From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V10 #42 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, February 24 2005 Volume 10 : Number 042 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Eno - Daily Express ["Dave Taylor" ] Re: [AVALON] Clinics and Clink / Legacy ["Rob Whiteford" Subject: [AVALON] Eno - Daily Express From today's "Hickey" column in the Daily Express; "Attempts by rock musician Brian Eno to have Tony Blair impeached have not come to fruition but Eno has another cunning plan, Hickey hears. He is trying to find a Martin Bell-style independent candidate to stand against Tony Blair in Sedgefield at the general election. Eno would try to persuade the Tory and Lib-Dem candidates to stand down and the independent candidate would focus on claims that Tony Blair lied about the Iraq war. Eno has already been in talks with possible candidates but seems reluctant to take on the task himself. Pity - Hickey would love to see Eno don an election outfit made of his old Roxy Music glam-rock threads such as tight satin trousers, bare chest, marabou cape and ostrich feather head dress..." Dave. ( Back to lurking). ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:47:10 -0000 From: "Rob Whiteford" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Clinics and Clink / Legacy i was probably exaggerating to make a point. The trouble is not the first 2 minutes of WWTT it's the pointless meandering for 5 minutes plus. I do quite like the song but not the dragging it out for ages. How many Ferry / Roxy Classics leave you wanting more ? Loads of 'em -Virginia Plain, YPS, etc. Others which lasted longer like MOP did so for a reason. The Name of the Game is another one thats 3 minutes too long. It smacks of lack of ideas to drag out time like this. Enjoyed the post on legacy - good quality stuff - and it reminded me of Jocelyn saying that on the Mamouna tour he lost his mystery/enigma for her. I do like solo as well as Roxy stuff. It is really sad to think that Horoscope and Alphaville in particular got turned into sterile products from what sounds like very interesting start points. Just listen to the way Cruel and Simeon have been battered into AOR songs. Ferry achieved his icon status (and isn't that a large part of his legacy?) and attracted an audience by producing non mainstream eclectic stuff which was so good, so unique, that people were fascinated by it. Things like Cruel and San Simeon in fact before they were glossed and fluffed up. And " I Thought". Put these songs on FYP and they would be hailed as Roxy classics. Water them down and they are coffee table muzak. And although I would expect disagreement from fans of old Roxy it IS Bryan Ferry who will leave a legacy, not a band who last made a ground breaking album 32 years ago. But thats cos he's cool and is of tabloid interest as well as the music.I wasn't impressed by the reunion tour. Very slick- superficial even , but a poor second to the atgb triumph. No songs speeded up on that tour. Any verses cut out ? Don't think so. After that plane near miss thing and to be honest the emotional turmoil he must have endured more recently I was hoping for a Bride Stripped Bare type response. Some EMOTION. It must seem mad to all but the most ardent of fans, but I still know he can turn it round and make something else to demand our attention before he becomes a cabaret act. You'll know that for sure when we get the first "medley" of Jealous Guy/LST/LITD with a minute of each. Cheers Rob - ----- > > Rob, I would be interested to learn how you differentiate the 'drawn out > rubbish' from the 'real' stuff? I mean, both songs have I think two chords > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V10 #42 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest