From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V8 #112 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, April 23 2003 Volume 08 : Number 112 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Frantic 1 year on (Medium/Long post) ish ["Rob Whiteford" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Frantic 1 year on (Medium/Long post) ish Goin' Down sounds like Dire Straits > >meets Chris Rea incognito as a pub band. Dear All, Sign of the times that I am just catching up with messages from mid March. I was wondering if the quote above, from John I believe, had the implication that Goin' Down was Dire Rea ?! I still like Frantic - it's still there in the 6CD Autochanger. Baby Blue is terrific, Cruel excellent, Fool for Love a great song and I Thought a masterpiece worthy of any Ferry/Roxy album. I don't know if Colin Good is to blame or just Bryans endless remixing but the Alphaville versions of Cruel and San Simeon are light years ahead of the "dead" sounding versions on Frantic. I largely agree with John's comments but think that the original San Simeon sounds exactly like a Ferry song. Up until the guitar solo at the end the Frantic version of Fool for Love is a welcome departure from "dead" sounding mixes, although the Alphaville version has a brilliant backing track he could put another lyric on. Clearly Bryan must lean towards this sanitised, toned down, mixed approach as these aren't the first tracks to be scrubbed within an inch of their lives. Compare Horoscope's NYC with Mamouna's - all the edginess, all the energy has been surgically removed. I remember JOB asking before this tour started what songs Bryan could do with just the piano as "The Only Face" had been such a success. Most of Mamouna would benefit I think and San Simeon would be fascinating to hear. Maybe ATGB was such a success because it was great to hear his voice again. I've ranted on here before about great songs being lost in the mix, with the difference between the perfect clarity of Boys and Girls and the dense but flat feel of Bete Noire being the most obvious example of this in action. So I'll rant again - Bryan Ferry sitting at a paino makes better songs than anyone else. He has a voice that is very distinctive and emotional. Please don't bury that talent by over elaborating. And since we are probably on borrowed time he should write with Eno and even more importantly let Eno produce it. He would never tolerate wasting San Simeon he would make it even more weird. By the way does anyone else think " I thought "sounds quite like U2 ? cheers Rob ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:30:12 EDT From: Mikejhallett@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Hawkwind / Roxy Apologies -been away recently - however ref recnt posts re Hawkwind - must say that this group has a strong conection with Roxy for me as the first time I saw Roxy Music was July 1972 at the Locarno Ballroom, Bristol where Roxy were THIRD support act to the "Sonic Assasins"known as Hawkwind. If I remember rightly Roxy stood in at the last minute as understudies for Shakin Stevens and the Sunsets! They absolutely blew me and my mates away at this gig - bought the first album days after and have been totally hooked on RM/BF ever since - thank god for Hawkwind!! Was anybody else on the list present? Mike - - check out Master of the Universe on In Search of Space for one of the great Hawkwind numbers ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V8 #112 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest