From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V9 #277 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, October 30 2004 Volume 09 : Number 277 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Ferry in ES Magazine today [KWil632057@aol.com] [AVALON] Roxy is a psychedelic band, rather long post.............. ["op] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:06:37 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Ferry in ES Magazine today Another week, another party. This week he's been snapped at the Pharmacy auction in a pose that suggests he is pinching Sir Tim Rice's bottom. Happy to send a scan if you mail me off list. Mark emails 'arse.' J ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:37:04 +0100 From: "opd" Subject: [AVALON] Roxy is a psychedelic band, rather long post.............. A while ago there was a (rather small) discussion about odd favourites. I posted about my weakness for the Viva-version of "If there is something". I was surprised to see the support I received both on and off list. I've been thinking about that quite a lot since. People mention TGPT's snare-drum at 8.06 into that song, others tell me about their experiences with Eddie's strange violin and keyboard-playing (heavily Curved Air-Inspired). They love Andy's sax et cetera. This tells me that some people care!!! There have been some hints and suggestions about heavy oberdubs in the studio before the release of Viva! ( A few claim that Roxy didn't play that well live !!! I disagree.). Please listen to some of the boots from that time. like Boston 75, and you can hear a fab version of the song. And please don't forget that Andy didn't even come in the studio to pick out songs for Viva! . So he surely didn't do any overdubs. I still remember Johnny Reecey coming up to me after one of the Roxy-Birmingham-shows in 2001 (was it the first?) saying: "You did get your "If there is something", didn't you?" ,and then a couple of days later looking quite sad when we met after the Manchester gig where they didn't play the song. Well, I didn't write this note to justify that song. I think it's great anyway. But is it a typical Roxy song? When I fell for this strange band in 1976, I was confused. I bought Viva! and a few days later borrowed "For your pleasure" from a friend's older ( pot-smoking) brother. My friend being the auhter John Ege (anyone know of himj). As a young teenager I suddenly got the flu and didn't listen to anything else for a week and a half. I was hooked, and under the impression that Roxy Music was a psychedelic band!!!!! I heard songs like the one mentioned above, which is more than 10 minutes long + strange songs like "The Bogus man" , "Strictly confidential", "IEDHAH", "For your pleasure" , "Chance meeting" and other songs with strange arrangements. One of my brother's best friends shook his head and said: " That's just a band full of queers, you can't like that!!!" I just listened to the music. Later I received "Country Life" as a Christmas-gift and bought "Stranded" and "Siren" myself.. All three albums had "ordinary" music, but also contained more of that strange stuff that I already knew. (Like: Amazona, Psalm, Mother of pearl, Out of the blue, The thrill of it all, End of the line (never mentioned on the list at all!!! , Sentimental fool et cetera........) So, I really got into Roxy thinking it was a different band, like no-one else. I didn't get hooked on their hits or whatever.... Thereafter "In your mind" had its moments (Loving you madly again and other sequences) + "Bride" was also great, as the last effford before punk ruled, with some nice unusual things. The Roxy-reunion was welcomed, since Manifesto contained the nice title-track + new strange songs like "Stranger through the years" and "Still falls the rain". Maybe this album along with other important incidents in my life was the catalyst that helped me to decide to apply for medical school the next year (???). Flesh and blood also has its' moments in "No strange delight" + several others, really. Avalon was a disappointment to me. The same goes for "Boys and girls", I didn't find those magic moments there at all.................. I know that many Americans disagrre here. Later there have been moments, but not like the "good old days". Maybe it's just me that's dated, or could it be Bryan. I'm into a lot of the new stuff, ambient, house, and of course new-psychedelia. I really enjoyed a Nils-Petter Molvaer-concert on the 7th of October in Vienna. Does Bryan have a traumatic feeling about "In your mind"? Now that he has Mr Spedding back in his band, why doesn't they play songs like "Loving you madly again" which would thrill the fans. It's been voted as one of our faves. I STIL TELL MY FRIENDS THAT ROXY MUSIC USED TO BE A PSYCHEDELIC BAND, and some of my friends in the music business just laugh, like Chuck Prophet, Dan Stuart, Steve Wynn and Hugh Cornwell, just to mention a few. Anyway, to me Roxy is a very special thing, no matter what Bry might do or sing or play............................. Yours Ole (just back from a night on the town) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V9 #277 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest