs" Subject: [AVALON] Frantic and Heathen It's probably too late for most people on this list, but Amazon has Bowie's and BF's latest on sale in a package-deal...Apparently Heathen is a limited edition with a bonus CD... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000060OX8/qid=1027476018/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-3390342-2757742 Discuss. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:08:33 +0100 From: "Philip Adams" Subject: Re: [AVALON] A Really Good Time - now attire > Even Jagger was > occasionally seen in a lime green affair in the odd layout, which he managed > to carry off, though neither he nor Bowie ever cut quite the figure in one > that Ferry did, if I may say so. Ferry is the only (rock ) performer I know who can wear a suit and not look like either a gangster (er, Sting) , pimp ( Jagger, Bowie) or businessman. (Clapton, Collins et al). Philip > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V7 #248 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest