From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V9 #144 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, June 8 2004 Volume 09 : Number 144 Today's Subjects: ----------------- FW: [AVALON] Smooth Operator ["Terry Lane" ] [AVALON] Smooth Operator ["Nigel Hollis" ] [AVALON] Weird dream [Chandla911@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Weird dream [DEAGLERR@aol.com] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:33:10 +0100 From: "Terry Lane" Subject: FW: [AVALON] Smooth Operator I have been off list for a good while, so not bang up to date with the latest news. Can I assume that the summer concerts are not offering new material and it will be the same show as last year? Also, does anyone have a spare copy of the TOTPs Roxy Music special from a few years back? I will pay all costs. Looking forward to meeting you guys at Thetford, it`s been a long time. Thanks Terry Lane - -----Original Message----- From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Tracy Connell Sent: 07 June 2004 08:01 To: avalon@smoe.org Subject: [AVALON] Smooth Operator Take a look at the age this guy thinks Bryan is.. Who's trying to butter up our Bry then? - or so I thought, until I read the comment about 'Jealous Guy' - a bit stong in my opinion! Tracy :) P.S. Anyone going to York and Derby? ************************************************ Smooth operator: 1970s Roxy Music king opens Byblos International Festival with a touch of glamor By Ramsay Short Daily Star staff Monday, June 07, 2004 BEIRUT: With long legs and pink, glittering showgirl costumes and a plume of feathers attached to their bottoms, two smiling models dance their way onto the stage centering in on a tall middle-aged Englishman in a sparkling gray suit. The scene is one of decades-old glam, the Englishman singing and dancing in a gangling, unselfconscious way, and punch-clapping his way through the mid 1970s and early 1980s sound that is his trademark. Bryan Ferry, one-time lead singer of British glam rock band Roxy Music, partner to Brian Eno in the early days and precursor of punk, crooned his way though a bevy of classic songs - "Slave To Love," "Avalon" and "Jealous Guy" to name but a few - on Saturday's opening night of the Byblos International Festival. For an hour and a half - a short concert on the whole - an older crowd filled the Byblos open-air auditorium (situated in the picturesque old quarter next to the ancient citadel), and showed their love for this 55-year-old hero of a short-lived UK scene who has managed to outlive it with grace. Crunchy guitar rock led by Ferry's silky voice (that has barely aged in a quarter century) motivated the initially staid crowd to get on their feet and sing along to the singer's old favorites, songs that anyone over the age of 20 would vaguely recognize even if they weren't sure they knew them. Sliding on to the stage, after an initial introduction from the lithe fingers of blonde-haired siren Julia Thornton (playing a harp just as big as her), Ferry sat at the piano and delivered a slow, catchy ballad of love, his voice lifting and falling with ease and emotion. Having arrived in Lebanon on the back of two gigs in Dubai and Bahrain, as part of a regional tour, Ferry seemed anything but tired, and took great pleasure in hearing an audience respond to his songs with knowledge - something he clearly wasn't expecting. Joined by a 10-strong band - two guitarists, a bassist, a violinist, saxophonist, keyboard player, percussionist, drummer and two powerfully voiced female singers - Ferry cut a dapper figure, if somewhat awkward. He is all legs and arms, stomping and clapping. One of the guitarists present, who pleased diehard fans to no end, was Chris Spedding, a Roxy Music stalwart and accomplished musician who took the crowd apart in a number of blistering solos. But Bryan Ferry is all about Bryan Ferry, and try as he might to appear an English lordling gone left-field into the pop world instead of the church, he is the simple son of a coal miner from County Durham who's done good. And there is nothing wrong with that. Ferry is a pioneer of pop, and pop, as we all know, is about a world of fantasy, of being anything you want to be. Today's smooth-talking crooner is just a different sort of fantasy Ferry to the glam-dressed, glitzy camp popster (a la David Bowie) of the 70s. Then, he looked more like a Star Trek extra crossed with a Cambridge University dandy going punting down the river. Roxy Music's 1972 debut album (dressed in the first of a series of archly sexy covers) is continually hailed as one of the greatest debut albums of all time. A provocative, potent brew of pop-art and sci-fi, of imagination and nostalgia, it was matched by the sleek, sinister 1973 follow-up "For Your Pleasure." Though Ferry's popular version of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy" was a massive hit with Saturday's happily grooving crowd, to a critic it is a painfully cheesy and almost blasphemous cover of the original. But to be fair, and for an excited Byblos audience, to see Ferry splash out "Slave To Love," a bubblegum slice of romantic pleading, and songs like "Love Is The Drug" with a decadent ease, as he was sandwiched between his sexy and supremely peacock-like dancers, was an albeit cheesy treat. _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger ________________________________________________________________________ ___ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ DISCLAIMER: This e-mail is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. 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PS - John O`B thanks for the very interesting background info regarding your great input to the new RM cd ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:56:01 +0000 From: "Tracy Connell" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Smooth Operator >I agree even though most of us love to hate JG. The thing I resent more is >the constant reference to RM as being "British glam rock band Roxy Music", I agree, especially when 'glam' has an association to a dodgy character like Gary Glitter! Roxy Music were way beyond Glam - way ahead of their time! Tracy _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 02:58:11 EDT From: Chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Weird dream I had such a long and convoluted dream this morning in which practically the personae of all the Avalon members featured. After 30+ years of maintaining a lifestyle and story in keeping with his glossy cover-girl chasing image, BF decided it was time to tell the world he is really gay. This mainly to explain the omnipresence of a man in the car he is chauffeured round in, a man who looked remarkably like Peter Hain MP. Doubtless in tribute to John O'Brien's success in sleeve note history, I dreamt that BF chose to bring Avalon into his confidence 10 people at a time at a personal briefing. He was extremely awkward and typically BF like when raising the issue, so the dream was incredibly lifelike. Apart from the premise on which it is based. Or despite that... Wonder what it can mean? Best wishes Richard Mills ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 03:41:40 EDT From: DEAGLERR@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Weird dream In a message dated 6/8/04 3:00:22 AM, Chandla911@aol.com writes > Wonder what it can mean? > Ahem... Have you fancied Bryan for long? Sorry, couldn't resist.As with most of us, I'd imagine, I have dreamed abot Mr Ferry. As Freud said: "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." I rarely remember my dreams. I can figure the derivation of parts of them, but they rarely make any sense. Regards, R Deagle ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V9 #144 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest