From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V7 #417 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Sunday, December 22 2002 Volume 07 : Number 417 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] How I got into BF/Roxy ["Philip Adams" ] Re: [AVALON] How I got into BF/Roxy [Colleen Matan ] [AVALON] Re: Keswick Theatre - Philadelphia - Avalon-digest V7 #416 [Bruc] [AVALON] Ferry On the radio NYC [OBrienFerry@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Ferry On the radio NYC [Colleen Matan ] Re: [AVALON] Ferry On the radio NYC [Colleen Matan ] [AVALON] from the Independent yesterday ["Philip Adams" ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:36:07 -0000 From: "Philip Adams" Subject: Re: [AVALON] How I got into BF/Roxy I was partly into the glam thing at an early age _ I remember Bowie and Ronson doing Starman on TOTP and being rather intrigued by what I saw. I largely ignored VP at the time , I was 13 when it came out and I remember hating Pyjamarama. "I hate that voice ". And then I saw Ferry doing "A Hard Rain is Gonna fall " on TOTP and that was it. I was hooked. If memory serves "Street Life" came out soon after and I recall a page 3 picture of Ferry tux'd in "Sounds" . What was so strange, so exciting about this man, this group? . Everything, so different from so much else at the time. I bought "These Foolish Things " and "Stranded" on the same day just before Christmas 73. Two very different records and I was wowed by both albums - the music, the look, the artwork. I've been listeing to TFT a lot recently and it is still a fantastic record. So much energy, so many levels. He was hated for by the music press at the time (NME:"My Foolish Doings") but it has to be a milestone on rock music, a true classic. Philip Did anyone read Garry Mulholland waxing lyrical about Roxy Music's "Greatest Hits" in yesterday's Independent newspaper? Marvellous. I'll try to find a link or pull it up. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html US ticket sale info: http://www.thewebgal.com/roxymusic/ (updated weekly) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:37:54 +0100 From: Edwin van der Ende Subject: Re: [AVALON] How I got into BF/Roxy In 1972 I was only 1 years old.... so I can't really recall any Roxy Music from that era :) But my experience with Roxy dates back an astounishing 1 year, at cafi Schoonewil in Rotterdam some , no let me rephrase, THE Roxy Music tribute band was playing, it grabbed me and never let go. Thanks to Re-make/Re-model I'm now hooked on the Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry sound and style combination. I still haven't got any clue what struck me in the music, is it the stylish arty farty thingy or is it the totally outrageous music....but does it matter ? I'm glad I discovered it and even more glad taht I got a chance to see Ferry perform in Amsterdam on the same day that I started my new job after being unemployed for 2 months... dubble celebration it seems :) Mosty of you guys out there are probably aware that I had the chance of making pics at the concert, they came out pretty well indeed and I'm right as I type this busy uploading some of them to the printer service so I can have some prints in my house, do I now qualify for being an official RM nutcase ? :) Greetz, Ed At 22:56 20-12-02 -0500, you wrote: >In 1972, I was 14 and waking up fast to the new glam rock wave that was >ushering in a new era. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html US ticket sale info: http://www.thewebgal.com/roxymusic/ (updated weekly) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:40:51 +0100 From: Daniel Atterbom Subject: Re: [AVALON] How did you get into Roxy and Ferry? At 20.30 -0500 02-12-20, InterEireann@aol.com wrote: >Any chance you could post a precis of what Hunter's thoughts were about that >MSG.gig. Did he make observations about Roxy? It's 20-25 years since I read the book, all I remember is that he liked them and it was obvoius that they had not done a soundcheck. NP Badly drawn boy, Have you fed the fish? Daniel ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html US ticket sale info: http://www.thewebgal.com/roxymusic/ (updated weekly) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:05:37 +0100 From: Daniel Atterbom Subject: Re: [AVALON] How I got into BF/Roxy At 10.36 +0000 02-12-21, Philip Adams wrote: >I've been listeing to TFT a lot recently and it is still a fantastic record. >So much energy, so many levels. I have to agree, his first solo album is one of Ferry's best, together with Mamouna. NP Badly drawn boy, Have you fed the fish? Daniel ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html US ticket sale info: http://www.thewebgal.com/roxymusic/ (updated weekly) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 13:31:32 -0000 From: "Guy Lawley" Subject: [AVALON] How I got into BF/Roxy I'm really enjoying these reminiscences! Keep 'em coming, please, fellow Avalonians! And more Season's Greetings to one and all. Today is the shortest day! More light from now on! Celebration!! Guy Lawley London SW17 England ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html US ticket sale info: http://www.thewebgal.com/roxymusic/ (updated weekly) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 08:47:46 -0500 (EST) From: Colleen Matan Subject: Re: [AVALON] How I got into BF/Roxy On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Philip Adams wrote: > Did anyone read Garry Mulholland waxing lyrical about Roxy Music's > "Greatest Hits" in yesterday's Independent newspaper? Marvellous. I'll > try to find a link or pull it up. Please do! My own story is fairly simple--I grew up relatively sheltered in a small mill town. Growing up my mother--and to a lesser extent, my father--always had the radio on, and my sisters and I grew up with a love of music and singing. There were all kinds of records in the house, there was some kind of music on almost all the time whether from a record or from the radio. The only weird thing is that while my parents had a few more or less contemporary albums (The Fifth Dimension, The Mommas and the Papas), most of the stuff we listened to were 'oldies,' even then. The AM radio station we always listened to was the same. I didn't even know that radio stations played anything *but* music like that. Then on day, at my very strict Catholic grammar school, some of my friends were talking about the song "Smokin' In The Boys Room" and when they asked me about it, I told them I'd never heard it. That's when I realized that there might be more to life, and more importantly, more to my life, than what was available on my small town radio station, and indeed than my small town. I knew there had to be more than just that--the first time I heard _Songs for Drella_ I immediately recognized the opening lines [paraphrased badly since I'm not home where I can pull out the lyrics] "the first thing you learn about a small town is that you want to get out"--and my door into that world was the radio. My mother's parents lived next door and my grandfather gave me his radio. I wish I still had it. It was an old tube radio in a leather case with a snap at the top. You could unsnap it and open it up and look what was inside. It was also haunted--it used to play loudly in the middle of the night. My parents used to be so angry with me (since I would stay up as late as I could listening to the radio) until the night they came in to turn it off and found out what I'd been trying to tell them--that it was already off. I still wonder what happened to that ghost radio. Once I discovered the broad band of the radio, I discovered a whole new world. As some of you may remember, the 70s were really a wonderful time in AM radio. I listened to everything I could--the oldies station I grew up on, the Top 40 station in the next city over that simply everyone listened to, the station that played big band hits, the stations I could get in when the sun went down from Indianapolis and Cleveland and Texas and from places that only existed for me on the maps I loved. And most especially WABC and WNBC in New York City. Years later Don Imus' son Rob was a friend of mine in college and he so pleased to learn that I remembered his dad before he became a "shock jock". I remember Richard Belzer too as a intelligent, wry, ironic, sharply funny DJ too. These people were my guides to that big wide world of people who seemed more like me than the people around me, and I knew all I had to do was wait. And to keep listening. Ever the Luddite (even then), nevertheless I eventually got an AM/FM radio, and flicked the band switch. Suddenly there was an entirely different world available to me--Roxy, Bowie, et al. I saved my allowance and bought Roxy and Bowie records as I could, playing them first quietly in my room to make sure that they wouldn't be confiscated, watching the TV listings carefully in case one of my favorites might turn up on The Midnight Special (or Bing Crosby's annual Christmas special) I had a lot of stations I listened to then too, but it was that diversity and romance of AM radio that stuck with me, and that opened that door and widened my world. Colleen ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html US ticket sale info: http://www.thewebgal.com/roxymusic/ (updated weekly) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:21:41 -0500 From: Bruce MacQueen Subject: [AVALON] Re: Keswick Theatre - Philadelphia - Avalon-digest V7 #416 So does this mean that they are giving refunds on tickets that were sold (I have mine) or that they will resume sales on any tickets unsold for the event (if) when re-scheduled? Best Regards for a happy Christmas! Bruce <-----Original Message-----> >From: orders >Sent: 12/20/2002 9:59:51 AM >To: m_shanahan@mail2batman.com >Subject: Re: bryan ferry in january or february >We have not gotten any offical word from the Ferry camp. We have been >told that it shall be rescheduled early next year. Whenever we get a new >date we will inform those who bought tickets through us via snail mail. >We also have an update on our website. When it does become offical we >will also start re-selling tickets. Sorry for any problems. >Keswick Theatre Box Office - -- "What's so funny 'bout peace, love & understanding?" Nick Lowe ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html US ticket sale info: http://www.thewebgal.com/roxymusic/ (updated weekly) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:01:16 EST From: OBrienFerry@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Ferry On the radio NYC News at vivaroxymusic.com: Bryan Ferry will be interviewed on NPR radio on Monday 23rd December at 3PM E.S.T. J.O'B. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html US ticket sale info: http://www.thewebgal.com/roxymusic/ (updated weekly) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:08:08 -0500 (EST) From: Colleen Matan Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry On the radio NYC On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 OBrienFerry@aol.com wrote: > News at vivaroxymusic.com: > > Bryan Ferry will be interviewed on NPR radio on Monday 23rd December at > 3PM E.S.T. According to the NPR website, he'll be on _Fresh Air_ with Terry Gross--this should be very interesting as she's a wonderful host! More info at: http://freshair.npr.org/ Some NPR stations simulcast on the web--more info: http://freshair.npr.org/stations_fa.jhtml;jsessionid=BXAUSGXOPDW53LA5AINSFEY Plus I'm sure it'll be archived for a while on the site. Colleen (who will have to remember to tune in on Monday...) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html US ticket sale info: http://www.thewebgal.com/roxymusic/ (updated weekly) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:08:26 -0500 (EST) From: Colleen Matan Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry On the radio NYC p.s. Thank you John! ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html US ticket sale info: http://www.thewebgal.com/roxymusic/ (updated weekly) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:40:42 -0000 From: "Philip Adams" Subject: [AVALON] from the Independent yesterday At Colleen's request and for everyone here.the article is on the website - www.theindependent.co.uk I just the link when I tried to cut and paste it. Philip Garry Mulholland writes:- But, before you assault me with a battered copy of Status Quo's Twelve Gold Bars, any cynicism implied is not at the expense of the greatest Greatest Hits albums. Exhibit A for the defence is a slightly dog-eared vinyl album from Christmas 1977. Greatest Hits by Roxy Music is simply but beautifully dressed in a sleeve that depicts a gold disc with an intimidating model glaring from the label's edge, beside a list of the tracks. It contains just 11 songs, only four of which were even released as singles in the UK. But they didn't have to be actual hits, because they were a perfect introduction to the high-camp art-sleaze merchants that became one of my favourite bands ever. Twenty-five years later, after I've bought all Bryan Ferry and co's albums and a luscious CD box set with everything on it, it's still my fave Roxy record. It will never leave my side, because it reminds me, when such a reminder is necessary, of when this pop-music thing was still new and scary and almost unbearably thrilling to me, and why I want still to feel like that about pop. That's what a great Greatest Hits can do. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html US ticket sale info: http://www.thewebgal.com/roxymusic/ (updated weekly) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:44:09 -0000 From: "Philip Adams" Subject: [AVALON] here's the link correction , its on www.independent.co.uk http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/story.jsp?story=363269 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html US ticket sale info: http://www.thewebgal.com/roxymusic/ (updated weekly) ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V7 #417 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest