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avalon-digest          Sunday, March 12 2006          Volume 11 : Number 065



                               Today's Subjects:
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  RE: [AVALON] Brian In accounts                     [philip77@tiscali.co.uk]
  Re: [AVALON] David Gilmour at The Mermaid Theatre  ["Ivor Canning" <ivorca]

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Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:18:47 +0000
From: philip77@tiscali.co.uk
Subject: RE: [AVALON] Brian In accounts

it could be Nick Kent and all those other NME staffers disposing of their
collections.

Not much comment on the list from Phil Manzanera's comments  that the new
Roxy Music album would definitely not be out this year. I guess we all suspected
that anyway


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>I see Brian in accounts' auntie is selling some records on EBAY  
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>_http://cgi.ebay.com/ROXY-MUSIC-BRYON-FERRY-AVALON-SIREN-NICE_W0QQitemZ4847596
>372QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem_ 
>(http://cgi.ebay.com/ROXY-MUSIC-BRYON-FERRY-AVALON-SIREN-NICE_W0QQitemZ4847596372QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
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>J.O'B.
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Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:14:30 -0000
From: "Ivor Canning" <ivorcanning@freeola.net>
Subject: Re: [AVALON] David Gilmour at The Mermaid Theatre

Bill MacCormick gets proggy with it:

> PS And if the PF were regarded as 'progressive' what the hell was Quiet
> Sun doing????

I thought Quiet Sun played 'R.F.D.' music (sorry, couldn't resist S;^) )

Describing the Floyd as 'progressive' just goes to show how slack and
poorly-defined a term it is.  I've heard it used to cover bands as different
as Kraftwerk and King Crimson, but rarely Roxy Music or Frank Zappa.

If pushed, I'll accept a general definition of 'rock music strongly
influenced by other musical styles and structures, often (but not
necessarily) reflecting a degree of technical proficiency and musical
literacy'.

That makes Roxy Music, Gentle Giant and Quiet Sun 'progressive' in my book,
but not Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin.  Nor David Bowie actually (at least, up
until 'Low').

> only saw them once afterwards at Earls Court on the big inflatables tour 
> (which I am sure was not the correct name but for the life of me can't 
> remember what the right title is)

I wouldn't profess to be an expert, but aside from the SHELTER benefits in
1973, I don't think Floyd played Earls' Court again until The Wall tour in
the early 80's ?

Regards,

Ivor

n.p. 'Gentle Giant at Golders Green' (1978 BBC Sight and Sound DVD, just
released).  Utter wonderfulness - I have waited 28 years for the chance to
see this again ! 


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