From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V9 #157 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, June 21 2004 Volume 09 : Number 157 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Re: Platinum Collection ["Alan Wellbelove" ] [AVALON] Dalby Cancelled [JohnOBrien001@aol.com] [AVALON] dalby ["Tracy Connell" ] Re: [AVALON] dalby [=?iso-8859-1?q?Chris=20Turner?= ] Re: [AVALON] Jealous Guy [Stevesiren@aol.com] [AVALON] #29 Roxy Music, Stranded [Daniel Atterbom Subject: [AVALON] Re: Platinum Collection Hi all FYI - The Platinum collection entered the 'official' UK album chart at # 25 last week. With regards to Phil Collins album of the same name: Both artists share(d) the same label Both albums are 3 disc collections These are probably the first in a number of releases in the Platinum Collection series - who can we expect next? Cheers, Alan ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:37:50 +0100 From: "Mark Stephens" Subject: [AVALON] Jealous Guy I have just come accross an acoustic Beatles track called "Child of Nature" which I have never heard before. It has the tune of "I'm just a Jealous Guy", but lyrics of "I'm just a Child of Nature" So, does anyone know the story behind this? I have always been an admirer of the Beatles but not a great collector / buyer of their material. Was it commercially released on a Beatles album, or have I stumbled accross something quite rare? p.s My thanks to Duncan for the Hampton Court ticket, both really dissapointed about the wasted journey. Regards Mark ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:43:47 EDT From: JohnOBrien001@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Dalby Cancelled Tonight's show in Dalby has been cancelled too. J.O'B. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:19:27 +0000 From: "Tracy Connell" Subject: [AVALON] dalby Thanks to those who notified us of Dalby being cancelled! Needlesstosay - I'm guttered :( Cheers! Tracy _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:59:12 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Chris=20Turner?= Subject: Re: [AVALON] dalby - --- Tracy Connell wrote: > > Needlesstosay - I'm guttered :( Guttered? Well at least you won't get any rain on you. Chris ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:57:11 +0200 From: Daniel Atterbom Subject: Re: [AVALON] Jealous Guy At 11.37 +0100 04-06-20, Mark Stephens wrote: >I have just come accross an acoustic Beatles track called "Child of Nature" >which I have never heard before. It has the tune of "I'm just a Jealous Guy", >but lyrics of "I'm just a Child of Nature" >So, does anyone know the story behind this? I have always been an admirer of >the Beatles but not a great collector / buyer of their material. >Was it commercially released on a Beatles album, or have I stumbled accross >something quite rare? Buy Revolution in the Head: "Beatles" Records and the Sixties http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0712666974/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/026-2888091-3844469 by Phil Manzanera lyricist Ian MacDonald and -- if I remember correctly -- you'll find a reference that the Lennon song "Child of Nature" turned into "Jealous Guy". Neither of which were released by The Beatles. There is song-by-song article of Lennon's solo works in an old issue of Mojo magazine. - -- Daniel ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:07:48 EDT From: Stevesiren@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Jealous Guy In a message dated 20/06/2004 11:42:48 GMT Standard Time, mark.stephens1313@tiscali.co.uk writes: I have just come accross an acoustic Beatles track called "Child of Nature" which I have never heard before. It has the tune of "I'm just a Jealous Guy", but lyrics of "I'm just a Child of Nature" So, does anyone know the story behind this? I have always been an admirer of the Beatles but not a great collector / buyer of their material. Was it commercially released on a Beatles album, or have I stumbled accross something quite rare? Mark, It was recorded during the "Let It Be" sessions & 24 secs of it is available on the "Fly on the Wall" bonus disc which was released with the "Let It Be...Naked " cd last year. It has been on many a bootleg, but i think this was its first legitimate release, unless it came out on any of the numerous Lennon compilations released since his death, not all of which I possess. Steve ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:08:50 +0200 From: Daniel Atterbom Subject: [AVALON] #29 Roxy Music, Stranded The 100 greatest British albums http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,13887,1240279,00.html 29 Roxy Music, Stranded Island, 1973; chart position: 1 Still tripping the light fantastic It is one of the most persuasive testimonies to the discreet nature of Brian Eno's influence that the next two albums Roxy Music made after he left the group - which should, with the dubious benefit of hindsight, have found them lapsing instantly into the heavy-lidded lounge lizard groove of their twilight years - were actually just as strange and fantastic as the two they'd made with him. Kicking off with the most persuasive use ever of an album title in a song which is not officially the title-track ('You may be stranded if you stick around' from the gleeful 'Street Life'), it's easy to hear why Roxy Music's third album was not only Brian Ferry's favourite but - unless he was lying to the NME in 1977 - Eno's also. Every track glimmers: from the suavely lurching guitar and bass riff of 'Amazona' (later sampled by Ice T), to the Nietzsche and handclaps of 'Mother Of Pearl', to the hilarious rococo swirl of 'Song For Europe' - a truly convincing argument for a common European culture. (BT) Burn it: Street Life; Song For Europe #2 is my #1 Revolver, The Beatles http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/0,12103,1033618,00.html - -- Daniel ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:35:05 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?PAULINE=20OKEEFFE?= Subject: [AVALON] Re: 100 Greatest British Albums in todays Observer. No.23 FYP Glam - but not as we knew it Just as the Seventies were sinking into a stew of muddy denim and clumsy glam rock, along came Roxy. Though the group sported a few glam trappings - BF in leopard print and eyeliner, Brian Eno pouting in boa feathers - their literate,self-aware songs and proto-electro sound were utterly distinct. Arriving early in 1973,seven months after their debut, FYP trailed a fashionably decadent ambience, from the nocturnal gloss of its cover to the seedy confessional of IEDHAH, a eulogy to a blow -up sex doll. It was fronted by pile-driving single DTS and included TBM, the last time Ferry's formalism and Eno's improvisational approach would be yoked together. But this group was big enough for only one star, namely Ferry,whose persona as a futurist lothario was brilliantly distilled here. (NS) No.26 Roxy Music Electronic tonic for a new era They looked like a 22nd-century 1950's revival and sounded like the ultimate collision between garage rock,Hollywood glamour, lounge-bar croonerismo and upscale psychedelia. The only wrong with Roxy's debut was that the UK edition omitted their first single VP.(CSM) No. 29 Stranded - Thanks to Daniel for posting this! All the best Pauline ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:18:09 +0200 From: Daniel Atterbom Subject: [AVALON] Re: 100 Greatest British Albums in todays Observer. Pauline et al, sorry my soccer fixated eyes missed No.23 FYP and No.26 Roxy Music There's also: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,13887,1240316,00.html 49 Here Come The Warm Jets, Brian Eno Island, 1974; chart position: 26 The godfather of 'ambient' from when he still fancied singing Fans os T he Beta Band or Super Furry Animals will find much to marvel at in this inspirationally capricious solo debut. Among the contributions with which Brian Peter George St John de Baptiste de la Salle Eno modestly credits himself are 'simplistic keyboards, snake guitar' and 'electric larynx'. It's the last of these musical accomplishments that asks the most searching question of his later, more generally celebrated ambient output: to wit, how could a man with such a perfect pop voice justify not using it for the benefit of humanity? By turns imperiously haughty, hilariously camp and pitiably adenoidal, Eno's singing is a true thing of wonder, and his songs are worthy of it. 'Oh cheeky cheeky, oh naughty, sneaky,' he insinuates on the sublimely venomous 'Dead Finks Don't Talk', before launching into a Bryan Ferry impression so brutally accurate, you'd almost think he'd just been bounced out of Roxy Music for trespassing into the lead singer's limelight. (BT) Burn it: Dead Finks Don't Talk; Baby's on Fire *** Roxy and Eno having four out of 100 albums and 801 live should have made the cut. *** NP Zlatan Ibrahimovic 1-1 "It was the goal of the tournament, a goal of such exquisite quality, at such a delicate stage of the game, that the Italians looked more bewildered than angry. " http://football.guardian.co.uk/euro2004/story/0,14577,1243061,00.html - -- Daniel ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 23:15:02 +0100 From: "Stephen Scott" Subject: [AVALON] FRANZFEST - Who would you have at your festival? Hello playmates, Memories returning of how I felt last year when Bryan had to pull out of the Glasgow gig. I really empathise with all the fans who have spent a lot of time and money planning their trips to the recently cancelled shows but I can't begin to imagine how Bryan is feeling emotionally and physically just now. I hope he gets well soon. Anywhohow neighbours, on a lighter note, I thought I'd pass on details of an article that appeared in a "T in the Park" supplement from today's Scottish Sunday Mail. Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos was asked to choose 11 acts - from any music era past or present - to form his ultimate festival line up. Here we go (with some of his paraphrased comments) Howlin' Wolf "My dad used to plat his records and he'd try to play Smoke Stack Lightning on his guitar. That's how I got hooked......" Bo Diddley "I'm not into guitarists who run up and down the fretboard. A good rhythm beats that every time. Very raw and primal" The Beatles "From their Hamburg period... They were the total group bursting with raw energy" The Kinks "I loved The Kinks darker stuff.......Ray Davies went outside what pop music was about - yet still made it accessible" Roxy Music "The first Roxy line-up were the ultimate flamboyant band who loved being on stage. It was great when the egos of Bryan Ferry, the matinee idol, and Brian Eno, the weird electronic wizard, began jostling for position. An amazing combination. They were incredibly visual and every festival needs one act who simply look good. Sparks "There's something in your face about the way Ron Mael sat in that static, severe way on stage" Joy Division "Ian Curtis always seemed completely lost in the music. He'd give himself totally over to it." The Fall " Mark E Smith was so confrontational with the audience. It gave the music a real excitement and pressure that's hard to nail on stage" Pulp "Jarvis has such charisma and amazing pop tunes which the crowd can identify with..." The Smiths "Johnny Marrs riffs first got me into the band because I'd always been a fan of twangy guitarists...." Queen "They've got to be the best live band ever.........They would have to headline my festival. There's no way anybody could follow them" Well chums, what do you think? I'd rather Alex spoke more about Roxy's music rather than the image. So it's a rather British influenced line up for Mr Kapranos but hey I'd pay good money to see it. It's over to you now. Who would you have on your festival main stage? Make it around 9, 10 or 11 acts. I'll post my own choice once I've cut it down a bit as at the moment it stands at about 35 bands so far!! Cheers the noo! Stevie p.s. The article also has a rather nifty 60's style gig poster pic. with all the above on it. Let me know offlist if you would like me to mail the full page to you. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 02:17:46 +0200 (CEST) From: John Scott Matthew Subject: [AVALON] Roxy/Ferry Trading Hi If anyone's interested in trading Roxy/Ferry concerts then check out my site: http://roxyferrytrading.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk Cheers Scott - -- Whatever you Wanadoo: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/ This email has been checked for most known viruses - find out more at: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/id/7098.htm ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V9 #157 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest